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Show THE 8ELFI3HNE33 OF M In tho January Woman's lt ' H panlon nppea-a hn aa-tlcl "Tho Girl Who Docs Not m. enUlWM the course of which the authn k - the following comraenu on th "" H ness of unmarried women .'"4B Iho following story: m Tho temptation to be Wflrt , bolSevo. stronger for the Z '"''H fclrl than for tho one who UB There are mnny such gin, , f"1 ono who will never marry &nd .noB tho woKd In general would call 1 sulntly person. She has derilH life to her aged pnrenu hnd . " herself lavishly for a nephew' M niece, but her devotion has had ,otL W hint too personal, almost fanaua In It. By constantly sacraflcng self she succoedod In making herp5 ents n very selfish pair 0f 0id pe Not content wiU. that, she dedlcatSH herself quite as extravagantly to thH nephew nnd nloco. For them she 8b. H ed; and came, In tlmo, to believe thu H they wero wholly dependent on horttH forts, whereas thero were others cloH ly coneoted with thom who wqu'jH gladly have rondered them what m!gitH have been a more wise service. But Aunt May was by this time uholl; H possessed by the Idea that Bhe vuH necessary to the children. A mort keeh observer would havo seen that it I was, rather, Uie children who had h H come necessnry to her. By hor ut. H thinking ndmlrers It was often said H "May is so unselfish! She Uvea (or H nothing else but those two children, H But as' time went on tho seltlshneii B in tho mask of unselfishness began to I show its true face. The opportunlt; I came for the boy and !rl to have at- I vantages and pleaurers "apart from H "Aunt May." A Tavorlte uncle propoj. I ed sending tho boy for three montln'H to a summer camp entirely a;way from her, and another aunt wished to ghi H thc girl one yetir In Europe. But AaJ 'I May was by th's time so "demoted" i tho children that she could not endm, I to be separated from them. Othen H (again tho unthinking) said: Well, I May has certainly earned the right to I Ueep thom with her. Hasn't she ea- H slaved herself for them? But thou I who had eyes to see saw the sorry H spectacle of Selfishness so well mask- ed as unselfishness that even the H woman, herself a wothan with a tine I mind sho is too, was cheated and de- H eelved by the disguise. Tho two young H peoplo for whom sho would give her H lifebtood are now the onos who are H being sacrcjf.'ced. H |