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able people at first ; but it usually ends that way. The man of little worth 

 and no industry, he who depends upon others, is apt to ba despondent, 

 unhappy and querulous. 



The only class possessing abundant leisure, who have a right to be idle, 

 are the women who are supported by indulgent fathers and husbands, or 

 who are rich in their own right ; and it is to this class that we must look 

 for the maintenance of the elegancies of life. They do much to preserve 

 for us a refined tone of society, if they do nothing else. But we must 

 observe that such women are seldom idle. The richest woman in New York 

 is the busiest woman. She is never happy unless she is at work. She is 

 doing something for every charity helping along young artists, raising 

 the poor gifted daughter of poverty to a higher opportunity, lending her 

 kind hand everywhere. 



Great wealth also brings great responsibilities, and wealthy single 

 women do not often take advantage of their wealth to be idle. It is the 

 very woman or man who ought to work, who is apt to be incorrigibly lazy. 

 Women should be educated to feel that the single life has its duties, 

 pleasures, and rich and ample fulfilment as well as the married. " I have 

 i my sisters so unhappy in their wedded lives that I shall never mar 

 1 one most attractive woman. " I believe nothing is so useful or so 

 happy in the present crowded state of the world as a single life," said 

 another. 



Women in the single life have an enviable opportunity to live out their 

 own individuality, and they find their place in anybody's home if t 



1 and airiveable. But, so long as they are fussy, sentimental, troui 

 about old love affairs, seeking, after the day for such things has passed, to 

 : ed attractive, affected, and coquettish, then the old maid 

 9 the reproach which the vulgar have east upon her. " It require 

 ior woman to be an old maid," said the most delightful old 

 maid who ever lived, Miss Catharine Sr-i 



r one long, la-4, liii^-ring look over all the field which we 

 have swept with our comprehensive broom. 



16, wh'-n-'VtT and whatever it may ! which 



worst of !''!. I'nhappv it nny be, sordid 



it i. it may be, but we do not wish others to -peak ill M 



w of us wish it broken up. although it may be our sa<l s to 



leav< 



an ine! i \\liidi we are willing t" make vast sacri ti < - 1; 



lie education which ha* inllueii'-<-d us powerfully for good or evil. 



