The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-18

to the truth that a woman who has not baked bread or mended socks may not have come out of the short end of the horn of use- fulness.
 Look at the army of old maids who have substituted for natural mothers and got away with it. Be- hold the daughters of Adam who assume established household cares when they would prefer to embroider their own initials on the family towels.
 Look-as the Rev. Clinton Cox did-at the march of the spinsters who have raised banners and led multitudes. From the starched white uniform of Florence Nightin- gale and the armor of Joan of Arc, to the jewelled crown that Elisa- beth wore when she ruled the Brit ish Empire, the procession goes. Wouldn't these women have been as great and as successful if they had married, some query? Wasn't the fact that they didn't wed mere ly accidental? .
 Undignificd Terms
 Women are inclined to personalise. It is instinctive with them to in- terpret every experience in it's rela- tion to their own desires and needs. Therefore, having established a hu- man relationship, a woman will limit her horizon-and rightfully so to the joys, the sorrows, and leg islation which bear on her family's lives.
 She feels no challenge to ride a white horse at dawn to Orleans that & Dauphin may conquer and regain his throne. She has a fire side. He: place is there. where the lamp shines on a polished floor and a table is set with crusted loaves and shining jellies.
 Once in a while a woman is born who feels a wide social urge. Those who believe that such @ woman un- dertakes mission in life because marriage was eliminated from her course of procedure are mistaken.
 Such 8 woman, more than likely, does not marry simply because her interest is too big to be personalized.
 Joan of Arc, 1t is said in legend. loved a village lad. Maybe she did, though historians believe that her interest never verged toward the individual. Maybe she dreamed of a small house that she could keep serenely sweet, of roses blooming by a wooden door, and something sim mering in a caldron. She merely dreamed-if she did-for she had a crusade to make.
 Joan An Exception @
 Women have been inventors. Rarely, though, does their genius enter on an article which in no wise will touch woman's life. A man focuses his attention on an object regardless of the contact with his own routine.
 Sometimes the focusing of . wo- mans interests in channel other than a family group is called sub- limation.
 Sometimes this is true. A woman, deprived of marriage through an unfortunate set of circumstances, may give her sympathy and under standing to some certain interest. However, when she rises to heights. through such endeavor, the chances are that she had a vision which needed a world to range.
 It is a frlmpish, undignified term told maid" Spinster isn't much better. Or single woman.
 I hope the Rev. Clinton c. Cox. who took up the cudgels for hus- bandless women, placed emphasis on the fact that some women do not marry merely because there are other things that they prefer to do. Nor is one choice higher than arl- other. The prompting of an indivi- dual heart is o. matter of strictly personal concern. l Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl |