“Take this from Uncle Fuller: ‘Don’t worry if you don’t marry, there are
worse things in the world than being an old maid, and one of them is
marrying the wrong man. Love is the divinest gift of God to man and woman.
Some of the noblest women in the world have been old maids; they are not
old maids, simply ladies-in-waiting, but I tell you girls I would rather
be an old maid, with dogs, cats, furniture and bric-a-brac than to be
yoked to a profane, cigaret smoking, cursing, whisky-soaked, jug-handle
for a husband.’”