The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1874-06-26
What a Bachelor Has 10 Say
About ID.

MAJ. WALL: Although am awar
that the Fireside page of you
valuable paper is set aside for the bene
fit of lady contributors, feel sufficient
y arrogant and presumptuous Gas
am bachelor, and what am goinl
to say pertains to that essential, ant
absolutely indispensable portion 0
mankind-the women) to offer to in
trude upon its columns, provided i
meets your cordial appreciation.
1t is inexpressiby refreshing to 9
bachelor, who has SO far passed the
meridian of life as to have the sarcas
tic epithet "old" applied to him, tc
stand aloof in his forlorn and dilapidat
ed condition, and hear, with feelings
of the most gratifying self complacen.
cy, the war Of words going on between
the "Fair' to-wit: Miss Tabiiha
Charity Brown and the Girl of the
Period: "When Greek meets Greek,
then comes the tug of war.
Notwithstanding | am a bachelor, /
must confess that have not been i'm
permeable to the darts of Cupid, bear.
ing as | do in my bosom, the scars of
many well fought battle, with the
little "god of love" and l still feel
that | am susceptible of his presence
at times; that my heart is not yet
"seared over as with hot iron" and
thatI yield unconsciously to the happy,
and benign influence of women, and
consequently, feel deep solicitude for
their welfare, prosperity and happi-
ness.
At other times | feel as though, in
my meditations, | were standing upon
an inaccessible height; for, having
passed through the fiery ordeal; hav-
ing been cuffed about by the so-called,
or rather mis-called "softer sex" hav-
ing experienced much Of the world;
having had all those high hopes, and
brilliant anticipations, which were the
creations Of an animated youthful i'm
agination, crushed, blasted, obliterated,
annihilated by disappointment; having
seen my loftiest air castles topple and
fall TO the ground and having realiz.
ed, to considerable extent, the truth
of the sentiment of the poet that
This world is all delusive show,
For mans illusion given"
| am almost ready to sit down in dis
pair, and yield implicit obedience to
the fiat Of fate.
| am nevertheless sometimes made
to rejoice, that / live in the full, free
and untramelled enjoyment of all the
prerogatives Of bachelor, unfettered
by the tyranny and oppression Of tickle
fashion. Now this brings us back to
Miss Tabitha Charity Brown and The
Girl Of the Period. / am anticipating
quite a spicy intellectual feast, before
your fair contributors close this contro-
versy. 1t may be wicked in me, but {
to confess the truth, it is source of ,
no ordinary feelings of qualification to {
me, for the women to fall out, that is, s
in a friendly way, and expose each
others frailties and imperfections, short ,
comlngs and mls-dolngs.
/ hold that bachelor, who is almost s
invariably the acknowledged butt of f
society, an object of derision, con- G
5umely and reproach; and upon whom s
udicrous remarks and sarcastic epithets
ire heaped by the community in which /
ne resides, and sometimes justly too, s
when he is one from choice, i
out when otherwise, has an inalienable Q
light to pick crumbs of comfort, and a
consolation from any source whatever, t
wen at the expense Of the opposite y
lex, by whom he has been reprobated. Q
Although it is matter Of perfect e
Indifference with me as to how the s
aides dress, inasmuch as | am neither S
lirectly nor indirectly interested in the {
ratification of the whimsical notions, e
md fastidious tastes of any woman, / t
nevertheless imagine, that draw some c
olace from this littleAdiscussion, on the &
ll-important, and allabsorbent subject r,
f fashion (for such it is to them), for k
am free from the responsibility, ex- tx
mpt from the onerous taxation, and n
rduous task of those encountered with
Iymeneal surroundings. is
But to return to the subject. To v
Iiss Tabitha, must be awarded the p,
onor of having sprung this interesting d,
Inject at this present time, which HI
so much of the time of CT
9th sex, and which is prolific of so in
uch envy and extravaganza. tt
1t is not my purpose however, to en- OF
II into the discussion, but shall leave oc
to those to whom it more properly tt,
slongs, to argue to their hearts con- lie
mt. scarcely know which to adj m
ire the more, the bold, daring and c