Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-26

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finest apologies for the single woman
that ever appeared in print.
If speak to you OF the "Old Maid
it must of necessity be posthumous
discourse. The old maid WAS product
of the past. Her representative to day
is "the bachelor girl
Are there many Of her? In certain
New England village woman has kept
record of the girl graduates from the
high school in the classes from 1871 to
1876. Or the 80 girls graduated dur
ing these fye years, there haye been q
marriages. II deaths and Gl thus far
single. Whether this would be fair
average for all the east we have no
means Of knowing. 1t is snld there are
very few marriageable young men at
present in the small towns in New
England aud hat women have grown
so self dependent, so used to manage
for themselves, that the unnecessary
creature, man. must be very good indeed
10 be good enough for them, A writer
in the Mail and Express says; These
single women seem to be comfortable
class, and they see plenty of their mar
riagrble sisters who are dying by inches
because their husbands know that they
can support themselves, and bv with
holding supplies compel them to do so
in spite of growing family and work
enough at home for any woman 8
strength
The old time problem was q husband
or nothing, which was too often Il
choice between two ncthlngs.
Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells in the Feb
ruary North American Review says
there are three general causes which
bring marriage into disiavor with wom-
en-. These are philanthropy, higher
education and self analysis. Another
agency mentioned by Mrs. Wells is the
great mass of literature which has arisen
showing how lite may be improved in.
side of marriage. The working woman
knows man AZ a boss, contractor. night
fend she breads him and chooses to
keep free from him. The professional
woman finds in her calling an independ
ence which asserts the power OF mason
line personality when she comes in con
tact with it. Women's clubs do much
to enable women to get along without
men. If one fact more than another is
lmpressing itself upon this age. it is
that men are becoming less and less in.
dspeLsable to women So in answer to
our question, Are there many of herr"
we must answer yes.
But does our bachelor girl deliberate
ly choose to walk through life alone ?
Certainly. We do not believe there is
a woman upon the footatool to day who
could not find mate OF some kind.
But cur bachelor girl has judgment !;
and if it is Il misfortune 10 Walk through
life alone, she believes 1t would be a
greater misfortune to walk with one
whom she is mismated. So if single
life is not her ideal, she wisely idealizes
single life.
Is she happy' Yes. And every de,
cade adds immeasurably to her pleas
ure. Not happy in the sense in which
the world has taught lis to believe
woman's happiness can only consist.
We belieye there is large section OF
the woman heart that has )ain fallow
through all the ages. and that 1t is the
bachelor girl who is running her sod
p!ow through its primeyal turf and
turning up to the sunlight, dews and
showers Of heaven, whole acres OF
beauty, growth and happiness. They
are proving to themselves and the world
that there Is joy In life for woman out