The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
CONSOLATION FOR SPINSTERS.
a School For Wives Has HELPED
Spinsters to Find Mates.

Some one is proposing a Husbands,
union. for the protection of husbands.
Just what they seek to be protected from
Is not yet stated. But the union is in
tended for all the down-trodden of the
land; that is. of the male portion. Posi-
bly, the union is TO be founded on the same
lines as the School for Wives. lately es-
tabiished in England
Still better are the marriage schools
which are being developed in Germany or
very practical lines. 1t is for girls and
women only, and the value of such a
framing cannot be overestimated. Girls
ieave the marriage school competent to
and husband. The girls who have
graduated from these schools have beer
extra lucky in getting married 50 II IL
said.
Another society which has been organ
lied in Denmark is the Celibacy Insur-
ance society Its object is to provide for
these women who either cannot or will
not provide themselves with husbands
The premiums, which are at various
scales, begin at the age of Is and end at
". period at which it is supposed most
of the members will have abandoned any
thought of marriage. Such being the
case, the woman receives an annuity for
time after or before 49, she forfeits all
her claims With the profits thus accru-
ing by chance or purpose, the society
hopes 70 provide for its members doomed
Old maids in the United States are out
numbered by the bachelors. although it
is popularity supposed that the contrary
IS the case. To come to exact figures,
there are AZ. 767 bachelors and ). Z24 1874
spinsters. This is upon the authority of a
government report Even in Massachu-
sets, where IL was thought that old ma .ds
constitute a large proportion of the popu-
lation. they could find each a husband
and then not exhaust the stock of single
men. for, there are ZIG, 90 men and only
2l9.25o women who have not yet entered
into the bonds of matrimony.
New York state has 10000 more bach
elors than spinsters- Only one state i'm
male and that is California, in which
there are So $50 of the former and % 500
of the latter. The state of WaShingtou
has perhaps the largest excess of forlorn
single men-S0. 537 all told unmarried dam
sells numbering only 91S1-
Out Of an equal number of bachelors
and widowers between % and 90 years of
age. thirty widOwers remarry for every
thirteen bachelors to enter the bonds of
Hymen for the first time.
For every spinster married between
90 and 50. two widows are remarked
Both facts are eloquent in favor of the
comparative advantages of matrimony.
In Olden times, a tariff of matches was
established in France. in which the vari-
Gus degrees ST wealth necessary for a girl
to enter the different ranks of French
society were set down as follows: A
young woman with a dowry of 1000 TO
retail trader. a lawyers clerk or a bailiff:
a dowry of 12.000 entitled one to aspire to
a dealer in silk, draper. an innkeeper. a
secretary 10 a great lord. one with 10000
francs might look as high as an advocate
or a government officer of considerable
rank, one with from 500 to coo francs
might hope for marquis. a president of
parliament a peer of France. a duke.