Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-09-30
MODERN MATRIM0NY.
WHY GIRLS ARE LOT so ANxlous
TO MARRY AS FORMERLY.

Women Are Sow Able 10 Earn Lisiu
without Being Obliged to Be DcPendeo
en- Men. and SO They Are Not Drive
Into Marriage Tor simply = Isone.
One ~ the san Francisco dailies sen
around its reporters 20 interview people %,
'thc decline OF matrmony" The eontr
vcrsv over the decrease Of marriages
which, by the way, * not an absolutely ig
coutguvertibie fact has advanced n step hl
the contention ~ some If those interviewco
that, in the present condition Of affair
women are not as anxious % he married
they were, and that theperpleYing problem
of the hour Is not what shall become ~ th.
maids but what IL going 10 become Of III
unmarried men.
Men are being supplantcd In almost ever
walk of life by women, who are steadicI
more reliable, less dissipatcd, and lcs
eNtTavagant than the majority OF mci
Hence state OF things il prehgured d
which the woman shall not I've driven 4
marry for home IL j. said that thcI,
are in New York alone O0Dd female way
earnsrs, besides domestic servants
II results from this condition Of affair
that girls are not worrying as much "a thc1
did about the future and are willing To lei
the conjugal question settle itself. The
are ranging themselves on the same plan
as men, willing to marry II the right mar
comes along and the conditions are favor
able, but equally willing to remain singl
and to fight the battle Of life alone rath'
than risk au inharmonious match or
CHASTITY shipwreck The old stories Of hu.
band hunting are relics Of "A past age.
The old maid ~ our early recollections
not the old maid of today. She was scrawny
angular, without IA curve or grace, wit
h.hy blue eyes and "A wrinkled high brow
a thin nose, thin lips, a hard mouth, sharl
chin, scant hair and IA shrill voiceI her mn
sure was stiff prim, austere, narrow, carp
ing. envious, fussy, intoerant. wherea.
the end of the-ccntury old maid at 40, j.
trrshrr, younger and better preserved than
most married women She has known
.ewer cares and pains than her married si-
ter, therefore her nerves arc quieter. h,r
manners gentler, her temper under bsttct
control She Is apt TO be amiable.
This picture IL familiar To the averag
girl, and when she eontemplates it, after
reading one Of the belligorent divorce case
with which the newspapers abound. she J.
less inclined than ever to throw herself into
The arms of "A man whom, firt with him a.
.he may, she never can know until she hB
been his wife, and more disposed To do a.
calling which will support her and make
natrimony a secondary consideration in her
iitr
Men have used old maidism rs whip {.
encrce girls into saying yes when their ~
tincts prompted them TO say no II ol
maidism loses its terrurs, the relations ci
. he sexes will undergo u change. Tn,
coarse brutes who now secure wives simply
because they can offer girl home anU
the position Of a spouse, will then he der
lict
The girl who having To choose betwcrt
Importing herself by work OF supportinl
! herself hy marriage, elects In favor Of th'
!, latter does herself an injustice Of which sh,
r may hereafter repent.
. Mr.. I.abouchere, fully appreciating ID,
h crisis which the question has reached, pro
: poses to meet the new society which IS b.
ing evolved out of the ruins Of tho old witt
: plan which would wrest from men thci
!; monopoly Of the right Of making oilers %
= marriage. The suggestion Is worth cunsid
4 rug There is no natural reason why III
= man should choose and the woman l.
chosen There probably lives no girl VIII,
at some time or other, has not seen ma
: whom she could have loved and made hal
= py il she could have spoken, but who ha
- passed her by unconscious, while her mOut
u was sealed by conventional rule. III u wei
II possible the experiment would bc wort
" ryinE II men had to prink ia the hope T
/ attracting an offer from girl trcr b.
i4 Aayior would be more circumspect, an
hey would be more amiable creatures tha
hey are-
A sound view on the subject is tia
. which was expressed by one Of the ladi,
Interviewed. Mrs. Bunker Of the Woman
10 Inion. She says that women do not mari
III i- often as they used TO do, because ia,
at are not now forced into marriage by wal
~ lr al the point Of public opinion. woma
We may marry or not as she pleases She "a
m AXE care Of herself, and no one criticis
IL Ier conduct Thht seems to be the cor
mon sense of the question and points q
way for its solution.
When Italy for the fourth time rose
ne rms TO throw of the yoke Of Austri
rance offered her assistance. Italy b,
by ad cruel experience Of such help, al
iu. harles Albert, by one of those inspiratio
elk hieh sometimes come To a man, declin
I'M lie offer with the historic words, "L'ltal
IRA iii se,n When women can afford
lay TO men that they can take care Of thei
,clyes, the conjugal problem will be soly,
- SAN Francisco Argonaut.