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Show The Bachelor Maid. 'The Bachelor Maid Is probably as old as tho Hlssy Man, but It Is only within ens ncollectlon that she has been recognlz d as a tvpc and properly labeled Now she Is In the hejdcy of her glor), and her sisterhood has bc-lome bc-lome so numerous that she attracts no more attention than a slater of charity, n Methodist deaconess or a Unlvatlon Armj lassie Hln has Veen with us so long tint It Is safo to say that she has lume to stay, 'Ihe surctv of her permanence per-manence Is attested by the fnct that she standa squnrelv upon both feet, and her poslMontU.j-.forc, has the stability and sifT-nTT-Tn' n proper foundation Ihls Is not In the lemolcst way an Intimation In-timation that the Bachelor Maid has laiger feet than the ordinary run of women, though In be sure, one of the vcrj Ihsl "lil'ilillVslitTISVs of her moncl-IMtlon moncl-IMtlon Is to clothe her feet In heav lioots, discording the dainty things which were used to Head tranicnlly on the bleeding hearts of men It may be, Indeul, that the Biihelnr Maid la not dalntv, nnd has no deslie to be tyiun-leal tyiun-leal to men, for It seems tolerant) apparent ap-parent thut her one supreme wish 1 equality cqualltv In opporlunltj nswell as In envlicinmint And let me ia lint I think the world should glvu her all sh asks, and permit her to get what she wants. If she cin Thlx l t . ,-,. when the develoument of the Individual Is nf the vuy llrst Importance, nnd the convention which hinder such will he brushed aside, If thej bo not ubiogated b) common consent Ihe llacnelor Mnld, therefore has a right to Mrlvc for vvliu M11 .oni.1. I11 wmtli iiii i.,i " nil -it onseiviitlv. had ns well not make themselves unhappy about conditions which exist, whether thej consent or not about things which have ahead) happened and will continue con-tinue to hipren until the) go out of fashion bee uise the) had led lo some-thing some-thing else "John Ollmer Speed, In Alnslce s. |