OLD MAIDS.
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Among the foolish prejudces which dis credit the judgment of mankind, the prej- udics against old maids is one of the most foolish. The very fact that lady is an old maid, is, or ought to be-. creditable.- It is an evidence that she possesses pru- dence, foresight, and a refined taste; ad- mirable qualities in woman! IL is better to be overly prudent, particularly cautious, than not prudent and cautious enough.- The old maid generally has the virtue of prudence in it's perfection ;-she had offers of marriage, no doubt; what lady of thirty and upwards has not? She has rejected several snitors, most likely, and doubtless she has reasons for so doing. It had been well for many welded woman, had she prac,iced the same caution. Much better is it to be happy old maid than msera. bIe wife. So thought the old maid, and thought correctly, when she rejected Messrs. So and So. Perhaps she has iiv- ed 10 see one of her former lovsrs hanged, another in the peniten'iary .samd third in the slms-house. Perhaps one who she was censured for rel"siug has since proved a druukard and vagrant, or, having Suc- ceeded in getting wife, has made her emi- nentlv wretched. All this mischief the old maid may have fOreseen, and by her Pr"- dence escaped it..