Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-12-06
WHY MEN DON'T MARRY.
THE SUBJECT DISCUSSED BY a
BACHELOR ESGLlS1MAk-
The uan Who VIII Not Heed the Sweet
Look. of the NaIdens FaIr-The Home
of the Present Not sAtIsfAetory-The
College Quadrangle Recon- mended-

There has been a deal OF discussion con
I corning the QUESTION. is Marriage a Fail
ur.s' This renders timely some remarks BY
one who fingers outside the gates OF matri-
rnonY as did the peri AZ the portals Of para
dise-,o Wit, a bachelor He explains, With
frank good numor, why he and his class do
not marry This IS an English bachelor, and
his views appear in an English magazine.
But the views and manners OF living of we'll
ro-do bachelors are about the same all over
the world
What has become Of the marrying mani
Is be not becoming as extinct as the dodo'
viii not future generations Of geologists
gloat over the infrequent discovery Of his
precious bones in rare rocksi Already be IS
hard 70 find and COY to catch He listens not
TO maids who would gladly charm him,
charm they never 50 wisely; he turns stony
glance OF pure criticism on bright eyes and
snowy necks. he shuns the ballroom for tho
billiard room ne Arts, il is true, but-he
does not propose.
Why is thisi Surely the daughters should
charm as today, just as their mothers
charmed our fathers, Are modern maids less
kind or less fairi Yet why does naterfam-
/ ilias remain with erquiver full Of them, and
feel ashamed when she meets her enemy in
subject She speaks sternly Of clubs. She
uses the word 'seldshness' She hints darkly
at the importation OF foreign notions. She
declares that the males, being minority,
have discovered that they possess fictitious
value through this circumstance.
BACHELOR ADVANTAGES
| But there are some other considerations as
well as poverty. Poverty does not weigh
very much in my own case As am giving
my own reasons for celibacy | must shortly
describe myself am 81 years of age; / am
a dancing and a dining man; am no slave
to a club. am no misogynia; am moder
ately well to do in my profession, and could
marry If chose. But on the whole, prefer
to remain single Whyf
Because the sum Of minor enjoynents
| which are the privileges Of the bachelor ex-
l ceeds the happiness OF ewes happy mar
rage. Take care of the pence aud the pounds
viii take care Of themselves Take care Of
the small items Of happiness and the total
will be satisfactory, speak only Of myself
and of men Of my own type. 1t is, regret
| to say, no uncommon type.
First, then, | belong to that considerable
! class of persons who have no liking for home.
| There's no place like homeland thank
]
If not the actual phrase in recent Gaiety
| burlesque. 1t was always applauded to the
| echo
! Domus means "A house Us well as home. IL
means SNOWY, ramshackle building; with
water pipes that burst; with kitchen boilers
that leak, with gas meters that tell lies, 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
anIietes and constant worry.
Paris has been called a city without home
In America, people live largely in hotels
/ In London, the last fifteen years have pro
duced a great crop Of palatial restaurants
and Of hotels that can be used as restaurants
What does the prosperity of these institutions
showi 1t shows that a 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
Il play of life and character around me- ex-
hibitlng itself for my amusement than solus
cum sofa, IN the single society OF one person,
however charming. | consider the domestic
dinner grewsome.
HOME TO HIS LIKING.
| i can suggest remedy. can imagine a
/ number Of families living together in build
/ ing constructed and managed on the principle
! Ola college, There should he "a common dining
! room, a common recreation room, II common
/ garden, a common billiard room On each
staircase, around the quadrangle, should live
a family. college staircase Yields sixteen
rooms-a good sized house Suppose there
! are a dozen families in the one quadrangle
Instead Of dozen women cooks, costing a
large aggregate sum per annun in hoard and
wages, there would be "A chef with his assist
ants The chef and his staff would not cost
half the sum OF the aggregated kitchen
wenches So in all other matters. Our sys
tenn of separate households Is most
wasteful and extravagant. As for pri-
/ vacy, there would lie far more pri-
yacy than in all average London
row. There would be dances and concerts
for the young men ana inaldens there would
be subscriptions to a dozen different maya
zines and newspapers instead # dozen
copies Of the same; there would be the adj
vantages Of cub life for patcrfaml.ias. aye,
and for mnterfamilas, too, there would Ire
plenty of children for other children to play
with ard place for them to do It, There
would he vastly more comfort and vastly less
cost. In all great dead expenses co-opera
tive principals would effect the usla reduo
| ton.
Build me. then, no more flats. though
these are good in their way but build ME a
college quadrangle and perhaps will marry
and live therein. TIL then | will live in
some one else's house., San Frarrisco Argo.
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