The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-02-04
Observation-Disclosures He: /
AND OTHER EArABLEs DIS.
An han The bachelor! New woman V, 4.

All hail the bachelor! New woman,
ayaunt, 4
Therew man Is here, He has come to
stay. He COOKS; he waits on table.
4 wsars the apron strings and what not.
So wherefore woman's rights?
The passing OF the housewife and the
coming Of the bachelor took place las,
nlght-atythc Arion hall, mind you, It
was great 10 have been there. Mem
women and children came; saw and
wondered. Old bachelors. young bache..
Tors, bachelors good, bad and indlfter-
sent. fed the multltudes. Made them eat.
drink and be merry. Waited on them,
brought them food and drink. made
them cit down and feel at home. Act
ually made them feel at home.
What a sight! Young John Helner,
with his bay window bnlging UNDER
meath a doll baby's apron-hush!
Adam Hess, he of the sober mien--
arrayed In a big white flowing aprnnl
All, the wonder Of Ii! q. 81
= Otto Leonard-bue don't mention It!
Hermann Seabright. with his apron
inside out. F. B. Klleyes. trying ito but
( ton his In front! But again comes the
acry for mercy. SO here the chronicler
lets up, sympathetic man that hetis. q,
What wasn't al. about? Why, nothing
more nor less than the Arion Bachelors
Kaffee Vislte. but Isn't that a-plenty?
: Sure, nelshbor, especially II you'd been
there The male tourists from the land
OF single blessedness had things their
own way, and showed their married
y friends just how a house should be.run.
They sent out invitations for grand
feast between the hours OF 5 and S
O'clock, habit the ArIon bachelors have
once In every two years. TT wouldn't
"a do ans. oftener," remarked an old lady
who says men ought to get married after
\ they're Stwenty-one.
Well, The men who trot in single har-
ness. went to work and fixed the dining
Z room up with green and red and yellow
strsamers. and put nice big green plants
Sons the tables, and spread large white
\ table cloths on The tables, and then lug
ged in the dishes. then put knife and
fork and spoon around each plate, then
4 put on the meats, and the cakes and the
4 pies, and had large pots OF coffee steam
Z tngs on the kitchen stove, and all wore
white aprons and wh:testles. and soon as
y ..'the company" came asked them what
they'd like to have. and made them take
more pie and more coffee, and filed
them and stuffed them-oh. they did lots
and lots of things, did these men that
4 haven't married yet. 49, z
And the supper committee was conf
nngnH a nv tf-{0t,t ,3saffF.
Carl Lang, F. Vieweg. Otto Leonard. J.
!, "a Hess. William F. Loetfler. Milt Mabis.
III. j. Ritter O.. T. Schneider. +. B.
4 klleres. George A. Truschel. c. A.
{ Schaefer. William C. Welty. David Nor
X gan. IT.. BEN Kraps. ]. Front. John
1 Walter, NJ. HAWAIIAN. John Heiner, Will
Sllam Laue. j. c. Hoffman. No. 3; H.
s kalbitzer, Jr., Cor. Hirsch and George
& Welty.
Then after the feasting there was
dancing and games OF various kinds. In
the ball room up stairs. Prof. Killmyer
made music for large crowd Of terpsi-
chorean lovers. Other rooms we're fire.
y quented by card and duminoes devoteeS.
There was avery large crowd present.
4 and merrimert ran high. The maids
and matrons laughed at the bachelors,
and even the benedicts felt pang Of re-
Sgret that they weren't single again. The
bachelors had their innings and no mis-
II Ike, and many present said they were
sorry they'd nave 10 wait two years more
for another kaffee visite like 1t. And
many OF the bachelors said they were
a afraid 1t was their last, and after say
ling this they walked off with girl on
4 their arm.
..3a But the managers! They wera-F.. W.
igCalmar, Bert Welty.sJ. J., Woods, Louis
5Zoechler, jr.. l.. Ffaffenbach. F. ]. Muel-
Ter. Eugene Beuter, Prof. John NJ. Birch.
Il Charles Schambra, David Kraus, George
Woods, Peter Zoechler, Paul Reymann.
e Joe. Kurtz, Charles Ebeling. Charles
ssDriehorst, Sam Welty. Ed. B. Franz
helm. F.tfA. Rauschcr. I. Renner. Her
mann Schambra. James P. Adams,
Louis Feinler. William Kuhn. John
ELY, Will Hiener. Walter F. Rau,
George Stamm. Harry Schambra. Hen
SrS Bayha, Max Hess, W. C. Stlfel, DR..
Z r., N. Rau and L. Huseman, jr.