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VOL XII.
MATRIMONY.
Its Popularity Said to Have De¬
clined in Recent Years.
Causes Which Have Produced
This Marked Change.
It is estimated that there are 3,000,
000 young men of marrigeable age in
United States who obstinately neglect
to provide themselves- with wives,
says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
and t
this implies the existence of at
least an equal number of young wo¬
men of marriageable age who are
waiting for proposals that never come.
The fact is important as indicating
one of the social tendencies of the
period. It cannot be doubted that the
popularity of matrimony has mated
rliy declined in recent years, and that
a kind of general hesitaucy seems to
prevail respecting the negotiation of
such alliances. There was a time
when the young people of the country
hastened to pair themselves with
bird-like eagerness and delight as soon
as they were out of school; and soeioty
not only encouraged them, but practi¬
cally commanded them to take that
course.
They were considered superfluous
and burdensome until they got mar¬
ried. The truo work of life could not
begin with them, they were taught, so
long as they remained single; it was
their duty to become yoked without
unnecessary delay, and it was a dis¬
grace to miss reasonable opportunities
in that relation. But it is decidedly
different at the present day. The
practice of wedlock is no longer im¬
perative, nor does discredit attend the
unmated state, even when prolonged
into the 30’s. There is as much ad¬
vice given against marriage as in favor
of it by the wise and experienced of
both sexes, and the result is a steady
decrease in the proportion of actual
weddings to possible ones.
The causes which have produced
this marked change are not sufficiently
definite for satisfactory analysis. It
is probably true that' our extravagant
style of living, as compared with that
of former times, is one of the effective
influences. The cost of supporting a
wife and raisiiig a family is much
larger than it used to be, and this fea¬
ture of the matter often gives pause
on both sides. We have come to mea¬
sure so many other things by money
that matrimony has not escaped the
rule. Young people are disinclined
to start in a humble way and gradually
improve their situation they want all
that their parents have, without wait¬
ing and striving for it. Many pro¬
posals are unquestionably delayed oi¬
l-ejected on this account. Then it is
well known that the avenues of em¬
ployment open to women have made
them more independent and probably
also more exacting as to the qualifica¬
tions of husbands.
It is not nearly so common as it
once was for girls to marry simply in
order to secure a home and a living;
they are able now to earn good wages
and to take their time about assuming
the duties of wives and mothers. We
may safely believe, moreover, that
the progress of women in education
and in social power has led them to
Iook less favorably upon the connu¬
bial coudition by subordinating their
hearts to their heads, so to speak.
And, finally, it cannot but be that the
abundance of criticism to which the
marriage system has been subjected
by writers of pronounced vigor and
skill has served to weaken it in the
popular estimation, and to disparage
the quality of sacred ness that is its
highest claim to respect and honor.
There is no reason as yet, however,
to lament the prevailing tendency as a
national misfortune. The amount of
carrying is still large enough for all
ordinary purposes; and it may be that
less rather than more of it would best
promote the interests of society. Such
onions should be formed with some
other object than that of merely prop¬
agating the species. They involve the
most serious obligations and responsi¬
bilities of human iife, and, if people
are learning to be slow and careful
about making contracts of so much
importance, it is hardly a sign of de
cay or a threat of calamity. When
ever any two persons care so much
for each other that they cannot hap
pily live apart, they will be wedded in
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. DECEMBER 15, 1892.
a pits of all opposing influences; and
perhaps those are the only circum¬
stances under which a wedding ought
ever to take place.
It would not do to say with Hamlet
that “we will have no more mar¬
riages,” and that all who are now sin¬
gle “shall keep as they are,” but we
are justified in thinking that the ratio
of matrl'' mial happiness is likely to
be inct 1 according to the measure
of marriages that are brought about
by reflective instead of emotional
means. The system with which the
critics find so much fault is not per¬
fect, but it is much better than they
represent it to be or it would not
have survived so long. With all their
flaw picking they have not been able
to devise an acceptable substitute for
it, and until they are able to do so it
will continue to slaud as the most bo
nillccnt of those great agencies which
regulate and control the aflairs of civ¬
ilization.
To Suspend Animation.
“It has been frequently said that
truth is stranger than fiction,” re
marked Dr. Henry Powdorly to a lit¬
tle party that were discussing Wash¬
ington Irving’s romantic story of Iiip
Van Winkle in the Lindell rotunda.
“I often think that I would like to go
to sleep and wake up in the full enjoy¬
ment of my faculties a century later
—say, about the year 2000. I believe
that this will be successfully done.
Cases of suspended animation for con¬
siderable periods of time frequently
occur. I liavo myself pronounced
people dead who are now in the full
enjoyment of vigorous life. I have
no doubt that thousands of people
have been entombed alive after having
been examined by reputable and care,
ful physicians. If the life force may
be so completely suspended for a day
or two and then resume, why may it
not be taken up again after the lapse
of a century or more? Irving makes
Rip Van Winkle age durin g his
twenty years’ nap. That is, I think,
wrong. Should the life force be so
completely suspended that a man
would not require food there would
bo little or no waste, and he would
wake up as youthful and vigorous as
when ho dozed off. I believe that it
will yet be possible for a man, by tak¬
ing century naps, to enjoy a few years
of life during every century for 1000
years or more. I can see no good
easou for believing that the nineteenth
coutury has witnessed the high tide
of ecicntificachievement.”— [St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Biggest Sewing Machine.
The biggest sewing machine in the
world is said to be one at Leeds, Eng¬
land, which is used in the manufac¬
ture of cotton belting, for machinery.
Its weight is five and a quarter
tous, and it will sew through three
inches of the toughest and hardest
material* used in manufacturing
bolts. In this monster machine the
needles are each thirteen inches long
and the shuttles as large almost as a
small rowboat. The machine has a
double set of works(so as to sew both
sides of the bei‘i at one “feeding”),
two needles and two shuttles being in
coustaut use whenever the machine is
at work. An attachment similar to
that on the ordinary sewing machine
makes it possible for the operator to
instantly lengthen the stitch from one
eight of an inch to a full three inches.
It is unnecessary to add that this giant
can only be run by steam power.-—
[New Orleans Picayune.
The Yucatan Mosquito.
“The largest mosquitoes in the
world are to be found in Yucatan,”
says Richard Beverly. “Until a few
years ago there was not a mosquito iu
all Mexico. They were introduced
by vessels from the United States,
and have in the land of their adoption
attained proportions unknown in other
countries. The lowlands of Yucatan
swarm with monster mosquitoes
whose bite is almost as painful as the
sting of a bee. The historical Jersey
mosquito sinks to insignificance be¬
side these Titans of their kind, which
are frequently as large as house flies.
in neighborhoods where marshes
abound it is impossible to keep stock
of any kind, and during the rainy sea
son (ho people wear coarse netting
stretched over face and neck to keep
these insects from devouring them.—
[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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of county canvassers completed their
work Monday afternoon. The number of
votes cast for the head of the democratic
electoral ticket was 175,267, and for the
first republican elector 98,974. This
give Cleveland a plurality of 76,294 in
the city of New York.
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Imitation Walnut Bureau, formerly $6.50 reduoed to $5
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