MARRIAGEABLE WOMEN.

Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 103, 28 December 1872, Page 2

MARRIAGEABLE WOMEN.

Ove of the great sociil proble.ns of. the day is to explain whv t!i re arc so muiy marriageable woman who nevur tec* rn uriel. .Some siy that itiaowing to an excess iitfii'imbe:s of we.nen over men ; in cousequenee of which there a-e n )?/ husbands- euough- to go round. This-, how/ver, rs disproved by statistics. Take the woild tho figures sho.v that there are as inauy men- in x i there are women. Others attribute it to the expetisiveness of modern life. Men do not nxirry because, it is said, thoy c wnot a,tf'>rd to. But the f ictis that no nun who truly loved a woman ever hesitated to become, engaged to her anM eveiTLUctiiy ina-rxry* Jie* be*** ll * oo o£ poverty. There are cold.-blooded men,, with, no idea or uuj ru,r.» g for a woman stronger than a languid admiration, who may be deferred from, assuming what they regard as a burden in the shape of a wife unless assured of a liberal income ; but most are not so calculating. Others, again, attribute the evil to women's fastidiousness.. Ttiey expect too much in a husband, and, while waiting for an impossible shadow, let the possible substance slip through their fingers. This iß*a libel on the sex. As a rule, they, are no more fastidious than men are, and are just as susceptible as men to that enchantment of love which invests its object with every perfection, and covers up every fault- So far as mon and woman themselves are concerned, they are as prone to marriage now as in any period of the world's history. Nevertheless, there the women are waiting for-husbands, and net getting them. Every social circle is full of them. They are pretty,, they are accomplished, they are sensible, and under proper training they would make excellent wives and mothers; but they never-get a chance. Wuat ser.ms to be needed is a more thorough method of bringing n;eu and women into- social contact with each other.