THE PUTLEE OF SINGLK WOMEN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XX, Issue 107, 9 May 1884, Page 3

THE PUTLEE OF SINGLK WOMEN.

The mental life of a single woman is free and untrammelled by any limits except such as are to her own advantage. Her difficulties m the way of development are only such as are common to all human beings. J Her physicial life is healthy and aCi!'.'?; slw her buoyancy 1 and increases her nervous p'otfef if i she knows how to take care of herself, and this lesson she is rapidly learning. The unmarried woman of to-day is ft new, sturdy, and i vigorous type. We find her neither tile exalted ascetic nor the nerveiless, inactive creature of former days. She is intellectually, trained and socially successful; her physi:4uß is a's sound and vigorous as her mind. The world is bfe'fo're her m a freer, truer, and better sense than it is before any individual male or ' female. Her tastes are various and refined, her opportunities for cultivating them practically unlimited. Whether it be m the direction of : sooiety, or art, or travel, or philanthropy, or public duty, or acorn- : biriatldii of rriany of these, there is nothing to let or hinder her from following her own will ; there are no bonds but such as hear no yoke ; no restrictions butthose of her own conscience and;., right, principle. She feels that it is m no sense her duty r since it is' not hef ehoiaej to devotß herself to securing the happiness of some one individual, nor to add to our. difficulties of over-popu-lation. From her stronghold of happiness, and freedom she can help the weak an' 4 protect the ■', poor. She is fitted to 'fill a place which has always stood empty m the history of the world, that of a loving and tender woman armed with official power to tedreda the wrengs of women and children, to stand as I their- representative befoie the : nation, the creator of their rights and the shield of their weakness. Those whose nature and necessities are known only to her, and to her ; only because she is a woman, have found m her a guardian, an advocate, and a friend. While losing ! none of the fun and frolic and gaiety '■ of life, she ia called by a deep re> ligious conviction to stand faoe toface and hand m hand with suffering. It- is her holy mission to grapple with some of the most i painful problems of modern civilisation. — Westminister Beview.