Quiet Epidemic of Suicide Claims Frances Farmers.

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8. They'd fit right in if they were plunked down in West Virginia or Kentucky

far away from the cities.

The problem is that there's no real community to work with, just isolated bachelors toiling away day after day, year after year and getting farther behind all the time. Since few sane women want to cope with an unimproved farmhouse that is stuck in the 1880s, marriage prospects are dim. Maybe that's where some effort could be made, updating the houses and bringing them into the last century, if not this one, making country life a little more appealing to women.