The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-05-30

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which Mr. Venus snuffs MS cahtle anu
exhibits his work shop to MIR. Nesg.
You're casting your eye afouna 'ne
shop. Mr. Wegg let me show you "A hSn'
be says. pointing out the various opJee's %
interest. .,rools. preserved Indian baby. Az
rican ditto. and what's Ia them hampers
1 don't quite remember; say human war
IONS
Every woman in society to-day may
discover by the light OF her intelligence
many Of these human warriors, IN the
only work shop in which IT behooFes her 10
carry on any extensive Dusiness-her own
drawing-rOOm.
trouble In classifying them, for the newly
ncdred society man has no fixed type,
being indeed. but a make-belieVe man.
pocket edition of his elders ana petiers.
and likely 10 change from year TO year I'LL
a decent age stamps him with some inni-
vidualty Of his own, and The iuu-hriseu
ditto IS fun of the swing and rush anu
exaggef- ton OF lie, and is apt 10 hNe
I'm "swoops and circles" til the shades OF
- prison house begin to close upon him
and he. too. settles down into calm living.
Bur under the generous cognomen OF
bachelors ALL she mag view the race
dfspa ssionatcly and point out one ana
another OF them here and There as types
OF the genius man.
BtcHrIoEs NOT COURAGEOUS.
7 say. dispassonately, she may view
them I'm that light as types but hache-
lors. really have very little sympathy FROM
tine world az large and women, IN parucu-
lar. They seem to have no good ralsoh
d'ctre.
We picture them as standing always
with reluctant feet on the Drink OF
making money. but afraid 10 take the
o.. n
little feeling that there Is something cow
ardIy I'm them. and towards as rule DO
not appeal TO w0mau's nature.
They may argue that matrimOny Itself
IS not very heroic act.
Stevenson says that in marriage n man
becomes slack and selfish, and undersoes
"a fatty degeneration OF his moral being
"Ue is SO comfortable and happy that he
begins TO prefer happiness TO everything
else on earth, his wife included.
Mt this is the argument of a married
man who Is happy, and not of bachelor
who is willing TO draw the inference from
his friends experience.
NEVER TOO OLD.
have heard bachelors give every ex-
cuso i'm the world. but one. for not marry
ing / nave heard Them say that tney were
"toO comfortable To marry, TOO lazy, OF
too poor" Some few trustiul ones nave
even gone so far as to say they
were "too selfish 20 marry" and | re-
member OF hearing Of one who save 10
as his excuse that he supposed IL was
lust a piece of mis- carelessnesa, put i
have yet 20 hear the first man announce
himself as being TOO ola TO marry ID,
which 1t may be seen that men do not
believe I'm age-eXcept for woman
DIFFERENT TlPis.
But there are bachelors and bachelors.
Tho young-oll men men who have seiN-
od an honorable term i'm society before
their teens are well passed and noW Feel
themselves pensi0ned off with a sener-
Gus allowance of boredom and blasSness
Win which 10 aflict their friends at Will
TO this class belongs the Beau Brlm-
NELL of society whose hair and coat tails
are a little longer or shorter roundef
or sauarer than the privilege or iashion'
whose shoes are pointed and shining TO
o. nicely and whose conversation Is or
the weariest most vaporous order.
Everything IS such bore 10 MIN, ire
itself is but a series OF yawns' ana ne
has only "a weary ear TO lend even 10 the
latest bic OF gossip.
AS 10 reading he has no time for tnat
even 20 fill up the few chinks between
social functions.
SHOULD GIRLS BT CULTIVATED.
And Just here let me say that the
condemnation so universally pronounced
by men upon society girls. that they no
longer care 90 improve themselves, Is
boomerang sort of anathema.
What announcement do girls have 10
improve themselves shah they talk
French or metaphysics 20 man who Us
only capable Of understanding tobacco
receipts? or, shall they bore the man
whose only literary aim Is 10 nave
mastered the book criticisms in Life,
hv dlscoursine the classics? As long as
a woman is ln society she likes 10 he OF
IL and she may never fulfill this ambition
by turning out blue stocking.
MN WISE 10 BE AMUSED.
A man goes calling 10 be amused. not
instructed He goes because he Is pOreu
with himself, and finds himself am ln
sun.rably stupid companion. IL rs
way he has of paying delicate coinpl-
mant 10 q woman and she must aec'pi
ID as such and reward him, not accord
ing 10 his merits. bat by listening SYM
pathetlcally 10 hts pautudes and coax
ine him out of HIS mood, and so help %
fulfill a w0man's mission in life.
II does not take a great deal 20 satisfy
one until one begins 20 think, and as the
time for thinking has not yet arrived
10 the old-young-man. and as he IS VIII
ing 10 be "plcased with a rattle, tickled
with a straw" 81 is small wonder that
she feeds him with the lishtest CONVEX
sational diet her ingenuity can devise.
Poor woman. what n life IS hers, and
how little sympathy she gets!
But Is LEAST TALKED ABOUT.
For the middle aged bachelor. there is
little 10 be said, except that he generally
poses to be nice all-around sort of
fellow
The best woman Is the woman who Is
least talked about. and the same thing
IS true OF the man whom women dis
miss from their criticisms as Just the
incest man ! know" or TO whom men re-
fer as "a nice old chap" so with merely
an approving nod. we viii leave him 10
the tender merclos Of his friends and
go on to the young-old-man.
THE YOUNG OLDHAM.
lie seems 10 have been born I'm the
looklng-glass country and never yet 10
have gotten over the habit Of living
backwards.
I'm his infancy he might have been the
nrcc0c.0us Babe Of Bat Ballad. In the
days Of his youth pcrfops he wore the
dignined mien Of Senator, frOwned
severely on all such frlyolities as teas
and Germans and confined his CONVEX
sati0n to Congress Bills and agricultural
products. But when he became "A man
he laid aside all such mighty matters.
lie now speaks as a child he thinks as
a child. till we begin 10 wonder II with
the hairlessness Of old age he will really
lapse into the cooings and prattlings Of
batvbooJ for the first time ia his life