{"id":7029,"date":"2021-04-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2021-04-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:00:00","slug":"reflections-of-a-bachelor-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/reflections-of-a-bachelor-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84026749\/1913-04-05\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\"><em>The Washington Times, April 5, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n To wed or not to wed, that is the question.\n Whether \u2019tis better, after all, to marry\n And be cajoled and bullied by a husband,\n Or to take up stenography or clerking,\n And slave, alas! for SOME ONE ELSE\u2019S husband?\n To love\u2014to wed\u2014and by a wedding end\n The struggles and the thousand petty cares\n That \u201cslaves\u201d are heir to\u2014\u2019tis a rare vocation\n Devoutly to be wished for! To love\u2014to wed\u2014\n To wed\u2014perchance DIVORCE! Aye, there\u2019s the rub!\n For in that dream of bliss what jolts may come\n When we have cast aside our little jobs,\n Must make us wary. There\u2019s the sorry thought\n That makes so many spinsters hesitate;\n For who would bear the long, eternal grind,\n Th\u2019 employer\u2019s jokes, the chief clerk\u2019s contumely,\n The insolence of office boys, the smoke\n Of last week\u2019s stogies clinging to the hair,\n When she herself might quickly end it all\n By GETTING MARRIED? Who would not exchange\n A dingy office for a kitchenette\u2014\n A keyboard for a cook stove or a cradle\u2014\n But that the dread of something worse to come\n After the honeymoon\u2014that life of CHANCE\n From whose dark bourne so many have returned\n By way of Reno\u2014fills us with dismay,\n And makes us rather bear the jobs we have\n Than fly to evils that we know not of?\n Thus cowardice makes spinsters of\u2014so many!<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> To wed or not to wed, that is the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-washington-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}