The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-10-04
STANFORD LINCOLN KENTUCKY FRIDAY OCTOBER 1872
Married Bachelors.


Men continually mistake their voca-
tion in life, and undertake duties for
which they have mo- natural qualfca-
tion. The impul.iye,arti,t who consid-
ers himself q better man of business than
hi lawyer, and who will therefore man.
age his own ahlirs, comes to grief by the
way, the famous clown who complains
that he is fr.t rate tragednn spoilt, aud
disappears into the provinces to play
Hampt to the natives, as often a. not
breaks down in the ghost-scene, and tails
of into gag that sets the back benches
in n roar; the thick witted squire who
cannot keep a secret to save his life, aud
who never sees farther ahead than today,
think. his Iightiul mission diplomacy,
because he can put his tenant in good hu-
NOR on rent-day by his bluff jokes, and
so undertakes the most delicate bit of so
cial int igue in his neighborhood, with
the result Of universal confusion and a
hastened catastrophe; and the poc., whose
hands are Us white and neryeless as a wo-
mans and whose life is a dream, laments
I that he was not sent to sea at an early
age, because "the clash of elements" de-
lights him, and gives him ideas for a
I brace Of sonnets. II these and other
such square men can be kept from car
rying out their mistake into action, and
prevented from thrusting themselves into
round holes, it is all right-they are
saved from failure and provided with a
grievance, either Of which is an inesti-
mable boon; but if they get the upper
hand of circumstances, and are allowed
to realize their fantasy, then they may
make a mess of their lives which no after
efiorts can repair. One of the mistakes
into which some of them fall is marriage
HON, is a word which has no real mean
ing for them-a place where there i no
charm and as little duty. A wife is
tie, a clog, an incumbrance, or at best a
painful necessity anything but "half'
better or worse, IA helper, or a compan-
ion; and children are locusts that devour
hunters and opcra-stalls, kid gloves and
'little tinners,' at an alarming rate of
progression, and finally grow up into tall
men and women who make the best work
OF tailors and hair dresse.s a patentanach-
roniSm. These men msrried one dav,
becau.e they com nittel the unplr,lona-
bic folly of giving way tn a temp rary
madness they called love, and they recov-
cred by the process or they sold them
selves for so much in the stocks, to find
the bargain when concluded too bitter to
be digested. They are bachelors by nature,
and no legal ties crn make them any
IN ~ else. Their line is essentially sim
gle, and they have no notion of life
a deur They give up no old habits of their
blche or days because of the wife at
home; recognize no new duties because of
their change of state. The utmost con-
ces.ion they make to their condition is to
be seen together in formal society. and
to receive formal company at hoI,e. For
anything closer or more domesticated--
for tt -i-'ete evenings passed with the
wife alone, for pleasant little jaunts to-
gether, renewing the love time and the
honeymoon, for conversation carried on
with grace, with spirit, with desire to
please or to shine where she is the only .
listener, for anything like home joys or
home pride-they have no more vocation
or desire than they have for rocking the
cradle upstairs as the small locusts sue
cessively arrive. ToJoTs perdrir is the .
text on which they found the acted SER
mon OF their lives; and, in their fear of
their getting prematurely tired of their
matrimonial partridge, they are careful
to take her society only in nfnitesim,l
doses, and not To risk the chance of being
cloyed by surfiet. - 7ins'egs Mdgd,iae.