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Show MISS AND MRS. There la an effort made In certalni quarters to ignore the distinction be-l tween Miss and Mrs., as applied to! married and single women. At a re-, cent women's convention at Chicago the presiding officer, who was an unmarried un-married woman, had her cards printed print-ed with Mrs. preceding her name. It Is understood that this Is simply a aymptom of a widespread movement-i Of course, the idea Is to destroy this class distinction, which Induces differ-' ent proprieties and rights, which In both cases should be the same. This would make the style the same as holds with men, who use the word Mr. to both the married and unmarried. unmar-ried. Now It seems if there should be a distinction in naming women, In order or-der to tell whether they are married or unmarried, the same distinction should be made with regard to men, for it might very often be handy to know, for social and business reasons, whether a man Is single or not. At least a man should appear before society so-ciety just what he is, married or unmarried, un-married, for all the reasons, and more, too, that women are bo designated. designat-ed. It might be a better reform for the women to continue their classification classifica-tion of Miss and Mrs., and extend to men the obligation of a like distinction, distinc-tion, so that the married men cannot play oft as unmarried, which is the ource of so much complication. I |