Sidenote: Small Extravagances] The consolations of spinsterhood are mainly negative, but the minus sign has its proper place in the personal equation.
But it is not until spinsterhood is fully confirmed by grey hair and the family Bible that a girl begins to look with favour upon the army of the detached.
The modern woman looks her future squarely in the face and decides according to her best light whether her happiness depends upon spinsterhood or matrimony.
With the long records of the divorce courts before their eyes, it is not very unusual for the younger generation of women nowadays deliberately to choose spinsterhood as their independent lot in life.
The chasm between marriage and spinsterhoodwas as wide as the one between children and pickles.
It's the price of spinsterhood with some women," was all she said.
