Show superfluous WOMEN under this head the national review publishes the following article and we vre see sea greater crimes plainly written written I 1 between the lines of it than in all the books that ever have been written or delivered a against ainest the practice of plural ni marriage arriago as believed in by the L latter at t a r da day y saints note not 0 what the article says the usual retort when r women omen complain of want of remunerative employment is that they should not work but find men to support them As there are more women than nien men in england it is obviously impossible that every woman should havo have abush a husband and this state of things is as 03 bad in germany alvo also the preponderance of bf the women over the men is greatest in the professional and upp appi r middle classes among the richer aristocracy of england and tile the absolutely working people the sexes ar are a still equal in num berand women can still marry but tho the sons soils of clergymen clergy t nen officers civil servants some of the country gentry find tile the struggle for existence too great in t this his kingdom they emigrate or leave tho country by joining the military or naval service their sisters all remain at home borne unable tufino to find husbands and uneducated for 1 or work even domestic work these superfluous women must lust undoubtedly as a body perform the first duty duly of their sex that of being cing charming thea they are otten often hand handsome tome are generally well mannered and well ivell dressed they are charmers but there is no one to it charm they know very well that their chances of marriage are almost n f therefore ther clore should a solitary suitor wi with alth even a potency appear they feel driven to accept the first man who asks them whether they cato caro for them or riot not and m most ost generally they do to not their parents wish to get rid of them so they mary marry without love an evil arises out of this more ghastly than can le be described th marriage e of convenience is a becom nihed zed social institution aboard in ili england in this nineteenth century thoi women of the ilia upper middle middie classes adopt it without acknowledging it however we may affect to deny it there is a vast amount of marriage unhappiness in in all classes the fault cault is sometimes sometime 3 ascribed to the present degeneracy of women and sometimes to the deteriorations of the men the fact really real lylies lies in our social sy system stern which gives a woman neither work nor money and obliges her to sell li before she he lias imes lost lie her only sa leable co youth and beauty A ai there exist four superfluous w dpn en to 0 nc 00 0 ann tile the fer female liale thas the great number from whom to 0 pick aad cli choose therefore in in rillis country ninny women have ao act t only no chance of marriage at 11 but bat no freedom of selection whatever Nati national orial elicic esi cic |