OLD MAIDS.
PREFERABLE TO BACHELORS. LADY ASTOR’S OPINION. Old maids are preferable to old bachelors, Lady Astor insisted* - after some cryptical observation on both at the final session of the Social Insuranoe Conference, convened by the League of Nations Union at the London School of Economics. “All should share in the question of families, though I do not say that I want to get at the bachelor,” she declared, amidst laughter. “I think that he is the most helpful creature that ever was. He is the one thing that makes matrimony possible. If you look at a bachelor you get a little more reconciled to your own husband. “I cannot say the same about old maids. They carry on the work of the world, whereas bachelors get crotchety and narrower as they get older. Old maids expand; old bachelors contract. Old maiden ladies, if they are interested in the world, seem to get more beautiful as they get older; and the man (poor lonely animal), the older he gets the lonelier he gets.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 March 1926, Page 8
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173OLD MAIDS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 March 1926, Page 8
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