Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-03-05
PITY the Old Maid

AS a type, the old maid
has about disappeared, few i
any of her species are seen o.
heard from these days, anc
there must be a reason.
Probably the enlargement Of
the sphere of usefulness Of
woman has had more to dc
with the changing of this typ,
than anything else.
|, Political and Commercial
freedom have taken the old
maid from her chimney corner
and made her into something
distinctly useful.
In a recent issue of the maya
zine, Beautiful Womanhood, "
Mrs. Bernarr Mac Fadden
wrote the following interesting
editorial, entitled, Pity the
Old Maid
The most woe-begone, God
forgotten creature in all the
world is an old maid.
Fortunately this type is disap-
pearing.
Life knowledge and sex knowl-
edge are making this tribe al
rost as scarce as Nature Intend
p6 tbaxy CT, n,,1J ha
In this age when advancement
waits on mental and physical
agility, there is no excuse for a
girl growing up into a senseless,
sexless thing that is an abomina-
ton in the sight of God and man.
We were never intended to file
ourselves away, to stand aside
while life passed us by, to hold
ourselves aloof from the facts
on which the very existence of
the human race IS founded.
When you do run across an
"old maid you'll find a person
warped in mind and body-a
soul-shriveled being who fits into
no known or recognized classifi-
cation.
A woman may not marry for
personal or economic reasons.
But when such a woman gets
along in years she can be young
in spirits, cheerful in tempera-
ment, fresh and alive in appear
ance, full of health and the joy
of living--a long way from any
thought that she is "done."
The spirit of youth never dies
lr a sane and healthy body.
Up to the last the great Queen
Elizabeth, though she never mar
rled, made one Of the greatest
rulers England ever had. She
was alert, interested, competent
vigorous.
Susan B. Anthony, the pioneer
suffragette, never grew Old in
spirit. To'the last she fought a
good fight which helped women TO
the freedom they now enjoy.
Jane Adams is as young to-
day as on the first day She de-
termined to devote her life to
good works.
You can't grow old if you
won't. ~
The newest wrinkle in wrinkles
Is to have none. But if thew
come as the almost inevitable
concomitant of advancing wears
see to 1t that the wrinkles in
your brain (sure sign of a de-
Veloped intellect) keep pace with
the wrinkles i'll your face.
Nothing is nobler than q good
woman and a faithful. devoted
wlfe and mother. In every age
and cline such women have been
granted special privileges.
The next noblest being is lust
a woman.
The next nObleSt thing is n
husband and a father.
After that comes lust a--man.
But each of us has our place
IN the scheme of things-a need
OF service to give the world--a
life loaned us for the purpose Of
making it a thing of beauty.
For the old maid" there was
no place-there is no place to-
day. other than the chimney
corner, there to puff and sleep
with her cat.
There is a place of useful
ness for every man or woman,
married or unmarried. That
place can be found by those
who will.
The old maid of yesterday is
the alert, athletic single woman
OF today, who finds a task to do
and does it for the love of the
thing. LA, s,1tsT,s