The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
HUSBANDS ARE SCARCE
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
"A Good Man Nowadays Hard Find According to Marriage
Certificates From all Over the World In Darkest Africa and
Brightest Pccadlly Men Are at Premium
By Helen M. Tale


Ever since the war we have reat
about and lived through almost ever
conceivable kind of slump-hnancia
and industrial depression, political up
heaval, social unrest and, to hear thu
reformers, even a spiritual weakening
All of which may be and very likely
is true, but of what importance IS al
this when a girl can't get beau' No
American girls perhaps for which VIZ
may thank heaven and few other in
fuences; but how about the rest O.
the girls in the world?
The fact is, the world marriage
market is in a slump-almost panic
jim which the only listed stock
that has not reacted violently, as they
say in Wall street, is the American
Girl Preferred"
We hear a lot about Supply and
demand" and now disturbances Of that
economic team play the devil with the
business world Well, it is no different
in the lovemaking world, for it takes
two to make match. The terrible
truth is that by and large the world
over the supply of women is greater
than the demand-imagine itl-and
the demand for husbands is greater
than the supply-what no!
Girls all over the world are having
a desperate time finding husbands.
Some OF them are actually willing to
give DIP their modernism and put
'obey" back in the ceremony, if by
using that bait they can snare a tall
+. slender blond, short rough brunette
or a mixture of both.
The cables from every country on
the map daily bring to the newspa-
pers different versions OF the same
dilemma-the difficulties OF lonely but
willing damsels, poor girls. Husbands
are eagerly sought, enthusiastically
tracked. and now and then triumph
antly clasped to the loving bosoms OF
maidens in every stretch of the land
When one considers that last year.
in England alone, there were $50 tit
tering brides, each one over 70, one
perceives without the aid of monocle
that mere toddling babes of 30 or so
haven't much chance against grand
ma with the come hitCher" in her
eye.
England is now the worried moth
straight for the doubtful joys of spin
L a
great deal to do with the present sit
uation. The government, however, IS
trying its hand at matchmaking. Ev-
cry few weeks a boatload OF fresh
checked British girls sets sail for Can
ada, New Zealand, Australia or India.
The girls go into service, generally
marry and are soon absorbed in the
land of their adoption.
Even royal princesses don't know
where to turn for their next kiss. This
small item, for instance, appeared not
long ago in an Innsbruck newspaper;
Two royal princesses, sisters, aged
q and 20, desire friendship and event
ually marriage with English or Amer
ican gentlemen, who must be- young,
handsome and wealthy, especially not
upstairs or newly rich. The princess
es, who belong to the old royalty, are
ACCOMPLISHED but very poor"
The only trouble with that PROPOSE
ton is that most OF the wealthy Amer
lean men haven't yet formed the ques-
tionable habit, as their sisters have,
of swapping riches for title.
AS for the French girls Well, this
IS what read recently in Paris dis
patch:
Boards and mustaches are increas-
ing alarningly among French wo-
men, both in Paris and throughout
the provinces"
Comment seems unnecessary. Sure
ly it isn't surprising that paragraphs
like the following appear in the Paris
morning papers:
Beautiful French girl, melting dis
position, vast capacity for love, dot
$4,000 francs, seeks American hus-
band; willing to go any place"
Surely no man could wish for more!
Except, perchance, to know whether
she maintained a goatee. or a Van
Dyke.
France lost in man-power more
heavily than any belligereht country,
which leaves the disproportion be-
tween the sexes greater than in any
other country. Belgium is in SINH
lar plight. Recent dispatches have de-
scribed the extensive 'get-together
parties held in various parts of Bel
gium, at which the free young men
and women OF the different communi-
ties were brought into contact in an
effort to restore the nations matri-
monial balance.
German girls, as hard put as the
maidenhood of any OF the nations in
the war. are going about the business
OF providing themselves with hus-
bands in a very thorough manner.
They have opened matrimonial bu-
rcaus all over their country and Tor
10 marks paid to the agent some sort
OF husband is prodGced. You know
what 10 marks viii purchase these
days. The frculcins seem inhumanly
optimistic to me,
However, the stolid German girl
probably wraps up her 2 cent has