Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-03-03
OLD BACHELORS.

OLD BACHELORS.
Your regular fussy, grabbed, con-
6rmed old bach, is one of the meancst
specimens of respectable humanity. He
has always been too COMPOUNDED mean
to got married; too economical, too par
~ticular, too disagreeablc, too something;
or he would have committed matrimony
long ago. Selishuess is his predomi-
mating trait, consequently m~oney-mak-
ing is the principal joy Of his life.
Nothing ever goes right with him +; and
investments or s%peculatious which would
yield anybody else rich returns, arc
never particularly fortunate with him.
He is fault-fuding, unsociable, dyspep-
tic, rheumatic, q nuisance, q useless
stick, in society, and has no friends.
A better class Of old bach is the
precise, plain, polite, peculiar person,
evidently afflicted with a chronic bash
full uueasiness, whose ever apparent
co~ustraint is always causing you to i'm
agine that he wears a constitutional
straightjacket. HIS clothes may be a
little seedy, perhaps, but they are inva-
riably neat and clean, and always prop
erly mended and no buttons missing,
for he sees to them himself. He is afa-
bic, courteous and attentive to the fair
sex, and makes q very convenient beau,
but somehow he is never ready TO get
married., or has not the assurance to at
tempt it. He may have serious inten-
lions sometimes, but his courage always
fails him before he gets worked up to
tho sticking point. He is quite useful
in his way, but is not liable to ever get
married, unless it may be during " leap
year."
The best style of old bach is the
~jovial, good-tempered, well-prcscrved'
hale, hearty fellow, whose only reason
for not getting married is simply be-
cause he hasn't happened to. He has
always been willing enough, and has
come within an ace Of it several times,
but somehow failed to connect. He
may have been refused, or perhaps his
sweetheart died, or other d%isappoint-
ments supervened ; it is not his fault
that he is not married. He is ready and
willing to accept, even now, Of the most
eligible opportunity to become an exem-
plary husband, and the father Of q nu-
merous family. Perhaps, however, he
don't care q continental whether he ever
marries or not. He is getting along all
right the world uses him we'll, and SO
do the ladies he is happy aud con-
TENT" like one of Swimley's boarders-
things generally go satisfactory enough
with him, and he has plenty of friends.
The God of Nature neve intended
men and women to live single they
we're made for each other. Verify, ait
is not good for man to be a%lone," and
it is better to marry than to burn"
DR.. Hammond in his Psychological Jour
nal presents an abundance Of statistical
proof that celibacy in either male or
female is much moro conducive than
married life to the production of iusau-
ity, suicide, and crime in general. He
says however, that !" individuals who
have an important object in life to at
tain, are more SURF Of success when sin
gle than when diverted from their point
by the cares Of a family. That which
would be o consolation to Others would
be simply an incumbrance to them. It
would stand in their way, divide their
attention, and thus draw them of from
the goal they have in view. Celibacy
undoubtedly increases tho individual
and collective power of some men. It
is for this reason that the church insti-
tuted it among the clergy and still main
tains it as q principle of her discipline.
But for celibacy to attain oil its ends,
in these respects, it must be voluntary
aud based on chastity. If there is sim
ply confluence and a ceaseless warning
of the soul against the flesh, as in the
cases Of St. Anthony, origonand others
of the fathers, the example loses much
of its effect, and for the subject himself,
there can only be a vexation of spirit"
NJ. - Latham niuna. thu fol.