New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-20

Seventeen million unmarried persons in
this country; eight million unmarried
men and nine million unmarried women.
What q chance for the matchmakers
To those who are inclined TO criticise
the woman's auxiliary of the Cupid's aid
society for inattention let II be said that
the women are investigating after the
manner OF all modern scientists. How
promote romance until one understands
the causes Of the present lack Of romance?
How help seventeen million people TO fail
I'm love until one learns what is keeping
them apart?
.'V-hy is il that Americans do not
-narry?' The women repeat the question
rut by E. 2. Rittenhouse, conservation
commissioner of the Equitable Life As
surance Society. in publishing the re-
SUITS Of q recent investigation. Mr. Rit-
torh0use is troubled because, he says, IN
married men. not being as well cared for
are not as safe risks for insurance COM
panes.
Women won't marry because they don't
want the bother Of having a man around
ell the time"
This Is the answer Of Mrs. Anna {.
Bowling. editor OF THE Woman Suffrage
Directory"
Take the case Of a young stenographer
who IS earning from s12 TO SIS week
She has agreeable companionship In her
Office, is always nicely dressed, keeps her
hands manicured and goes TO Coney Island
every Sunday. Suppose she was married
She would have to take man who was
earning not more than So week. That
Is the only kind she meets. Marriage
would mean giving up her dainty ex-
!stence for a dingy fat, with great
hulking, cranky man to wait on all the
time.
'It IA onlv the shiftless women who
get married. The girl who wants TO loaf
about in kimono all day gets marrleu
because she is too lazy 70 support hersel'
Life in the New York tenements is easy
for that kind Of woman. All she mas 10
do IS 70 make q cup Of coffee, serve bak-
er's rolls IN the morning 20 her husband
make a bed or two and visit the dell
catessen shop Just before he comes home
az night. The rest OF the day she can
hang out Of the window gossiping with her
neighbors.
There is a type OF American woman
who marries simply for the sake OF haV-
ing children. She knows that love never
lasts more than Ave years. but she ex-
poets to endure him after that for the
sake Of her children"
Miss Jane Olcott. Mount Holyoke gradu-
ate and social worker, says, however, that
It is not selhshness but unselfshness that
keeps young people from marrying
- ort.e oil VI EaHra-
Tar women from marriage Is nonsense.
she says. SHOW me a woman anywhere
no matter how dazzling her salary, VINO
wouldn't marry II she felt the family IN
come was sufficient 10 make 1t right Tor
her 10 DO so A woman looks ahead ana
sees the little children she is going 70
bring into the world. I have no right 70
do this thing she says, unless / can
give my children the proper home infiu-
orces and education No matter how
much q girl loves a man, she won't marry
him unless he can support his family com
: lortably No couple should marry ] be-
Meve. on less than 50 a week.
1T ls-unselfshness on the mans part
TOO II isn't because he must give up
cigarettes that he refrains from popping
the ouegtion. II is because he must ask
the girl 70 give UP new hats. Men can't
bear 10 impose physical hardships upon
tho women they love.
There Is only one possible solution OF
| the problem. under present economical
conditions. OF course. II every man were
L given a salary sufficient TO support
I family that would be different but as II
is to-day tho only kind of man whom the
modern girl will marry is the man who Is
broad minded enough to let her work too
Such men are as yet few in number
Girls DO want 20 marry. but they sec no
reason why they should change their
Profession with their names. A girl who
u an artist naturally refuses TO give that
up and become domestic science ex-
pert"
Or. Anna Howard Shaw. president OF
ne National American Woman Suffrage