Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-12
HOBBIES OF BACHELORS
What One Woman Thinks She knows
About Unmarried Mrn.

What One Womnn Thinks She knows
About Unmarried Mrn.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
One woman who writes thinks that the
men have as many fads as women. She
feels convinced that the fancy for the left
hind foot Of "a rabbit. for certain kinds of
caramels and soda watch, for peculiar pets
and orchids, for a collection of odd pillows
and another Of curious ornaments, is Offset
by the masculine fancies pertaining to their
sex or to the indiYidI als among the gentier
sex whom they happen TO fancy.
The girl with brothers, she declares, Is apt
to know morei a bSht male weaknesses than
less favored members of her sex She finds
considerable difficulty in regarding any
young man as a hero. and when occa sion Of
fers, she Is by no means aveAe 10 speaking
her mind freely about the male sex in gener-
al. AT a recent"dove" luncheon The conyersa-
ton turned on hobbies. TWO of the
girls expressing the opinion that the sex to
which they belonged ran too mucn to that
sort of thing. Prompt dissent from this
view was uttered by girl who has three
brothers She said:
We girls get credit for an awful lot of
faddishness, but don't believe we are any
more given to riding hobbies than men
are"
Somebody inquired: What kind of fads
do you think men foster?
On, answered the sister of three broth
erS, real foolish fancies. For instance I
have college friend who has a panel hung
in one corner of his room, and on it he
fastens all the half-worn slippers he can
collect from girls. Such a curiosity that
slipper hook of his is! OF course, he doesn' t
label the shoes; that would be altogether
too public. But the odds and ends of foot
gear he has collected would stock shoe
chest. Funniest part of this collection Is
the man who owns it boasts that he has in
turn adored rapturously the various own
ers of the different slippers.
Similar to this fad is the one of securing
gloves. Several of my brothers friends
have gone systematically to work to get to-
gloves as they could beg, borrow or steal
from the girls of their acquaintance. Hand
kerchief collections have always been a
fad. l fancy. with masculinity.
Some young men keep a stock OF stick
pins OIL hand. and that reminds Inc of the
pickle a stickpin collection got a certain
faddish young man into. This particular
youth collected college pins from all the
girls he knew who were attending higher
education AS a result, he could display
quite an assortment of enameled stckpins.
He plastered them over the lapel OF his
coat He used to wear them as sentimental
trophies, much as an Indian would daEgle
scalps from his belt. One day the stckpin
collector was to escort his very rest girl to
a foot ball game, and the stickpin array
confronting him on his coat front he
hastily removed all but the one the best
girl had given him, fastening the others
underneath his collar. The course of true
love ran smoothly that day. until the
thoughtless pin collector turned mis- coat
collar up about his ears. Then those many
colored college pins told their tale. He and
his best girl have parted company now. but
the youth still collects college stckpins.
Talk about fads. though. the slickest one 1
know of is run for all it Is worth by man
who has what he calls a souvenir hairpin
DOCK, lie mas gotten ordinary
look and bound it with white linen, on
which is a water-color sketch Of a girls
head with flowing locks and lot of loose
hairpins scattered about. Inside of this
book you will find hairpins of every shape
and size They are, fastened to the ages
by means of little slips of paper pasted
across the center of them. There are
initials under each one. Unless you could
see this book, you have no idea how much
| romance can lurk about a hairpn. How
| does he get them? Well 1 don't know 1
have seen the book, but l don't by any
| means pretend to know the inside history
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