The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-19
GRAY HAIRED LASS
IS PUSHED ASIDE
GIRLS AND BOYS LOOKING FON
COIN IN LOVE AFFAIRS
THESE DAYS.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1s.-'Bachelo r-
hood for women and for men is a
modern disease that Is rapidly. be-
coming epidemic. The symptoms in
women are: Dissatisfaction with the
responsibilities that marriage entails;
fear of becoming home makers and
homo keepos: abnormal ambitions
for money. clothes and social posi-
ton. They scorn to marry a man In
average circumstances, and so be-
come bach elor women. shop girls, or
worse"
In men the symptoms Of ap-
preaching hachelorhood manifest
themselves In a desire to cultivate
the acquaintance OF wealthy girls,
with a view to a sordid marriage for
money: loss OF q mans confidence
In women's ability to cook properly.
keep his home tidy and to be salts
fed with the slim honorafium that Is
his
"A man ceases to be eligible and
becomes an old bachelor At forty
FIVE. A woman passes definitely out
OF the ranks OF the manageable at
thirty-fivc."
DR.. Eugenia Hancock, herself a
physician and the wife OF physt-
clan. has diagnosed what she believes
to be a national ailment, She Is
not Ill of the disease herself. being a
happy wife. The principal fault. she
believes, lies with q certain type of
man who Is selfish, lacking in cour-
tesy, cold. calculating. mercenary and
prevalent He 10 the product, she at
firms. OF q m other who originates un-
der conditions that preclude the
probability OF remedy.
Not Taught Properly.
but don't imagine I blame the
women tor the increasing numb
Of ceiibe1es in New York. It's the
training, or rather the lack OF train
Ing. Of our young men that is re-
sponstbie. Courtesy. consideration
for and appreciation OF women. 10 not
taught to the young boy by his moth
g as 1t should be. Very often the
mother can't help It She's down town
earning a living.
but tho first thing the boy thinks
OF Is soon a. he leaves school IL
to SO to work. get Job and keep
II To Gil cost to honor. or honesty
even.
New York. like all great cities, liz
merciless. and the male product Of
such a city is apt to be cold, selfish
and nercenary. particularly II he
lives to be forty years old without
Think OF the enormous number
OF young men In this town who plan
deliberately to marry for money.
1t Is said. of course. that young
women as We'll ia ynUng men shtrk
the responsibility OF marriage. That
is true OF email class which pre-
fers the drudgery of Job down town.
the pretty cloths and small Injuries
their salaries buy for them to a real
home.
Youth Brings Love-
Such girls don't look ahead. Now,
when they are young and charming
they find plenty OF men willing to
take them about to dinners and thea
ters. But l. as a physician. can see
the end. at the age OF forty they
arc pushed aside. Men do not care
for gray haired women in their ONCE.
TT Is useless to tell women Of to-
day TO go back to their homes Where
arc their homes? Nearly every bach
eior means a home tina. should have
SEEM but that never VIII be- be
cause Of his coldness and selishnass.
You don't Think a girl should re-
frain from getting Job and stay at
home waiting for . husband, do youe
Most certainly not.
THE girl who stays at home hasn't
as good chance of marriage as the
girl who works. Naturally, It's the
more enterprising who are down
town, and, whether deliberately or
not, they take their pick OF the eiigi-
Bile young men during Office hours"