| Show CONSOLATION FOR SPINSTERS A School For Wives Has Helped Spinsters to Find Mates Some one Is proposing a Husbands union for the protection oC husbands just what they seek to be protected from is not yet stated But the union is In tended for aU the downtrodden of the land that Is of the male portion Possi bly the union is to be founded on the same lInes as the School for Wives lately established es-tablished in England Still better are the marriage schools sIi h 1 u 5 = uc utn1Upeu In tierman on I very Practical lInes It is for girls and women only and the value or such a training cannot be overestimated Girl leave the marriage school competent to undertake tho management of a house and a husband The girls who have 0 graduated from these schools have been oxtra lucky in getting married so It Is said Another society whIch hag been organ Ied In Denmark Is the Celibacy Incur ance society Its object Is to provide for thcte women who ether cannot or wilt not provide themselves with husbands Tho premiums which are at various I scales begin at the age of 13 and end at 4 a period at which itis supposej most i of the members will have abandoned any thought of marriage Such being the i ease the woman receives an annuity for life It however she marries at am Ulne after or before 40 she forfeits all her claims With the profits thus acorn lag by chance or purpose the society hopes to provide for its members doomed to slnogle blessedness r Old maids in the United States arE outnumbered out-numbered by the bachelors although It I Is popularly supposed that the contrary f is the case To come to exact figures there are 7427767 bachelors and 3t49 spinsters This Is upon the authority or a government report Even In assachu setts where It was though that old mads constitute a large proportion ot the popu lation they could find each a husband and then not exhaust the stock of slngle men for there are 26OS men and only 2i92B > women who have not yet entered 1nto th bond nf mtrlmnnv Ness York state has D OOmore bachelors bach-elors than spinsters Only one state In I the Union has more female celIbates than I I male and that Is California in which I there are 59456 of the former and 2sI S or the latter The state ot Washington I has perhaps the largest excess of forlorn single menSO51i all told unmarried dam eels numbering only 9lSL Out or an equal number of bachelors and widowers between 25 and P 0 years or age thirty wIdowers remtrry for every S fe thirteen bachelors to enter the bonds of Hymen for the first time For Oery spinster married between 20 and 65 two widows are remarried Both facts are eloquent in favor ot the comparative advantages of matrimony In olden times a tariff or matches was established In France In which the various vari-ous degrees ff wealth necessary for a girl to enter the different ranks of French society were set down as follows A young woman with a dowry of 2000 to 1 10 franc a year was a match for n retail trader a lawyers clerk or a bailiff a dowry of 120 entitled one to aspire to I dealer In silk a draper an innkeeper a secretary to a great lord one with O Crane ml look as hIgh as an advocate or a government ofcer of considerable rank one with from C to 100 francs might hope fa a marquis a president or parliament a pee ofFrance a duke |
