Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1914 — Notes and Comment [ARTICLE]

Notes and Comment

Of Interest to Women Reeders

WHY WOMEN DO NOT MARRY. Gertrude Atherton Bays the "Sharpened Intellects" of Modern Gftrlfl Encourage Independence; \ Leaving entirely out of the question the substantial Improvements demanded by the suffragists, and thoe«> illbalance children of their old age called suffragettes, there are certain more intimate disadvantages pert* lining to the immemorial status of warnan, which, unconsciously or otherwla e, influence the thousands of girls thiit deliberately enter upon the independent life before man shall have u chance to marry, desert, neglect or bore them. It is possible that the woman never lived who was born without the Instinct for romantic love, and its less romantic sequels, marriage and maternity, says Gertrude Atherton in The Delineator. Being the only hope of the race until science learns to manufacture estimable Frankenstein*, every sort of woman, when young, is as prone to the disease of love as to the microbous afflictions of childhood; but the sharpened Intellects of the modern female teach her to observe not only that indulgence In the primitive blessings is often productive of a tame happiness at best, but that it is mere chance if she does not waste several yean of her Active youth waiting for some man to exert his Inalienable light to woo and propose. A man may trample down barrlors, make opportunities, persist, overwhelm, but a woman, with double &e fascination and intelligence, most either stoop to contemptible scheming or proudly bide her time, as likelp as not to miss her one chance of happiness because circumstances do not give her the opportunity to reveal her- ’ self to the kindred spirit. If she can not pursue a man as a man pursoes a woman when he wants her; if she has not the supreme attractions which boring a man to a women’s feet/ with a flash of the eye, she can at boast avoid the mean subterfuges of the husband-hunters, and lead a life in which man as a lovefactor is practically eliminated. She can also enjoy much the same privileges as men, until, perhaps—who knows?—one day she may meet in this larger, fuller life a congenial. JnanyHrided creqjune who wants something more than a/reproduction of hie