The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-06-14
TACOMA CROWS
EXCITED TOO
Widespread Agitation Follows the
Now Famous Marriagable Girl
Letter.

A Wenatchee girl has stirred the
whole Pacific coast.
Tacoma is now thoroughly aroused
over the marriage question.
Everywhere excitement is at white
heat. The press and the pulpit are
endeavoring to calm the agitated peo-
pie by offering words of cheer and
advice. Knots of men and women
stand about the street corners and
discuss the vital issue, while others
write fervent letters to the papers:
The Tacoma News of yesterday
says:
The following communication,
which it inspired doubtless by the
trouble of the Wenatchee ''marriag-
able girls and by the remarks of
Prof. J. Allen Smith on the costs of
matrimony, is printed just as it came
from the bachelors" pen:
Dear Editor: l desire to make a
statement in behalf of few batche-
lors why they do not marry, or if
they do, why they wait till they are
from 34-40 years old.
"A man worth the woman's hGv-
ing counts the cost before he ties
himself to woman until death
do them part.
Young men of salary cannot hope
on the average, to earn over $40 a
month, till they are past 80. | be-
1ieve the majority cannot hope to
earn over $50 per month. The class
of young men whom the Wenatchee
girls would marry. would like to
support their families as respectfully
at least as the girls lived before
marriage. If he has not that ambi-
.tion the girls better not set their
cap for him.
Girls are Expensive.
1T takes from $35-$45 per month
to pay for board and lodging, tailor
bills, laundry, lodge dues, preacher
fees, life insurance premium, and
several minor items.
Young women who work as
clerks, stenographers, teachers. ETC.,
am informed by conservative lady
need from $4OO to $500 year for ex-
penses. If the girl whom l would
marry will do her own housework,
We two could no doubt have board
for both of us for what it now costs
one of us, but that would only be
for two or three years. l simply
cannot figure out how we both could
dress as we do now, live in a five
room cottage and pay from $15-$2O
rent a month, pay doctor bills and
other sundries that seem to accom-
pany married life, hire servant for
a part of the year at least, and
spend a few dollars for pleasure. l
say l cannot figure how to make ends
meet on $65 month, though | have
tried the multiplication table back
ward and forward
Suppose He Loses His Job?
Then am | sure of continuous
work? May not sickness lay me up
a month or two each year?
''As long as | have no prospect of
saving at least $3.50 year and keep
my family as we'll as the average, |
continue to eat at the boarding
house. A good friend has told me:
No greater chagrin can come to a
man than to see his wife patiently
putting up day after day with
poorer way of living and dressing
than she was used to, and than
others of her acquaintances enjoy.
If she scolds and roars about it
fellow can stand it better. for SYM
patty then ceases to gnaw his
brain This man got married at
81 on a salary of $500 a year, with
a promise of raise the next year.
The raise did not materialize, and
for five years he felt like kicking
himself for marrying on such an in
come and being out of work for sew
eral months.
Who Wants An Old One.
The standard of living and dress
ing which the girls set before mar
riage, the man must expect to up
hold, if not advance. He cannot do
it till he begins to receive the max
imum salary of the average man. BY
that time She desire to Marry has at
least greatly cooled down, if not
vanished, and so it happens that
many city chaps are bachelors yet
at 40. Even in the country. the
same influences are becoming notice
able.