The San Francisco call., 1913-09-24
A GIRLS FEAR OF
= D-MADISM

when the bachelor girls came in--look
around you a little, use your eyes and
ears. Think for yourself; don't keep
repeating over some silly phrase
you've let some one else get into your
head
You've seen a bit of the world. or
ought to have seen some of it, in your
business Who's the woman you are
sorriest on earth for2 A woman you
know. I mean, not one you've read
about or seen in some play. Is it an
'old maid" making her own living,
living her own peaceful happy life, or
her married sister. with an Indifferent
husband. three children and not day
in the year or an hour to call her
own?
Come right down to common sense
now-who looks the youngest, the
married women you know or the odd
maids as you call them?
Which has the most money to spend.
which travels the most which has the
best time altogether? Look for your
self now and see what you shall see.
Little Mrs. Somebody there, in the
Nat above yours-her husband drinks
little. Mrs Nobody there in the fiat
across the hall. her husband is pleas
ant to you when you meet him on the
stairs; you can hear him growing at
his wife the minute he gets inside the
door Little Mrs What of 1t down
the hall, her husband is too good look
ing. he spends all his money on his
clothes and let's his wife look like a
rag bag You look younger and hap
pier this very minute than any of
these ordinary. everyday women
Why don't you have sense enough to
realize it and be grateful?
Marriage is the finest, happiest, best
| thing in the world when it is the
right marriage When it is the wrong
one or the merely half way right
one, the old maid has the best of the
bargain every day in the year. Love
is the one thing that makes marriage
possible. not respect, nor admiration
not tolerance, not gratitude. just old
fashioned, foolish. blind, unreason-
able love If you haven't got that,
stay an old maid as long as you live
and be glad you had sense enough
| to do It, Why haven't you walked
up to the fact that the majority OF the
old maids spend half of their time
plying the married women and the
other half lending them money to
make up back payments on the gro
Gerry bills so they can get new hats
and things? VINO goes to the seaside
in August; who has little runs up to
Yosemite or to Tahoe? Who has the
latest hat and the newest things in
gloves? Who wears the neatest boots
and goes to the best restaurants? Sis
ter Sallie. the old maid with her own
bank account and her own friends and
her own good time.
Who stays at home with the sick
baby; who cooks dinner over hot
gas plate? Who turns last years
frock and mends up her old gloves
because John Is feeling poor this
month"; Sister Mary. the married
woman.
If sister Mary loves her husband,
and Sister Mary's husband loves her,
she's better off than all the old maids
on earth. but If sister Mary just mar
ried brother John to get a home"
and stop being an old maid, she's
so much worse off than sister Sallie
that 1t almost makes me cry to think
about her at all
Bid the young man goodby. Per
picked" pack your little valise. tie on
your little bonnet and go on, down
the road. alone, till you meet the
right man; then you won't need any
body's advice about what to do and
when to do it