| Show r Wurnr SPINSTERS ARE WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLB San Francisco Aug 7Say youve I I heard about women being worth their I I I weight In gold havent you I i I Yes Ive read about it Well just say that any women who reaches Klondyke has a gold mine the minute she gets there that Is providing of course she Isnt married She Is worth her weight In gold pn the spot and I she happens to be good looking she Is I I worth more Thats not Idle talk Its the solemn gospel truth every word of it Say what does a woman welsh I I think About 125 pounds for the average I think lets do alittle figuring Tnat I I means 125 IGounce pounds dont it Insure I-nsure that to be oo esO Klondyke I gold is worth abgut 1C an ounce so to be worth her weight in gold the woman I I I The above Is written with the phllan throplc purpose of advising the old maids of the big centers of population of thp existence of what might be called the spinsters Eldorado or the bachelor girls Golconda In the manufacturing towns of New England It ought to be received with I I delight because of the rumored Indisoo I t0s of the young men of that locality ito i-to assume matrimonial responsibilities I I and n consequent increase in the number i i of unmarried women I Recent statistics on I the marriage subject t sub-ject show that in every large city there I i has been a decrease in marriages Some theorists have explained the matter by I I attributing it to the hard times and the i dislike of young people to venture upon a wedding with the certainty before them of facing all kinds of deprivations and economies Others have explained It by condemning womans extravagance or mans selfishness I tons as he cares for As a married man with that income he cannot keep within sight of even the fringe of society and its doings Therefore he does not marry at least not until he gets to bell or so and as he then marries a girl eveml years his junior the girls that grew up with him gw are left f But there i another side to I which places the crime upon women The defenders de-fenders of masculinity claim that the reason son he doesnt marry Is that the woman of today requires many things which her 1 mother never heard of and if she doesnt get them she is unhappy She expects her husband to supply her with every luxuicr that her fathers home boasted of in fact to begin her married life whero her parents leave off without taking Into consideration the fact that It took a lifetime life-time for her father to establish such a I home Not only this but she expects t T si 4ic t l iira 1 I J t 4t II I ia I I I I I 12 iv f I 7 tcII fii1h J iit1tdJiift1J TT f uv AT KHONDYKE SHE IS WORTH HER WEIGHT IN GOLD ought to Get 32000 Would she get it Yes since and quick too Why there I are hundreds of men there wno have taken out 50000 or tOo and have double as much In their claims who would I I i marry her on sight good men too who I would make good husbands The speaker was Jim Roberts once of Knntds City and two weeks back from the Klondyke with 563000 to the good and n half interest In a claim go saws i certain for io000 more Say my boy he continued if you were Only an old maid your fortune would I b made All you would haveto do would be to pack your grip and get to Dawson City as Quick as heaven would let you I Then all you would have to do would be to make your pick and there would be I I I a big assortment on hand Seeing that youre not an old maid yourself if there is one in your family you might rive i her the Up and start her off Its the i I chance of a lifetime and she shouldnt lose it I Whatever the cause may be there is no I i doubt of the decrease of eligible marrying men notwithstanding the fact that there are 2OOjO000 more men In the country than women That the men are more to blame I for it than the women is a selfevident fact Bachelor life today is so pleasant that men are growing less inclined to surrender surren-der It for the pleasures of the domestic hearth Clubs tire so plentiful that a man I can depend upon them to amuse him in his spare hours while bachelor apartments j apart-ments are perfected to such a degree that i the occupant enjoys more luxuries and I conveniences than he could afford to have j In his own home A man with 2000 or 3000 a year la fairly comfortable as a bachelor wherens as the head of a household he i contin I uftlly engaged In the desperate work of j stretching the ends to make them meet As a single man he is something of a figure in society if he Is ambitious In that direction and receives as many invita1 maintain all of her social connections to entertain as freely as before and in short to live in a way impossible with an income of less than 10000 The widening of the scope of womens wants Is therefore held responsible f > r the condition of affairs but as this can only refer to the fortunate classes the commonplace women with less exalted matrimonial Ideas are also sufferers and without being in any way to blame These latter are the kind of women that Jim Roberts says ought to go to Klan dyke None of your fancy attains with silk shoes who cant do anything but look pretty had better try if the would drop dead on the waT GootN healthy strong women with stacks of hustle and common sense are the kind to win out women who can enjoy life without a white and gold boudoir and who won t faint at the sight of work Thats the kind and if she should happen to weigh ISO pounds she would still be worth her weight in gold |
