Show 1 N it bijl ee i TOO 0 0 MAN ml ten wi ili 9 ah xh I 1 C country oun ry le L e r lam li r abi aall r Pro thi th i ciapas st lf li aag Sari ink fig P and I 1 ga iii U marriaga N i i alp V ta 4 purely a pe personal rhonal matter lh artall d tt az I 1 happy 1 land st independence jei r hapa more than in any mitry ln inthe i lafi nt world azis a P malta iti 1 sf of sent senta ment I 1 and so mayet be until mhd end of tune time s the aspiration true lovers lovera 61 fallis B but fit ait athe hs of bf br finishing athing off soa almett 0 t iha A bloom bof of famay fiort this subject says the boston taa PO post st I 1 it t is interesting to regard it 1 lc a Ahbe tiia cold old light ot of figures vi tach tells W hit lei ad i of an agar aggravate ata is raide made up bylas american J toward ma matrimony Y such ale aie ai e for fop tae first farat time tim ebythe by the census ot of 1890 former forer nr n ot n blaa concerned with e every va I 1 ty important feature of th social condition of the united states a I 1 tho the first thing abl h catches she ea attention a in the tabulations of the census bureau on m this sut subject eject I 1 is s the vast number of young bach bachelors eldis at the ag age e GL bt 24 ye years ars only theaty men out of are mar married anid even up to thirty years nearly 0 one no half still re regain miln single ringle the women do bet terp at the age ot df twenty four foar nearly half of them ya have va become wives aves and before tasy reach ch thirty years near nearby hy th three ree quarters have hava mina found their mates As a rille women marol mar ol ry at an le arliet age athali than men and this accounts counts tte in part for the diffor ence enca but bat the great fact remains the rast army of young men of america remain bachelors at a at t which thelt their grandfathers erand fathers were eie the heads of families and bound te io t the he athe aitho community ty tyghe the strongest ties known in out our social sy system stein exact comparison is is of courso impossible owing oving to the absence of figures for pr previous allous years bat bar it is safe to say that this habit of baab bachelorhood elo cidras has iacre increased j sed a and ud that the tendencies conditions cf life lifa aro are toward ats alts further geow growth tj As the stan standard daid of 0 luxury which we havo chorab to call comfort as raised the cost oi of maintaining r a family becomes greater and responsibility i becomes agre formidable the youn young pan man who can sup port himself 0 ease he hesitates to is assume greater burdens ai whish aih h must involve so some me sacrifice fica of hi j h a abbis b its I 1 aud and may ma i V bring the need 0 of gre greater ater ex exertion e rilon asali as i b beai 4 than he iia W his betchelor bitch elor freedom ui lifes es to and so the tha I 1 t f young homad seeing seeing new opportunities tuni ties of 0 agreeable occupation opening up il 0 oa all hands for those of her sex who have capacity for business I 1 ess for fobart art for fori industry of many kinds may mar be induced to gr greater re eater indifference to the tae sentiment which leads to mai uzl yet which is the batter stats slite ihlen life is the desired thi thing n these census figures haw harr so something meWing i of teu the young bachelors bachela r S of america they men show that 0 of f all the american men and women who have reached the age of 65 tears jears ninety every are married all but bui six sir V who have bave persisted in t hwe h dropped out of of tle the al wd n 4 |