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if any man honoured tur by addressing her. | returned to the living joys of wifehoort, » yesterday was at ones futtered and forvently. Yesterday the thy held that no woman grateful. Ehe took up something of the attituda "who had passed twenty-fire could be, or had any of the man who boasted that the Prince Regent right to aspect to be, the heroine of a love lad gracionaly spoken to him. On further in- atory, in or out of Action. As everyone wrote to that effect, it must have been the reflection y be stated that the Prince hal mid "Get ont of popular theory. The plain heroine or and good as an eligible bachelor shoald tell her of the way, you rascal!". That anyone so great the heroine in her sirth lustrum - was not intated. There was than no appreciation seemed to her an hanour, a perfectly natural he disapproved of the female sex in general expressed in literature of the charm that and polite remark coming from so exxited magnetism that in many women develops he should address her at all and she duly Lum- surpass beauty and survives it, the personal source. She felt what a compliment it was that only with matarity. Though this washed herself to the dash when an Edmund or & ignored, or at least was unexpressed, it was. Mr. Allen condescended to allude to the weather. felt in their own despite by many. Thus we And that in all ages marriages took place that were not in socord with the spirit of the times, and that created a nine days wonder

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terror of what "they" might say, obseseed tha An overwhelming drend of public opinion, * spinster of yesterday. Public opinion is not to the woman who has no respect for it treads a be despised in question of right and wrong, and dangerous path, but the spinator in old times tain notion was really right or wrong, or only metus never once to have asked whether a cor- declared no to be by a conreation. To venture out unescorted appeared to her to be pretty neatly as wicked as an elopement, and one half of the tremors and terrors that lost the an happy lady were caused by a total misconcep- tion of the importance of ber act.

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"If any reader wishes to realise the position the record goes to prore that youth was never claims of parents bediance. While this, no AT Commodious and Beautifully Situated

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dreamt of be the spinster of yesterday. If the To-day multitudinous professions and occupa. tions are open to the poster that were un- modern young woman alvets to make her own way in life, she mests with applause and en- in almost too ready to leave the safe shelter conragement for the most part. Indeed she of her home and plunge into the fray. and by andne consid ration for what Aunt ago she was rushed to the earth by her family, Mary might think, or Uncle James might say, she is now in danger at times of ignoring the

doubt, a natural rebound from a condition of her duty, and

aud kindred on her affection,

lodged round by innumerabls precautions, scarcely dired to call her soal her own, and was Mari-slavery when the spinster of any age

mostly foolish and unnecessary, it in aevertheless the precated. When all is said and done. does more good in the world by being a capable house is a woman's natural sphere, and she housekeeper, au excellent wife, mother and

musician, or novelist not of the very first rank book-binder. or canvasser, or even an artist, though, la it said, one does not necessarily exclude the other.

at the latter, he or she—caunot do better than kent up in souse lumbar room a jak of ancient novels and out-of-data magazines, and pornse them. They will be found to reflect the general in Nicholas Nickieby we hated Miss Fanny When, as a child, we read and delightul Ideas of their time, just as the current litorers as in duty bound. Fanny, with her red ature of to-day reflects more or less accurately carl-, her squint, her had temper, ir joskusy the idens of on time. Nu popular unthoe is, of more favoured mortals, and her odious lore arover was, likely to represent a sympathetic making was an eminently annyinpathetic figure. Moreover, to us, as apparently to Dickens, he an doing anything that would be appeared fossil, an antique, a venomous elderly ion of what was right and proper, so in olding that a young men could care for her. Her skook to generally received contemporary opin-person who made herself sistionions by hug stress, than by being an expert typewriter, or romances the heroine and the type of young maturity was insisted on lu centrset with the woman hold up for detestation will be found Tilda. No soabt she was detes' able and the youth of Nicholas, and of Fanny's preity friend squally instructive in their way.

Squeers family was not sus into which any man immense advantage that a womse when circam- >t the same time it must be looked on as an wonders with a shock of surprise we stances or natural gifts compel to Bight her way discovered that the ancient Miss Byers was a mavexed by a thousand petty Bghts, restrictions recently, it

a we should be allowed to do so unhampered and little over theer and twenty To-day when and annoyances over and above those which spinsters of eight and thirty murry princes, every conscientions worker is ailled on toendure. and widows of over forty are most in demand To-day the claim of the average self-respecting in the matrimonial market. Miss Squears, were spinster to be a reasonable being is universally he living, might take heart of grape, and be allowed. No one thinks that if she be or else who takes

come a shade low spiteful..

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The first thing that striken us is the extreme sensibility ascribed to the heroine of yesterday Ble shed tears on the smallest provocation, Har beautiful eyes were forever bedowed with melsture, and wherever she went the atmos plore must have been damp. The spinster of today does not weep copiously, care that so one knows it. Her pillow is her sole confident, and she has a war of affecting to feel less than she notnally does

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Another contrast between the spinster of Jesavoniant to keep a tired servant sitting up for to use a latchkey, because it is unkind and in- terday and the spinster of to-day lies in their her, that she will straightway plunge into dis relative attitude towards men, whether es sipation, and that the foundations of society The spinster of yesterday was exceedingly deli-fathers, brothers, er possible saiters. Friend will cramble

much to improve both waxes, giving women ship between men and women, which does so breadth of view snd men culture, was wakuown yesterday, though one hundred years earlier it lated saw little of each other in the early days fourished. Men and women who were not ru of the nineteenth century. The sea stili drank deep after dinner, and were seldom in a condition to approach the ladies, who retired early leaving the male members of their faraily and guests to was little chance of meeting. Women ted their potations, and except in the evenings there scinded lives, and the advent of a stratger was an event, if of an unmarried sad eligible stranger, & momentous cession.

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eating a hearty meal, or of taking a ten mile walk would have soade her shudder. She lived on a strawberry, and was overcome by the slightest exertion. A waxen hothonse plant was the heroine with any pretensions to fashion, and her hardy country sistera in real life who admired her immensely, lated their own roxy cheeks and plump igures, sighed to be wan and Illy-like until by vinegar and tight-lacing they brought themselves within an inch of the grave, und so rind their digestion as to linger on. palo. Trentscherked indood, but, alas ! red-nosed into the

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to be disagreeable. It was a point of honour that no heroine should be over sixteen, or, at the entall, seventeen. At twenty she was supposed to have drawn perilously near that period of the sero and yellow leaf" when women, in novels are we longer interesting, a period which modern writers have pushed forward nearly

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hold, often benevolent, sometimes despotie, but The man of yesterday was Tear in his houe always antocratic. He laid down laws which the womenfolk cheyd in trembling, laws which public opinion compelled them to respect even rebellious as to question their justice or wisdom. when in their secret soul they were so wickedly

Yesterday it was the mast natural thing in tinus all her life to obey some one. First she the world that si nourried woman should con-

time did this control relax. When she was was under the control of her parents, and at no forty, slis was still treated as a child. When her parents died she was expected to obey her Finally, if she strvived her immediate, family, brothers one by one in the order of seniority. respect for the fines of things required to submit herself to her oldest nephew. Only when all her male relations became extinct trembling so evident as to invite the attention might she in fear, and trembling, fear and of the first slurper, venture to consult on her even a married sister it became the duty of the own account, a man of buslases, generally ill chosen from lack of experience he had mere spinster to defer to her, as to a creature who had been found worthy, if not to be a man, at least to be a man's wife.

Infallibility of the Pope, every male creature Yesterday, though Englishmen wonted the was a little pope to his female relations, and was free to publish the most extragsons bulls, not merely on questions of faith and morals to which Rome confines itself, bat of taste, and

manners as well.

falls in love with the girl of sixteen to day In or out of novels, no one worth mentioning Truy the factory girl starts a "young, ma before she is in long skirts, but amongst the educated clames extreme youth in at a discount. Whether our grandmothers in their spinster days were more precocious than we, only our grandmothers-and perhaps our grandfathers can tell, and they won't, because they like to kept the flotion that they were perfect and do not care to say anything that might lead to The modern men would not enry the pri awkward questions, Certain it is that at pres. vilege. He finds it hard enough to decide as to ent sitteon may still be "sweet," but is indu- his own faith, sad zorais, and taste, and man- bitably silly What modern man in his senses ers, and though of course it continue easier conde pour, his love, unless it were calf love, into than for oneself, he sees, if dimly at times, that far easier to settle such questions for others the ears of Sweet Sixteen? Sixteen would listen the persons enerned may often be the imat atcomprehendingly. Who could count on her judges of what they ought or ought not to do. to share his joys and sorrows, to understand his le realises that a enrolls, experienced worian diffentiss, to help him in his temptations? In her young spendthrift brother. and that may be as well able to decide for herself, as, mind Sixteen nowadays is almost a child, still probably in the end she will do nothing much undeveloped, fall of the noblest possibilities it more silly than her sister, who has the advan may be, but as yet Ignorant both of the world tage of a man's advice. In fact nowadays the and of her own nature. Probably she imaginex

humanity of women la adimitted. he has sounded the depths of both, but that young ladies of Bath and elsewhere l'atened When in dear Miss Austen we read how the only proves her immaturity.

with bated breath and whisp'ring humbleness", The sole novel of recent years that has young, whom the modem man would be apt to to the dieta of gentlemen whether elderly or attempted to present an ultra juranile heroine characterise as "bores" and "prigs," we know to the public, The School for Saints, with not whether most to adzaire or pity them. The its aequel, Robert Orange, despite its un-

pomposity of their instructors, their doubted eleverness,

was unconvincing for that

conscious superiority appeals to one's sense of very reason. No one could feel that a girl of understand the emotions they seem to have humour, and the pintor of to-day at eventeen would have been a fit mate for excited in the well-guarded and severely food Orange, or that Bridget Perfete, with all her bosom of the spinster of yesterday.

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