The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-18
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ThsPerils sf celibscy.
Tho London Reriev, commenting on
DIR. ssark's statements..that "the death
rate among bachelors is double what it
is among married men between the ages
Of twenty and thirty; between thirty
and thirty-fve IL remains at nearly the
same proportion; while on the whole
taking married and single life in the
lump, husbands live twenty years long
or than minated gentlemen" says tnat
another grace is bestowed on the SEX
They are more than ever our preservers.
We can love them now as We do our
selves. Hygiene shakes hands with
Hymen. But what ifDr. Stark's figures
hear o different Interpretation! Sup
pose we regard the hecatomb Of bache-
lors as an offering upon the shrine OF
blighted affection! Young men are
Tilted, and die of it. Their more fortu-
nate friends bask in the heat Of the do
nestle hearth, while poor "Tonrs a.
cold" tom, all alone" shiyering IN
the dreary world without, until he is
carted off under the direction OF an
economical Metropolis Company. Dr.
Stark puts matter, in way that there
is no shrinking. He does not say whom
or what you are to marry, but widow or
maid You must engage with, if your ca
reer is not to be cut down to half its le-
Ultimate extent. The reason of the
wonderful difference is certainly not on
the surface. Bachelors are not invaria-
bly, rakes; and modern bachelor, well
schooled in the modes of pleasure,
knows how to enjoy them with as little
detriment to health as possible. 1t is
said that man with asthma survives
that complaint for an intolerable period,
but we refrain from assOciating his pow
ers of endurance with those ola father
of family. A bachelor should have
few cares even if he keeps late hours.
Then we have heard of "old" bachelors;
is the race threatened with extinction
The more we look at DR.. Starks sums
the more they puzzle us. His bachelors
for we are tempted to believe that he
is in measure the proprietor Of the lot
no makes an example of-must be an
entirely different set from those we are
accustomed to meet What kills themi
And when we have asked that question
we should like to know why they APP
parently prefer sudden death to linger-
ing matrimony. ~ -Jyt...T
DIR. Stark, with u grim eSactness,
holds out this warning scroll of NOR
tality, which we have no doubt will be
made text-sheet by mothers with mar
riageable daughters. 1t comes oppor-
tunely at the commencement OF the
season. Can meerchaum or the cigars
of Havana be the cause of the mischief
Would latch-key unlock the mystery
Do bachelors pine ut lonely moments in
chambers and lodgings, and then ex'
pire of broken hearts! DIR. Stark
should have informed US of the number
of young ladies who live and die unwon.
He should have set one column of
against the other. We are curious ON
this point, or rather curious as to the
manner in which DR.. Stark would make
it, for our own Registrar General has
neyer produced the startling effects of
the Scotch statistician, although he has
cast up very similar accounts.
In Scotland, DR.. Stark's native
ground, there is bold indecision on
the subject of marriage which period
ieally affects the returns of births. But
Scotland is very pious country, and
the good people do not mind tritles as
long as they observe the Sabbath and
keep music out of the churches. We
trust, however, that the fatal influence
of celibacy, as shown by DIR. Stark, will
have an effect upon those incidental
moralities which do not include the
crime of whis Ting in the streets on
Sundays. If DR.. Stark is right, bach
elors should literally marry in haste in
the teeth of the rest of the saw. If DIR.
Stark is wrong, they do not lose much
after all in taking the course suggested
by his calculations.