We are saying "nothing against marriage. The magt independent and successful business womatt still gets married—and, always will—when the ideal person presents hiniself, We are merely claiming that compromise marriages are growing Fewer, and that it is an excellent thing. 'The time has come when women don't have to get married, unless they' want to. And. the frankness of the modern novel and play, the divorce scandals in the papers, make them feel less certain that they want to, than they were in days when a women grew up believ= that marriage was synonymous with romance, just as two and two were the sume ax four. Now, they don't have to take almost anything they can get, when they reach the alarming age of thirty, or the positively disastrous age of forty. Tu fact, it is no longer alarming oF disastrous to be thirty or forty' both fages are now almost young—particularly if a woman is unmarried, For, somehow, to-day, when on encounters a worn and faded woman of for red took in her eyes, ally-—not that she is a spinster, but that she is Vand the mother of a large pleasant to think of the once down-trodden spinster, now hesitatingly: and cheerfully saying and the stupid and-—abave all selfish' men, such hits come when women, to get married, Tt has tog late for xome—but_even dant have to xhigy marrigk—
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