South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-26


charming "A personality as her mar
ried sister. The old fashioned sin
gle woman developed into a queer
creature. narrow and peculiar for no
other reason than that her sphere
of action was extremely limited. The
single woman Of today is not limit
eI therefore she Isl not 10 be pitied.
She possesses opportunities that
married women are forced 10 de-
cline. Wide or narrow az her circle
Of influence may be, she is privileged
to exercise her power, her great or
small talents.
Labor Is worship" Gays the pro-
| verb and the writer takes the lib-
clty OF adding-labor IS happiness.
one only need 20 observe the lives
or women both single and married.
who have nothing TO do, and then
turn 10 those women who accepting
the universal law. that regards pleas
ure as accident and work Lies
natural and most holy necessity, to
find the statement true.
spoke last week OF the value or
seIf-dependence and 7 repeat here
that self-dependeuce is the hope
and the only hope Of happiness for
the woman who has never married.
Single women who lead active, in
toIIigent. industrious lives, lives COM
pIete I'm themselves. are not giving
the trouble 20 the world that idle
and foolish virgins do-not even In
heart affairs. TT love comes 10 them,
well and good they viii not make
dHicout mafdens. But "love and mat
rimony." is not 70 them the one
brand Of happiness that life offers
The maid about to cross the invisi-
BILE bOrderline OF maiden bachelor
hood. has already acquired her value
through usefulness and her fixed
standing i'm society will prevent her
drifting down the current OF a new
generation. even as dead May-ilies
down the stream.
Bachelor maids can make for
themselves as a class or as individ-
uals an fnestimable place in the
worlds affairs Each one OF us, mar
ried or single find our own level
sooner or later en- this harsh, prac-
tical though not Hl-meaning world.
The frivolous young maid grown into
the helpless. wearisOme estate of an
old maid. can no more expect TO
keen her pristine position than could
q last years leaf expect TO fiutter
upon n new. spring Dough The ideal
bachelor girl fails only through the
fact that che contributes no children
10 the next generation but let me
remind YOU that many married wom-
en- fail here also In all other phases
Of social economic and civic life.
she may contribute as generously as
any other individual, and having won
her laurels through a broad scope
or service. she keeps her prestige 10
the end
I'm sorry there isn't so much 20
say for the bachelor. As a class
they are failures. When a man gets
20 be 50 years OF age-I understand
in this reriod of belated marriages
that age marks the official entry
into baChel0rdOm. and has not found
n woman he wishes to call wife, is
Fitber such poor stick OF man
that mo- woman will marry him or he
prefers to shirk his main duty TO
society Of establishing a home. /
wife Perhaps some viii wall that I
the poor bachelor IS a victim OF a /
dead - unrequIted love. perhaps /
but do not make me smile too /
broadly I'm the presence of these /
loves for which nc man ever remains /
absolutely.
liz IS all very different with wom- I
en-they have sensitive natures and (
women can and often do. remain +
true TO a dead memory Woman. /
used 20 be. one-man lovers and /
there still exist Cthough I'm afraid .
that the mtn are beginning 20 doubt .
thisl womeh. who having loved
and lost never would marry an
other. such a woman may have lots
az opportunities for marriage which
sine passes by while the man she
loved loves elsewhere Fortunately
for society. women are beginning to
realize that the Oue-woman lovers
OF all history could be counted on
one band and that women who have
loved in vain better marry when
opportunity offers q worthy mate
The world doesn't care So much
about 'ove-matches after AN. it ~
NEE results OF IIlI||.t-H INtI COM
raud the interest
Whatever her reason for not
rarry rE th bachelor maid should
cultivate tine idea that within her
self lies an present and future pos
si1lItcs Marriage was hers 20 take
anG having passed 60 by. she should
f.-e herself 20 thai mode Of life
uHIrr was az her own choosing. en-
.oru- thc JOYS that come and bear
..- the sorrow Of regret If regret is
la~ lot yet Keeping her faith with
her feIlowmen. forgetting self IN
lre service Of others.
owen upon YOUR SORROWS and YOU
Increase them q hundredfoid When
sou are inclined 90 enumerate the
joss you have failed to experience
forget not 20 list the troubles YOU
have been spared 10 YOU have miss
@ the wonder Of the married reia-
.-ou. remeube 700 that YOU have
capped The heartaches. the fears
and -oFrows that come through mar
-alo and motherhood II YOU become
lonely. remember that there is many
e married woman surrounded by
group az uugrateful children and an
lrarDrecIativo husband who Is far
.ouai der and not less unhappy
Too YOU have had YOUR dream Of y