The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-12-11
BACHELOR APARTMENTS.
A New Method of Living and tho Lessons
to BE Drawn from 1t.


to BE Drawn from 1t.
The observing person has noted in
some of the most accessible and attract
i've sections of the cities the increase OF
houses bearing more or less claims to
style to which are given names which
show that they are devoted exclusively
to bachelor" tenants. These houses
denote something of change in the
life of the city. 1t may not be that
there are any more unmarried men
than formerly. but they have reached a
prominence by being classified and by
having their needs catered to in SO
marked a manner that augurs some
thing and which results from something.
We are very far from saying or think
ing that the bonds of domestic life are
loosening, or that there is less recogni-
ton of the fact that the married state
is the truest and highest condition OF
human happiness. But it is clear that
the large number of unmarried men
whose means should permit them to
maintain wife and home is suggest
i've. 1t seems to show that either there
is too much selfishness on the one hand,
or too great an expectancy, which is
also selfshness, on the other.
As far as the young women are con-
cerned, they certainly have drifted
away in so many cases from the old
idea of marriage, based on affection and
affinity. as to give color to the general
izatioD that they are mercenary. A
young man must needs have no little
forttude to declare his preference for a
young woman, and then to state his
means and await the verdict as to its
sufficiency. If matters had been thus
far conducted in times gone by, the re-
suit would be as now. that few men
would show themselves equal to the
ordeal
On the other hand, the young men of
to-day in the struggle for that compe-
tence which they have been taught is
necessary, find themselves past the inn
pulsive age. They acquire habits of
luxury as their incomes increase, habits
of living which they regard of para
mount Importance; habits of liberty
which they think they could not see in
vaded upon, and the habit of being de-
ferred to, which the single man is quite
conscious of, and which he very well
knows he should lose in matrimony.
The unmarried man has often no other
advantage than his singleness, and,
egotist though he may be, there will
come to him-as it comes to all-the
moment of humility in which he recog-
nizes the fact And so, little by little.
the cautious, reflective habits grow. and
the love of self and of self ways grow.
These latter will soon overtop all other
love, and the possibility of seeing a
simpler happiness through that of
others.
Look into the bachelor chambers and
see if they do not seem to afford all the
IN ans for u comfortable and pleasur-
able existence. There are no barren.
ness here. no evidences of straitened
means, no signs, alas! that woman's
graceful offices are needed. There are
books pictures, bric-a-brac, elegant
furnishings, pipes and tobacco, and all
we'll arranged and cared for. The
whole interior bears witness that the
inmate has intelligence, knowledge of
She world, taste, and i'll short, the priv
ileges of favorite 5f fortune Can il
be expected that, thus surrounded, with
no interference to his treasures to his
time or his inclinations, he would vol
UNFAIRLY risk his security and enjoy
ment?
But this is the language of prudence.
1t is the sort of judgment parents
bring to bear on all questions. relating
to their children's affairs. But it is
wholly different from the way they
themselves looked at matters in the 70.
mantle days of long ago. They were
moved them by feeling. They felt
themselves aglow with all the generous
impulses that belong to youth. They
took chances, not in an heroic spirit,
but in the reckless mood of affection
that can not pour out all of itself, sim
ply because the fount is ineXhaustible.
Nothing venture, nothing have" is
the motto that symbolizes the action OF
youthful passion. In its train follow
all that is charming, self-forgetful, ro-
mantle, inspiring and picturesque. -
Boston Herald.