We are told, however, that many girls are being assisted to emigrate from England to places where their service is needed and where there are so many surplus men that they do marry in short order.

We shall find that nature and economic adjustments will unite to more and more even up the two sides of life.

It is a sinister condition of modern life that forbids early marriage to so many men and all chance of suitable marriage to so many women who really desire that relationship with all their hearts.

We must go about its remedy with open eyes, and from frankly accepted reasons, for the sake of better family conditions.
=The Increasing Tendency of Women Toward Celibate Life.=--There is, however, another condition, many-sided and complex, often operating upon the persons most involved unconsciously and seldom treated with clarity or frankness, which works against the family as an institution.

This condition is the increasing tendency of many of the ablest women to marry very late or to refuse to marry at all.