Smyrna times., 1872-07-10
Married Bachelors.

who considers himself a better man of business Il
than his lawyer, and who will therefore manage n
his own affairs, comes to grief by the way; the "
famous clown who complains that he is first s.
rate tragedian spoilt, and disappears into the S
provinces to play Hamlet to the natives, as n
often not breaks down in the ghost scene, h
and tails off into a gag that sets the back t
benches in roar; the thick witted squire who b
caunOt keep a secret to save his life, and who 1
never sees farther ahead than to-day, thinks his
rightful mission diplomacy, because he can put |
his tenants into good hum0r upon rent day by !
his bluff jokes, and so undertake the most deli
cate bit of social intrigue in his neighbOrhOod
with the result of universal confusion and a
fastened catastrophe; and the poet, whose
! hands are as white and nerveless as IA wOman's
! and whose life Is u dream, laments that he was
not sent to sea at an early age. because ''the
clash of elements" delights hun, and gives him
ideas for brace of sOnnets.
If these and other such sqqare men can be
kept from carrying out their mistake into ac-
tion, and prevented from thrusting themselves
into round holes, it is all right-they arc saved
from failure and provided with grievance,
either of which is an inestimable boon but, if |
they get the upper hand of circumstances, and |
are allowed to realize their phantasy, then they |
make mess of their lives which no after efforts |
can repair
One of the mistakes into which some of them |
: fall is marriage. There are men who have no
vocation for marriage. Home is word that
has no real meaning to them-a place where
there is no charm and as little duty. A wife is
tie, a clog, an incumbrance, or at best pain
:, full necessity anything but half better or
= : worse, helper, or a companion; and children
are locusts that devour opera stalls, kid gloves,
: and little dinners, at an alarming rate of
! progression, and finally grow up into tall men
u and women who make the best work of tailors
L.,
le These men married one day, because they had
81 committed the objectionable folly of giving
~ way to temporary madness they called love,
"a and they recovered by the process or they sold
u themselves for so much in the stocks, to find
~ ~ the bargain, when concluded too bitter to be
a. digested. They are bachelors by nature, and
o1 no legal ties can make them anything else.
ef Their line is essentially single, and they have
M Mol no notion of life delLc. They give up no old
.n habits Of their bachelor days because Of the
II wife at home; recognize no new duties because
~ ~ of their change of state. The utmost conces
u" Nv sion they make to their condition is to be seer
~ together in formal society, and to receive for
~ NAL company at home
,d- For anything closer or more domesticated-
icf for tete a, tete evenings passed with the wifi
nj alone for pleasant little iaunts together, re
newing the love-time and the honeymoon, 70
conversation carried on with grace, with spirit
NO with a desire to please or to shine where she
the the only listener, for anything like home JOY
ion or home prde-they have no more vocation G
Iol desire than they have for rocking the cradle u
stairs as the small lOcusts successfully arrive
ver IOujOTS perCtrir is the text on which the
hon found the acted sermon of their lives; and
G. their fear Of getting prematurely tired of the
nd matrimonial partridge, they are careful
take her society only in jnfnitesiEal doses, al
was not to risk the chance of being cloyed by
nee surfeit.
ago, The utmost the partridge can expect, tn,
sive say, is that she on her side shall not be nte
fered with, and that she shall be let to do
ony she likes There are married bachelors W
In are oppressive as well as Deglectful, and wh
That while they break loose on their own pleasure
sys- tie up the wife tight at home, and allow no
and taxation to her in the duties they will not sha
,rest These are bad fellows, if you like; but yo
re to easy tempered bachelor husband who goes
m to his way freely, and lets his wife go hers vi
adj no questions asked and none answered-he
ision in his right, and woman must be tool W
dent finds cause for complaint against him. \
giant cannot expect man to be always at his viii
rther apron string, they say; and, determined Il
mag no such imputatiOn shall rest on them, they
was themselves adrift altogether, so that no
pub. would suspect they had an apron belonging
astle, them anyhow.
&c of If these men undertake nothing, they give
lools, nothing. Bachelor friends, club dinners
It the nuptial relations, they keep to them all; anC
:, can one would know, from manner or act, that
gallant LOtharlo flirting in the corner yOn
'clety has pretty little wife at home with who
q an were she not his wife, he would probably
Baltl- desperately in love. He sees no harm in it.
,ident at least he SAYS so-and maintains with enc
the doctrine that married man has the rigl
intro amuse himself just as much as when he
idress single. 1t is more than probable that his
dence might not like it if she were to it; but
ght takes care that she does not see it, and t
'f the when he is flirting in one corner she is
, and watching him from another Indeed, they
try he together so seldom she has little chance
watching, and for all this part of his life sl
as though she were not. No man is so dan
Gus to woman as the married Lothario.
184l stakes are all on the other side, and if he
d. and nothing he risks and consequently loses
, Bur- thing. lie cannot be brought to book like
Obate, bachelor brother, asked his Intentions
lent of forced to make his choice. He goes about
ch he world duly ticketed, and the women who
iduary with him know the conditions and the
octor 8 sidedness of the game-whch does not pre-
of 81 the little fools from following after their
to sell when they are so inclined and Lothario
), find taken their fancy, and more than his "
Ijority, aprOn-strn tethers him and circumscribe
in the range. Sometimes, indeed, they do not
etired, that he is married ut all-for these men hi
,cently trick Of living out of town, which makes
up to convenient for the wife to visit, or the wi
Bolton, sure to be an invalid, and is declined for
nenced thanks. The consequence of which is tina
of the tharo goes about the world alone; and as
i'll was is not labeled in warning, nor is it eique
irchasc young lady to ask young man if he is 6
n with or married on her first introduction TO
ono of more than one girl has fallen desperate
has at love with the married bachelor, in utter j
BARBOUR ance of the wife sitting alone with her mum
ver- locusts at that dull home of hers This Xxi
mitted. thing seldom troubles him, however; al
half thinks it rather a good joke than othe
when his friends chaff him, and he see
girls evident fascination Conscience is
A rail quality inconveniently developed in mi
bachelors; and the tribe, as tribe, m,