Show plural marriage some time ago a letter was published in this p aper paper dated at lowell massachusetts and baud containing a petition to tile the legislature from many unmarried women in that city favoring tho the passage of a law allowing plural marriage under specified conditions this remarkable document was commented upon by nearly every newspaper in the land boldly but with pathetic detail it presented the picture of the lonely lot of women for whom the word i home has no significance it set forth the hopelessness of their struggle for a bare subsistence while white soe ile society lety with stern edict closed the tile door upon their joyless lives and bade bado them remember that in heaven there is neither marrying ngn giving in marriage the publication of this document called out a very large number of letters from various quarters barters uart ers ens entering eagerly on the discussion of womans comans matrimonial grievances the majority of writers professed their willingness to try almost any lot rather cihan niban than that of single blessedness the correspondence pon dence served seivel its purpose in showing how bow deeply the minds of women are interested in this social problem aud and now the same question has come COMO up for discussion in england it seems to have had bad its origin in the visit of persians king not only obscure newspapers are facing the question but journals that represent society and that go into the hands bands of cultured men and women discuss it says the llon ilon london saturday review tho tile the reason of the welcome given to the shah by the leisured classes ii li clear society is governed by the necessity of providing occupation fr for its un married members unmarried women men man woman form dorm tho CE orits of every overy household and nothing checks their steady increase from decade to decade and from year yeal boyear to year sear it Is only natural that the mother of a large and increasing family should find her symbol in the shah just as 03 dr primrose represented the quintessence of monogamy so the shall shah represents the lo element and suggest suggests s the one conceivable cely cei cel ablo vable method of providing for our surplus female population it cannot be said that the saturday review is merely jesting for that eminently conservative and elegantly cynical journal is not given to jesting on the unpopular side of the great social question it draws a dark enough picture of english so society clety and urges that plural marria marriage geis gois is the only available cure for the difficulty the language employed by this organ of the cultivated conservative classes in england would hardly havo have been tolerated a dozen years ago even in sport or irony and its recommendation ia Is made with a full knowledge of the fact that mormon missionaries have gathered their largest harvest of recruits from english field there is something terribly significant t I 1 if f not ominous in such a recommendation men dation coming t from such a quarter the qu question e stion naturally arises what is 19 the solution of this vast social problem the difficulty stares us full in the face tho the discontent of large numbers of our women and women too of no little culture and refinement is ls a f act fact that cannot be winked winded d out of sight they have hearts that hunger that starve for a sympathy and affection they have not found round and are not likely to find they are lonely and need a companionship that has not appeared they are solitary but no home offers to satisfy their longing they are human with all the deep and sacred instincts of womanhood struggling in their hearts but unappeased and the modern man thinks less and less of in marriage arriage I 1 lives more an and more at the hotel becomes the of the club and buys his comforts as he buys his clothes the difficulty so ad far agthe as the women are concerned is too tog ireal and unjust to be whistled down dowd the wind those who write to us refuse to be comforted b by Y commonplaces or silenced by sneers but who shall give them what they ask for how shall shail their natural and leg legitimate yit rit imato wants be met the questions are ara easier asked than answered but the earnest repeated asking may inay bring the satisfying solution in due time it is is something to see that relief cannot be found in this or that particular pati cular direction JV Y graphic |