Show the celibacy of women the condit conditions lons of life are more fatal to men than to women although the proportion of boys born in any civilized community is or to every girls a greater number of the latter survive to reach maturity mature in fact in nearly all countries there is a surplus of or women in england there are women to every nien and in america the excess of women is fully 5 per cent while in certain parts of the united states such as aa massachusetts the emigration in of or young men has bas made a far greater disparity in the numbers of the sexes from this surplus of women there would naturally follow the enforced celibacy of the more unattractive of the sex there are however other causes which also tend lend to produce the same result prominent among these those is the lack of chastity among men according to mr greg whose lite literary nary and social judgments judgments has recently attracted much attention tilis this latter cause is more powerful than all others in producing the celibacy of so large a number of engi Engl english hili women his remarks on the subject can be applied with equal truth to the condition of things in this country and we therefore quote them leaving the moral to be drawn by our out readers mi greg remark remarks S if elvery overy man among the middle and higher ranks were corn pel pei led to lead a ilfe lifo of stainless abstinence till ho he married and unless lie married wo we may be perfectly sure that every woman in those ranks would havo have so many of flens offers such earnest and rind such rationally eligible jones dones that no one would remain single eingle except those to whom nature dicta dieta dictated ted celibacy as avo a vocation gatlon gation jor or those whose cold hearts independent t temp temper tempers ers erp or indulgent belfi selfishness liness made them select it as a preferable and more wore luxurious career unhappily as matters are managed now thousands of or men nind find it perfectly ly feasible to combine all the freedom luxury and el pelf indulgence of a b bachelors ach elors career with the pleasures of female society and the enjoy nientai they seek seeh for there As long iong as this is so sa so I 1 long iong I 1 ong w wo e fear a vast proportion of the kest best best women in the educated classes women especially who have no dowry beyond their goodne sand and their beauty will be doomed to remain involuntarily unta rily single how this sore sorl evil is to be remedied we cannot undertake to say whenn when female emigration has done its work and suid drained away the excess and tho the the special obviousness ness of the when women have thus become far fewer in pio plo proportion portion men will have to bid higher for the possession of them and will find it necessary to make them wives instead of mi stresses Again when worthless appearances and weary gayeties gaieties gaye ties and j joyless luxuries shall have lost something of their factitious fascination in eyes in comparison with more solid and more enduring pleasure pleasures they will be content with smaller maller worldly meang ih jh the men who iho ask their hands and as they become less costly articles of furniture they will find more nur numerous nerous and more eager purchasers ers ens ladles ladies themselves are far from guiltless in this matter and though this truth troth has been somewhat rudely told them lately it is a truth and it is one they would do well weli to lay p to heart N Y graphic d a |