The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-13
THE 0EDGALooalEss "AGIN''
Something for Cur Girls to
Think About.

| an item that appeared in THH
1 RECORDER last week, stating
| that we had received q letter
i from an old maid We said we
would like to publish it butt
| was too long etc. Ii will biz
seen by the following letter that
she thinks we have done her q
great injustice by saying she
HAD a pug nose, badly made etc,
| We ask her to read that item
again. We said: IF nature
hasn't made a bungling job Of
her gave her pug nose" etc.
/ If we had have said, nature had
done this for her than she would
have had just cause 10 say we
/ did her a wrong. But we knew
nor disposition, and therefore
was not afraid to be a little
Iplain. We give her letter in
ruil and trust that every thing
will be satisfactory, without
having to come agin I"
DEAN Mr.. REcoRDER;-A AS you
did not print my last letter in
full, and at the same time you
were short for something To
write about, you can state in
your paper, that if anyone wants
10 see an expression of beauty
and dead easy they should
come and look at me. | have
no "pug nose, bungled up job, 2
as you stated last week; but you
worked the job up on me just the
same. | am single its true, but
| it is not because men have fool
me they don't do that--but it
is because / have had the heart
to disappoint men when | can
plainly see that some of them
say TO themselves, .YoI're my
meat. he may be a merchant,
a lawyer, a preacher, an editor
Its all just the same if he
hasn't genuine love in his heart
Rather than 10 have family
quarrels which often ends in
| the divorce courts with such UNI
grateful men, | will remain
an old maid; let them have the
best of any point that comes
up, same as ANYBODY else-but l
swear that they are the last
men / viii permit to impose up
on me. ] know numbers of
girls that have been treated like
brutes after the so-called hon
IN moon was over. More than
one have told me that they
found out just before they were
married that they were fearful
that they were carrying their
duck to a bad market" But
they lost courage and became
pie for their man. Put it
down again that am "dead
easy
4 great may old maids like
myself, have read Of divorce
courts. and suicides they know
il as well as do. But o, the
the girls of 10 and ID; they won't
thanks us; they say, il is bring
ing up unpleasant memories
that we old maids ought TO be
doing our best to bury, that i.
is only mean, spiteful dis
position with no religious side
toit that makes US talk about
these disagrecablc things; and
they say too, that we take good
care TO conceal all the pleasant
words that would do more than
counterbalance the harshness.
Well, It's a pity to see young
girls blind to everything. They
want only kind things said, re-
peat the good and ignore the
ieyil. II girls would only watch
and use good judgment, there
would be- nc divorce courts--but
there would be happy homes,
the world brighter, not gloomi
er, as il is growing day by day,
because our young women give
up b the deceitfulness Of man
Girls, another thing | would
like 10 impress upon your youth,
/ full minds ii Is work, make
4 yourselves useful ct home; al
ways take the advice III YOU
parents, for they will surely
tell you nothing wrong. AS {,
work, ] know what IL Is, and an
better Off by il. But most o.
girls would like 10 have il thil
way: that we could sit with fold
} ed hands and watch the grea
banks Of snowy clouds cross tn
smiling surface Of the sky o
losing ourselves entirely, clos
, our eyes 10 the homely occupa
|. tions and everyday affairs an,
dream the hours away until W
honestly desired the chang
, that work would bring to tn
, long, tedious monotony. IL
! only natural 70 feel so whe
head is aching when the tire
eyes seem to have forgotte
! how 70 smile and the wear
body feels that the tread mill
more tnan IL can stand, yet, I
|, me whisper, dear girls, occu
! patton Is the one thing TO say
us from ourselves. There
nothing like il to turn III
9 current Of thoughts from III