SEEKING HUSBANDS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160731, 18 August 1920, Page 4

SEEKING HUSBANDS.

One and a quarter million women in the British Isles are expected to leavo the homeland to go to the British cot onies (writes a correspondent). The Salvation Army is aiding the movement. Theie is a great excess of wom-m over men in Britain. This has been accentuated by the war. Bpmsterhcod ov emigration is the choice these women have. A great many of them are choosing emigration. Tiicy are not going—like the women in the earlier days of fhe American colonisation—to be put up for auction as brides for the settlers. They are not going—like tho Japanese picture-brides of today—to meet men already their husbands. Not many of them are going for the conscious reason that they want husbands. But that is the real underlying reason. It is tho fundamental urge formating that will take these women overseas. And the Salvation Army in proud of its job. “We offer no apology for active propaganda designed to produce a better distribution of the sexes,” says the commissioner of the army engaged in this work. “One of tho biggest aftsr-the-war tasks assigned to fhe Salvation Army in Britain is to stimulate emigration of women and direct it to those colonies in the British Empire where there are more men than women.”

For the exceptional woman a career may take the place of wifehood and motherhood; lor the great majority of evolutionary tendencies, to want and seek a mate is as necessary to women thanks to the primal urge of her own nature as it is to the welfare of the race.