The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-24
BACHELORS Wives and Old Maids Children.

Bachelors Wives and Old Maids Children.
The old bachelor looks critically on mems
wives. He takes an investigating interest in
them. But he does SO in critical and an
analytical sort of way, which the husbands
did not practice in the first instance, and
which they would hardly like to have fully
explained to them now. But the bachelor is
nothing if not critical. He detects the tinge
of red or gray, the inequalities of curve or
line, and sees clearly through all the mys-
teries and artifces of the toilet. He has got
an exhaustive sneer:-"The poor fellow has
married for love-" 81 v Jove, sir! look at that
woman's waspish wal IT, Where can she have
crammed her viscera P-or suchblike personal
observation. Whatever jewel a man may
think he has found, the connoisseur bachelor
will hold that he can find flaw in it. Some
times he will do this quite cynically. Other
men will do it just as often, though not cypi-
cally. The object of such criticisms is very
often some mere self f-glorifcation. If he
the bachelor-had married, no one would
have been able to criticize Cesar's wife. He
would not have missed fortune, as one friend
has done; or beauty, as a seconds or family,
as third His wife would have far tran
scended the commonplace wives of average
men. She would be everything that a woman
ought to be. In short, the bachelors wife is
always perfection in the abstract.
bachelor mainly run upon his loves; but that
of the old maid upon young children. That
mighty instinct of maternity is evermore
| busy in her heart. Cats and parrots are only
an excuse for babies. Had it pleased God to
| bless her with them, how she would have
cared for the little loves No children would
be better, or better cared for than hers.
When she goes into other houses, she does
not, indeed, think unkindy of children, for
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help drawing some disparaging comments
between the children that she meets, and
those non-existent, possible children that
phenomena. H @ Other children would
have been untidy; but hers would have
been the pink of neatness. Other children
are not perfectly well behaved, have little
tempers, betray more of the human than of
the angelic nature; but hers would be nothing
of this kind. They would be good, like Miss
Edgeworth's children talk science like the
children in Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, recol-
lect all their dates, be distinguished from
early days for the utmost prepriety, never cry
out loud, never tumble off chairs or down
stairs, never show rents, stains of jam, hooks
or eyes spoilt, or tell tibs, or steal the sugar
out of the sugar-basin. What little cherubs
such children must be! They must surely
feel their wings growing, and be ready for 8
flight from this lower earth. London Society
Five hundred and twenty-five thousand si1
hundred railroad trains leave London in tn,
course of year.
When Rossel was captured by the police hi
dress and makeup was that of an old man will
white hair. He made no resistance, but allowed
himself to be handcuffed
The Turkish Admiralty, in an official report
announced to the Sultan, on May 81, that
parcel of thousand Winchester rifles, orderet
in America, had arrived in COnstantinople. =,
Baron Prokesch. the Austrian Minister a
ConstantiDople. gave on May 81, dplomati
dinner in honor of Mgr. Franchi, the Papa
Legate, at which the Grand Vizier, Ali Pacha
and the Spanish, Portuguese, and the Belgian
Ministers were present
Rev. Mr.. Lamson, rector of the American
Episcopal Church in the Rue Bayard, Paris, ha
announced that the church Is open for divin
service as heretofore. The services had bee
suspended for a short time during the recen
bombardment when the building was With
! reach of the Shells