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Perhaps their calculations come right and they are successful in getting a husband, though even then, their future is not absolutely secure, for husbands, however well convinced of their duty of supporting their wives and families, occasionally fail in business, and sometimes are 80 unreasonable as to die, and a married woman or a widow with young children is not, by reason of her sad experience, better fitted to fight the hard battle of earning her livelihood than a spinster. But if many women marry, to ho.w many-perhaps two-thirds in the rank of life we are speaking of-this alternative never offers. The number of educated girls in England and many other countries who are ready to be married is out of all proportion to the number of educated men ready to marry them.