Wise Women Marry Late

The sirídi s s ] i-pmc.ít amoi;.; Ameriocii cu (o sectil tiu'iü'tivi s ; íj. -"m.i . i ■(( .-i livclihccfj has matle duriiig ; decades are simply astonn diug. Noi can illnstrate this better than the following figures, wbich have referenoe to the number of woraeii iu tho United States ia eaoh profession in 1890, the figures in parentheses beiug the corresponding figures for 1870. Iu 1890 there were 4,455 female doctors (527), 33? female dentists (34), 240 female lawyers(5), 1,235 female preachers (67), 180 female engineers and land surveyors (none), 25 female architeets (1), 11,000 lady painters and sculptors (412), 8,000 female authors (159), 888 feraale journalista (35), 34,518 female mnsicians (5,735), 3,949 actresses (692), Ö34 female theatrical managers (100), 21,185 shorthaud writers (7), 64,048 olerke, seeretaries, etc. (8,106), 27,777 female bookkeepers (none). Last year 1,805 women visited the nniversities, of whom 34 left them as fully trained doctors and about a dozen respectively as lawyers, preachers and journaliste. Of the above 1,805 female students 28. 2 per cent have married. American women, however, do not, as a rule, marry till they have completed their twentieth year, and of these 1,805 as ruany as 887 wero still under 20 years. Of women who hold diplomas as doctors, between 25 and 30 years, only 32 per cent marry ; of those between 30 and 35 years the number of thoso who marry -has risen to 43. 7 per cent ; of those between 35 and 40, to 49 per cent, and of those above 40 years, to 54.5 per cent. Prom this it becomes evident that women who have frequented universities, at least in America, marry much later than others. It is perhaps a natural result of this circumstance that divorcos are virtually a thing unknown amone these late marrving women dents.-