Ten Old Maids and Five of Them Were Wise, and Five of Them Were Foolish

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Excerpt from Ten Old Maids and Five of Them Were Wise, and Five of Them Were Foolish: A Novel I have on my table a slip of paper and I read this on it: "Please send preface to 'Ten Old Maids.'" Now who can truly tell the heart-preface to one old maid? Men who look in the u, e of an unwedded woman are apt to think she walks alone because none of his kind wanted her for a life-mate, but I believe few girls have gone far into their twenties without being asked to marry some masculine creature, I doubt not many die like the pale primroses, because the right one never said, "Wilt thou?" It is a subject of chronic marvel to me to note how men will often pass by the noblest, completest specimens of womanhood, and pick up for their having the silly, inefficient, vapid dolls, who prove to be either "spaniel fools, " or "mule fools, " and trammel and drag downwards their husbands from the altar to the coffin. Perhaps it is that law of life which always provides for the lame and the lazy which so frequently ties the helpless, useless female to the courageous, industrious man. Dr. Johnson says, "Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.