The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-01-03
A OFFENDER OF OLD MAIDS

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Dear Aunt Jennie:-The Christmas
holidays are here ana I guess the other
Chatterers are busy preparing to have
d good time. So I Ehough5 perhaps
there would be room in your cosy cor.
ner for an Old maid like myself. / live
down in Franklin county between
Tar river and Crooked creek and /
wonder why it is thaG all th9 insults
and sneers must be il hicted on the
poor old bachelors and cid maids7 /
nave been expecting that when there
coald be no more said about bachelors
that old maids would be the next sub
jecG for sport, and l ind that our dear
Comfort has started the ball rolling
Now, Comfort, don't step too hard on
our c0rns. II you must tell us how
cross ana contrary we are, be Is mild
az you can about ii for some things re,
quIre doing very gently and telling
people of their faults is one Of them.
But you need not think you have got
my dander up for I have b9en used to
such as that for years I wish every
body would make it a rule to give
only what they are willing to take.
Some people are splendid hands at
thr owing salt bat if a pinch of it flies
back on their own raw faces how it
stingsl Now know this to be true for
I have noticed it ever since I was a
young girl.
Some one wants to know why so
many men are bachelors, well, I ex
pect there r plenty Of giddy young
sters that are ready to say it is because
no one will marry them, but that is
not true for we all know that any
body can marry if they will mary any
body. And some others might say it
is because they are too lazy to support
a wife and I do not know whether that
is true or not, but il it is true how
could he do a more honest thing than
TO remain a bachelor and let the girl
marry some other fellow who is willing
to support her? Married life with any
body ia not a success, sunshine, music,
and flowers, but we Juld sail across
the Mississippi river in a spoon with iGs
handle off easier than we a make
young folks believe it. Yes, they
think we must get married ii we have
20 marry a man that is not worth the
shucks it would take to SINCE his eye.
broWs. If some one will tell me why
one girl is an old maid, ! will tell why
one hundred are miserable wives and I
am a half mind to tell it any how but
my letter is growing long. So with
much love to Aunt Jennie and each
one of the CoatEerers I will step aside
! for better takers than HI 9ttie Cross,
Sutton, N. @
Dear Aunt Jennie:-I have standing
at the door of Social chat for quite a
while and have just had the courage
to knock so please allow me to come i a
and introduce myself to you all. I am
a country girl aud my father is far
mer. I would like to meet ''Old Maid
of Eighteen" l know I would like her
for I am an old maid Of eighteen too. I
think Brown Eyes letters are just
grand. Come again. Pansy, your
letters are so nice, I too, am a lover of
music and flowers. Aunt Jennie I
think hemsEitching is real pretty ana
nice, / hemstltcn nearly all of my
handkerchief. I am going to SEMI
Aunt Jennie my photo when / have
some taken. AS this is my first letter
I shall not make it any longer but If I
see this in print you Wall certainly
near from me again.-DIdo, Union,
N, @.