The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-06-20
FINDS HUSBANDS FOR OLD MAIDS
woman Who oevotes Herself to Task
Calls it Philanthropy pur. and
Simple.

"iaius ana exercising general sunervi.
SION over matchmaking with a farsee,
lug, Kindly eye is a novel form Of
pH'"n 'uropy that would not appeal 70
many persons because Of the vida
range of disastrous possibilities II in
wives Yet there is woman in New
iork VINO is well-to-do and who erds
nerself with plenty of time on her
ianuS' who devotes a good deal ~
energy and much money to this neon.
mar work. She calls it philanthropy
pure ana simple, and emphatically de.
mes the allegation of superficial az.
quaintances that she is a "crank {.
furthermore, she resents the inference
'nat she possesses an inordinate mas.
sion for matchmaking.
Many years ago." she saws. in ex.
piainlng her unique philanthropy. 81
was ueepiy impressed by a psychologi.
cal study of a convincing type which
came across while reading a novel
found in this book an impressive de.
scription of the sense of abiect lone.
mess That bore down a poor unmar.
req woman, and | was fascinated nv
the depressing situation for at that
tihe was engaged to marry the man
loved and could not look ahead into
'ne future and see much happiness In
soore Tor me. | easily imagined myself
IN mat girls position and the picturs
haunted me so persistently that at
ohce became intensely interested in
the general subject of old maids. That
is why have devoted so much Of NV
time to the rather hazardous work a,
II may be called work, of finding con.
genial companions for lonely women
who are approaching the meridian 81
life absolutely without matrimonial
prospects"
Beauties Fail to Get Husbands.
This energetic woman has not con.
tented herself merely with making
matches. but has gone deeper into the
subject of marriage and has strd;od
IL from the point of view of the psy.
chologist. In the first place she has
discovered, with many others. that
there are thousand and one reasons
why some girls remain unmarried
and, what is even more surprising
she is convinced that plain looks are
by no means the most frequent cause
This is shown by the great number of
OLD maids who possess what might
really be termed pretty, attractive
faces and graceful well rounded fig.
ures.
one woman for whom | have been
trying to find husband was by far the
prettiest of my acquaintance" she
says. "She did not look to be more
than 20. although she frequently ad.
mltted to me that she was past 40
Here was an unusually sad case. In
spite of her good looks men never lost
an opportunity to shun her. and after
studying her | learned that this was
due to a certain effect of melancholy
pride and mystery which her face and
manner produced. When first met
this woman she excited my curiosity
and after many futile attempts | finally
discovered that she had once been in
love.
Couldn't Make Up Her Mind.
And the remarkable feature of the
case was that her love was returned
in full measure But she belonged TO
that rather numerous type of women
who are doubters of themselves and
she coud not make up her mind wheth.
er she loved the young man enough
to marry him. She constantly ques-
toned the depth OF her affections and
the result of this persistent burrow.
ing was that she found new evidence
all the time that she was right
Her lover was OF an exactly oppo-
site type. He was a mater of fact.
level-headed fellow, too busy with the
affairs Of this world to pry into his own
soul, so he really did not know what
the object OF his objections was talking
about when she expressed her doubts.
He wanted the wedding day set. but
she shook her head pensively and con.
fessed her fear that after the wedding
she might regret it and discover that
a mistake had been made. He reason.
ed with her, pleaded with her. and ar
gued. but all to no effect. She still
questioned herself and the result was
that the engagement was broke non |
and the young man married another
girl. When it was too late she dis
covered that she was desperately in
love with the man and when she saw
him the husband Of another woman
she became almost insane with jeal.
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