Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-30
MILLION BRITISH
WOMEN, SPlNS7ERS
Not Men Enough in England Since
War to Meet Demand for
Husbands.
ART thur s Draper IN New York Tribune.

Arthur S. Draper In New York Tribune.
Britain has a million women who are
bound to draw blanks in the game OF
rnatrimony. This is the estimate of DIR. X.
Murray Leslie, who is an eminent statis-
tician. :.
In his opinion this sex disproportionn
means a crumbling of the old ethical
standards and serious lowering OF the
standards of morality. Other eminent
authorities will vouch for the fact that
Britain needs million maids of the serv-
ing class.
Mr.. LLOYD Georges secretary informed
a Young champion of the bank girls and
War Office clerks that there could be
little truth in her complaint of the diff
fculty of women finding employment, be-
cause the Premier himself had been un-
able to obtain housekeeper. Next day
Downing street was crowded with a
varied assortment of applicants Tor the
lob, the women's champion having IN
formed most of the London employment
bureaus of the vacancy In the Prime
Minister'S kitchen cabinet. But there is
only one Premier in England, and there is
lasting prestige in having served him with
sausage and brown mashed.
RUSH Fer DIVORCE.
DIR. Leslie SAYS there never was time
of so many unhappy marriages. Divorce
is being obtained by mutual consent and
married men are obtaining more congenial
companions among the numerous un-
attached women. A product of the alb
normal situation is the Iazzlng 'fapper'
who is trying to snare the spoiled young
man by appealing to his lower nature
rather than by exercising the power TO
l. s,t,- r., q l.
million unfortunates, this is leap year, and
it is going to be q lively season for British
bachelors.
Everybody is talking about the leap
wear privilege and specializing as to its
bearing on the matrimonial market, but,
as is usual with such matter. it is diff
6cult to get any one to discuss it seriously
for publication. Mrs. Beatrice Heron
Maxwell. widely-known English novelist,
saws that the native chivalry of men NAV
prove embarrassing If girls actually pro-
pose, as the men will feel under obligation
20 accept for politeness' sake. She says
she knew one girl who proposed to three
men in one evening and was accepted by
all of them, the men not having the cour-
age to say no.
Mrs. George Norman, the dramatist,
believes that the girls do a good share of
he proposing every year; that is, they
"all but propose, and the man does the
rest. Miss Phyllis Dare, English stage
beauty, who probably doesn't have to
worry about proposals, unless it is to find
A way to head them off, said that, in her
opinion, if girl cared for man there was
40 reason why she shouldnt t tell him.
Winifred Graham, the novelist, who in
private life is Mrs. Theodore Corey, is
carrying on an active campaign in behalf
Of an International marriage bureau
through which unmarried women and
wifeless men may be brought together.
Suppose, for example" +" she said, that
young man in Canada, Australia or
South America is hard put to discover the
girl that he would like to marry or one
who would be willing to share the lone
liness of an isolated ranch, mine, or
pioneer railroad building. he could write to