The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-10
PITY THE room BACHELOR.
IL Isn't Because He's Selfish That He
Doesn't Marry-A summer Even
fng's Argument.
From the New York Trihune.

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From the New York Tribune.
That's the second time to-day that
Cousin Grace has cast a slur at bache-
lors. said Cousin Frank Indignantly. IT'S
been that way ever since she became en-
gagged herself. Instead OF feeling sorry
for us poor fellows who are shut out from
domestic bliss she is as spiteful as she
can be"
Cousin Grace was quite ready for the
fray. II am not spiteful: at least l don't
think am. but confess I haven't much
patience with bachelors in general. They
are nice fellows to meet one at a time
but taken together they are selfish lot
Why don't they get married? There are
lots of eligible girls around. l suppose.
though, that none of them are good
enough for you bachelors?"
This last was said with the rising infiec-
ton Cousin Frank replied to it:
''Of course. there are lots Of nice girls.
awfully nice girls. and we all know
number of them. But is a man going TO
propose to a girl because she's jolly to
spend an evening with or because her
sleeves are always prettily pulled? | con-
fess | thought you had a higher ideal of
wedlock."
80 | have. You bachelors are as sell
fish as you can be, and that's the cause OF
all the trouble. You are not willing to
make sacrifices, although you really
wouldn't have to give up anything at all
comparable with what you would gain.
only you fear that If you got married you
couldn't stay late at the club, or. indeed,
couldn't go there at all. You couldn't live
so well. You couldn't be invited to so
many dinners. and would be less welcome
guests at the country homes of your
friends. So you say. what's the use of
civ a n this aufpUTnapt "a m q
man who has more luxiries now than she
would have as my wife,"
That's pretty picture OF the average
bachelor" answered the apologist for his
fellows. or rather their defender. But
the trouble is that 1t is all wrong. be-
cause il doesn't go to the root OF the
matter. / suppose every bachelor has
just such ideas at times, but they are
not firmly fixed and lasting as rule.
grant you that there are a few fellows
who seriously think as you say we all
do, and who would live up TO this deter
mination. But II is foolish for most men,
for nine out OF ten, to say that they will
never get married. Some who say that
are not sincere; others who actually be-
lieve that they know their own minds
will find all their calculations upset when
they meet the right girl I'm sure we've
all seen lots of such cases Haven't We
auntie?'
His aunt said they had. and Cousin
Frank went on
There was my college chum; he really
believed that he wasn't ever going to mar
ny, yet last summer he got engaged TO a
girl he had known well ever since they
were children. The fact is. if a fellow
actually falls in love, it's up with him.
and the joys of bachelorhood lose their
SAVIOR. His resolve never to marry is diff
fused in thin air. That's the point of il
all; bachelors don't marry because they
don't meet the right girl. It's not that
they don't meet nice girls who would
make suitable wives. but that they don't
meet the one who is the one"
she may not accept him, after ALL" sug
gested the aunt
"Of course, that happens l was going
to talk about that. A fellow is a selfish
brute, is he, for not marrying when the
woman he loves will not or cannot be-
come his wife? One law which proposed
TO tax bachelors exempted those who had
proposed to three manageable women
and had been refused by them all. Just
think of It! What girl would want to be
liked for life to a man who changed his
sweetheart with as much ease as his board
ing house? Altogether, bachelors are
heartily to be pitied, instead of being set
down as calculating, hardened villains"
whats your own excuse, Frank2 Did
you get the mitten, or have you yet to meet
the right girl?"
Dusk had fallen on the group on the
piazza, but Cousin Frank felt the mis-
chievous twinkle in her eye. If he couldn't
see it,
Now, you are getting down to person
alities. / was arguing a broad PROPOSE
ton"
After that a certain newcomer so took
up the young womans attention that her
cousin couldn't even ask her what she
now thought of bachelors.