MODESTY AND MARRYING.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7691, 24 October 1890, Page 2

MODESTY AND MARRYING.

t of Fire** haa written to a Rome* paper to sajrthairahe has a quintet of charming girls fairly accomplished all 1 nniw&rrwsi. "still th© fact that modesty ia the greatest charm of womanhood t The opinion seems to bo . exploded. At all events, tho young men of tho day don't seem to agree with you and mc. It seems that a gSri must be ready to fly in the face of a Rood many of the elementary rules of decorum if she is to »ft a husband in these dayu." Take my own «_s»,forLnscance. It la pitiable: I havefive eirls, between eighteen and twenty-sfue, ak fairly- gead-fcoklog, well mannered, nfdderately cle>er, and nnaffected. Are aay of them iasrried $ -Not a bit of it. And why notT The reason is, w© are told, because they havenever been allowed to advertise fa matrimonial journals, or to dine out alone with, eligible gentlemen, tha exasjscipated maiden thinking nothing of euch iaiuga—cor her mother. This ws» written after Miss Gladys Knowles— who, by fchsisy©, £a nO relation to Baar> ASmlral Showiest, see morning paperswon her case and the snug sum ot ten thoocanoV Tho "Mother of Five" will laav*«Jl our sympathies. She is a vletim ot a lamentable* by which twothirds c£ the popalaSiosa £9 composed of ggigfaVtetoalden.' and the e&hev third of iilgible toerii' "" '■- __ - _ ~ t . ;, t' * I :«. 1. 1.-.