“Don’t Remain a Spinster!”

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 13

“Don’t Remain a Spinster!”

Liverpool Lord Mayor’s Advice to English Girls . gmp DVICE to tlie young women emigrants to get marrie d was given ■ by Miss Margaret Wf-lff-lpT Beavan, Lord Mayor of Jy/SSIB/fTO. .Liverpool, when she visited the White Star finer Vedic, specially chartered by the Salvation Army, to wish bon voyage to 530 boys and girls who were going to Australia to work. She said to the young women going out as domestic servants: “Domestic service is a noble calling, but I suppose that in a year or two most of you will be happily married. Don’t remain an old spinster like I am. It is aill right being a spinster when you are young, but when you are getting on in years you want a man to look after you.” Miss Beavan has devoted herself throughout a busy public life mainly to the welfare of children, and is known as “Liverpool’s Little Mother.”

Since uttering those remarks Miss Beavan has been deluged with proposals from all parts of the Kingdom. In all the letters there is a note of sympathy expressed with the Lord Mayor in her supposed loneliness. Miss Beavan has been moved to reply. “I shall never marry,”, she says. “I have enjoyed my freedom too long, Men are just good pals.”