The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-01
{ In Moman's Realm

The FACT that a clergyman at Beth.
! lehem has announced to his congre-
gation that five hundred maidens ARE
included therein who should be married
by the men Of his congregation is at
trncting considerable attention. He in.
cidentally remarks that the girls are
pretty and modest and agreeable as any
in the state and that the men are too shy
or too stingy to propose. he, therefore,
as an encouragement to more enterprise
promises to perform the ccremo onies for
nothing and II Is stated that his words
are already resulting in the announce
ment Of numerous engagements.
There Ii no doubt In the world that the
same condition exists In every church in
this city and while 1t isn't at all certain
that the young women would be anxious
to have the minister interfere In their
behalf as regards masculine apathy to
their attractions, yet we all know any
number of men who would marry II
somebody should suggest that as proper
course for them to pursue they need
only a little encouragement from some
disinterested person to make them ac-
cept the idea with alacrity. 1t will not
do for the suggesting to come from the
girls themselves. Oh, dear no! but a kind
friend clergyman, for instance, might
thus easily be the medium OF making two
hearts happy and at the same time se-
curing fee for himself, the latter con-
sideration,of course. not Weighing in the
matter.
IF TIE awful statement recently made
/ by Mr.. Box Is true that women in
business have been tried and found
wanting and are rapidly going back to
dcmcsticity and therefore safety and pro-
priety there should be a boom in the mar
riage market and n corresponding depres-
nfnI Ii.,t,y i,,0
to some eminent thinkers the increasing
number Of divorces is chiefly due to the
fact that women are tired of keeping
house and home and yearn for Office and
business life.
Now Mr.. Bok's theory should show re-
suits. He gives the startling informa-
ton that the number of women filling
hospitals and insane asylums with nerve
broken victims is vastly on the increase
and that the profession Of typewriting so
largely taken up is death to women as 1t
Injuries the spine and produces untold
horrors of nervous diseases. Hence, ac-
cording to his theory the girl of 1900 must
revolve back to where her great grand
mother left off in the early century and
have marriage as her only prospect in life
since men are refusing to employ her in
business capacity.
It is a rather doleful outlook for the
college girl, the high school maiden and
women In general who have been pre-
pairing themselves for q business career
At any rate the times are now declared
to be good and 1t is certainly the cler-
gyman's opportunity for encouraging
matrimony.
d EFORMERS, as a rule, like to do their
N reforming with a very long pole and
formaldehyde pervading the atmos-
phere, probably with the memory in their
minds of the proverb: "Ie who sups
with the devil should have long SPOON"
In the modern rendering the long spoon,
or pole Is transformed into a newspaper
stick, or q column.
xT HERE ARE different ways Of doing
penance through Lent" remarked
professional man yesterday. "In
the case Of women they seem to mostly
take 1t out in dental work."