The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-23

or to play the role OF an interesting
martyr to male neglect. She will
teach or she will lecture, she will sing
or she will act, she will take her de-
gree In medicine and surgery, she will
!! practice for the bar, she will write
books, and the days are fast approach
ing when she will become q high
priestess Of the church and will preach
to the lost sheep of Israel as we'll as
to the equally lost ones Of New York
or Chicago; she will be beauty doc
tor" physical culture" woman,
medium" stock broker and PALM
list, florist, housedecorator, q dealer
In lace and old curiosities; aye, she
will even become street car conduc-
tor if necessity compels and the sit
uation Is open to her, and she will
manage cattle ranch as easily as
household should opportunity arise
Marriage Is but one link in the long
chain OF her general efficiency, and,
like Cleopatra, "age can not wither
her, nor custom stale her infinite var
iety."
A curious fact and one worth not
ing Is that we seldom or never hear
Americans use the ill-bred expression
"old maid" when abiding to such of
their feminine relatives or friends who
may happen to- remain unmarried
They know too we'll that these con-
flrmed and settled spinsters are as
capable and as well to the front in
( the rush Of life as the welded wives,
II not more SO. They know that
among these unmarried feminine
forces they have to reckon with some
of the cleverest heads of the day to
whom no opprobrious term of con-
tempt dare be applied, women who are
editors and proprietors of great news
papers, women who manage famous
famous schools and colleges; women
who, being left with large fortunes,
dispense the same in magnificently
organized but unadvertised charities;
women who do SO command by their
unassisted influence certain social
movements and events that If, indeed,
they were to marry something like
confusion and catastrophe might en-
sue among the circles they control by
s the Introduction of a new and possibly
undesirable element. "Old maid" may
apply to the unfortunate female who
has passed all the days of her youth
In talking about men and in failing
to catch SO much as one of the wand
ering tribe, and who, on arriving at
40 years, meekly retires to the CHM
ney corner with a shawl over her
shoulders and some useful knitting,
but it carries neither meaning nor ap-
plication to the brisk, brilliant Amer
lean spinster who at SO keeps her trim
svelte figure, dresses we'll, goes here
and there and everywhere, and sheds
her beaming smile with good-natured
tolerance and perchance something of
gratitude as we'll on the men she has
escaped from.
Life does not run only in one chan
mel for the American women. She does
not make tracks" solely from the
cradle to the altar, from the altar to
the grave. She realizes there Is more
fun to be got out of being born than
just this little old measure melted out
to her by the barbaric males of ear
Hest barbaric periods, when women
were yoked to the pillow with cattle,
as they still are in some parts of
Switzerland. And 1t is the innate
consciousness Of her own power and
intelligent ability that gives her the
dominating charm, the magnetic spell
under which the stolid Britisher falls
more or less stricken, supplied and