The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-08-21
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By CAROLYN LLOYD

"The colonel's lady and Judy
O'Grady are sisters under the
skin" Thus many a woman still
single or who married late feels a
kinship with Princess Margaret
right now. Always in the news, the
Princess is even more in the spot
light now that her twenty-ninth
birthday is approaching. Every
body, according to the newspapers,
is concerned because she is past the
first flush of youth and still un-
married.
Now it would seem that whether
a girl marries or not is a matter
of concern only to herself or her
family, but any small town girl can
tell you it isn't so. AS the years
slip by, the girl is quite aware
that people are saying. "Poor Judy,
it's pity she can't find husband.
She would make some man a good
wife" The implication is that Judy
is on the prowl, but can't bag her
game, and there is always bit of
malicious satisfaction evidenced by
the concern of her neighbors. The
speaker may be a woman whose
marriage is anything but and en-
dorsement of matrimony; neverthe-
less she preens herself upon her
success. Or it may be an older man
who considers it quite a joke to
greet Judy every time he sees her
with, "Well, when are you going
to get married?" He would be in
dignant if Judy should answer,
"When-freezes over" or "None of
your business" Generally he is of
the type that gives a girl good
reason to shun matrimony, but, in
his masculine pride, he would put
Judy's answer down to sour grapes
or a lack of a sense of humor. Judy
simply has to smile politely and
take it until either the town accepts
her single state or she does marry.
In the latter case, she knows full
we'll that the comments will change
to, "Well, 1 didn't think she'd ever
make it. She's the last person on
earth ever expected to see get
married"
If, then, plain Judy O'Grady suf-
fers from the curiosity and jibes of
her small town neighbors, what
must it be like for Princess Mar
garet to endure the speculation of
the whole world. A princess has to
learn to accept the spotlight, but
she is a woman just the same and
such public comment on her af-
fairs must be CALLING. Unlike Judy,
Margaret doesn't need a man to
carry out the garbage, replace a
fuse, NOW the lawn, or even to
pay the bills, so unless she finds
a man he can love, there isn't much
point to marriage for her.
Every little girl has dreams of
what it would be Like to be prin-
cess. She signs for diamonds and
furs and sees a Prince. Charming in
the background to grant her every
wish. What real princess has to
dream of in her youth is hard to
say, but most probably Prince
Charming is included. The trouble
is that her prince must have a
great deal more than charm, and
there seems to be a shortage of
princes with the right qualifica-
tons. Judy O'Grady, if she is
sensible, forge her childish
dream and settles for an ordinary
man. If the right one doesn't come
along, she, like Princess Margaret,
has to take the comments of the
public. She has one advantage,
though, the local newspaper is not
likely to come out with headline:
"Judy O'Grady entering her thir-
tieth year and still unmarried"