The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-02-04
a BACHELORS TRIALS.
Oae of the Fraternity Tells All About His
Sorrows and TribaIsions.

not one OF those young men VINO rather
pride themselves on being unmarried,
because they know .hat they will be
married just as soon as they really
want to. Unfortunately for me, that
is not my fix. 1 have overstepped the
limit and my chances OF a matrimonial
alliance are now very sim ones.
may get married; l may also pick
the single black bean out of bushel
sack of white ones with my eyes closed.
One as likely as the other.
Am complaining? No, it don't do
any good to complain; bat | want to
let some of the troubles of bachelor
life be known, that charitably inclined
! people all over the face of the earth
viii try TO make the lot of some poor,
miserable cuSS of 4 bachelor little
easier. Ii do this shall have done
some good.
The life of Bachelor is nice, quiet
life-undi5turbed by family ties, chill
dren and other cares that worry his
married brother; but almost every
bachelor on this earth would accept
| the cares and term them them bless
ings.
a bachelors room is very often cosy
and comfortable; 0ftener otherwise. 1t
will often be found furnished luXuri-
| Ously and arranged taStefully; Oftcner
it will be found furnished niggardly
and as completely diSarranged rs if y
full-ledgcd cyclone had superintendent
its arrangement.
The contents of bachelors apart
ment are only equaled by the eXhibi-
ton in a museum. You Will find al
most anything YOU call for; but if you
| want to sew Il button on 4 shirt bosom,
the button that Will be seen. YOU can
find only the black thread; while if tt e
button is needed on black vest the
only thread ihat will unearth itself Is
as white as the driven snow. BachG-
lors used 20 such little annoy
anccs rs this pay no atten-
ton to such accidental perver-
sity on the part of the thread. they only
wonder then what on earth has become
of all the needles? Say il is Il white
shirt needing the button l have the
| thread, but it's black; well, I'm in a
hurry. so if l only had the needle.
little white chalk would hide the black
ness of the thread for tonight. Say it's
| the black vest that is buttonleSs, and
the thread happens to be white; well,
| thank goodness. my ink bottle will go
discOlOr the whitencsS of the thread
| that the man who made it would think
he turned it out black. But all this
don't bring up that needle; yesterday,
while hunting up my extra collar bul-
ton, saw needles enough to run 4
family year. Wen, I'm in a hurry, l
guess I'll have to pin it again.
Thus muses. the poor bachelor; and
cursing his fate, he finds pin and is
gone. How happy he would be if some
woman would take him in charge; but
no, he has put it Off TOO long, and now
he is too settled in his habits TO even
think of Il change in his life except
occasionally to brood over it rs one OF
the impoSSibilities.
A bachelor has sometimes happy
beam falling across his path when ne
visits some lady friends. and afts r
leaving he feels slight hope tugging
at his heart strings that all chances ara
not yet gone; but he goes on with his
life and his way of living and the SUM-
shine gradually shuts itself from out
his heart.
Once in awhile some old-time chum,
now married and happy husband and
father, insists on his leaving his
restaurant dinner for one day and
dining with him in his family circle.
The bachelor enjoys this. He hangs
out against going ut first; but when he
sees the little chaps Chamber to the
fathers knee. and watches the beam of
pride in the fathers ewes as he kisses
each chubby cheek, he is real glad thai
Bob was Kind enough to ask him,
and hopes to have many dinners with
Bob-determinas when the little ones
become familiar enough to approach
and kiss him, that he will cultivate Bob
more than he has done. He is tickled
at the childish wonder with which the
little rosy-faced ones gaze at him, and
he IS tempted to tell them that he is
their uncle, that he may worm himself
into their good graces the easier. He
remembers lot of advertising pictures
he stuffed into his pocket a day or two
since; they are brought out and one by
one the children are bribed to his knee.
Bob'S wife is nice, gentle body, very
domestic, and a model wife, whom Bob
loves devotedly, and who loves Bop to
distraction. Bob don't say so, but you
can see it. He has pleasant time and
real nice dinner. Not so varied, posi-
bly,, as the one he left untasted at the
restaurant, but so much more palatable.
He thinks that he hasn't enjoyed
dinner before in ever so long. and is
really sorry he must 20. but he must.
He has chatted with Bob and his wife
and babies. through two of Bob cigars,
and now he must turn his back on this
cheerful family circle and get. back to
his bachelor den.
Truly, tonight it is more of der
than ever befOre-cold, bleak and 80
cherries. Mr.. Bachelor thinks foi
awhile, then goes to bed, lies awake fo'
an hour thinking of Bob's happiness
and of his own unhappiness. and WOO
6ers if he should marry would his hont
be equally as happy. WOuldit? There's
the doubt, the uncertainty-he's frer
now, why not remain so?
Then disguised and disgrUntled T.
determines that he will never again 9.
to Bob's, for this visit has almost unse:
tied him. and surely made him envious
No, he'll endure his lot. Then in his
sleep, Bob and Bob's happiness, az Wei
as his own misery, are forgotten.
Look out, boys, and don t put it OF
too long. My bachelor experience il
about the average.-Peck's Sun.