Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-15

sCPERFLUOUS GIRL AND HEX slSJEh
Herr is one Of BoSton's y, 900 girls in excess
Of the pantaloon gender. This is her picture
in the early spring Of her youth, when she
neither realizes nor fears her supertiuouSnesS
Observe her mockiug smile at the elder sister
before her, who was onc- young and hope
full as she but who now sees the husband she
hoped for vanishing TO a point in the whittier
most of the where. Woman in Boston is fire.
quently a hopeless and unattached fact at 81
Not only are marriageahle men scarce here
but opportunities of financial independence.
for women are, il seems To me, fewer than
elsewhere The hopeful old maid and the
old maid who has lost hope may be diStin
guishc,l, the one from the other, anywhere.
The latter is settled and bookiSh looking; has
the air of having renounced the wOrld-othcr
wis. mcn-and taken up philosophy. The
former looks as though she still intended TO
"cast an anchor to windward" if she should
have n chance.
/ WAS invited to a club meeting, and it was
Patience without the music sure enough.
Ii was a woman's club, Of course: but the
meeting wss an open one-Open to both
seXcS-sO the news went round with a joyful
sound. II greatly talked up. The i'm
preston was given me that the meeting would
be an occasion of extraordinary interest; an
affair which, if | were TO miss, should spend
the remainder of my life in regrets over.
Holders Of invitations were made to feel that
they had been favored Of the gods The Rev.
Mr. Grindwell would read a paper on dead
poets. That of itself, 1 knew not why,
seemed 10 impart a mysterious excitement to
everyone who contemplated being present,
All were made to feel that a light would be
thrown on the rhythmic dead such as had
never been on sea or land, and which it would
be well to see | made up my mind that Mr..
Grindwell was an obeliSk of learning who
opened his mouth but seldom, but when he
did he electrified his hearers.
went carly, feeling that couldn't have
too much of so exalted a privilege as even
looking at the man who was TO bring the de-
parted poets before our eyes and make them
live again The pretty pdrlors were full 10
repletIon-with women The stand for the
reader was banked in flowers, and behind the
speakers chair, which was still vacant, flow
erS were massed with a prodigality extraor-
binary in Boston.
An air of serious expectancy hung about the
place. The company had evidently gathered
for Il united whack at ignorance, and a de
termined avowal of their allegiance 10 the
fetch Culture. One young lady appeared at
the door with an escort. This created pro-
found agitation in the audience Heads were
turned, and eyeglasses, thirty strong, or per
haps stronger, were leveled at the extraordi-
nary spectacle The Boston woman Is put
into eyeglasses almost as soon as she can walk.
The escort, timid being in his forties, a
stranger in Boston, with hair parted in the
middle and an air of being OH unfamiliar
ground, glanced in, saw the dense array of
feInininity, muttered something about not
knowing that gentlemen were not expected
and skunk away. His escape occasioned
great excitement at the door and in the hall,
and considerable agitation inside. Three or
four able bodied women went after him with
out delay and lured him back without the aid
Of ropes heard them try TO uut him at his