“Don’t Remain

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 26

“Don’t Remain

a Spinster!” Liverpool Lord Mayor’s Advice to English Girls E~TIT^E : 'V“T° < DVICE to the young women emigrants to QajjrHßLsr”) get married was given by Miss Margaret Uf' nScriliu Bea van, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, when she visited the White Star finer Vedic, specially chartered by the Salvation Army, to wish bon voyage to 530 bovs and girls who were going to Australia to work. She said to the young women going out as domestic ser vants: “Domestic service is a noble calling, but I suppose that iu a year or two most Of you will be happily married. Don’t remain an old spinster like I am. It is all right bqing 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, aud 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 loueliness. 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.” Percy Webster, Master of the Clockmakers’ Company in 1927, the da,te being 1600. There are a number of interesting hat ornaments, hairpins, pendants and ear-rings, the last-named having come into frequent use after a long period of neglect. Even Charles 1., it is said, wore an earring on the scaffold.