, 1874-08-16
THE CHICAGO DAILY sUNptY: AUGUST u. 1874:

will be an entire SUCCESS, but It will rot depend
so much upon the natural calse8 alluded to by
cur LONDON friend aH because ElEro III no neceH-
sity for it, aud with al duo detereuco to them,
Must admit that
FEW OF THEE WILL PURSUE
self-lntIcted courso Of patient and severe
study. or toll long enough to accomplish any
thing really worth calling eucceBs 1t will bo al
most entirely to this that she will owe her fall
! urc.. Men know that they must work that they
must accumulate pEnperty~; tint 1theE must have
profession By which they eau support fatn1ly !:
that there is no foundation upon which they can
build with safety but gold; that man without
money is 4 man without standing and without ln-
huence ; aud that, with it, though hls sins were
as scarlet, he will be good fellow, hold Offices.
control corporations, head every enterprise, lead
society, malo Lis own pet folies or vices tho
I fashion, and mnrry the prcttiest, tho purest, or
the richest woman IN the world, if he choose:
+ With g'll, this is all SO very dlireront. She
las almost nothing to look back to, almost MOTH
ing to look forward TO-.
4 blank EXISTENCE
has hung OH her hands a few dull, heavy. unmo~
,mentOus years; the future stretches out moro
dull, mora heavy, more monotonous and drealy,
because With each succeeding year tho freshness
wears away and ennui increases
There is but one event in her life upon which
her thoughts fix themselves, and that is mar
riage. If she does not marry, she is worse than
nobody; and, even II that step promise to en-
tail actual domestic misery, it is, she has been
taught to balicyo, better than to remain single.
II she mar1ies, and n.arries we'll, there is no
need for her. to pursue profession or .any sort
OF busneAs for which homo duties leave little
time or inclination; it she ruarrios badly, her
Enthusiasm will soon be chilled, her ambition
parayzed, and her enerSy exhausted.
Tie great inpediincut in the way will not be
mans opposition, I'M satisfied Of that but II
hundred ualnelcss aud lndetinablo CAUSES that
lie either in her nature, her education, or her
circumstances Ono great difficulty will be her
AVERSION 70 REMAINING SINGLE,
lor dread of being an old maid, her unreasonable
horror OF criticism. ANY one; knows how nlen
devote I whole long life to q single branch OF
science, or TO aprofessioll; aud yet you wonder
that glrlH, who only average Is years OF single
lifo accomplish nothing, They marry n: age
when boys have not yet begun to think OF a trade
or calling, g,-certainly before they lave made
any. progress in it; and this is Us
it should be, for only as happy
wife. the mother of brood OF darling baby
b!rdH. and tue supreme mistress OF houso
upon which her retiucd taste has left sweet in-
print, she find the sphere in which her heart
Will have true and safe icst.
In isolated cases, 4 diploma may be to woman
what it il to q 1nan.-the key 70 his waiting feet
B wedge with which llo will split the rock III
whose heart its treasure lies gatncrel and hid
meut for which sho sacrifices health, strength,
love- hope, aud all that her heart mist graves
- Gully this aud nothing more" and, with other
mcmentoes, OF !" tie days that are no more" it
will be laid awac and remembered III piece OF
nonsense, or wisely forgotten.
GARNET E. FREEMAN. :