The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
A Curious Social DifIicrIfv

1 'T suppose" said the bachelor. s4ts e0
 right to abu se men for remaining sIn616 till they are bald headed and not marry Ing and having happy home and hssD- ing some swcset woman from dyine l0no- ty old maid. But there fs sumS{7orW Sn4 be- said on eoth sides Of thar s111'au... < DQsyou think I remained . ba1as16r Bo- cause preferred my own sS1ish - and freedomt to the love of a wife and .
 companionslhp that would give ,ynA. fn- sptration and happiness? Not at Iii. Iiu- ten. No mssn ifkes ladies' tse1eeT bolsm
 than do. If I had my way I oou1.w |
 would havet been married iong aeo--<nae
 ls. If could have found the only woman.
 But among all the thousands of nice e1rIa
 in this great city have never found IT. T will tell you why. I came here astusu
 years ago Q, youth of. twenty. M mp<her
 and two sisters were intellectual czI1ff- vated women. One sister, indeed wac
 brilliant. Morally they were of a high
 type and sweet tempered and reutle in
 their waya They were and arc my s1eai of womanhood. Particularly Ihavs ai-
 ways worahiped women of brains because am fond of literature and of intsliectual culture. I had my dreams in those days of the only woman. First, she should be an intellectual. highly cultivated Rfri be- caused I craved intellectual sympafhw =
 well as good comradeship which shoun
 last. learned these ideas from my moth
 CT. I thought other women were Iflrs har.
 I thought other girls were Ike my sIs- ters. 'I had my own way to make vathaue the slightest help from outside inlusnaa
 but knew was capable. and was e.
 termined. Tho first year I gave % murh time to mastering my work that VI too tired at night to so anywhere. worked holidays. On Sundays I tspk walks alone or attended vespers in fha churches always alone. Tes. did 5oux for iadfes' society, bright. merry earas
 who knew something as well. love
 music. was fond of dancing. was aaons. There was the Y. M. c. A, an admirakao organization. but the acquaantance of, girls was not to be had through tt. All the girls I met were those who nlR4 and make acquatntances on the etreets.
 After two years some gentlemen who had come to know me inxroaucsd me in their clubs and stood sponsUr for m,
 They were kind and also introduced me to their wives and sisters. tuf it,a cu- rious. do you knowg The ladies of club mems families belong almost snvarfahay ! to the set that cares for aress and fash-
 ion more than for anything sase. They are gay. bright and pretty and exQuisfteay gowned. but intellectual with thought
 for the deeper. higher side of Mre-np. Disappointed again
 At last found where the 1aaaes kaep themselves who to my mind represent the
 best class of women. those whom | really desired to know. They are the sones whs do things--professional women ana those of the musical. literary and artistic class.
 And they were almost without exception
 working for their living all day and stay
 ing home evenings to rest for next day
 or else because they, like me on my eide.
 had no agreeable acQuaintances of the
 opposite sex. These are the women of
 brains. the college graduates, the writers.
 the thinkers, the singers, the students of life. But how to meet them? The fash- ionable ladies did not interest me; | ti7 not interest them. They drifted efg to l-fhefr own kind. We all have our own. but laWe cannot always find it . kagl t1t "I don't think should be aitoxether disagreeable to ladies'" said the bachelor. stradghting himself and his necktie Inn
 the ladies whom wish to meet are about as far away from me as heavan. Thex are not the kind who go into socfsSw much; they are too busy with more sra- portant matters. Neither are they the
 kind to seek mere pick ups of men ac-
 quaintances; they know their own worth
 too we'll, Besides, 1t would take a pretty
 nice fellow to fill the bill with them. But
 have no doubt there are hundreds
 among those consider the best class of women who are situated just as am.
 They like men. probably. but circum- stances pen them off to themselves and they live and die single. gii
 AS for myself. I have not yet found
 a way to meet the ladies whom wish
 to know" KATHERINE BLADES.