Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-01
WHY SOME WOMEN ARE SINGLE.
Today IS ours. Why do we fear?
Let's Danish care, Danish SORROW
To the gods belong tomorrow.

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Let's Danish care, Danish sorrow
To the gods belong tomorrow.
Times minutes as they go make us old,
Every sane of his fleet glass
increases age as 1t doth pass.
A bachelor said to me recently: 81
fancy there will be fewer marriages
this year than ever before" "How dc
you make that out?" l quericd, hoping
to lure him into an offhand discus.
sion on a subject SO dear and so vital
to the hearts of women. TOO sporty
was the rejoinder. FLATS suitable for
a twelve-year-old girl on heads of
young women well into their twenties :
they cannot get coats too gay for them 4;
red, green or yellow awning-striped
skirts, reaching only to their ankles ut
that, and party shoes In which they de.
family wade through the slush Of the
streets. And no one will deny that
nine out of ten have their cheeks
frankly rouged. They may inspire mo.
mentary admiration as for a passing
picture, but not M man out of n hun.
dred could fancy such gaudy butter.
flies of fashion sitting in an old-fash.
Toned rocking chair cuddling u baby to
Sleep"
1T Is always the maR who blows his
horn loudest and longest against wom-
ems dress, her sensibillty and all that
sort Of thing, who ends by wedding the
youngest and most flippant chicklet he
can find who will reluctantly consent
to take him." l pursued.
le bachelor Is always ready with n
quick retort. "The man who chooses
q youthful mate does so with the hope
OF being able to mold her character,
ways and notions, which have not had
time as yet to become rigidly fixed.
The young wife car be induced to dress
to please her husband, the one we'll
seasoned In years-no. They have Wills
OF their own and challenge even q hus.
bands right to interfere with them I'm
doing as they please. They are quite
as worldly wise, versed In all things, MS
the husband. A mans vanity suffers
II he Is not looked up to by the partner
of his joys and sorrows.
1.-THE girls of a decade ago used to be
good listeners. Now they think If the
proper thing to meet a man on his W
ground and talk him down, as It were.
What mar would consider passing the
balance of his days with an opponent
of that kind? Girls Will find single
b~lessedness increasing until they
buckle down into being Just the old.
fashioned kind OF a modest girl and
dressing as their mothers did. The
rouged girl Is not the kissable kind
that Is, the n a man would eagerly
long to propose marriage to and seal
the bargain with a kiss"
ANY more faults to conjure up
against the 1915 glrl2" I ventured. As
he was silent l got back at him by de-
that the women Of today were
the ~fairest, sweetest, wlttlest and the
most lovable in the worlds history. We
need bright, picturesque dressing to
as much as possible the worlds
Not n out of a hundred
needs rouge to supply bloom to her
face! Nature does that.
The reason some women are single
Is because they won't wed q man whose
record is not all that 1t should be to
we'd a pure heart mate. An honorable
nan or none is their slogan and | ap-
1laud them for the courage of their
convictions.