“DON’T REMAIN A SPINSTER!”
LIVERPOOL LORD MAYOR’S ADVICE TO ENGLISH GIRLS Advice tn the young women emigrants to get married was given by Mies Margaret Beavan, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, when she visited the While .Star liner Vedic, specially chartered by the Salvation Army, to wish bon voyage tn 530 boys and girls who were going In Australia to work. Sbe said to (he 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 bo happily married. Don’t remain an old spinster like I am. It is all right being a spinster when yon arc 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 Mbs 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 rep'y- ~ , “ I shall never marry, sue says, “ T have enjoyed my freedom too Jong. Men are just good pals.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 16
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212“DON’T REMAIN A SPINSTER!” Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 16
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