Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-06-08
BACHELORS HOMES.
PROTEST FROM A SPINSTER
AGAINST MEN.
Modern Bachelor Household-ITis Rooms
Are Beautiful, His Servants Contonted
and His Domestic system Needs No
Mistress.

That class of philanthropic women
that tears it's hair and shrieks for
more marriages" every few years and
curses first one thing and then another
for decreasing the temptations to dou-
BILE blessedness busicd itself coed
while railing against mems clubs as
disorganizefs CT domestic prospects and
as womens worst enemies. Now that
women have in self-defense adopted
club life in a measure, the shriek.ng
sisterhood has contented itself with
growing in an undertone, with now
and then an occasional shrill sound ris-
ing above the monotony says the
Pittsburg News. Bachelors houses
are now conspicuous as targets of scorn
and several advocates of matrimony
for the million are preparing fusilades
against them. And not only are these
7ailers going to rail loud and long
against the bachelors for setting up
spurious homes, thereby defrauding
women of their proper spheres, but
they are proceeding to denounce those
ladies who aid and abet Housekeeping
bachelors by making domesticity easy
for them. Mems houses nowadays do
not have that disordered, unkempt, or
even that bare and comfortless effect
they used to have. Mems drawing
rooms are filled with little things
some men even have small tables COW
cred with bits of old silver, ported
plants, cut flowers lamp shades and
all the amenities proverbially absent
in the good old days from such abodes.
Bachelors dinners are served quite as
well as those to which the hosts them
selves are hidden in houses graced by
wives, mothers, daughters and sisters
Candelabra, silver flligree dishes filed
with bonbons, even sailed almonds, sup
posed to be of purely feminine provi-
sion-set out their boards" which are
spread with neat damask and center
pieces, embroidered. And worst and
unkindest indignity of all, bachelors
have excellent servants. Horrid, isn't
it? How dare they? You see that
men are away all day, and so their
cooks and housemaids have a great
deal of liberty, not only to go out, but
to entertain" They have time to
rest" too; they probably lie down for
hours in the afternoon, and, indeed,
the morning, for that matter. For it
must be confessed-that mems houses
are not as scrupulously clean as to
corners and cupboards as their sisters
in housekeeping are apt to be. While
the Argus-eyed female housekeeper is
grimly watching for her handmade to
see that you could eat off" the dining
room floor as well as the table, and
experimenting the arranging of the
towels and napkins just from the wash
in neat layers and rubbing her finger on
a polished surface to "catch" dust on
it, the bachelors domestic is tripping
downtown, or to her cousins, or fiirt-
ing with her beau in the kitchen-pos-
sibly in the drawing room or playing
on the pianol Her cleaning is done
with one mighty swoop just before the
genial householders are expected back
in the evening Things are thrust into
dark hooks then, the beds are hastily
made up, a dab is administered here
a slashng dust raised there, and there
you are, everything co2y and comfort
able, dinner emitting pleasant odors,
and the busy housemaid looking as if
she had never left the place, nor heard
of anything but cheerful labor in her
life nor wanted to-.