American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-05-04
from Ncah,s Sunday Messenger.I


"a He BACHEL OR'S CLUB.
I've learn that measures are about to be a.
|Eted to revive the Bachelors Club, as it ex-
"a some twenty-five years ago. Most, if not
#rly all the officers and managers having
slmitted matrmony long since, the club has
y measure become extinct. There never
more agreeable association, nor were any
s s got up with more magnifcence than those
Inc old club. The first series of balls were
i at the City Hall, before that splendid sa-
"a, with its numerous mirrors and silken
eperies, were converted into sleeping rooms,
their club driven to Niblo's, where their
S were still more costly and crowded.
! The Bachelors Club, it must be borne in
hid, was not established to perpetuate single
FSsedness; on the contrary, it was intended to
Eng together youth, beauty, taste, and char
Yer, ofboth sexes-to place them in the most
Enning social intercourse, where pleasure,
kety and good manners prevailed; and in a
H years not q manager, director, or even
Timber Of the club was single, and many
Rtches were made up from the agreeable as
Nation of these balls. One exception still
listed, and we believe only one. We called
Esw weeks ago on one of the most active di-
Etors of the old Cuba famous floor mana
Il, as we called him-one who took great de-
Bat in arranging the cotillions, finding part
lis for the company, saying soft and COM
kmentary things to the ladies, and often
bunting four pair of stairs TO his lodgings
e found him with night-cap on, looking as
q had not been washed in Castalian streams
Fl with an old fashioned pair Of specs on the
H of his nose.
t'Why, Max, what the devil are you att"
HI'm sewing a button on my pants!" said he
a low, grufftone
E'Why, have you no woman to do that little
kair for you'"
E'Where should | get one? When joined
bit swindling Bachelors Club, we all swort
Ever to marry. Hang me if there's single
70 left but myself"
E'You are last then of the 'cock'd hats
E'Yes, Pm the last, suppose. On Sunday
met Frank Faithful-he swoie so often thai
d wife should ever give him a curtain lecture
hnd what do you think he was about?"
E"Can't say"
H'He was going to church, with his wife
Hcked under his arm, and three or four littlt
I 8 walking before him, dressed in silk frocks
#pretty sight for bachelor, to be sure!"
'Well, why don't you get quiet, stad
|Aver woman for wife-one who would ment
Hur hose, and darn your night-caps, and rut
Eur back with opedeldoc when you have thu
journalism or umbago1"
H"Pooh, pooh!-nonesense! What's an OLE
Flow like me to do with wife' My OLE
fhck woman makes my bed and my tea.
Ene down town-go to the library to reaC
De papers-play rubber of whist at the Pig
lgRt,o '''''' ~ ''N' '''N 'ND''' - ~ V"
1--WE cast furtive glance around the room
Everything looked wretchedly dilapidated.-
|he dust and feathers had accumulated unde
He bed-rusty old coats and pants were hang
Eig on pegs on the wall-two chairs had los
Heir backs-a tray, on which were the dreg
81 black tea and piece of clamy toast, wer
hing on the table-a bottle on the weoder
Hantlepiece had the remnant Of tallow can
he in 1.-THE embers of fire threw out
Pickering glare from the grate-a cricket wa
Enirping on the hearth, and cock-roach wa
Growing divers somersets in one corner of tn
Bonn. Every thing indicated carelessness, an
Do absence of all that was neat, clean, an
comfortable; and yet Max was accounted rich
md in his time was quite gallant perfec
ieau Nash among the ladies: wore salmon co
bred smalls, silk stockings and pumps, an
kas quite an Adonis at Hewlett's practisin
Ralls, which were then held in the Long Room
E|h William streets opposite Cedar. His tamil
lad all died off, and he was left to die also
%ith no one probably near him but his old ne
Rro wench-living in gloomy solitude, and dy
Ihg "unwept, unhonored, and unsuing," as til
soet has it, and some graceless nephew admir-
|btering TO his will, and squandering the Of
Ibllow's thousands in fast trottng horses on tn
Hvenue or champaign suppers at Tortoni's
"What makes you look so ruddy and hea
[ahy?" said he.
/ "a contented mind, Max, and domestic hal
Isiness."
l "Ah, very likely! Look at me; as the ma
Jays in the play, which half of me is fed2
want all kinds of comfort"
"Then marry, and marry wisely, for at yor