Disappearance Of Old Maids

There ifi growing up in England a i large elasa oí women who do not marry, blït wlio agparently wish not to marry. They deliberately devote themselves to literature, to teaching, to aonie trade. geneially au artistic 0110, at any rate to some occupation tliat gives a livelihood and tenda to culture, and this they clioose tor life. The marrying instinct seems dead, or ratner never to have been : boni in them. 1 have kuown at least ! one such pprapn in this country. They : ! dó not seem to be thoiigbt of as out of : j place ; bat, on the contrary, they move iuto lit places in the jfreat apcial organism, éádnj and natnrally, and are aooeoted without remaxk. Aiate articlo in eme oí' the leoding papers of owr ovni country remar kort thut au almost oniiro chango had taken place in tliis country, j in ourrent speech conoerniug unmarried women who aro passod 80 ; thai v.'hereas, twenty yëaxs ugo, and always betoro, ' oalled " uld niauls, and the i ïhiase vas a term of ri'proach, ijotv it wosrarély iï evi ad the reproach ■vhioh ussmI to be eiiKt upon sttcll persons has almost pntirely passefl away. - (Jorrenpondenee f the Wowanx Journal. ; The West Poini cadts fear that the girls v.-iil patrocize Annapolis in future, with a view to possible diamonds i'rom Egypt.