Show U UI U I YOUR HOME and YOU By BETSY CALLISTER k FREEDOM FOR SPINSTERS TN IN EVERY EVEny book on social decorum I written the last 75 years there is a special chapter or series of ot paragraphs devoted to the spinster spInster spin spIn- ster the bachelor girl or the old maid mad as the writer chooses to call the unmarried woman who Is no longer longcr in her ber first youth Even In books written comparatively recently recent recent- ly y there appear a great many special rules for this individual I Sometimes we are arc informed that even en a distinctly midd middle middle aged aged spInster spinster spinster spin spin- ster observes certain laws of chaperonage Now In a very limited group of persons found usually only In th the large cities or fashionable summer colonies which by reasons of wealth and position sets the fashion In Inmany Inmany Inmany many matters of social propriety the fact Is that the unmarried woman of ot maturing years is still hedged In by a lot of curious mid mid- Victorian mid prejudices An absurd suspicion Is cast on her by those who oud Insist that she travel only with a woman companion and that the she he refrain re reo re- re raIn frain from going to places of entertainment entertainment enter enter- with any man save a near rel reI relative tive The Idea Iden apparently once was that an unmarried woman had to todo todo todo do a sort of ot penance for never never baying having bay hav ing ng succumbed to the charms of ot I |