Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30
FEMALE BACHELORS
OF VARIED TYPES.
The Self Sacrificing Girl Whom All
Admire.
Women Wait on Social Bush to Be
Fredericksburg of Matrimo-
NAL Bureau.

copyrighted, 1899. for Charlz Nox Press
Bureau.)
New York, April 30.-This weeks
letter is for the great army of people
who march under the banner of spin
sterhood Single blessedness," says
somebody. Very we'll, if you think it
is blessed to be single probably you are
right so far as your case is concerned.
But Nox." says a reader, "of course,
you do not mean that there cannot be
other things, which, operating in a
woman's life, may make marriage a
secondary thing with her, do your"
l can understand how burning am
bition on the part of woman-say
the ambition to follow a professional
career-Eay make marriage second
airy thing with her. l can also under
stand how woman who, after observ-
ing the many cares and the limited cp-
portunity for intellectual growth in the
lives of some married women, should
think it better on the whole, for her to
give up any thought OF marriage, al
though the desire for such a life might
not be entirely absent in her. can
also understand how a woman who has
been courted, honorably as she believed
only to be deserted after years OF at
tention feel that she can trust no man
with her heart for life.
And who has not met the girl who
says: 81 am able to earn a good living,
and, on the whole, prefer to remain
single and have my money to use as
please. During the winter | have my
share of good times, and when sum-
mer comes can go to the seashore, pay
my board out of my own earnings, be
independent, dress we'll and get lots
of enjoyment out Of life. l am better
off as l am"
OLD TIME INSTINCT MISSING.
To these three classes Of people
would say that while do not entirely
agree with you, yet perhaps you are
the question is considered from your
point of view. There are however,
other women who give none of these
reasons, but who, when marriage IS
spoken of, toss their heads, curl their
lips and ask in naughty accent, Us
marriage the one aim in life?". They
speak of it disdainfully, as if they were
living in an atmosphere in which such
an undesirable thing IS marriage is
not to be thought Of. To such we
would say It's letter is not intended
for YOU We do not understand
you. You dress almost like men. You
regard married women as slaves to
men, and you lack that old-time in
stinct of your grandmothers, who be-
lieved that to be wife and mother was
an honorary position among woman
kind. We do not know how to classify
you. The biologists call our attention
to lower forms of life in the animal
kingdom which are not purely mascu-
line or feminine, and so they classify
them as "neuters." You certainly lack
the most powerful instinct in woman
kind, and you are NOT men, however
hard you try to be such. God did sue
coed in making a woman out OF man,
but so far no one has succeeded in
making a man out of woman. AS al
ready stated, we do not know how to
classify you, and for convenience sake
will call you neuters and be thankful
that you are in the minority.
A WOMAN WE ALL ADMIRE.
/ know there is worthy place for
some women in the profession, and for
more Of them in business life. l know
that SO far as ability is concerned these
women excel some of their brothers in
these pursuits. / know that there are
exceptional cases where it is no doubt
better, and therefore right, for women
TO shut out from their thoughts any
idea of a home of their own, and TO
every woman who is not married be-
cause other people are dependent upon
you for support we send the most kind
ly greeting this Sunday morning. You
are not ashamed to acknowledge that
YOU would like TO be in home of your
own. the wife of a true-hearted man.
But circumstances have been and are
against you, and you are what you are
because of your innate nobility. Yours
is a life of self-sacrifce, which is the
sublimist expression of love- You have
an aged mother, or an invalid sister. or
an unfortunate father who needs your
financial aid. To withdraw your sup
port from the family would cause the
wolf to cross the doorsill. And so you
hide your secret on your worthy heart
and go forth daily to your toll, inspired
by the thought that your sacrifice
means comfort and happiness to q life
that is dependent upon your efforts
Your badge Of spinsterhood Is one to
be proud Of There Is reason. and
most excellent reason, too, that you are