The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-10-14

and his life a success, Tor she
comes of an ancestry that knew
the hardships resulting from the
war Between the States.
At the close of that war, the
lovely women and girls OF the .
South, who had been reared III
ease and luxury, with plenty OF
slaves to do their bidding, found
themselves without household
help, with no servants to do the
cooking and the house-work and
with no money to buy fine clothes
and have them made by fashion
able modistes. What did they doY
Did they repine and give upY Not
a bit of it. With true Southern
pluck, they faced the situation
and took up without murmurlng
the work which their slaves had
but lately been doing and they did |
lit we'll They felt and proved !
their independence, and the re-
suit was that their fathers and
brothers and sweethearts were
not long in recovering from the
ruin wrought by the war.
If the girls of today have the
same pluck and determination and
independence of spirit, no young
man earning a fair salary need
hesitate to marry one of them.
But the young men do hesitate
and they have reasons for it. The
girls with whom they associate are
either well cared for by indulgent
parents or are earning salaries
that enable them to wear costly
dresses and otherwise enjoy life.
The young man hesitates to ask
one of these to give up her posi-
ton and become his wife and
home-maker, because his salary OF
$500 or even $125.00 month is
mot sufficient to supply her with
fine apparel and give her a life OF
ease and pleasure SO, he decides
to wait until he can save enough
out of his salary to set up in busl-
ness for himself and acquire an in
come that will enable him to main
tain a wife in such style, comfort
and ease as will make both her
< and him happy. By the time he
/ attains this condition, he is thirty
G five or forty years old and has
s lived so long without wife that
he decides to remain a bachelor
d permanently.
: The whole trouble is that Meth
S er the young man nor the girl II
willing to "start at the bottom o
o the ladder and work their way VI
: Through trials, troubles, hard
l. ships and deprivations to the top
as thousands of others have done
d They all want to start at the top
J. and the result is that, if a yount
n man and a young woman, elthe
o or both of whom are earning mod
n est salaries, are thoughtles
.e enough to marry, they Will rent
h. fine house, stock it with elegan
h furniture, hire a wasteful cook
t. wear expensive clothing, keep al
l. automobile, frequent the theatr
and attend every social function
"a to which they may be invited, AM
II finally wind up as Weir did.
m The prospect, therefore, is that
in the coming years, the countr
. will be populated with vast nun
N .ber of old bachelors and oil
/ maids and that, when the wome
Ia get too old and cross and ugly t
70 be valuable in business or in tn
4 schools, they will have to take re-
IA uge in the orphan asylums of tn
= land Meanwhile, thousands
q. good, brave women III Europ
&C. will be in imperative need of hu
va bands, for whom they will be WI
w. ling to do the greatest drudger
balif necessary, for, at the close
Nd that fearful war over there, v
m shall witness the actual fulfil
If ment of that prophecy contain'
~, in the first verse of the four
chapter of Isaiah:
vas "And in that day seven wom