Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-01-26
echansown Frederick County, Maryland Thursday January 26 893

ally by accepting the best thing that
lite offered them.
Alice Cary's biographer says that
though mo child ever called her moth.
er,yet to the end Of life the heart of
motherhood beat strong in her breast y
And have we not all observed that
many Of the sweetest traits Of father
hood have been exhibited by some of
our bachelor friend? And society
pities both the man and the woman az
having missed the prizes of life.
From our limited observation of the
world, we conclude that the great moth
er heart of woman often pulsHtes very
independently OF her environment. OF
all the women whom we have met. no
one has impressed us so strongly with
the depth, the breadth and the height
of the mother element N her soul. as
has Susan B. Anthony. While hun
dreds of the rest of us seem to be moth.
ers of our own children only, and the
sanguini,y to limit our mother horizon,
she appears to mother the whole of the
present generation of boys and girls,
and sends her solicltude far down into
the future.
We will mention a very few Of the
single women who have stood "four-
square to every wind that blows" Ike
sentinels along the road oyer which an
eyer increasing army are marching
Harriet Martineau, authoress, and phil.
osopher; Mary Lyon, the teacher An
geline and Sarah Grimke, who took
the, reputation and lives in their
hands to speak for the slave, Alice and
Phebe Cary, whose twin souls sang
new song in the earth for the women
who follow them Caroline Herschell
in science; Florence Nightingale among
the soldiers Of the Crimean war Clara
Barton, with the sick and wounded in
the civil war Phebe Couzins the law
yer, whe years ago said to the writer
that her advocacy Of the rights Of won
en- had been at the sacrifice Of her mat
rimouial prospects; Frances Willard,
who, the Virgin Mary excepted, has
perhaps the largest devoted following
Of her own sex of any woman living or
dead. Verify the single woman has be-
come a most important factor in the
civilization Of the nineteenth century.
Will her number continue to increase !!
Surely, for time at least. Carroll ID.
Wright, national commissioner OF labor,
in one of his reports to the government,
expressed much anxiety lest the in
creasing opportunities afforded to WON
Ell to become seIfsupportlng will make
them less inclined to marry. We
think there is good ground for the
commissioner tear. The tendency
is precisely in this direction. But what
does it prove? That our bright, loving
Young women care less for the pleas
ures OF home and family than former.
ly? By no means. But her ideals are
raised, and our brave, woman y girl
turns her face resolutely y awav from the
ignorant suitor the improvident wooer,
the tipling admirer, the brilliant blaze.
anu walks her path alone. She scorns
to choose for the father of her possible
children any Of these. But mad she met
her ideal man, her heart would have
turned to him as naturally as water
seeks it's level. Edward BeIlamy says
that "the unmarried woman in the year
1000 will enjoy the dignity and indie
pendence of the bachelor of to day. The
economic necessity Of making a man
indispensable to her no longer existing,
he must depend exclusively upon his
attractions and cannot hope to win the
favor Of maid or wife save bv desert"
We believe that We may confidently
look to the bachelor girl to do much Of
the worlds highest thinking Sue who
is no longer young but who
"Marvelously draws the
Summer of hcr soul through
The autumn months
OF years"
The healthies attitude for the single