Show WHY NOT BOND social service expert laments the fact that so many of the people remain unmarried why are 39 out of 0 every men without wives A social service expert puts the question it Is calculated to provoke debate at this season it seems there are unmarried persons in the united states a greater number than the entire population of some nations more than twice that of the dominion ot of canada eight millions ot of the unmarried are men about women over fifteen years ot of age seven and one quarter million ot of the bachelors are between twenty and forty four years of 0 age it if all these women and all these men could be brou brought ilat together by some kind ot of matrimonial agency there would be only a small number of women left outside of 0 the bounds ot of wedlock the unattached are warned that married persons ot of both sexes have the greater life expectancy according to insurance statistics and other mortality records it Is too much to expect that alarm over this w will ill provoke a matrimonial stampede like moa s statistics these should not be swallowed whole Is it not probable that many persons are single because they are sickly one difficulty about joining all these maids bachelors widows and widowers ot of course is that the excess respectively Is not in the same place the woman suffrage debate reminds us that in some states the men outnumber the women while in some the women are in equal or even greater numbers the women obtain the vote easier where they are in the minority providence journal |