The Washington herald., 1912-03-30
Topics of Interest to Every Woman
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Of girl Is not so anxious TO marry as
my correspondent would ascertain IL he
popped the question to a few of them.
The girl who belongs to a still more
modern type, the girl bachelor, has a
positive aversion TO II. She has espoused
career instead OF a man. She has all
that she wants OF life, work, vital in
terest, financial independence. freedom to
do as she pleases. The boyle that has
driven so many women into matrimony.
the fear of being called an old maid.
has no terrors for her. for she knows
that spinsterhood is no longer the hedge
OF disgrace. II Is generally a certificate
Of intelligence.
Less Attractive.
Undoubtedly matrimony attracts both
sexes less than it formerly did. Just
why nobody knows. My own theory, so
far as the city goes. is that the blame
lies at the door OF the fiat. In the coun-
try 1t takes a man and a woman both
to make a horne. But in a box OF a fat
either a man or a woman can keep house
perfectly well alone. and a husband or
wife is more or less Of a superhuity.
Moreover. so far as the woman is con-
cerned, marriage does not present any
particularly alluring prospect. She looks
about her and sees that her friends hus-
bands dropped their gallantry and love-
making at the altar, and that they are
more considerate, polite, and agreeable
TO any other woman under the sun than
they are TO their own wives. She OBJ
serves that the up-to-date ending of a
romance is not that they were married
and lived happily ever afterward," but
they were married and lived scrappily
ever afterward."
She also takes cognizance of the fact
that the woman who marries any but
rich man doesn't find matrimony the
sesame to a life Of idleness, and luxury.
and ease. Instead. she qualities for the
hardest and poorest paid job on earth.
She lets herself in for a lifetime of
domestic slavery, and there's nothing in
that to fire the fancy OF the average
maiden.
All CT this makes girls much less
anxious to marry than my correspondent
imagines. The modern girl. particularly
II she is a working girl with the ability
and intelligence to make her own living.
does not have TO marry for a home. She
can make as good a home for herself
as the Ordinary man can offer her. and
net be bothered with any husband cIut-
terinE up the house and hossing her
She knows she would have 10 work
harder IN some mans kitchen than she
does in another mans office, and she
prefers the typewriter 10 the gas range
and washtub. thank you.
So when a girl marries nowadays II
isn't for the sake OF exchanging a hard
job for a soft one It's because she Is
In love. and she sees in some man the
Prince Charming Of her dreams, and be
cause for his sake she is willing TO un-
dsrgo all OF the hardships and priva-
tions, and sacrifices Of matrimony.
NerN nInera,t Inxx
And let US thank God that this is true.
and that il Is going 10 he truer As wom-
en- come more and more into their own.
and the doors OF opportunity are opened
wider TO them. Men may not have
thought Of this, but the girl OF to-day Is
the first girl that a man could marry
without suspiCiOning that she was mar
rying him for a support. our grand
mothers, and even our mothers, had no
other way Of making a living except by
marrying for II, and our papas and grand
papas must have often asked them
selves whether they represented their
wives ideals, or merely a good thing
to them.
As for my correspondents assertion
that girls are more anxious to marry
than men because when a girl marries |
she gets meal ticket and a man halves |
his. that is nonsense. No more girls mar
to get good cook to whom they don't |
have to pay wages. And the proportion |
OF both Is infnltesimal.