Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-03
THE BACHELOR GIRLS
OF the Pension Office Write Us On
Department Paper and Explain
Few Things to the Public.
EDITOR SUNDAY GLOBE:

EDITOR SUNDAY GLOBE:
Your attack on those ladies' i'm the
Pension Office, that you call spinsters
is outrageous In the first place to
call them "spinsters' is to be very dis
agreeable to very agreeable class Of
laules. indeed the most agreeable class
in the office. A spinster means "a
woman who spins,' and if you use the
word broadly it applies more appro-
priately to widows and the wives Of
men. for they must spin to make ends
meet, as 1t were. While the ladies' that
you do apply il to are more appropri-
ately termed bachelor girls for such
they are. When ! say agreeable
think ! can prove it, and not by the
actions Of one administration, but by
an, if ! were willing to 90 back and
count up, as / am not. When Judge
LOchren was commander he pro-
noted only seven widows 10 81 400, and
reduced all those with very few eX-
ceptions who had that salary before
he came in while he promoted 16
bachelor girls to that grade. Then,
when this administration came in, it
did just the same thing only put many
more of us bachelor girls to that salary
than did Mr.. Lochren, while only five
widows have gone to that salary; Of
course this administration did not re-
duce any woman or very few. Now
we know very well there is a reason
for all this. which goes on from one
administration to another, and I do
not think it is very far to seek.
Bachelor girls are agreeable and Office
would be a very dun place without
them They have no children or other
cares to wear them out, they can go
home, take a nap, dress, go down COM
fOrtably to dinner then to the theatre,
the opera, to drive or run out to chat
with friends get some life into them
selves and when they go back to the
Office the next day they have some
bright things to say some small talk.
Then we go away for vacation to the
Pan-American, to Montreal, Quebec, to
the watering places. to the Bermudas,
or run over to Europe. We try all
experiments that make life interesting,
and thus we keep ourselves bright and
fresh. The bachelor girl is always
stylish I'm appearance and well groom
ed; while the widows are anything
but that and some Of them even have
about them a suggestion of dishwater
and "darned" stockings, which surely
is not nice. Now married men get
enough of that at home from their
wives, and when they get to Office they
want to forget all that, and want to
surround themselves with agreeable
people. and who is more agreeable than
the bachelor girl Next after this
girl comes the ladies who are divorced,
this is a fact, that the next most in
teresting women are the divorced. /
am not running down getting married, |
but it is most conclusiyely shown that
when women have children they getvery |
morose and tiresome. All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy and II is |
so with women The widow Of fiction |
is not so I'm real life, the bachelor girl |
outstrips her, she is just a has BEEN
while the latter is a very live proposl- |
tion, with a knowledge Of the world |
tnat makes her alert witty, fascinat- |
ing captivating and interesting as no |
widow can be, and the limitations OF
the bachelor girl have not yet been
discovered One thing more before I
close the attack on Mr.. Davenport, it is
very mean and unjust. He is a lovely
man The very sweetest and hndest
in the world. We all love him.
A BACHELOR Girl,