Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014I Tim. 4:3<\/i><\/p>\n
5732<\/b> U.S. Singles Statistics<\/b><\/p>\n
Americans living alone or with unmarried roommates now make up 1 out of 3 households in the U.S. The \u201csingles\u201d lifestyle is a new trend that is affecting every aspect of society. Unwed couples living together and divorcees are in this group. <\/p>\n
In San Francisco, one-half of the residents above age 17 are single. Nearly 3\/4 of the people of Carl Sandburgh Village, a suburb of Chicago, are unmarried. <\/p>\n
5733<\/b> \u201cN.O.N.\u201d Organization<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cNone is fun.\u201d That is the slogan of the National Organization for Non-Parents (NON), an association formed to promote \u201cchild-free\u201d marriages and make non-parenthood \u201cnot just a word but an option.\u201d All of the members, even the parents among them, are committed to childlessness. <\/p>\n
To help establish childlessness as an institution, NON has decreed two new holidays, Non-Mother\u2019s Day and Non-Father\u2019s Day. On these days, favorite non-parents are to be honored with flowers and cigars. The organization has begun to publish a rather juvenile newsletter, NonSense<\/i>, which, for example, charged that an issue of Pageant<\/i> \u201cexceeded the bounds of all decency in extolling the virtues of motherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
NON does not advocate that everyone be childless. It recommends a maximum of one child for couples who really want youngsters, and no babies at all before age 21. <\/p>\n
5734<\/b> Church For Singles<\/b><\/p>\n
The first Singles Church, founded by Princeton Seminary graduate Richard Chen and seventeen others in Orange County, California, has a congregation of divorced, widowed, and not-yet-marrieds numbering in the hundreds. Chen (who is divorced and has four children to care for) and his flock meet in rented quarters for worship and Bible study. <\/p>\n
5735<\/b> When Is She A Spinster? <\/b><\/p>\n
At what age is a single woman considered a spinster? <\/p>\n
A woman who has passed her thirty-first birthday may be considered a spinster in our country, since the chances are against her eventual marriage after that age. As a matter of fact, most women in the United States who marry do so relatively young. In consequence, less than one-tenth of our women have not been married by their thirty-second birthdays. <\/p>\n
5736<\/b> When Is He A Bachelor? <\/b><\/p>\n
At what age is a single man considered a bachelor? <\/p>\n
Although there is no definite age which determines when a single man becomes a confirmed bachelor, for practical purposes it may be set at about 35 years. Beginning with age 18, young men marry in increasing numbers, the marriage rate rising rapidly with each year. By age 30 about one-eighth. While men continue to marry in later life, fewer than half of the single men who have passed age 35 eventually do so. For this reason, single men who have passed their thirty-fifth birthdays may be considered as confirmed bachelors. <\/p>\n
5737<\/b> Childless Authors Write For Children<\/b><\/p>\n
A sound Ph.D. dissertation could be written on the curious phenomenon of children\u2019s literature written by childless authors. From Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll to Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, the phenomenon persists. The incidence is too high to be coincidental. Perhaps the writers substitute audience for family. Perhaps, like Beatrix Potter, they seem more comfortable in the domain of childhood, where fantasy is the norm and reality the intruder. <\/p>\n
Born into the stifling world of Victoriana, little Beatrix lived in a universe of iron structure. There were bars on her bedroom windows; a grim governess ordered her life. She was denied dolls\u2014but she was allowed to have a pet rabbit. It was that little rodent that formed the foundation for her career. Little Beatrix observed him well and immortalized him as Peter Rabbit<\/i>. Her fresh pastel drawings and brief, energetic tales\u2014of birds, foxes, fish and mice\u2014caught the fancy of children throughout the Western world. By her death in 1943, Beatrix Potter was second to only one lady author of children\u2019s literature: Mother Goose. <\/p>\n
\u2014Time<\/i><\/p>\n
5738<\/b> A Man Never Saw A Woman<\/b><\/p>\n
Probably the only man in history who never saw a woman was Mihailo Tolotos, a monk who died in 1938 at the age of 82 in one of the monasteries atop Mount Athos, Greece. As his mother passed away when he was born, Mihailo was taken to Athos the next day and never once, throughout his life, left this monastic colony which has excluded all females, animals as well as humans, for more than 900 years. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
5739<\/b> Famous Bachelors<\/b><\/p>\n
Among famous bachelors was Horace Walpole, who satirized women for more than half-a-century (although it is said he fell in love during his later years but could not find courage to ask the burning question). Beethoven was also a bachelor, while Hans Anderson, Voltaire, Macaular and Michelangelo had their own reasons for remaining single. <\/p>\n
There were others, too, who would have married, but circumstances would not allow them. Charles Lamb never married because of an ailing sister, while Pope was too much devoted to his mother. <\/p>\n
Obesity was the reason why Gibbon remained a bachelor; so fat was he that on one occasion when he fell down on his knees to propose, he could not rise and had to be helped up by two attendants. <\/p>\n
5740<\/b> Will Says \u201cNo Make-Up\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Leyland, England (AP)\u2014Amelia Whaite, a Lancashire woman who stands to inherit more than 400,000 dollars if she avoids men and make-up for five years, says she\u2019s having no trouble obeying the strict rules imposed by her dead boss. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t made any difference to my way of life,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Miss Whaite, 47, learned of her good fortune when the will of wealthy dentist Philip Grundy was published. Grundy left 436,400 dollars to Miss Whaite, who had worked for him as a nurse- receptionist for more than 30 years. <\/p>\n
But certain inflexible conditions were specified by the dentist, a bachelor who died at the age of 69. <\/p>\n
His will insisted that Amelia must \u201cnever use any lipstick or make-up of any kind whatsoever\u2014apart from clear nail polish\u2014and wear no jewelry such as rings, earrings or necklaces, and never go out with any man on her own, or with a party of men, during the next five years.\u201d<\/p>\n
5741<\/b> Japan\u2019s Nurses Complain<\/b><\/p>\n
Tokyo (UPI)\u2014More than 80 percent of Japan\u2019s registered nurses and nurse trainees are not married, and blame it on the fact they have to work at night, the Japan Nursing Association said. <\/p>\n
The association published the results of a survey of its 142,863 members, and said the current shortage of trained nurses in Japan dooms women who stay in the profession to overwork. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe nursing shortage not only makes the nurse\u2019s life wretched,\u201d said Miss Kobayashi, president of the association, \u201cbut it also downgrades the overall level of medicine in Japan, inescapably causing serious cases of medical blundering.\u201d<\/p>\n
5742<\/b> Hanging Preferred Over Marriage<\/b><\/p>\n
Jean Poqueron of Hautvilliers, France, sentenced to death as a habitual thief, was told that he would be released if a pure maiden was willing to marry him. A homely, orphan girl stepped forward willingly. <\/p>\n
But Poqueron took one look at her, shook his head and said: \u201cNo! I\u2019d rather marry the gallows\u2014Hangman, do your duty.\u201d He was hanged forthwith, in the city of Reims, in 1234. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
5743<\/b> Aunt Emma\u2019s Prayers<\/b><\/p>\n
A little girl was caught listening at the keyhole while her spinster aunt was saying her prayers. Her mother told her it was wrong to eavesdrop. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut, Mommy,\u201d the child said, \u201cAunt Emma ended her prayer so funny.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she say?\u201d asked mother. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell, when she finished praying she said, \u201cWorld without men, ah me.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Speaker\u2019s Sourcebook<\/i><\/p>\n
5744<\/b> Not \u201cMissing\u201d Men<\/b><\/p>\n
A brief clause in the will of Harriet Hartbyrne, who died a spinster at age 87: \u201cI don\u2019t want anybody to put \u201cMiss\u201d on my tombstone\u2014I haven\u2019t missed as much as some people may think!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014The Carpenter<\/i><\/p>\n
5745<\/b> Look And No Leap<\/b><\/p>\n
Says Mr. Justice McCardie of the British High Court (himself a bachelor), \u201cA bachelor is a man who looks before he leaps\u2014and, having looked he does not leap.\u201d<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Marriages ; Luke 23:29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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