8 WOMEN'S INTERESTS WHY I NEVER MARRIED No. 9—The Woman who saw too' many Matrimonial Scarecrows Tells Her Story. Why do so many women who are attractlvo, intelligent, full of human affection and tenderness—the sort of women who were designed by nature to make ideal wives and mothers — sever marry? It It beacuso they were bent on celibacy? Or is It because men were too stupid to know a good thing when they saw it, and so passed them over. Or is it the fault of social conditions that never gave them their matri monial chance It is one of life's great puzzles, and In an attempt to solve it, Dorothy Dix has asked a number of charming old maids why they never married. By DOROTHY DIX "The reason I am an old maid," eaid the ninth woman, "is because of the awful examples of matrimony that I saw all about me. I beheld so many scarecrows fluttering their rags of warning in the domestic fold that I was afraid to enter. "To begin with, in my own home there was nothing to lead one to think of marriage as a desirable, not to say, )a holy estate. Rather It was a per petual scrapping match. My father and mother were both good people, high minded, honorable, even kindly and generous, but they were both nervous, irritable, quick tempered and utterly lacking in self control. "They possessed all the virtues, and none of the amenities of lffe, and it never occurred to either one of them •to use any tact or forbearance in dealing with a mere husband or wife. "Conscious that they were doing their duty to each other, they did mot feel it necessary to be polite, or spare each other's feelings, and the result was that my father used to apeaic to my mother as he would never have dreamed of speaking to any other lady In the world, and that my mother would say vitriolic things to him that must have seared to the "bone. "Yet I think my parents were truly attached to each other. They simply belonged to that large class of people who feel that they have a right to take out on their own the nerves and temper they dare not Inflict on the outside world, and, that the freedom of the home circle Is freedom to lay aside their good manners with their good clothes, and go negligee in conduct as well as dress. A THING TO AVOID. "However that may be, my first impression of matrimony was as a thing to be avoided, and I remem ber as a small child I used to think that if I ever did marry I wouldn't get a husband who was as dis agreeable about the bills as my father was. Then I would wonder why a man would work himself to death to support a woman in lux ury who manifested as little ap preciation of what he did as my mother did of what my father gave her. 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"There was Susie, the daintiest, most delicate, the most flowerltke creature X ever knew in my life. She was one of those girls who are all Idealism and dreams, almost too eth ereal for this sordid old world. Susie married a nice young fellow, but he proved to be one of the kind of men who are simply Incapable of money making. "After she had been married about four years I went to see her, and she was the most dragged out, washed out wraith of a woman you ever saw. with three or four sickly little crying children hanging to her untidy skirts, and her shabby hom* looking as if a Kansas cyclone had passed through It. "And there was Mamie, the gay hearted, the laughing, a perpetual spring of bubbling fun. Mamie married "well." That is, she mar ried a prosperous business man, and has had all the comforts of life, but the hard band of a master that had wrung a fortune out of the women and children that worked in his fac tory was laid with equal heaviness on his wife, and it didn't take long to crush every bit of the sunshine out of Mamie's heart, and wipe the smile off her lips. NEVER A PENNY. "Mamie has charge accounts at all the big stores, but she never has a penny of her own, and laat year when her poor old mother was sick and in need of the absolute neces sities, Mamie borrowed a few dollars of rae. She didn't dare to ask her husband for it for fear of the brutal insults about her "pauper family." as he calls it, that he would hurl at her. "And there's Janie. Janie went into business when she finished school. She had a genius for it, and went up in office by leaps and bounds until she became assis tant to the manager and was earn ing a big salary. She gave up her position to get married to a man who believes that a woman's place is in the. home, and that a wife Is nothing but a servant without wages. "Janie works ten times as hard as she ever did before, and twice as many hours a day cooking, scrubbing, sewing, mending and she hasn't even a cook's wages. "Janie traded off independence and luxury for the life of a domestic slave, and if she doesn't think she made a fool bargain, I misread the look in her eyes. "Of course, I know that not all marriages are failures. I know that the successful marriage is the near est approach to heaven on earth that wo ever get in this world, but I hav® asked myself, 'Who am I that I should be one of the darlings of the gods to be so blessed as to win the capital prize in the great matrimonial lottery.' "And no answer forthcoming. I have simply been afraid to risk my all on one throw of the dice. That's why I am an old maid—Just sheer cowardice to undertake the gTeat ad venture." 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