Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-04-03
.HOUSEKEEPERS
ARE CAPTURED
BY BACHELORS
IN FIRST THREE MONTHS OF
YEAR, OUT OF 73 MARRIAGES,
81 BRIDES ARE HOUSEKEEPERS
BALANCE SCATTERING.

That the servant girl problem is
being rapidly and satisfactorily
solved by half hundred of the male
population of Salem is manifested in
little paper-covered book in County
Clerk Aliens Office in the court
house.
In addition to other information
contained in this book, there is rec
ord kept of the occupation of those
seeking marriage licenses.
Between January 1 and March 81
of this year Mr.. Allen issued about
73 of these certificates, which give
mere man permission to take unto
himself a helpmate. OF the 73 Ii
censes issued, "a girls gave their oc-
cupatton (or hubby gave it for them)
as "housekeepers" one waitress, one
stenographer, clerk, a nurse, stu
dent and scattering of various 9TH
er occupations in which women are
interested, completed the list,
Fifty-four, or over two-thirds of
the girls were housekeepers before
marriage, according to the records.
1t is no wonder that servant girls are
a scarce article, when more than so
have married within three months in
this city.
incidentally this little record re
calls the fact that during the last few
months "a men, after "the rush and
the stress of the day" have cleaned
and combed and primed and then,
each, walking briskly with head
erect, has made his way to the kitch-
en- of another mans home, within the
walls of which his bride-to- be l'as
busily engaged over the range, in the
pantry or over the dining table, and
after waiting patiently for what
seemed hours to him on the steps
leading to the back porch, he and the
little girl have wandered along Will
son avenue they have attended the
comic operas at the opera house they
have had their share of red lemonade
at the CIRCUS grounds, and when
weather conditions prevented "spoon-
ing by the light of the moon" 54
hired girls and "a beaus have sat on
porches and listened to the patter,
patter of the raindrops, or they have
drawn up two common kitchen chairs
very close together and dreamed that
they were resting on the finest Of ''B.
& H.. Russian leather-covered "set-
tees" and-bye and bye dreams come
true. Not the leather-covered dreams
but the dream of the day when
Cupid Allen was to get the price Of
another passport to Heaven" the
day on which the furniture man was
to get an order for "cute little white
iron bed" and other household neces-
sites, and the day on which he and
she We're to line up bIfore that white
haired old gentleman who has al.
ready joined in wedlock over 500
couples, and hear the words, "and
those whom God hath joined togeth-
err" etc.
The question arises "Why do two
thirds Of the license procurers favor
the housekeeper for a wife?" Is it
because the men are looking forward
to good meals when they bid fare
we'll to the restaurants or is it be-
cause these girls care more for the
"home life" and less for society?
Perhaps some of the "a benedicts will
venture reply,
Judging from these record, how
ever, it will pay those who have SER
want girls in their homes to be very
good to the girls as there seems to
be so chances that the servant girl
soon will be won over by Cupid, to
every one chance that the little bear
er of the darts will get the mans
stenographer-and it is harder to Sc
cure housekeeper than it is to find
a stenographer.