The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-12

ried in these days has to get out and
hustle for a husband. Like the politi-
clan who yields to the wishes of his
friends in accepting an Office, she
wells her chase under glittering sub
terfuges, but it is a nerve-W wearing and
an exasperating campaign all the
same.
Therefore I am in favor of compel
ling men to meet them more than half
way. There are dozens of bachelors
in Hammond capable and competent
to take unto themselves wives. But
they shy at the first female who
looks as if she would not be unwilling
to step to the altar. They find in sin
gle life what they think is ease, con-
tentment, unresponsibility. Of course
a man takes chances. But he ought to
know where he is going. 1t is the
hasty marriage that turns out badly.
1 do not advocate the union of a
couple who have met at picnic one day
and get license for marriage the next.
'The apathy of the young men in
Hammond is appalling. I have num-
Der of friends of the masculine sex
who would be better off if they took
some of these bright young girls from
our factories and provided them with
other names and other homes. They
would soon have more respect for
respect for Them
Mayor Knots Percy Perry, a newspa-
per editor walked into the room.
Here is one Of Them" said the
mayor. What right has he to be sin
gle? He is sober, Industrious, and has
a good income. He is selfish enough
to spend his time wholly in his hotel or
in his office. He ought to get married.
I have told him so a dozen times. but
my words have no effect.
well, I have done my part" said
Mr.. Perry. Il have tried faithfully
but there has been nothing doing. How
can L marry unless some one of the
opposite sex consents? Show me-"
The Misses Morrison were visited by
the reporter. There are four sisters
and have lived in Hammond the most
Of their lives.
why haven't I married?" replied
one. well, that is a delicate question.
Maybe 1t is because no desirable
young man would have me- Still I
am not discussing that part of it."
Horace Hobart, a distant relative to
the former vice president, a married
man, lover of fast horses and, ac-
eord1ng to his own confession, a Judge
of good whisky, said that he had been
married for ten years, that his wife
was native of Hammond and that he
had congratulated himself at. least
twice a day since the ceremony was
performed. He declared that bachelor
hood was becoming a disease. Why
he could not understand. God knows
l have talked to the boys often enough
about the blessing of married life. I
am with the mayor. He is right If
I were dictator of a country or commu-
nifty the man that remained single af-
ter he had reached the age of twenty.
five I'd put in Jail"
Gives the Woman's Side.
Miss Sallie Janet Oglethorpe, a hand
some girl bachelor was asked why she
did not marry. The question, to be
sure, was an impertinent one, and for
a While she treated it as such. Pres
emily, however, she consented to talk
After a woman has acquired hus-
band" said she, then comes the
trouble of keeping him. This is a
distinctly feminine trouble. No man
ever worries his head about keeping a
woman in love with him after he has
married her. But women get crows
feet and gray hairs agonizing over the
question of how to keep their hus-
bands fascinated.
This is the reason, as Dorothy Dix
explains, that married women look old
er than their single sisters at the same
age. The girl bachelor may have her
anxiety and fluctuations over bread and
butter, but she doesn't have to wait
until 8 o'clock in the morning TO have
it out with the man who delivers the
rolls.
Nor does she have to agonize over
the prospect of losing love that is