The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-10
A CRY FROM TWO COLONIES

OF the hour depends Tor It's actlOn
upon the interesting historical
fact that shipload of English
maidens were sent from the
mother country to the colony of
jamestown in 1921. A lady of
high birth, ward TO the King,
smuggles herself on board the
vessel bound for Virginia, and is
chosen for wife by Master
Ralph Percy, gentleman, the he
TO of the tale.
The history Of King James
day is about to repeat itself.
England is now engaged in active
efforts to induce about three hun
dred thousand English girls to
emigrate to her several colonies
i'm Australia and New Zealand,
where husbands are said to be
anxiously awaiting them. The
utmost diversity of station exists
among the candidates for matri-
mony-f farmers and tavern-keep-
ers predominating. The bar
maid and the governess, the city
bred girl and dairymaid will be
equally sure of homes. Several
Australian papers TEEN with edi-
torials calling upon young women
in all parts of the world to hasten
to the golden land of bliss. One
journal contains a heading couch
ed in the Macedonian cry: "Come
out and marry u.s."
The statistics furnished by the
antipodean philanthropists, who
are assuring English women that
they had better go to Australia
to become wives and mothers
than remain at home to die old
maids, are adroit and almost con-
vincing. They show, by figures,
that twenty women i'll every hun,
dred in England today cannot
hope to secure husbands. The
reverse of the picture demon
strates that twenty-five men in
every hundred in Australia can
not by any possibility be married
unless polyandry is sanctioned.
Women are just that percentage
shy! These figures show that in
Australia proper there are exact
ly 257, ,653 more men than women.
OF course, some members of this
majority are eX-convicts, who en-
igrated at the expense Of the
government; but even they may
be made happy, for somewhere
in England are women with
equally bad records who want to
start over again in new land
and end their lives in peace and
honor.
1t may crafty the people of
Great Britain to learn that this
movement TO send young women
to the far East has the approval
of the Right Hon. "Joe" Cham
berlain, who is doubtless anxious
to know how the idea can be in
troduced into South Africa when
Kruger is conquered.
Another pathetic appeal from
would be husbands comes from
South America. A large English
communistic agricultural colony,
located in Paraguay several years
ago, has attained such a measure
of success that the coloniStS now
invite eligible young women to
leave their English homes and
join the enterprise. The grant
from the Paraguayan Govern
ment exceeded twenty-five thous-
and acres Of highly fertile land
The drudgery and toll of break
ing the sod, building the houses
and planting the orchards is fin
ished. Nothing remains but the
enjoyment of this hower-and-
fruit-laden paradise. Idyllic
pictures are drawn of open-air
life in this sub tropical land, and
financial assistance is promised
to all respectable girls who wish
to make the journey to South
America We believe that Amer
lean candidates will vote for Par
aguay.
These two-experiments in col
onization will be watched with in
terest by our statesmen, we fore
see, at an early clay, the same con