Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — The Modern Old Maid. [ARTICLE]

The Modern Old Maid.

■Who does not rejoice in her? She is round and jolly, two dimples in her cheeks, and has a laugh as musical as a bobolink’s song. She wears nicely fitted dresses, and becoming little ornaments about her throat, and capti- ■ rating knots and bows. She goes to concerts, parties, suppers, lectures, and matinees, and she doesn’t go alone. She carries a dainty parasol, and wears killing bonnets, and has live poets and philosophers in her train. In fact, the modern old maid is as good as the modern young maid; she has sense and conversation as well as dimples and curves, affd she has a bank book and dividends. And the men like her—and why not?— New Orleans States.