Deseret Evening News | 1898-01-08 | Page 12 | Origin of "Spinster"

Origin of Spinster There are few persons that have not looked Into the dictionary especially m ho know how the term spinster origInated orig-Inated We often find It In Shakespeare Shake-speare and other English classics but It is I not always ud to define a Splutter This Is Its specific meaning Its I generlll ilgnlncance Is wider There was an old practice In tho years agone that a woman should nOr be marfled until he had spun herself a set of body table and bed linen It Is I not difficult to see how cay the term became applicable to nil unmarried women and finally bam b-am 11 law term and fixed