Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-01

every woman 5 necessarily born with
that vocation is at length being I'M
masked as an absurdity Most of US
have known women who have had
about as much genius for marriage
and motherhood as, say, hopelessly
unmuscal people for the roles OF
prima donnas In the past there was
no choice in the matter. A woman
could not reject the career of mar
riage, if offered to and arranged for
her. She had to accept it with the
same submission of spirit which drove
her reluctantly to torture the piano
/ into discords and to distsrt wax into
angry flowers. The code demanded
that she should have no personal in
clinations or disinclinations. There
was piano. She must play on it.
There was man. She must NARY
him If she loved music, all the bet
ter for the piano and herself. If she
loved the man, all the better for the
man and herself.
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ed, and the ruthless code has had to
undergo consideration, notifications,
at any rate in middle-class life. Di-
rectly woman became a self-support-
ing breadwinner she began to have
choice of action, and was at least free
to refuse any offer of marriage if t
came her way, in Difference to the
statistics which show that England
contains over a million more women
than men, and which would therefore
seem to claim with unanswerable au-
thority that many women are com
PEELED whether they like it or not, to
remain minated, legally. But bare
statistics are often misleading, and il
is interesting to learn that the census
figures show that two-thirds of the to-
tai excess of females over males are
widows. If this be true, then let those
who are deploring the grim fate of
the unmarried woman be comforted.
We can say to these mourners: Tears
idle tears, for the two-thirds of the
original tragic total"
Many Educated Don't Marry.
But whatever the differentiations in
figures and facts, one fact is indisput-
able, that very large number of ed
ucated and attractive women deliber-
ately turn away from any chances"
offered them, and prefer to remain un
married. And why should they marry?
Unless the call of sex is strong in
them, unless an instinct in their ma
ures clamors for motherhood, unless
! they feel unable to dispense with the
continuous companionship of men, UNI
less they are desperately in love-in-
which case of course, all arguments
fall to the ground-why should they
marry?
Life has opened out to them in all
directions, and apart from their daily
duties in connection with their bust
ness, professional or personal con-
Germs, many diverse interests, many
helpful possibilities of fine service
and many opportunities of jolly good
pleasure await their attention and en-
Joyment. And having under these
/
modern conditions developed a really
remarkable resourcefulness, and at.
tanned to a definite independence Of
action and idea they would naturally
think very seriously upon, and weigh
carefully the pros and cons involved
N changing their state Moreover,
they are helped in this attitude be-
cause they are by nature home-mak-
ers. Formerly they made homes for
men. Now they make them for them
selves, sometimes alone, sometimes
with a comrade, They can stand
alone better than men. They can Gre