| Show stay home to wed utah farm girls told the utah country girl has a better opportunity tor for marriage at home than she would in the city comparison of 0 marriage statistics for city and country districts in the state by P V ewing of the sears roebuck agricultural foundation reveals that whereas the number of single women in utah cities is about 77 per cent ol of the number of its single men out in the rural sections there are about two single men to every single woman an examination of 0 census figures by mr ewing showed there are single women fifteen years and up in the cities ol of the state and males in the rural places or places of 2500 population and under however there are 15 single women 15 yrs ars of age and over to single men the figures also show that rural folk have a greater tendency to marry than have city folk whereas per cent of 0 the rural inhabitants kofl 0 the state are married in the cities only per cent are found so this Is in accord with conditions throughout the united states which show that while per cent of 0 the rural population la Is wedded the percentage tor for the urban population is only per cent the largest percentage of 0 married persons in both the urban and rural sections is between the age period ot of 35 to 44 years and the sm smallest allesE between the ages age s of fifteen and twenty tour four years A big factor in explaining the greater popularity of 0 marriage in the country over that in cities is the relatively better economic position ot of the farmer according to mr ewing no matter how poor the farm family Is almost always assured ot of food and shelter and there is never the tear fear of 0 losing ones job too there Is a greater partnership co the farmer and his wife than exists in the cities the idle woman Is almost unknown here tor for the wife helps with the chickens the cows and the hogs bogs while her husband is out in the fields and so while the city man may bo be financially unable to marry tor for the farmer it Is practically an economic necessity |
