Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — No Old Maids. [ARTICLE]

No Old Maids.

There are very few old maids in Russia because the Russians are a marrying people, and dispose of their children early. In the middle or lower classes men marry at 20 When not drafted by the conscription; in the higher aristocracy a young man goes to the “grand tour” before settling down but ne is often betrothed before starting to a young lady not yet out of the school room, and he weds immediately upon his return. The great ridicule attached to the title spinster, when not borne bv a nun, has possibly something to do With the unwillingness of ladietf to sport it When a girl has reached the age of 25 Without finding a mate, she conerally seta out on what she calls a pilgrimage, If poor—on a round of travels, if rich; in either case she turns up some yean later a widow. Widows are as plen tifal as old spinsters are scarce ana widows whose husbands were never seen are more numerous than the rest Etiquette forbids any allusion to a ladi’s dead busband in her presence, this, per bap< is aomatunea oonvanient The wheelbarrow is the moat uaefal , eg y* appendage of a well-regu-teted back yard. Any one coming in contact with one on a very dark night cannot fail to be struck forcibly with the troth of thia remark. He’ll tumble to it ftt once.