The Arizona sentinel., 1897-03-13

growing custom, is the union of thre
 or four or more young men of congenia
 tastes, who hire house or flat an,
 set up housekeeping on their owl
 account. The system is very simple
 very practical, and is found in nearl,
 all cases to work admirably. They
 hire a good servant, usually Japanese
 or Chinese, and take turn about i,
 catering Tor the mess. The servant
 cooks, attends to the chamber worl
 and keeps the house clean. As the
 men only breakfast and dine at home
 his work Is comparatively light, anC
 he will find it to his interest to do il
 well, especially as there are n O women
 ln the house to bother him. When
 they return at night there is a good
 hre ln the sitting-'oom, their slippers
 are Set out, they can dine in their
 shirt sleeves if so disposed; there is no
 ceremony-none of the convenance
 necessary when ladies make up the
 party. The absence of formalitv is delightful, the perfect freedom and abandon most refreshing, the dinner we'll cooked and promptly served; no one to criticise any 1small overindul- gence that may occur at table; smok- Ing permitted in every part of the house; no apologies to be made for any trltilng bursts of profanity; no wran- gling over housekeeping bills; no re quisltions for milliner stores to impair ones digestion. Surely here are all the comforts of home, all the joys and virtues of done5tiCity, intensified hundred fold.
 The advantage of this sort of life over that of the hotel or boarding house, fer the bachelor of modest means, is manifest. With markets like ours, and with the expenses diyid- ed' he can live most sumptuously. At this season, when game is so cheap and plentiful, he can furnish forth his table with the choicest birds of marsh and upland. He has a wealth of vegetables from which to make his selection. He can stock lis cellar with sound native wines, with here and there case of the imported article or state occasions He can entertain ms friends, and give them shake down if the night be too wet, and all or figure so moderate, presuming. 'f course, that those affairs are ad- with discretion, that the l caterer can almost declare dividend every sixty days. This bohemian life, life which runs in such even chan lels may Do called bohemian, is a powerful and insidious enemy to mar lage. It is absolutely without worry, md Is capable of infinite novelty. There can be lady days, when the girls with their chaperons are invited, and 'ermltted to enjoy for a brief space he pleasures of this bachelor paradise. md while they enjoy, they envy. It eems to them an usurpation of those |
 hlngs wherein the woman should Jay the prominent part, and no doubt at 1t is. They behold a household nthout queen, republic where all re equal, a government, wise, benefi- ent and harmonious, without the hadow Of aHtocracy. They never are to ask themselves if such a state affairs could be possible with their ex. They know, alas, that the female is against it, and that ny community of women formed on lch lines, could not succeed. Itmust ( nevitably "hurst'upin a row." because here would be cliques, and the cliques ould clash, end the result would be f An Eveless Eden has roved its possibility, an Adamless den would be promptly turned over ) the serpent.
 Those festivities to which the ladies !, -e permitted have, for the bachelor z de of the matter, wholesome effect. he contrast between the necessary c 'straint while the woman is in v 'ldence and the utter release from c 'mpliment and attention when they s epart urges the bachelor to bless his (, t, and adds fresh charm to his un- \. ammeled life. True, there is an V ement of danger in thoso intimacies, |
 possibility that some susceptible d ember of che league may be captivat- a by 8 visiting siren, because girls 2 e more free and easy, more natural a Id therefore more attractive at those g. lchelor inks than elsewhere, but ', is Is more than balanced by the ', ting of the burden of conventionality F hen the last farewells are spoken and II e gate of the bachelor fortress swings II
 again and the frowning guns once r ore threaten the spipters from the t 
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