Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — MAY DEPORT "OLD MAIDS" [ARTICLE]

MAY DEPORT "OLD MAIDS"

Increasing Number of Spinsters Alarms Mothem—Home Neglect Is Cause. London. —The question of how to diminish England’s rapidly Increasing crop of old maids has become vital here and hardly a week passes without a lecture on the subject Mlsb Josephine Knowles, England’s foremost expert in this line* has just held a lecture in which she severely criticized English parents, whom she accused of injuring their daughter’s prospects by caging them up at home, simply catering for them in the way of food, clothes and necessaries, but without allowing them as much as sixpence weekly for phi money, and giving them no training or education that would make them fit either to marry or to make their own living. She strongly advocated emigration of girls on a large scale, rather enjoying the shock this gave her audience, and declaring that her suggestion was based on sound common sense as long as there was a large superfluity of women in England while men In the colonies were clamoring for wives. At the end her argument conquered and a society is soon to be formed to arrange marriages between suitable parties In England and her dominions.