The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1854-09-29
Why- . Bachelor ,lonst Waftg,'

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7 nEcrsSrfY read a newspaper philippe
against bachelors, which was 'anytlIing;ibu
just iIndeedvI IFsometirnes think that edi-
tors generally with all, their; supposed smart.
ness, rush into matrimony with the common
crowd Of green horns. Does ANYBODY sup
pose that we bachelors, are SO from choicei
that with malice 7orepenSo we have deyo.
ted ourselves to a life ofsingle unblesseduess 4
No. It's because we cannot find wives to
our minds Lspeak for myself am S2;,
my appearance is as good as my neigh bors;
temper allowed by my landlady and her
daughter to be excellent; habits sober, and
decidedly domestic prospects.sa good busi-
ness, "go9d,""S at any rate, for four thousand
year, and Increasing, with afew, thousand
invested. l want wife. I am wiIlino to
marry as speedily as decentrecard for Con- Con
ventional rules will permit-prosided csn
nnd a proper person consenting to perform
her part OF the ceremony with me-. LIDO not
want doH nor spoiled miss .whose intel-
tees cannot ascend beyond The subject of dry
goods, nor shrewd beauty who even in her
teens, Is schemiugtow an establishment"
wants sensible woman, moderately unsel-
fish, to share my fortunes; one who, in re-
turn for unremitting kindness, will think il,
her duty to make ones home a little com
portable, and condescend, at times to take
an interest event in buttonless shirts--in
short a 'helpmate,n not burden b .,.r, g.,
| Was at one period rather smitten by the
attractions of Mary Jones. She was hand
some and accomplished" i. e., she could
dance, dress, write a bad hand, prattle on
nothing with great volublity, and perform,
upon the piano with some mechanical skill,
put without taste or understanding. In the
hrst stage OF my attack, easily deluded my
self INTO the belief that she was the very
person calculated to make me happy. NV
circumstances at that period were far better
than at present. / proposed, and my propo-
sal was accepted, as were also several costly
presents l felt pleasure in offering my
fance. The day was fixed for our wedding:
but week before its advent, confonnded
fire swept away all / was worth in the
world except a few thousand dollars, Just
spffielent to recommenee life, with. Mary
condoled with me in my misfortune, coolly
broke OFT the engagement, and kindly re-
famed my costly presents-as souvenirs Of
her broken promise, presume. Thought
this was pretty sharp practice in a girl Of
eighteen, and almost thanked the fire escape
that had saved me from immolation on the
altar Of Iymen. She Is eight-and-twenty
now. ller father has failed in business, and
she is still single, although, rs I.learn on the
eve OF marriage with widower of forty,
who has young family of six. children and
precarious business in the cheap clothes
line. | take the opportunity of wishing
them JOY, to show that harbor no i'll feel
ings against the bride. r". ...8aEs,ta. al
! Lucy Smith afterwards exerted all the pref
ty little arts she was mistress of to eusnare
me, and finally succeeded, to certain ex-
tent. found myself growing most assiduous'
in my attentions, and inclining more every
day into the amiable "spooney'5 State of feel
ing; but / soon found that she strove with
equal pains to ensnare every fellow she met
with, even in my presence, and could not
refrain from practicing her strange ocular
experiments on married men. withdrew !;
for though | have no objection to variety as
aspice of life,p LIDO not approve of as a sea-
| soning toaloye or matrimony..o ora. IS nj.
Maria Browns notions of awedded bliss"
| appeared 10 consist in an undisturbed state
ofrocking chairs and new novels, relieved
only with interviews with, miilners. Sophia
abhorTed the idea of housekeeping :; and
| who believe in domestic fhearths, cheerful
firesides, and that kind of obsolete thing, as
associated with married life, could not con-
sent toibe merely q temporary lord of a bed
chamber, even in the most splendid of our
hotels. Emma faneies that'a wife is apet
to be handled, humored, and submitted to-
a lazy thing on which every luxury is
to be lavished, withoutithanks or RETURN, OF
course, shetwon't do Cor a tradesman She
iswell suited; for n doting old gentleman, with
much money and little wit In short, can't
find a lady, fit to be the companion of an
uhpretending business man, land that is the
reason why IL amu tBachelors--iS,mday
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g4THE Scientific American thinks there, is
much neonshine ia the argument that the
wearing ola long beard Is conductive to
health, and says: "Some mensay that Ma
ture gave inan a. beard Tor some purpose. and
it is a ,yiolation,of her laws to denude the
moustache and annihilatc the whisker. But
as females have no boards, ard as Nature
! first tried her prentice hand on man and then
made woman, It may be suggested that the
unbearded type is tho most perfect, and that
the moustache is butla useless and unorna-
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