Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-14
The Bachelor susiness---Professional
CELIBACY.

lar from having n. monopoly OF profess
ional celibacy. Every day we come
across men in society whom we instinct
lively recognize as hey ond the pale OF
matrimony. 1t is true they have taken
no vows upon them, and it is Just as
well, for they are not at all to be reli.
glously bound by VOWS under extraor-
binary temptations. But they carry a
sort of Cain mark set upon their brows
conspicuous enough to female eyes at
/ ieast--so that no woman shall marry
them. Not that they are unconscious
of the advantages of money, or insen-
sible to the attraction of beauty. With
out something of the former their occu.
patton would be gone, and their lives a
blank; and as for the second, they often
profess themselves its most devoted ad-
mlrers. They are by no means indif-
ferent to their own personal appearance
| Nomadic in their habits as Arabs,
although their forte lies rather in re-
ceiying than offering hospitality, their
wardrobes are necessarily compact and
portable, but they contain no garment
| that is not uneXceptionable in cut and
fit. Their slightly worn gloves alone,
masterpieces of DumOnta and Jouvin fills,
are little fortune to those who claim
them as their prerequisite. They are
generally pretty comfortable in their
circumstances. You seldom hear of
disagreeable eSclandres with their trades
people, or of suspicious paper bearing
their names floating in doubtful quar-
ters. They have lived through race
of folly in which weaker and more un-
lucky men have come to grief long ago,
and their eye to the main chance is
much keener than when they. started in
life many years before. They were
richer then, but since then they have
sown and reaped large crop of wild
oats; they have bought their farming
experience dear, but now that it is pur-
chased and paid for, at least they are
wise enough to profit by it. Like 'UIys-
ses, they have loitered about among
men and lounged through many cities
With all these social attractions they
are admitted trustingly into the pene-
tralia of female society. With much
more of the serpent than the dove in
their composition, they are permitted to
glide among the fairest flowers of Para
disc, for they are supposed to have lost
their fatal fangs. The most austere and
hard-eyed chaperone smooths her front
and disarms her vigilance as she sees
them exchanging affectedly passionate
chances with her pretty charges, or
breathing soft nothings in the very
roses in their hair. 1t is q lesson with |
the foiis, and nothing more-useful |
practice for more serious work. The |
Gentleman admires the graceful out |
lines, the faultless features, of some |
Edith coz de cOg,'e, but it is an object of
art, as if he were before the Venus de |
Medici in the tribute to Florence; nor |
does she quicken her pulse by a single |
beat. On her side the lady never dreams
of him as a possible husband, and would |
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by the patriarch of the Greek Church. |
Charms and compliments glance alike |
from each, as arrows from the plates of
an iron clad, and they separate the best |
friends in the world, but nothing more
Indeed, it could hardly be given to NOR
tai beauty, unaided by enchantment and |
love potions, to effect such conquest |
The professional bachelor is the embodi-
ment of WEAKNESS so highly cultivated |
as to amount to folly. Probably in
early life ne has left in some trap por-
ton of his tail, and since then il has
been the great aim of his existence to
cultivate a character for stoicism which
has been his t'open sesame to the cir
cles in which he moves. But if he makes
a spring and miss it, there would be
nothing left him but to sink out of So
Getty He is becoming SO suspicious
that it is utterly in vain to spread
snare for him; did he fancy any symp-
toms of design to draw him into an
he would be satisfied that,
all appearances to the contrary, it must |
be bad bargain for him. He would see
social birdlime of every twig, and repel |
the advances of an heiress ready 20 |
marry him without a settlement, as the |
crowd declined to buy the sovercigns of /
the gentlemen who was selling them for |
shillings for a wager. Should he by |
be so far left to himself as
to make love in earnest, he would never |
succeed in convincing the lady that he |
was not the victim of apractical joke in
the worst possible taste.
She would never receive the declara-
ton seriously, protests and vows would |
only make her laugh or cry, and despair
and suicide would be attributed to a !
coincidence rather than a broken heart. |
Gentlemen of this sort are quite con-
scious of the tacit understanding that
places them Oh so brotherly footing
with the fair sex. When they affect
to act the love-sick Romeo Ito the
simulated languishing of Juliet, they
are quite aware that it is only bit of
BY play, which must not interrupt the
main action of the piece. When the
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