The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-06

AWuo WISH also 20 enter the 6LdLG
OF matrimony)-Wyom
Locality for young unmarried men
District OF Columbia.
Matrimonial sign posts point in these
directions. Young men may go west
TO grow up with the country, but after
they have grown they viii have TO
come back east Young women may
90 west. grow I'D. and ger married
J without the return trip
y OF all the states in the Union, Wyo-
ming is raising its voice with the loud
est calls for young women Fifty
eight of every 100 young men-and old
Overwhelming in that state are un-
married.
or course the only reason they con-
tinue in this state (of single blessed
ness) IS because there are not enough
young women. That goes without say
ing Where there are women there are
marriages. What is to be done to help
Wyoming out OF this deplOrable state
s. not yet decided on. Probably when
fhe unattached young women of the
country learn OF the wretChed plight Of
the hfty-eight out Of every 100 men
they will begin 10 emigrate, and the
western plains viii be covered with
prairie schOoners. each bearing
household outfit and young woman.
Most or the ffty-eight out Of 100
young men who cannot find wives are
Tanchmen-cattlemen and sheepmen-
There is a chance for every young wo-
man who travels westward to come
into possession OF. a romance like that
IN the "Virgiuiau." Undoubtedly there
are a number Of young men similar 20
Ahe one pictured by owen Wister who
are waiting by the ford for some young
eastern school teacher to come along
with drunken driver AMI fan out Of
Ia
owen Wister does say that the period
which developed the "Virginian" is
past or is passing rapidly away, but
this is a pessimistic view.
Undoubtedly they are nice young
rnen-a little rough in manners, prob
ably, and possibly a little free in
speech, but all that can be corrected.
II only shows that they need the civil
fling influence Of young women. These
fifty-eight out of 100 men should be
brought i'm touch with a woman's re-
filming influences
Really. the government ought TO see
TO il. In times past governments have
taken this matter under their charge
Some Of the T. +. v. and other first
families of other states than Virginia
owe their origin TO the fatherly care
vi the English government in seeing TO
81 that shiploads Of English girls, be
. 3ng duly persuaded Of the matrimonial
prospects in America, were brought TO
= this shore and safely delivered to the
hands Of husbands.
A similar necessity seems to exist IN
Wyoming. but governments are not so
paternal any more. They do not re-
. fuse TO give their daughters away in
marriage. but they are not paying q
great deal in railroad fare for them.
The matrimonial prOspectOrs who take
Up the journey into Wyoming are
of the ffty-eight out Of 100 does not
lose anything on this account It be
comes all the more just.
III any particular locality should be
called on to furnish a quota Of young
women for Wyoming it should be the
District Of Columbia. For while the
western state is grooming under a su-
per6uity Of young men as compared
with young woman. the District IS
overpopulated with spinsters and wild
Qws.
S~here is an apparent reason for this.
The government service has attracted
thousands of young women compelled
TO earn their own livelihood to Wash
lugtOn. where they can obtain employ
ment as clerks in the various depart
ments.
In great numbers they have f1Ocked
70 that city. It would seem TO argue
that the average young woman would
prefer employment under the govern
ment 20 a position as wife Of n Wyo-
= ming ranchman. Why else should the
tide Of women be towards the east
when they are most wanted in the
West2
Thirty-eight out Of every hundred in
rfhe District are unmarried. Proportions
OF unmarried women 70 the total num-
Der Of women In any given state or ter
rit0ry do not come so high as the pro
portion of unmarried men to the total
masculine population
While I'm the state which has the
greatest number OF unmarried men the
proportion is ffty-eight to 100, the To-
Cality having the largest number OF
unmarried women shows only thirty
eight to 100. Some philosopher may be
nble to explain that. There are about
600. 600 more men over 20 years of age
a. the country than there are women
over that age but this difference is
Ii0t sufficient to explain the discrepancy
entirely
And the men are supposed to take
the initiative in matrimonial proposals
at that it would seem that the young
women have married all the eligible
young men and have cast the Others
into outer darkness.
In proportion rs Wyoming is fine
place for unmarried young women, th'
District of Columbia is the place FOL
bachelors There is "a chance to ge
bot only wife. but a wife with Z
mOney-making capacity. he can mar
~ not only the girl. but a govern
lnent position. Naturally all young
men would spurn TO consider a thinl
Of this sort but then it's getting to b'
q hard-fsted. material world, after all
and prophets say that romance is dy
ing out.
There is no particular reason VIII
81 shouldn't be just az romantic e
* marry a young woman who has an
q earning capacity Of $1,000 a year as on
who has a spending capacity OF $1,000
Probably after five years there would
pc more romance remaining in TIT
Hrst romance than there would be il
khe second
ANY young men who think they cal
IAN in love with good looks and $1,00
; year ought TO hustle for the east
Rnd young women who think the
might do likewise with a cattle rancl
pnd n lonely young man on it should
buy tickets for Wyoming.
But. whatever they do, the youni
women want 10 stay away from Indi
Bna and the young men from Okla
bona. Men are most wonderfully an'
thoroughly married in Indiana. Oui.
81 few have escaped. And the wOmel
ln Oklahoma are still worse. The pro
portion of married men in Indiana is a
large as that Of bachelors in Wye
ming.
in Oklahoma there are only thirt
unmarried women out Of every 100 owe
- years Of age. That means that prac