The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1857-08-21
a Picture of Bachelor Life.

At class-meeting at the recent Com.
mcnccmcnt Of Yale College, Mr.. James c..
Rice, of New York, responded to the toast,
"Thc wives present and future Of the Glass, :"
in very humorous style. The following
extract from his remarks will he read with
interest by sufferers
What is more miserable, Mr.. Chairman,
and appeal to you, Sir, as one who is
still in the "bonds of iniquity and the gall
Of bitterness" than the life of a self-sacrifi.
cling, perscvcring, libcralIy educated bach
elor Tell me, sir, of the miseries and
sufferings Of the various conditions and for
tunes of life tell me how the so ldier leaves
his happy home and dies unshroudcd in
some foreign land how the sailor, who has
wreathcd hundred storms, at length finds
a watery grave how the weary traveller
sinks exhausted on Sahara's sands or in
Alpine SHOWS; but, O y'. rood fatcs, who
preside over the dcstinin =. men, Clotlo.
Lachcsis and Attrop' I'd ye, o beauti-
full Graces, Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia,
and We, also, bright goldesses, Venus, Juno
and Minerva, have, have mercy upon us
and deliver US from the life, the death,
and tile expectations of bachelor
lbeg, Of yon. my fellow classmates, to
leave the table fora few moments, and
accompany me to the @er;sting placer Of
bachelor. You behold here no tasty
garden with rich Yariegated flowers, no
love bowers clad with woodJine and ivy,
no Ineandering wallis fringed with rose
edges, no wife TO entertain you with the
kind words Of welcome, no children to
climb up and pratte onyour knee, and no
bird to punctuate the too lively talk with
song, but rather on all sides the wretchcd.
ness of single blesseduess." Go with me
to this room. Oh, "confusion worse con-
founded" Pelions Of unified newspapers,
piled upon cases Of unarranged books, mag
azines and manuscripts lost like the unfound
books of Livy in the dust of ages. Cast
your eyes on the mantlepiece, and ls
yourself in incxplicaLle confusion see his
chairs tottering OH their last legs, as II too
weak TO stand up by or for themselves
feel Of his hard bed, from which eacI, morn
ing lie rises mapped all over into checker
board by the impressions Of tile cord
through tile uneveniy spread mattress. Go
with me to this bureau hero are twelve
shirts which look rs il they would like to
get free and shift for themselves there is
not bosom among them but aLat opens to
you its troubles, not wrist stband well enough
ever to go out into the world with it's bro.
ken constitution-not a. collar so aristo-
cratic but that itsseems entirely broken
deHhshy its long standing adveaisiea. Du,
look on the bachelor himself. See his per
forated stockings holding up his heels te
r'dicule-his torn slippers disinberiti6g and
tuEning out Of doors Ills toes--his panta.
looms srying,to get up meeting on nc
count OF their rents and to be of before de-
Why, Sir yon may tell me Of terma
gsnt wives more fretful than the xantipp,
oiSoctatea--d curtain lec4ufipa ssDd can
dloizing Wheos yeaSy, tI.ss ierd saisd Ite,i
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