Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1902 — Are Women Bachelors. [ARTICLE]

Are Women Bachelors.

The number of wealthy young women of New York who do not care to marry and who lead a charming, Independent life, setting up their own lare and penates, seems to increase. There were rumors In New York of a debutante of last winter leaving her home, where she was being chaperoned by a stepmother, between- whom and herself there was not much affection, and having, with an old servant a little flat of her own. Miss Eloise Breese cruises all summer in the Elasa and entertains, as did Miss Susan de Forest Day, who finally succumbed and became the wife of. Dr. -Barker. Miss Elizabeth Remsen, the daughter of the late William Remsen, has a house of her own and does not live with her sisters, and now that the long partnership of Miss De Forest and Miss Callender seems to be broken, each of these ladles will'have a separate establishment. Miss Josephine Drexel, the sister of Mrs. Harry Lehr, although still a young lady, has her own house, and her mother, who lives In Philadelphia, occasionally comes on to see her. Miss Julia Wells, who has recently received a handsome legacy from Mrs. Osgood Field, has also her ovfn house and travels every summer, taking with her some other woman whose means are not suf.icient to enjoy such luxuries. Each .summer is passed In a different country and the winters are spent In New York. This would seem, says the New York Times, to be the true emancipation of the unmarried women, who in the days of our grandmothers led rather a forlorn life If they did not marry very early.