FOR SPINSTERS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 40, 17 May 1907, Page 2

FOR SPINSTERS.

You have been told so long that your lot is a hard one that one wonders if you will believe when its compensations are pointed out. You have lost some of the joys of life, no doubt, but you have by no means had to without all of them. You have also lost some of the greatest cares and troubles and worries. You can never know what it is to bo a gambler’s wife, or to have a husband who openly grows tired of you. You have no children who turn out badly and break your heart. You can never have to watch the deathbed of your own dying child. You can have an independence of life imd action which no. married woman can ever hope for; and in these days that is a great deal to be congratulated on. Your sphere of usefulness in the world may be far wider than if you had married, for then it would have been limited to the home.

You may be everybody’s friend a>nd confidante for they know you have no husband to tell their secrets to.

You are not an “old maid,” in these days, but a “bachelor-woman” There is a very vast difference between the two terras.

You are a factor iu society. You have as much a place in life as if you. were "Mrs.” and not "Miss.” Resolve to make the world happier for your not having married, and then you cannot fail to be happier yourself.