The Modern Old Maid

The spinster of the past was depicted as thin and scraggy, sour of temper and disgruntled with the world. Heaven knows she had just caue to bi. 3he was foredoomed to live with some relative, no matter how uncongenial because she was supposed to have perpetual need of a protector. She was expected to have no opinions or tastes, to prefer to ride backward and eat the drumsticks of the chicktn and to have an insatiable passion for teaching children the catechism. Thut was under the happiest conditions. When the old maid was poor and depe'ident, then, indeed, her bread was bittar and her drink was tears. Happily, modern progress has changed this. The bachelor maid is no longer scrawny and sour. She has discarded the meek and self-abnegating black alpaca for frills and frivols. She has a thousand íntertets. She teaches, sha typewrites she paints, she does a hundred things that are money-earning. She travels %here she pleases and sees the sunny sije of life, and the last thing she dreams of needing is the sympathy of preafhers