Daily Kennebec Journal

Women Who Won't Marry.

A Pittsburg woman, in the Despatch of that city, bluntly and somewhat audaciously says:

Men marry the rattle-brains of society. They choose the pretty, good-for-nothing girls, for that is the kind they like; they run after and marry the liveliest girl at a picnic or a ball, though she may be a "holy terror" at home; they rush after the belle and the heiress, though she may be selfish, spoiled and silly; they pass by the jewels and take "the snide," for that is all they know, and then, like Adam, they blame the fruits of their own folly on the woman. 'Twas ever thus.

But brethren—we wish to break it to you gently—there are women right here at home, who have their own money to spend as they please; who have their own pleasant homes and congenial occupations; who can, if the fancy seizes them pack their trunks and take a jaunt to New Orleans, slip off to Washington for a few weeks, take in the cream of New York, or the balmy airs of Florida; in short, have a royal time in any way they choose, who call no man master, and who wouldn't marry the best man that ever stepped in shoe leather."

This will be a shock to you, beloved brethren, but it is none the less true. Women find pleasure and comfort and happiness outside of matrimony. It is not flattering to men, but there is a growing disinclination to marriage among women. They are growing more critical as to the measure of a man. He will have to come up to a noble, higher standard, or, in the poetical parlance of the day, he will get "left."