AN OLD MAID?

Evening Star, Issue 19664, 17 September 1927, Page 9

AN OLD MAID?

Being an old maid i.s a .state of mind and not a chronological fact (writes Dorothy Dix, in ‘Tit-Bits’). There are women who are old maids while still in their teens and others who are etui girls in their eighties. ’I here arc women who are old maids in spite of having had three husbands and half a dozen children, and others who have never. married and yet are not old maids. The old maid of the past was hitter and sour because she was humiliated at being passed over by men in a day when every woman married if she pos*sibiy could. She was a scandal-monger, because she was envious of those she esteemed more fortunate than herself. But Hie unmarried woman of to-day is jolly and cheerful and regards her married sisters more often with pity than with envy. She did not marry because Hie right man did not coma along, or because she preferred her job to a hnsband. And, anyway, she lias found the world so full of a number of things besides husbands that she has been a» happy as a queen. As long as a woman is adaptable and can change her point of view, and doesn’t have to have everything done according to her own particular whim, she isn’t an old maid, no matter if she i.s a hundred and never had even a proposal.