BACHELOR GIRLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

BACHELOR GIRLS.

MIS'S ISABEL'S OPINIONS. “’Bachelor girl is a better title than spinster,” declared Miss Ishbel , MacDonald, the British Prime Ministers daughter, recently, when she presided at the opening of the Bachelor Girls Exhibition in London. “'Women are entitled to be called bachelor girls,” Miss MacDonald said, “rather than to be recorded as failures in the marriage market. There are many different reasons why the bachely or girl has come to the forefront since the - war. One is that people of my generation feel very much that among those whom we honoured on Armistice Day wore a very large proportion of some of the finest men in the country. “It annoys me very much when people say to me: ‘So and so is very attractive and would make a good wife. 1 wonder why it is she does not marry, ‘people don’t seem to realise that so and so, because she is a nice girl and, has common-sense, is not. going to become a good wife of just anyone. The choice that is given has been very much reduced by the war. t For with all due respect to the survivors of the Great War, some of our finest men were lost. That is one of the reasons why there are so many bachelor girls to-day, and it is extraordinary how many people 01 erlook this fact.” , ~ . Another reason, Miss MacDonald added, was that many girls would rather enter one of the professions now open to them rather than settle down to humdrum married life. ‘‘l do not mean that all married life is humdrum,” she explained, “but it may appear so to , some girls compared with a career and a bachelor life of their own.”