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Show It is said of Richard Watscn GUder, the editor of The Century, that he can . rejsct a manuscript so gently that the i disappointed author travail 800 miles to : see him and stay to iMnrv-r. , Tho Age of the Spinster. i There is no period of life that deter- j mines old maidhood; the habit of each individual is to move the figuro along the scale of years as time goes on so that a girl of 18, who considers 25 a cold and hopeless age for a spinster, it, certain to change her mind and fix upon 27 as the , year of desolation when 23 has been j reached. Thus; by degrees, 37 is come upon with some color of complacency and hope. Chatter. |