The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-02-22
A Good One on tho Bachelor.
BELLE PLANE February Is, 1877.

ED. EAGLE:-The girls of Belle
Plaine have watched with great inter-
est, the correspondence between the
girls of Attica and the Old Bachelors,
and as we think too many Bachelors
are Ginning in, and none, SO far, seem
to come to the assistance Of the Attica
girls, we will, with your indulgence,
and space in your columns, say few
words in behalf of the girls of Attica
We desire speaking in all kindness to
the old Baches, knowing that kindness
will conquer even mule. We see no
reason why, by q combind effort, the
girls Of Attica should fail to make o
conquest of every Old Bach in Sumner
and Scdgwick counties. Dear Old
Baches we know many of you hold to
the argument that one woman with q
spoon will throw more out of the purse
than two men with a scoop can shovel
in, and while We kindly talk to you of
your dirt and vices, we hope to draw
some illustrations that will prove that
such is not the case. When Attica
girls charged that your bread pans
were not so clean as they might be
kept, you plead that in addition to do
ing as much outdoor work rs your
married neighbors, you had vour house
work TO perform. 1t takes an old maid
thirty minutes to get meal and clean
up the dishes. We presume spry
old bach would do the same in fifteen
minutes, thus you see you lose three
quarters of all hour each day, or seven
and two-thirds days in year, valuable
time, worse than squandered. At one
dollar per day you have lost $3.50 and
fraction, the peice of more than sew
enty yards of American or Merrimac
prints, the making of more than four
tasty dresses for one of the Attica or
Belle Plainc girls, allowing goods for
handsome pull-back, don't faint over
on Dog Greek } besides money for the
buttons, pins, thread and other items
for said dress. Again, dear baches you
are losing money by allowing grease
to accumulate OIL your frying pan, and
meal and flour on your bread pan. We
think that we can safely estimate that
a model house would save grease
enough by sCraping your table and a
proper cleaning of your bread pans to
make soap enough to not only furnish
you a clean shirt on Monday morning,
but at the end of the year have at least
one hundred pounds left, which, sold
at four and one half cents per pound,
would realize Ole pair of Alexandra
kid gloves and bottle of magnolia
balm TO restore color to the cheek of
an Attica or Belle PLANE girl, after a
few years spent in keeping hitherto
old bach on the road to heaven, 1--WE
are not trying to soft-soap you old fell
lows; it is fact.) 1t is useless to call
your attention TO the figures as to how
much you might save through the agen-
cy of good wife by having your bat
ter pans properly cleaned and the
crumbs fed to forty hens. Sufficient is
il. to say the profits would give you a
mince pie for breakfast, pudding for
each dinner, cup of tea and nice
cake for each evening meal, (aren't
you hungry over in Eagle township p
throughout the year, besides leaving
residue in the pockets of the woman
who would make your house some
thing more than aspittoon. And now
dear old baches, one word in regard TO
your vices. You don't CAD around the
neighborhood talking about the neigh
bors no, you are too good for that.
But you will drink bad whisky, play
billiards, puff smoke, and chew filthy
weed without ever troubling yourself
to think that each year Of your life
your billiards and whisky are costing
you more money than would take to
buy your wife nice hat, a splendid
alpaca dress, pair of handsome side
laced, glove kid shoes, together with
other paraphernalia to give an Attica
or Belle Plaine girl the appearance of
a Queen of the West. Does it never
occur to you that each year you chew
and spit enough tobacco on the floor
of your shanties to cover the same
floor with handsome Brussels carpet,
or that you smoke and blacken the
wall of your habitation at greater
expense each year, than you could pa
per the same wall for? We know it is
economical TO live in your dens, which
serve the double purpose of granary
and parlor. It's economical and handy
to store your wheat crop away in one
corner and put your straw tick on top
of it, and of cold morning pull the
straw out of the tick, start fire, and
put your hog meat and hominy on the
stove, creep back to your tick and
blankets, console yourself with the
thoughts that there is no wife tc scold |
and that there is at least one man who |
knows that old maids lack more than
wings of being angels, and that they may |
squint sideways at him, and angle as
much as they please, there is still alive
one bird OF bache to old to be caught |
by chaff. You are prize worth ang
ling for, aren't you?
And now, dear bachelor friends, in
let me say, with all your
faults we are still willing 10 work for
your salvation, and live in hopes that
the scales may vet fall from your eyes,
that you may view your pitiable condi-
ton as the world views it, that you
may yet meet us half way, believing
that woman's love is a fair taste of
Paradise, and that the happiest morn
ng of a bache's life will be the one
whep he can rise from comfortable
bed, go about his morning chores
''Mollie put the Kettle on"
while an Attica or Belle PLANE girl
echoes back to him from her tidy kitch-
IN, "Oh, what shall the harvest be-"
Yours in hopes,
BELLE PLANE GIRLS.
The Detroit NeWs, taking up the
'umor that Senator Christiancy, of
Michigan, will be appointed to fill the
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