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Show A FEW GOOD WORDS FOR OLD MAIDS. The Observer reprinted the other daj from a western contemporary a few "good words" about "old bachelors." This week it is able to publish some about "old maids," taken from another Catholic Cath-olic contemporary, this time the Xew Zealand Tablet, Tab-let, the organ of Archbishop Redwood, which says: The festive rhymester who sends m for publication -ca-astitAvoi---! or. --wl7.itaKh. -evident L,' ! ?gv.-di': Christian young women as he Turks regard Circassian Cir-cassian belles merely and solely as candidates for the marriage market. He represents a class who have no appreciation for the maidenly reserve, the womanly dignity and self-respect, the love of little lit-tle sisters and brothers, or of infirm o'r overwrought parents, that have led full many a young woman to decline a home or this or that home and remain re-main unwed till the flush of life's early summer is gone. From Catholics at least the cheap and thoughtless sneer at life-long maidenhood comes with a singularly bad grace. Do they forget God's grand army of virgins and their worth and work? Marriage is for the race first of all. But in the individual in-dividual may not the maid as well as the man attain at-tain the full measure of worth and usefulness by remaining single? "The popular contempt for single sin-gle women who have reached a certain age is." says Dr. Spalding, "but a survival of the contempt for all women which is found among savages and barbarians." bar-barians." Go to, thou barbarian of the splay-foot rhymes ! |