Arizona republican., 1904-06-19
THE BACHELOR GIRL REFLECTS.

HE BACHELOR GIRL REFLECTS.
 No woman with a lick of sense eve- lets on that she knows more about any subject thatn the man she is talkilg with.
 Progressive women inclined to be i'm patient with their more backward s's- ters should remember that 1t takes quite while to convert a jellyfish into a vertebrate
 Those men who object to sharing the worlds work with women don't really object to sharing that at all. They on- ly object to sharing the results.
 A naive advertisement appeared in an English paper not long ago which perhaps contained some unintend d truth: Wanted, by a respectable girl, her passage to New York; wiling tO take care of childr n and gC cd sail r."
 An esteemed contemporary recent said In its household department: "Pdt sugar in the water for basting cats Of all kinds. The intelligent composItcr undoubtedly meant meats instead Of cats. but it isn't much verse than gco cd deal of the sage advice handed out in the alleged ''woman's page"
 Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, recently elected president of the General Feder- ation of Women's clubs, is voter and has been married three times. One of her opponents, referring to the form7r fact said she thought the federation ought to stand for the feminine type of woman. One of her tends, ferring to the latter, said she thought a woman who could get three husbands mu t Le pretty feminine.
 A young woman who had been doing newspaper work in New York, lost hcr position On one of the big staffs re- gently and returned to her home-a very comfortable and pleasant one-.n an upstate town. Shortly af.er she wrote the Bachelor Girl despairin gly: "Oh. the hades-like inanity of the true s2here!"
 Marriage is a lottery, but men ar, all gamblers.
 Men who are fools speedily shake down to their proper place in the com munity. Women who are fools would, too, if 1t were not for the men.
 If a man could slide through tha world because he happened to have curly hair and a dimple, he wouldn't develop as much sense as a woman does
 
 Ire Bachelor Girl visited an old l, dy recently who had kept house for fo ty years. During fifteen of that time sf e kept a hotel, doing the kitchen work hesclf, while Ter husband ran tha offica. At d conservative estimate, reckoning in the fifteen years hotel keeping. s le had Overseen the getting of 1000 meals. Reckoning five eatables or drinkahles to a meal, that meant the cooking of 750,000 different things, and the washing or getting washed after ward of over 100000 dishes. "If I'd "a seen them million dishes piled up ahead of me when I got married, my dear" said the old lady, "Pd "a lad down and died on the borders of mat rimCny."
 The Association of College Alumnae Is just about to publish and distribu e at St. Louis a statistical investig ltion of women who took college degrees in the United States between 1S59 and 1898. They have discovered that Cnly fifty per cent of these women have married. Hands up. Signs of horro :. But the association put another qu g. tion alongside this one on their blanks. It was: What proportion of your nearest female relatives who have TO. been to college are married?" This was very ingenious. Nobody but a woman would have thought fit. As resu t. the returns show that cnly fifty per cent of the non-college female relatives have married.
 The only inference is that in the class from which girls are sent to college on- ly fifty per cent of the women mar. y. And if only fifty per cent of the women marry, 1t stands to reason that on y fifty per cent of the men marry, as there are more men than women in the United States
 What is this class? Further stat.s- ties show that of all these college grad uates, twenty-siX per cent came from families whose total income did mt exceed $1200 a year. Another fo. ty-s,x per cent came from families whose in- come did not exceed s2500. The college girl class, therefore. Is shown to be the upper middle class.
 And that is exactly the c,ass-anl t'e only class-in which the wcm do not marry. In the wealthy class and in the so-called working class, rrac- tically all the women marry. In the former there is money enough. and in the latter they don't care whether tn gre is money enough or not. As human na- ture can hardly be supposed to change in the middle class, the reason fer the non-marriage of half its members may