The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-28

intellectual world, brushing aside the tears
20 support the pair - best she might, and
writing out OF her despair. why does God
expect so much more Of as than We can do
burden ns with 20 mucn more than We
can bearf"
Another instance little less sad. but
equally unjust, is the story of . woman
physician who was peremptoriIy mpelled
~ ner husband 10 give up her practice Ut
marriage. Less than ten years ssterward
sne resumed II to support Q husband
wrecked in mind - well as body by over
work, and TO educate the children she had
borne. The woman writer, poet. teacher.
OF marriage before she comes out Of the
ranks OF spinsters simply for the honor Of
writing Mrs. before the name already
known and respected IN the world.
In the oiden times boys and girls were
weoded as the birds are mated, and built
their nests together during the honeymoon.
Now brown-stone palace must be builded
and furnished with rare old bangines and
plate, and the welded life prefaced with q
European tour. Then women realized the
duties OF uifehood; now they seek its adj
vantages. Then they began life in the
CABIN In the clearing. - their mothers and
istners did before them; nov the daughter
must nave atthe outset timer linen and beav.
Ter plate than her mo her has accum uiated
o. result OF years of toll and frugaiity.
Inen girls were married because there was
nothing else for them 20 do, and they were
not extremely critical about the man who
released them from the durance vile Of
single blessedness.
Now the average woman of intelligence
ica'izes that the unmarried girl has the
best of 1t. As some one has said, I'm the
soul OF every unwon woman there lies eter-
nal youth" Within her heart is hidden
sun the holy OF holes, violated by no high
priest, however righteous. wherein golden
winged cherubim preside over the
sanctity OF her womanhood. She Is, ~ .
than her married sister in the same
circumstances, stronger in body,
floor nights with teething babies and
crying ones eyes out over hus-
bands that stay out ct the club until the
keynote IS whirling Catherine wheel, are
not conducive to health or beauty. The
unmarried woman reads and studies more
tnan the matrons find time TO do, with
the children and the marketing and the
husbands and the social duties. She rides
anu rows and runs, thinks and travels and
hyes. Ii she has money she 10 to be en-
wed by the gods. II she hasen't she sets
about earning it In the manner most
congenial 70 herself, and spends it. too.
right royalty in her own adjoining il she will,
without giving an account to any one Of
her purchases or buying q cheaper bonnet
because Johnnie has to have shoes and the
baby Cloak. because trade is poor or John
mas bet on the wrong horse or lost pile
on the street. II requires something be-
SIDES tailor's sandwich man in stylish
clothes, conceited beau who dreams all
women are ready to wed him; a widower
with small children who is looking for q
nurse, or gourmet who Is seeking q cook
to convince that style Of old maid that she
Is blighted being.
As for those who have old maidism
thrust upon them-there are hundreds OF
sweethearied, womanly women to whom
wliehood and motherhood belong by all
that Is worthy in instinct and pure in DUP
pose who are cheated out of their birth
right By the lack OF enough men worthy to
touch the hem OF their garments, by de-
signing and ialse-hearted women. who bear
on matrimonial prizes only TO he unfaith.
fui to the husbands and neglectful of the
cniidren. and by the conditions under
which We live, which enable the girl with
money and influence 10 secure husbands
In most mercenary way. to the inspira-
ton OF ranters on the Is marriage failure
question. the cynicism Of men, and the
despair OF women.
The question. "why do you not marry ?"
was asked young woman. and she an
swered, Il cannot earn enough to sup
port two yet"
Ioa young man the same question was
propounded. and the reply was: 1.-THE
ones We want Will not marry US. and the
ones We might have we do not care for"
When the reaction comes from this I'M
manageable age when men and women
mutually require less of each other in the
marriage VOWS, when women do not look
upon husbands as safety deposits of
wealth where drafts are cashed
on sight, when men explain carefully
their resources to their wives, giving them
their share OF the income AS freely and un-
restrainedly AS they help them selves to
their own allowance instead of doing out
the sheke,s niggardly, as to beggars upon
the highway, and when the little god of
love ceases to be SO mercenary and SO ma
licious, hurting his darts at random among
the people, causing the impossible and I'm.
attainable to be ever the desirable, there
will be more giving IN marriage, more
solemnity in its ceremonies, less talk of its
failure, and more devotees to it's covena ants