Wives Wanted In Idaho

Young women are still scarce in Idaho, and bachelors who desire to change their conditions of single blessedness are plenty. As a result of thls condition of affairs school boards in that state have difficulty in securing teachers to conduct their schools. Few men are engaged in the occupation of teaching the young, as they can usually find more lucrative employment. So young women are imiported from the east, and as soon as they begin their work the bachelors begin paying court to them. With a dozen men fluttering around her, small wonder that the sehoolma'm resigns and marries one of her suitors. There are about ten unmarried men to one unmarried woman in Idaho. Dr. William C. Whitwell, a druggist one unmarried woman in Idaho. gives the following incident as a sample of the way schoolma'ams are wooed and won in Idaho: "A charming young ladyt Miss Busch, came from Iowa to teaeh in the public schools of Givensville," he says, "but before she was there three months &he was engaged to a prominent man of the town, and at the close of the school term they were married. Her sister came to teach the next school year. When the term was half over this sister resigned and married, and sent for another unmarried sister to take her place as teacher. The third Miss Busch taugiht in the school the latter half of the tepm, but three days after the term closed she was married to a business man of the town."