Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-04-22
OLD MAIDS THE PROBLEM
Woman's Rights Crusade Blamed bv ou.
Man at Least.

MdH at Least.
\ German scholar who was IN a..
country recently to study social IN 1',iS
tons was asked if lie was NOT da,; IJhlui1
WIN our progress. lie waited n mo1r'C oeu
ana answered: Its great. bur ~,
afraid IT VIII all end in failure. and
Momans rights are at the bottom of '' -,
The. old maids are driving men oUt IT. nc
business, and the modern ~, vi
IS driving the man ont of M. .%
home. 1t is foolish nonsense WIZ d ,lie
girls get married and settle down o,i
care for their homes? 1t is the mon" anu
business to care for the women. r.
iiiluepehdeIt ana too particular. guess
put they don't have to begin where III.
parents leave off. The owning of om ,til
MOBILES and racing stables is NOT nee
sary to the raising of happy famiiv
I've seen few business places in =,
country thaC aren't half flied with .siris
IT you have plenty of children in III;
country some OF the men must be homn
caring for them. The unmarried wornn,,
are out working for themselves and tIii
married women are out working for rn
forms. II seems to me that with Won,
great number of politicians tLa !"u.
could tend to these matters withon+ nan
ing on the women: l suppose many of
your girls make fun of the Eurn1oa,,
d0wery system, but | should like to tn|,,.
N
maids all over creation Our weidinu,,
portion gives young folks a chance -
get along. that's all. ~
This isn't a joke; it's sensible fam.
When | visited in Boston soon cam '' n"
the conclusion they raise old maids tboro
instead OF dollhouse flowers, for every
other woman is a spinster. They don;.
want to get married; they've made So
much fun of men and love they're drivinr
both away. What classical air tbnv
neutrality-suspicious. and women's riobt,
are written all over their faces. They ara
lawyers, doctors, writers, detective agents
everything under the san. | couldn't
tell a miss from Mrs in Boston and
the old maids got me in all kinds Of
trouble. sat next to an elderly woman
who looked old enough TO be my mother
and every time | spoke TO her | called
her Mrs. After | had done this several
times, when she leveled her glasses at me-
and said in a most defiant tone: I'm
Miss, not Mrs, if you please | begged
her pardon and smiled, though | longed
to say, If you aren't married you're Old
enough to be-
Chicago women are not quite as euan
cipated yet, but you can't tell what they
will be i'll ten years. When | reached
Chicago | hadn't been in my hotel nm
hour when a young woman's card WA,
brought to me, asking for an interview
| said to myself another old maid. with
out doubt. When | reached the parlor |
found beautiful girl waiting for me.
and she explained in most business-hke
way she had come to get my opinion on
woman's suffrage and its value for the
weaker sex. Taken back by the question,
l said that | hoped she was not a suffrag-
ist She explained that she believed In
women voting if they wished, although
she wasn't Il radical suffragist; she was
Il writer and wanted to help the cause.
| shook my head and said that | wouldn't
give her an interview on suffrage. though
| should be glad to speak on the rene
dies for old bachelors and old maids Say
that | believe this talk on the independ-
ence of women is nonsense. If woman
isn't meant to love, to have home and Il
family, I'm pretty much mistaken"
The other evening | was invited to a
friends home to hear a talk on the bring
ing mp of children. Later in the evci-
ing | was introduced to the young speak
er and said that | should love to see her
children. She blushed and smiled and
then explained she was not married, she
was only the president of mothers,
club Don't ask 80 many questions, just
put down what | want to say. If L
were the next mayor of Chicago | should
make the question of old maids and
bachelors part of my platform. should
give them a mask bali and make the
affair so delightful that every man and
woman would fall in love with some one.
l should have the best talent in town
write sonnets and Alexandrian verses OR
love, and | should give them an eXhaus-
tive discourse showing how all wise ma
tions dislike bachelors and old maids.
Here's Il true story of a Russian girl
who had not met man she cared for
especially. Her mother was so annoyed
by this obstinacy, and In n fit of anger
called her daughter IAN old maid,' The
girl was so hurt by this remark that
she ran away and entered cloister.
This sensitiveness is not unusual in
Russia, for every Russian woman mar
rieS or pretends to marry. If a girl
feels that she is never going TO haze
suitor she leaves home. The peasant
girls go TO some district and afterwards
return home a widow. The girl OF
means goes off on foreign travel and in
year or two she comes back broken,
hearted widow. No questions are put to
FER. for in Russia it is considered in bad
taste to mention a dead man to his liv-
ing widow.-Cbicago Tribune