The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-26

only be compassed by men and women
joining hands and making common
cause in every department. oflife. We
hold fast to the idea that woman S
first mission must be her home. =
Countess Of aberdeen in Opening
Addresss Before the international
Coupcil ofsWomen.
The Countess of Aberdeen has an
noupced a startling gospel for the
newest Of the new women. Hitherto
the advance guard Of the sex has been
content to leave man out of her calcu-
lations; there was no place for him in
her theory Of life and thought aud ed
ucation. The more highly educated a
woman became, the more splendid her
natural talents, the less consideration
did she give to The thought Of matri-
mony; she was voluntary old maid.
Now, according to the theory pro-
pounded by tie international Council
Of Women, all this is wrong. Even
Susan B. Anthony, that grand old
maid, has come o;st fatfooted on the
side Of men, for she says:
II have not yet given up my faith
in men. I believe they also have a
great future as we'll as women. >
A statistician has recently been
giving some attention to modern wo-
pan's attitude in regard to marriage.
He says:
1.-THE finer and higher the education
Of woman, the less likely is it that
she will ever marry Also: AThe
greater a wonlan's genius, the less
probable that she will marry, OF, mar
rying do her greatest and best work
for humanity as a wife. Nearly all
the great women Of history have been
old maids or widows.
They have been glorious company
these partnerless danes, and their
record is lost in the long forgotten
records Of the past. Among them
we're Queen Hatasu, who made glo-
rious the reign Of her brother, the
great Egyptian Thothmes; semiramis,
Renobia, Cleopatra. Hypatia, Joan of
Arc, Victoria Colonna. Catherine de
Medici. Elizabeth Of England, Cathe-
rine Of Russia, Maria Theresa, Rosa
Bonheur, Sappho, George Sand, George
Eliot, not oae Of whom did her best
work for the world as wife. And
now the International Council Of Wo-
men goes back to the position that,
genius or not, woman's best work is
done in double harness.
Statistics show that beautiful and
clever girls seldom marry so quickly
as plain, commonplace women. Aman
breads the ridicule of the world, and
people are sure to say something
sighting about the husbands of clever
women. Beautiful women are usually
coquettes, and men consider the tax
ing Of a wife in toe business-like a
way to risk after marriage firtations.
When a man marries he selects a wo-
man who is likely to make his path
through life as comfortable as possible
and calmly waits until he recovers
from his infatuation for the beautiful
girl Gas experience in recovering from
dozens Of previous infatuations has
convinced him he willy when he mar
ries her palmer sister who rs cortent
to settle down as housekeeper, has a
satisfactory dot, is willing to receive
his dicsum as the word Of the gods,
and has no theories to make him
-squirm or wisdom to throw his own
lack Of that commodity into unpleas-
ant contrast.
The pretty girl is rather likely to
leave trail of broken engagements in
her wake, for she is more exacting
than her palmer sister, who knows
she cannot daily with her once chance
Of securing a husband. Twenty en-
gagements out Of hundred. says the
statistician, never amount to anything
but returned engagement rings. Most
Of these are between young people
who do not know their own minds.
About Is per cent Of the women who
marry do so before the age OF ~; 61
per cent between the ages of ~ and
30; il per cent between the ages Of 81
and 40. Between the ages Of 40 and
so the chances are about 4 10 pei
cent, while the woman who is over
50 has only / - chances in 100
Women are marrying later in life than
they used to, more women marrying
between the ages Of 25 and 30 than al
any other period. Southern women
marry earlier than northern women