The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-15
" 0 MANS WORLD.
A Few Things Of Interest to the Fair
Sex.

The Question, "Why Girls Don't
Marry" Answered-Some Sugges-
tons About the Society Girl-Life
Insurance for Women-A Cloud on
the Horizon of PATHS Domestic
Life-Wo1nen's Girls and Mems
Girls-The Crown Jewels of Differ
erent Countries-other Matters Well
Worth Reading.
bright group of New Orleans women
saws the Picayune of that city, were dis
cussing the question "Why girls don't
marry?o day or two ago, and one intelli-
gent girl, who is not married and, there
fore. qualified to speak, remarked, "Now,
7 will tell you what my views are on this
subject that somehow seems to puzzle our
nineteeth century thinkers. Some girls
will always marry, but it is notorious
fact that many of our most cultivated and
opr brightest women remain single from
choice, because it looks as if all the nice
men are already married, and all the
incest girls are therefore destined to be
old maids-bachelor girls, rather-for
donot believe girl exists who has not
had an opportunity of getting mar
ried at some period of her girlhood.
I think that the much-hlamed fin
de steele may be blamed for
q mast solution of the ques
tion why our girls don't marry, for it
would takea nineteenth century Columbus
n find a complete and generally accepted
solution of the whereabouts of the man
said to be provided for each individual
woman. The youth of this generation is
generally obliged to leave school at as
early an age as possible in his teens TO go
TO work. The girls keep on studying and
acquire more or less OF hlgher educa-
tiOn and after leaving school continue to
imurove in literary and artistic work, or
social direction As years pass, the aver
age money grabbing business man be-
comes to such woman less and less in
feresting. particularly as a prospective
life companion. Another reason for girls
not marrying Is that it has become both
necessity and custom in families OF mod
crate means for the daughters to enter
some occupation that VIII render
them independent and self-supporting A
clever. well-educated woman soon comes
To earn her own bread and butter, and
even preserves: and sometimes, too, she
makes enough to occasionally taste oil the
worlds free air. She can en- oy and pay
for an evenings lecture, or theater, with
out the escort of a cane and crush hat.
She and her friends can travel all over
the country without the protection of
some masculine who is always missing
checks and fussing with conductors. She
comes to see matrimony through other
wOmen's eyes. and the matrimonial eXpe-
rience of friends and relatives makes her
look askance at it. She finds that by
some strange legal hOcus-pocus the mar
rage ceremony transforms in twinkling
an Independent, iudicious woman into a
legal nonentity; single, she is considered
competent to manage her income and
always keep out Of debt, and is respect
able; married tomorrow she cannot
draw cent of her bank deposit without
her husbands approval. But he does
not need her approval to spend the
last cent of her individual marriage
dowery. Does she want to continue her
literary and artistic associations, even
when home cares do not interfere, she
must ask my husband. Sometimes she
has to ask him if her soul is her own.
Now, with broader knowledge of the
world and the law, many thoughtful,
selt-pOised women shrink from such
efacing of their own individuality and
possibilities of youth. The roseate dream
of l6 fades before the realities which
few years bring to light and the taste
OF independence dies hard. Still such
women would thank God fasting for a
good mans love- yet, rather than give
up all that has made life worth the living
TO share the home of some narrow, rich
man, they deliberately choose single
bleSsedness, and make it single blessed
ness, indeed, to themselves and all
around them.D