The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-03

49,, and the noise of the city not so many
lbs rom YOU, so many things look diff
fereuL
Drrins the summer there have been
weddings and weddings. But notwith-
lending the great number of marriages
49,. s,.fatv mother is complaining that men
IA r'+ marry Why? Honestly, sup
,,.. men and women are no better or
rrorse than they used to be. There are
quite a : many in number, and they are
H. y-av. lust as willing to enter into the
holy bonds of matrimony. But man has
learned to be comfortable without woman,
and occasionally, more than occasionally,
-, often. he is so admirably arranged
that he prefers to admire women from a
distance and to live in his own paradise
rradise without an Eve and even minus
q servant
This conversation abs come to me from
having been the guest at innumerable
bachelor dinners given by proud hosts to
their women friends and in their own es-
tablishments. What man a few years ago
thought OF heepfag up 6 place fer himself
that is a comfortable place? But now
the bachelor can without any trouble get
himself a home, can keep house well, have
really all the pleasures and none of the
worries Of matrimony. OF course, there
Is a type Of man that flies around from one
boarding house to another or from one
hotel to another but he is the man who
has never gotten his natural instinct,
which is to look for a companion to make
home He is the man who has hall
room in a boarding house or one not much
more comfortable in hotel and after
knocking around for awhile he meets
woman who is more or less pleasant, who
has the art of making him feel contented,
and then he devotes his time to her. OF
course, lacking the ability to make a
home, he also lacks the money to do it, and
marriage is impossible. But he longs
for the companionship of a woman, and so
he does the best thing he can, which is to
propose marriage to the woman he loves
and remain engaged to her until death
breaks or unites the bond. He says, does
this unfortunate wretch, that marriage is
too expensive. He doesn't see any posi-
bility of making a home in a boarding
house, and really that is quite as difficult
to do as to make a home on the top of
Cleopatras needle.
People have been happy in boarding
houses but they can't make homes there.
Homes are not made for the multitude as
are ready-made shirts, all after one pat
tern and that's the reason cooperative
housekeeping can never be a success. But
the bachelor apartment is the enemy of,
marriage An ideal bachelor apartment
has. in the first place, enormously big
rooms, Then in the second place, the
bachelor seems to be able to get servants
who keep everything in order, although in
his drawing room or library or whatever
he may call it, there are plenty of books,
plenty Of pictures and plenty OF all the
delightful things that give an air of lux
ury. But the air of order is present too.
The dining room shows a big round table
and huge sideboard, on which there is a
quantity of beautiful glass, for the bache-
lor housekeeper is great on fine glass. On
a small table stands a tiny silver service,
the size suited for one And that is used
for the masters coffee every morning.
Anybody would know mans room be-
cause Of the bigness of the towels and the
size of the washboWls. II is one of the
funniest things in the world, and yet it
happens every day, to go into a shop and
nave somebody say to you when you ask
Tor towels, "Gentlemens or ladies' ?'' 1t
makes you feel like demanding of the
oVer-ciVil clerk why a lady, so called, is
expected to dry her face on a towel the
size Of dinner napkin while man should
be given something very nearly as big as
sheet and which is an absolute comfort
TO use. When a bachelor girl has an
apartment she thinks first of all the
pretty things, of the artistic corners and
OF the fine effects, whereas a mans first
thoughts are given to his bathroom, his
jug and bowl, the kitchen belongings and
az the dining room appointments.
Men are undoubtedly orderly creatures.
IL You doubt this investigate Eyvarxy xro
man IS very apt to think-I mean every
married woman--that the especial man at
lached to her can keep his belongings in
one bureau drawer or else have them
showed Oft in a corner of the wardrobe
Whlle everything else in the way of clos.
els and bureaus must be dedicated to her
some day, if she will take the trouble to
look she will see that while her top
drawer IS a wonderful muddle of ribbons
ana laces, hairpins and jewelry, of hand
herchlefs and gloves, of feathers and fuss
ana that all the under ones catch because
tuey are packed so tight, the single one
gwen over to her mankind is as neat as
possible and ought to be a lesson to her
Inc shrts are laid out as if for an Irish
wake me stockings are in a pile in one
corner, the handkeTchiefs in another while
we scarfs are smoothly spread out along
we side of the shirts Even in married
ne man wants to have a little some
'7 'ial Is entirely MS own and the
wise woman is the one who puts a whole
.,aest Of drawers at his disposal and let's
MN know that feminine frivols are not
song to interfere with masculine belong
~ was at recent wedding that a man
uSAel me, what do women marry for?"
..I thought a little bit, and then said,
experience"
Then he asked me, what do you think
nl.n marry for?' There were so many
ss"efs TO this question that I could not
ooH tAem down to an epigram Oftenest
n-.H marry for love, sometimes for money,
mes because they think it is the
a.utei ming to do, but oftenest of all be-
''ose they are lonely
man is a creature inclined to be con-
a.et,'ai' and he wants something of his
I t IN which to confide. He is inclined
t'"9id faith, and he wants something
-''lN'he in which to believe. And then.
No. cry often he loves this pretty femi-
ha ming with all his heart and soul.
"I very often she doesn't understand the
,,',,'l'ns of the word love. Love is a very
queer thing.
W. 'I1 are people who think they know
Ell ' a.. ,''e is when they are only acquaint-