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Show - Why Treasury Girls Don't Marry "A great deal has been said," remarked a lady clerk in the Treasury department, "about why our girls don't marry. So far I have only heard the men quoted, and they say a great deal about the girls losing their charms and becoming less feminine by mixing with the business world and about wanting to better their position by marriage. "Now, ft you reporters really want to know something .about the matter, why don't you go to the women themselves ? I'll just tell you one thing, and it's what I believe to be an important . reason. When a girl is kept at home, surrounded bv girls, and hears of the greatness of the masculine part of the. genus homo, and only meeting him at picnics and in the parlor, she conceives rather an exalted idea of what he really is. Then, when she secures a position and meets them as they are away from gaslight's uncertain glitter, her idea of the actual facts falls considerablv from what it was in her ex"" perience, even if she still retains the ideal in her mind. . The fact is, we are like Diogenes we are hunting for an honest-man. honest-man. We know more about them than we did, and so the right man is naturally harder to find." Washington National Republican. -. |