Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — Money and Matrimony. [ARTICLE]

Money and Matrimony.

The reluctance of young men to marry is rapidly taking the shape of one of the most perplexing problems of our time. In sections where the women outnumber the men by about 10 per cent, the situation presents many difficulties. But the disinclination* of young men to marry seems to be in the nature of a contagious epidemic. It .is spreading all over the country except in agricultural regions, where pepple hold fast to old-fashioned ways. The trouble is, too many of our young men are determined to marry rich women, or to accumulate wealth themselves before entering the wedded state. This state of affairs is unhappy and demoralizing.—Atlanta Constitutionalist.