The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-02

his father and stepmother, when a woman teacher who lived alone had taken the homeless child and cared for him in her three shabby rooms" and been father and mother both to him. No doubt he will be credit to her in the years to come and make up to her for the lack of family ties
 However, old maid teachers do not usually live in shabby rooms. Through organization and agitation among wo- men teachers, through persistent and insistent claiming of their just and equal rights with men, the pay of wo- men teachers is generally being raised. In the higher ranks of the pedagogical profession the wage of the spinster frequently reaches several thousand dollars year. Some of these ladies are college presidents ard professors. There are scholarly single women not a few who have A. M. to their names several are even IL. D.'s. They have incomes that secure to them comfort and luxury.
 Others among these fine single wo- men are physicians, lawyers editors. artists and the heads of commercial concerns originated by themselves. | Taking the initiative in business en- terprises is something woman has been afraid to do until recently, but where the right kind of woman has ventured she has won, She is apt to be braver. more self dependent than her married sister. therefore more capable in mat ters requiring these qualities. It is not an all round drawback to be alone in the world as many a strong, fine single woman is proving.
 Many single women are becoming superintendents O. dietetics in colleges and public hospitals and sanitariums. This Is field for which they are pe- culiarly fitted. A lone woman who has been trained in kitchen chemistry is sure of profitable employment. and she can keep her place all her life Thor oughly capable dietitians are scarce.
 Leaving out MT Andrew Carnegie and his library habit. who today is probably the most eminent philan- thropist in America? Is it not Miss Helen Gould? And Is not Grace Dodge another example of the single woman philanthropist? Think what Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale have done for humanity! Wherever people are prominent in tho world of industry and of sociological and economic sci ence there among the best, wisest and strongest of them you find the single woman.
 When a man starts to address a wo- mans club and endeavors to talk down to it's level he is apt to begin with victor Hugo said the nineteenth cen tu?y was the womans century" It is in order to give that time honored ob- servation a rest and say now, ''The twentieth century is the old maid s century" Dr. Eils is right. Civili- zation today could not be run without | her
 The single woman cranky. angular and set in her ways? Well. go to the
 women's clubs; sget invited to some of
 the theater and studio parties engi-
 neered by these new women who have
 no husbands. Some of them are wid-
 ows, but they, too. are lone women so | far as the masculine sex is concerned. l The lone women are good looking,
 sometimes handsome, elegantly gown ed in frocks they themselves often
 have earned. They sing they recite.
 they have teas and dinne,s. they ar
 range mutual journeys to Europe and
 conduct camping and seashore parties. Good times? Well!
 l The humble, dependent old maid rel
 ative who waited e. her married
 brothers children and whoCe tinid,
 deprecating aF bespoke a perpetual