The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-10-15
OFFICIAL GUIDE TO WEDL0CK.
Uncle Sam Tells His People Where
to Find Marital Partners.

U4C4e 08m 1olD HIS koOpl0 1o1e
to Find Marital Partners.
Uncle Sam has just issued new
publication in the interest of IN.
married women. 1t might be called
"The National Guide to Bachelors ;
a complete index for old maids and
spinsters to the best places in the
Union for getting husbands; with
maps, charts, etc.; tells at glance
lust where bachelors are most
abundant"
But though the publication has
no such comprehensive title it is
Just what such title would claim
it to be. The Government calls it
Statistical Chart of Bachelors and
Spinsters of the United States"
The chart itself is map printed
in colors, and shows at a glance
just in what localities bachelors are
thickest, and in what regions spin
sters are most dense per square
mile.
In New York state, for example,
there are at the present time $751;
635 bachelors of 20 years and up
ward, while the number of spinsters
in the state is 456,O62.
Between the ages of 20 and "a
there are 254 1873 bachelors and 2O4,-
1852 maidens. Between 25 and 20
there are 1856, $50 bachelors and 997, :
143 spinsters.
Between 80 and 81 there are IT,
297 bachelors and 1858 maidens.
Between IS and A there are IS. 447
bachelors and 1854 maidens. Be-
tween As and 81 there are 81 ,6O7
bachelors and q, 288 spinsters.
Between 55 and 81 there are 49,
O68 bachelors and II, 418 maidens.
From IS years upward there are
1886 bachelors and 1O, 1874 spinsters.
It will be observed that the BACH
elors in New York outnumber the
unmarried women by rs per cent.
In New York city there are 1885,
8i3 bachelors and 1873, 1886 spinsters,
an overplus of 37,9O7 single men
of 20 or over.
No large city in the United States
has surplus of spinsters. Balti-
more comes nearest, with only IS
more bachelors than old maids.
No state in the Union has as
many maidens as bachelors-not
even Massachusetts where the fig
ures are 219, 255 spinsters and 1885,
OS5 bachelors. Massachusetts is the
banner state for maidens, the bach
elors outnumbering them by only
2-10 of 1 per cent. Next comes
Rhode Island, where the excess of
bachelors is 8 per cent.
The excess of bachelors in the
District of Columbia is s per cent,
in North Carolina 9 per cent, in
New Hampshire 9 per cent, in Con-
necticut 20 per cent, in Maine 81
per cent, and in Vermont 81 per
cent. In Maryland the bachelor
surplus is 10 per cent, in New Jer-
sey it is % per cent, in New York
it is 26 per cent, and in Virginia %
per cent.
All of these are low percentage
states, so far as the superiority OF
bachelors in point of numbers il
concerned.
A glance at the old maids chart
shows some surprising facts about
surplus bachelors in some parts OF
the country. Idaho takes the lead
as desirable place of residence
for women who want husbands, that
state having 1000 per cent more
bachelors than spinsters. The exact
figures are 16, 584 single men against
1926 single women, 20 years old
and upward.
Wyoming is close second, with
an excess of 993 per cent, the fig
ures being 1913 bachelors against
1887 maidens.
Best state for Observation-Disclosures.
Strongest bachelor section of the
United States-middle west.
Weakest bachelor section of the
United States-southeastern.
In Kentucky there are 128,188
bachelors and 84,784 spinsters, and
in the whole United States there
are over 5,427,767 bachelors and
S,224 ,494 unmarried women.
Cause Enough For Trouble.