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Show Miirrlnge a Hundred Years Hence. At the present time a popular pro-Bnuiption pro-Bnuiption exista that all girls wish to marry, and fail to do so only because they lack an eligible opportunity. This presumption exjRts on account of the ol vious fact that women, being able with difficulty to support themselves, have hi Roneral a greater material interest in marriage than men have. Surely there can be few incidents of an unmarried woman's condition more exasperating than her knowledge that becauso this is ' the undeniable fact it is vain for her to exjiect to be popularly credited with the voluntary choice of her condition. She must endure with a smile, however she may rage within, the coarse jest or in v nuendo to which it would be worse than vain to reply. Nationalism, by estab- I liuhinj? the economic independence of ; ' women, without reference to their single cr married state, will destroy the pro j sumption referred to by making mar j riitge no more obviously desirablo to one ' sox than to another. Edward Bellamy i ia Ladies' Home Journal. |