Characteristics – Marital status

Marital Status

When a speaker’s marital status and other characteristics are well known they may serve as the basis for some good-natured ribbing. A bachelor or spinster may open a new approach in an introduction, and every club has a “stingy” member who is otherwise a popular person.

Bachelor

Our speaker is a rolling stone that’s gathered no moss; in short, he’s a bachelor. He’s foot-loose and fiancee-free because he either put his mind over matrimony, or else he just never had a bride idea. Some men seek romance, some seek finance; then there are those who won’t work for love NOR money. One “unattached” fellow says he’s had a few flames but hasn’t met his match, and that his life is one undarned thing after another. He thinks a love nest is for the birds.

Spinster

Our speaker is a spinster with an outstanding record for service. Some misses stay maidens because they’d rather darn men than mend socks, but our guest isn’t like that. She’s been so busy lavishing her love on kith and kin that one lone man would be lost in her heart.

Her spinster chum has a different reason: She puts up a brave front about having what it takes-but nobody wants it. She always thought she was right, and now finds herself left. She’s determined that her tombstone shall read: “Who said you can’t take it with you?” One gal in her fading forties apologizes for her single status by admitting that she wanted to marry-but never found the right amount. She’s searching for someone strong and solvent. Poor doll, she has all the answers but is guilty of contempt of courting. Nobody’s going to catch her playing post office with a second-class male. She’s always wanted to be a June bride-but what do you bet she’d settle for the dead of winter? Whatever her reason for single blessedness, you’ll seldom find a spinster who doesn’t make light of her “plight”-nor will you find a better scout about tolerating the mockery that thoughtless folks make of her unwed way.

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