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Show STAY HUMIJ li) Ui:i, I T iH l .VK tl l.utl.S TOU The Utah country girl ha3 a bette-opportunity bette-opportunity for marriage at home than she would in the city. Cora-j parison of marriage statistics for! city and couat;y districts in the stats by P. V. Kwing of the Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation, reveals that whereas the number of siiu;li women in Utah cities i.-'. abo.il T7 por cent of the number of iU sihfi- o nit-ii :t in Ihe rural sections there ar.' a. most two s'lish: men to every sin;-'.-le women. An examination of sen.-vis figures by Mr. EwirT shoved the're ars lfi, 328 single women ti! teen years i)nd up in the ciiies of the state, and 25,016 males. In the rural places, or places of 2.f.oo poiln i ion an.! under, iKuvcvr, t lie re nr-1 15.780 single women If. yea'i s of i;e and; over io 28,278 single niPn I The f'gures also show that rural folk have greater tendency to marry than have city folk. Whereas G1.7 por cent of the rural in'i.V Hants ol the state are married, in Ihe cities only 60.25 per cent are found so This is in accord with conditions , throughout the United St'tes which show that while 61.? per o?nt ' of the rural population is ve'ded. ihe percentage for Ihe urban poiulation is only 58.3 per cent. The largest percentage of i-.iiaiT'ed p sons in both the urban and rnra' stlom s between the age period of "5 to 44 v years, and the smallest between the eges of fifteen and t wen Lv-'our yea's A big factor in explaining the greater popularity of ms-rta.-re in the country over that in c;iie3 ii tha j relatively better economic position 1 j; of the farmer, according to Mr Ewing. No matter ho v nnnr. the farm family is almost alwavs a-vuivd ; of food and shelter, and there W j never the fear of losing one's jo'i. j L. Too, there is a greater co-oarlner- sh'p between the farmer and hi-1 hi-1 wife than exists in te cit e".. Tfcp : i idle woman is almost unknown here ' for the wife helps with the chickens the cows and the hogs while her hu" j 'band is out in the fields. And v while the cRy man may be financ'all' unable to marry, for the farmer i is practically an economic necessity |