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Show Celibates by Choice I think that It is true there are men and women who wisely realize that, having reached the approach of middle age, it is better to remain unmarried rather than marry from any but the mosl serious reasons. Marriages made in middle age may be extremely happy. But there are women, as there are men, who have through experience, through adversity, through the need of self-dependence, attained so great a degree of individuality individu-ality that they feel that in marriage, with lis enormous need of adaptability, they would become lost. We ought not to dismiss such people as necessarily selfish and self-centered Probably they know that their capacity for friendship, their ability to be of real service to many widely differing types of human nature. tf-ielr wider leisure, makes it possible for them to express themselves more generously as unmarried people. Exchange. |