Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-01-15
BACHELOR APARTMENTS.
A New Method of Living and the Lessons
to Be Drawn from It.

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 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 90 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
iden of marriage, based on affection and
aft nifty, as to give color to the general
ization that they are mercenary. A
young man must needs have no little
fortitude to declare his preference for a
young woman, and then to state his
means and await the verdict as to its
sufticiency. 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 i'm.
pulsive age. They acquire habits of
luxury as their incomes increase, habits
of living which they regard of para
u
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-
ni,es 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
means for 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 al
we'll arranged and cared for. The
whole interior bears witness that the
inmate has intelligence, knowledge Of
the world, taste, and, in short, the priv
ileges of favorite of fortune. Can i
be expected that, thus surrounded, with
no interference to his treasures, to hi
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 parent
bring to bear on all questions relating
to their children's affairs But it i
wholly different from the way the.
themselves looked at matters in the 70
mantle days of long ago. They wer
moved them by feeling. They fel
themselves aglow with all the generou
impulses that belong to youth The.
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"
the motto that symbolizes the action Q
youthful passion. In its train folloy
all that is charming, self-forgetful, re
mantle, inspiring and picturesque. =
Boston Herald.