The sun., 1890-07-13
Great Prospects for spinsters.

Speaking Of new edlfce designed for the
was grumblng the other day about the
alleged neglect Of the interests OF old maids,
and complaining that no shelter was es-
pecally provided for them nor rooms
reserved Except in Christian homes and
| flfth-rate lodging houses" Never mind |
II there Is set Of beings whose ship Is
coming in soon with great big cargo, it is
the old maids. The reason why such care
is taken Of bachelors; why such palaces are
built for them to live In. and all the best
things are kept for them. is because they
have money and can pay.
The bachelor OF thirty odd with good
income, the whole Of which he can spend on
himself, is a gentleman to be respected.
There are very large potentialities Of
profit In him. 1t pays to provide comforts
and luSures for him, and they are provided
II there was as much money In coddling old
maids as there is in looking after bachelors,
there would DO nothing that they could
wish for that would not be offered. Just as
soon as the old maids get the ability to pay,
their hearts desires will be provided for them
in increasing quantities at so much heart.
Meanwhile they are getting richer all the
time. For one thing, they inherit more money
than they used to, because there is vastly
more money to be inherited than there used
to be, and here In the United States they get
practically. their full share. For another
thing they earn much more than they used
to earn, not only because there are more Of
them at work, but because much larger pro-
portion of them can command good pay than
formerly. Any one whois old enough to have
formed handwriting can remember the
time when a woman who could earn
$500 in year was looked upon as a marvel.
There Is no scarcity OF such women now, nor
any notable dearth Of women who earn two,
three, five or ten times as much.
Moreover, there is no longer any serious
sentiment to prevent a woman who has
money from buying pretty much anything
there Is in the market that man can buy.
She can't buy bachelor apartment quite as
conveniently as man can yet; and though
she can invest some OF her surplus in clubs,
she has not so tempting range OF choice as
she will have IN the future. But she can
buy houses and everything accessory from
opera boxes to hired men. and run them, and
enjoy them. She can buy every species
of instruction, from China painting to
anatomy, and she can buy pretty much every
known variety of foreign travel.
Ifthere are still little spots in Africa and
about the poles that remain unpoked bv the
American woman's umbrella, It Is because
those localities have not yet attracted her,
and not that there will be any adequate hin
drance to her going there when she gets
ready. In certain directions where her tastes
are exceptionally pronounced she has al
ready developed market The thing of all
others that She is most likely to buy when
she gets enough ahead, Is man; and, as
every one knows, she ia lamentably subject
to hallucinations, under which she can be in
duced to pay an outrageous price for an ab-
surdly poor article.
Tho American woman's weakness In this
respect being known, the best man-markets
at home and abroad have been gradually
opening to her, until now there Is no
country In Europe where 1t is not con-
sidered a privilege to take down goods
OF this description for her inspection
and chatter with her confdentially as to
styles and prices. And when she cannot
find man that she wants or that Is within
her means, she very often likes to buy stock
In church. Nobody needs to be told that
here. toe. efforts are successfully made to sup
ply her requirements. 10 her who hath shall
be given.
Nothing can be long denied to the Amer
lean woman that she has the money to
pay for. All good things that bachelors
have shall be added unto her as she grad
ually develops the ability to meet the rents
and dues incident to their enjoyment. There
ls nothing that woman is so constituted as to
desire OF which the American woman is not
going to have the refusal She and her in
dependent income form one ol the vast busi-
ness opportunities OF the immediate future;
and there Isn't the least danger that any de-
partment thereof will be neglected.