Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1912 — MISSED HER DAYS OF LOVE [ARTICLE]

MISSED HER DAYS OF LOVE

With Professional Success, Spinster Still Considers That Her Life Has Been an Empty One. In Harpers Bazar a very Intelligent spinster tells readers why her life Is empty, notwithstanding her professional success. Her words should give pause to some of the ambitious girls pining for careers. Read these, for example} “Even Intellectually I became some- , what of a mental outsider. While other women chatted of opera, dress and current happenings, I sat in a corner minus any conversational equipment. For I had nothing In njy head except my business, and how could I manufacture Interesting chat out of the auditing of the month’s books or the delinquencies of my stenographer? If I had only realized how richly a few magazine subscriptions and a few theater tickets would have repaid me I would have invested therein. But I was blind to everything except my goal of business success. “Another thing—rather hard to own —but since I have begun confessing I might as well go on. Although I did not look for love—Love has passed me by. And I sometimes wonder, as I glance at the . left hand resting ringless on my desk, if the reason has been that I allowed myself to be altogether too much of a “good fellow” among the men I met. Oh yes. It was necessary to be jolly and good-tem-pered and able to see a joke, but T think sometimes I allowed myself to be —well, a little hold. And it is my belief that many a bright, earnest, affectionate woman eats her heart out longing for love and hoipe without a bit realizing that her own frank, chummy, “don’t-let’s-stand on-ceremony" attitude has kept men from ever thinking of her except as a “good sort.” Oh yes, I know it’s the fashion to pretend that every woman could marry If she wanted to and that all lonely spinsters are Independent “bachelor girls” by choice, but that Isn’t life as I have found it.”