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Show I 'Surplus Woman' Has . I Views on 'Desirables'; ' I (By International News Service.) h LONDON. April 1A. (Special Cor-I n rcspondence) "Leave us alone. "We're ' all right," comes the exasperated wail ' f, of one Rachel Ferguson, who admits jj she may bo a surplus woman, but' f wtfo, nevertheless, draws her own P blacklist of "woman who would not be missed." ' ' The surplus woman discussion has l be.cn too much for Rachel's patience, t and she says as much in lhe Daily I Sketch. I, "It to be unmarried renders you su- P; perfluous," she writes, ihen the war, has created a great number of super- I fluous men young fellows who can-1, I not keep themselves, let alone a wife."i i Then this is her list: j "To my mind the women truly fall-1 ing under this head are those who are' I 'cal.ty' to their fellow women, the scan- I dg,l mongers, the sleek matinee-going. R ba,rgain-huntlng, nevr-rise-until-elcv- Kl , en-ers. the willing loafers through life, y "To them add the woman who mar-! I ries for comfort and refuses to hc.vp. 1 children (without having made her I intentions plain to the man and giving I him a chance to escape her), because I babies will interfere with jazz teas and! I cat up money she wants for hals. I "And don't forget the woman with- I out a sense of humor, who is perhaps I the most subtly superfuous of the lot.' I ' being neither a completed human be-1 I I ing nor a satisfactory human being! I nor a satisfactory citizen of the' I world." i m ' i |