Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
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WHY MEN DON'T MARRY.
THE SUBJECT DISCUSSED BY A
BACHELOR ENGLiSHMAN,

The Man Who VIII Not Heed the Sweet
Looks Of the sIaidens Fair-The Rome
of the Present Not Satisfactory-The
College Quadrangle Recommended.
There has been deal Of discussion con.
eerning the question, rs Marriage a Fail
urer This renders timely some remarks BIZ
one who fingers outside the gates Of matri-
uony as did the peri ct the portals OF para
dise-tc wit, a bachelor He explains, with
frank good humor, why he and his class do
not harry. This is an English bachelor, and
his views appear in an English magazine
But the views and manners OF living OF we'll
TODD bachelors ara about the same all over
the world
What hes become Of the marrying mani
Is be not becoming as extinct as the dodoi
VW not future generations Of geologists
Gloat over the tnfrequent discovery Of his
precious bones in rare rocksi Already he is
hard TO find and coy to catch He listens not
} to maids who would gladly charm him,
J charm they never so wisely; he turns a stony
glance of pure criticism on bright eyes and
snowy necks; he shuns the ballroom for the
billiard room; &c firts, it Is true, but-he
does not propose.
Why is thisl Surely the daughters should
harm Us today, just as their mothers
harmed our fathers Are modern maids less
nd or less fafrq Yet why does materfam-
Is remain with her culver full of them, and
eel ashamed when she meets her enemy in
the gatei Materfanihas has her idea on the
subject She speaks sternly Of clubs. She
uses the word ''sel6shness" She hints darl.!y
at the importation OF foreign notions. She
declares that the males, being a minority,
have discovered that they possess a fictitious
value through this circumstance.
BACHELOR ADVANTAGES.
But there are some other considerations IS
well as poverty Poverty does not weigh
very much II my own case. As l am giving
nv own reasons for celibacy must shortly
>sscribe myself an 81 years Of age; l am
dancing and dining man; am no slave
- club; am no misogynist; | am noder-
stely well 70 do in my profession, and could
marry II chose, But, on the whole, prefer
70 remain single. Whyi
Because the sum Of minor enioyments
which are the privileges Of the bachelor ex-
Feeds the happiness Of even a happy mar
riaEe. Take care Of the penos and the pounds
viii take care Of themselves. Take care Of
will De satisfactory. speak only Of myself
and Of men of my own type. It is, l regret
70 say, no uncommon type.
First, then, belong 10 that considerable
class of persons who have no liking for home
There's no place like homeland thank
Heaven there isn'tg' such was the sentiment,
y: not the actual phrase, in q recent Gaiety
'Gurlesque. II was always applauded to the
echo.
Doulus means a house as well as a home It
means SNOWY, ramshackle building; with
water pipes that burst; with kitchen boilers
that leak; with gas meters that tell hes; with
drains that get choked; with servants that
break china; with walls and ceilings that re-
quire spring cleaning; with linen, and iron
mongery, and crockery that insist on inces-
SAINT renewal; with gas rates, and water
rates, and poor rates; with endless petty
auxietiss and constant worry.
Paris has been called city without home
In America, people live largely in hotels.
In London, the last fifteen years have pro-
Suoed great crop Of palatial restaurants
lad Of hotels that can be used as restaurants.
What does the prosperity Of these institutions
showi 1t shows that large number Of PEG
pie do not care TO dine at home. And there
is nothing more OF the essence Of home than
dinner. | would sooner dine in public, with
a play OF life and character around me, ex-
hibitng itself for my amusement, than solus
cum sofa, in the single society Of one person,
however charming. | consider the domestic
dinner grewsome
A HONE TO HIS LIKING.
can suggest remedy. can imagine
number Of families living together in build
Ing constructed and managed on the principle
Of a college. There should De a common dining
room, a common recreation room, d common
garden. a common billiard room On each
stktscaSe, around the quadrangle, should live
stamiIy 4 college staircase yields sixteen
rooms-a coed sized house. Suppose there
are a dozen families in the one quadrangle
Instead OF a dozen women cooks costing O
large aggregate sum per annum in board and
wages, there would lie u chef With MS assist
ants. The chef and his staff would not cost
half the sum Of the aggregated kitchen
wenches. So IN ell other matters Our sys-
TEN OF separate households is most
wasteful and e1ravsgsnt. As for pri-
vacy, there would be far more pri-
vacy than in an average London
row. There would be dances and concerts
for the young men and maidens, there would
be subscriptions 10 a dozen different maya
zines ana newspapers instead CT a dozen
e&pies Of the same; there would be the ad-
,i1tages Of club life for paterfamiIias, aye,
ani for materfamihas, too; there would De
pienty OF children for other children to play
with and place for them 30 do IL There
would be vastly more comfort and vastly less
cost In sn great dead expenses co-opera-
tive principals would effect the usual reduc-
ton.
Build me, then, no more fats. though
these are good In their way; but build me
college quadrangle and perhaps l VIII marry
and live therein Till then l VIII live in
some enc elSe's hOuse.-San Francisco Avgo-
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