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Show ' I " j-f.i V A HI I I A it. uiU O-- l Oil. ,il II I Miss Van Vcrst Declares History ; Contains ; Ifo Maiden Karnes, and . Urges Girls to Harry. NEW-J YORK, f"eV ,f!. ITiss Marie " Vort, -who galne'd distinction by her collaboratibn with'Mrs. John Van Yoret, ' her sister-inrlaw, in vritlng "The Woman Wo-man Who Tolls," is opposed to old maids and wants all her sisters to wed. She gives the following v1ew-on what ' President Roosevelt calls "race suicide": "Tell me where you will find an old maid in the history of the world who Cfieved distinction. "Jeanne d'Arc is jhe only unmarried woman to my knowledge whose deed9 are' historic. Yet the-" fact must b admitted ad-mitted that she may have been married; We really know little about her life. "Marriage develops character '" and widens experiences as nothing else wilL Considered, therefore, from the -poratr of view of Its good influence on the individual, indi-vidual, it is to be desired. . ; J3very ' woman should, marry "and have a family around her. You may nlk.of the responsibilities and worries . rt a -woman's life If left alone penniless with a family. But'ev'cn this experience . is for her good. "The tendency of the American girl of today to remain single is one of the signs of the times to be deplored. Marriage Mar-riage is the last thins of which sha . thinks. ..... , "The love of independence Js so strong In us that we postpone a choice unttr we have grown difficult to please, ex-. ex-. ' acting and fond of our own liberty. It .is not necessary that wprna.n;ls forced; ' ' i to remain single. It is that she wants 10. . ,. - ;- -. . ' "The fact remains that the world' celebrated-women have all married. "Love, not duty, should be the basis of home Mfe if it is to be ideal, and if our homes are to build up Ue ideal . people the great American nation of the future, "This love should consist of the love of Jiusband and wife and of child. That forms a chain no outside influence ia rtrong enough to break." "The great things accomplished in life were the work of the people who had given their lives toothers. , ' Look at George, Sand, for instance. Think you she would have written and achieved greatness had she not been left ;o face poverty with four children dependent de-pendent on her for food? Her troubles and her ' struggles developed and strengthened her mind as nothing else could or would." |