The Indianapolis journal., 1893-10-01
MARRIAGE AND THE PROFESSIONS.
The Actor Stands First in Woman's EsteeI
and the Soldier IL Second.

The Actor Stands First in Woman's Esteem
and the Soldier Is Second.
Hartford Courant.
A good many considerations enter into
the choice of profession. Among them.
thas OF Its bearing upon the matter OF mar
riage can hardly be called q minor one. 1t
may seem minor to the young man deciding
on his life work. but In it's important effect
upon his after career this marriage NAV he
pronounced very weighty factor. Mar
riages often mako and unmake a man. ac-
cordlng as they are made In Heaven or In
well. on earth. Hence, statistics are of
interest. now they have lately been fur
nished. A doctor friend OF NJ. Paul BOur.
get. the French novelist now visiting In
this country has been studying the thing
in the light of the doctrine of chances and
has drawn up table which 10 printed and
commented upon In this weeks illustrated
American. IL reveals some rather curious
and interesting facts to which We draw the
special attention of eligible young bach-
elors. According to it's tigures. the profess
sion whloh stands the best cnance of being
loved by women is that of the actor. his
valuation being Dut very high. at 80 in the
100. Next To him comes the military officer
under the grade OF captain. with 80 chan ces
In hundred; and In the third place we get
clerks and painters on a par. with SO to the
100. Journalists. tenOr6, architects and
sculptors are pretty well up. with SO or 60
chances In the 1C0 it Is noticeable that the
tip-tOD swells in these etatistlcs have
poorer show than common folks. like
clerks. for example: ecademiclans nave but
/ chance III forty, while such lofty lndlVld.
uals as kings. presidents aud prime minis
ters have to be satisfied with only chan ce
iii 10000 This awakeDs the Suspicion that
there weren't enough OF them for wide in
ductiOn, W hich would Inva alIdate the hgures.
The class we should have selected as fitted
To head the list isn't there at all; We refer
TO the clergymau ho is so often moved il
not won by his fair parishlOners. Why he
is omitted is hard to explain, for he would
certainly dispute the prize with the actor.
Posi- bly, the statistIciaD. out OF respect to
the cloth, excluded the parson from oom-
putation which suggested that the gam
bling element crept even into matrimony.
There ere other odd things about the list.
The chance of the school teacher is figured
at twenty five to one hundred. that of the
college professor ct but five In
the hundred; in osher words. the
former has five times tho show of
the latter in securing female affection.
Whereforef Because he Is more an object
of fear and yeneraIiOn. and so scares OF
the other sexf It is mystery. but there
are the figures. Once more: Under the
general head of business men the pro-
prietor's opportunity Is reckoned as tive In
100. while the fioorwalker ia doomed at 20
to lCO, fOur times more eligible than man
presumably richer and of more social ac-
count. Either the statistios-compiler is
strangely Oft in his methods or else his fig
ures introduce the pleasing thought that
human nature, of the feminine variety is
less worldly than has been supposed by
some oynics. The sex love the individual
man, not the allurements of place he may
be able to offer. and so turn the cold shoul-
der to presidents and open wide their arms
TO humble shODmen and peGagogues. 1t is
picture as touching as IL Is pleasant. An
other Glass that is re presented is that of the
foreigner of title; by the analogy of the
present statistics the lords and the dukes
wouldn't be in 1t with the clerks. but it Is
impossible not to feel q fear thar inquiry
In that line might resnlt in a way not aRreo-
able to patriotism or to an optimistic view
of human nature. But take the table as it
stands and the student feels that love blows
whittier 1t listeth and the comparatively
humble employ ment has cOmpensations to
set il on an equality with the glittering g
places of the world.