HINTS TO UNMARRIED LADIES.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 134, 24 April 1880, Page 2

HINTS TO UNMARRIED LADIES.

A certain Mr. Fmlayson has umde out a table showing, lo a very fraction, what a woman's chances of marrying are for everv year of her life. This most precious document should be posted, I think, on tho doors of all our churches, and if, after such pointed admonition, young girls trifle away their time, the blame is entirely their own. The calculations were made, I understand, upon S7'i cases, but for the sake of greater perspicuity let us enlarge tho denominator to 1000. Of 1 i)i)0 married women taken without selection, it is found that tho number married at each ago is us below. Or if (by an arithmetical licence) we call a woman's chances in the whole course of her life 1000, her chances in each two years will bo shown in the table ; AOK. CUAXCKS. AOE. CIIAXCES. M-I's 16-17 IS-111 20-21 22-23 _ lfifl Sfi-37 24-20 _ 102 38-39 _ 1 1000 Now this table, it, will be soon, tells us that one-half a woman's chances of marriage arc gone when she has completed her twentieth year; bud mind you what the consequence of this is. She must then, as seamen say, " carry less sail," and shoot at a lower' Mark. At 2.'! she ought to bo " very reasonable," for thrcofourths of the golden opportunities are gone, nevei' to return. At 20 you will see at a glance that .'.aueiness is out of the question, for your hopes, if the case should be yolirs, fair reader, will then he shrunk to the small fraction of an eighth. Possibly you may then think the poor poor fellows you once despised •fine "catches." At 111, despair should begin to wrinkle your brow, for when that ago comes, and finds yon single, pray remember that if you have in the circle of your acquaintance forty marrying men (a rare contingency) you have just one solitary chance among them all. When you stand on the dread verge of :!0, it is '"quite too awfully t.oiTibio"f.o reflect of tho thousand chances with which you started, three only remain—a miserable remnant of throe. It is now nigh time to bespeak lodgings for a suiglc lady, and to procure a couple ol c.ts. i'hercfore twr/ic i/iaii. or in plain i English, improve your time. There arc iple.-.iv of lla-kisos about. Ci.ri.tks. 'i'iiames, 17th Feb., ISSO.