Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-09
R0X SCORES THE BACHELORS
FOR NOT MARRYING.
SAYS THEY LACK COURAGE.
Such Hen Would Soon Depopulate
the Earth.
Pays a Tribute to Married
Life.

| copyright 1879, by CharlZ NoX Press Bu-
reau.)
New York, April 9.-As between the
man who, with dinner-pail in hand,
goes to hard labor every day and earns
the money with which to support his
humble home where wife and children
are, and the single man whose dollars
are used only for himself l confess
have vastly more respect for the COM
mon toiler with his pail.
There is a great deal of selfshness
lors. They pride themselves that they
know how to win in the game of life.
Comfortably housed in hotel, or with
a private family, with smiles for all the
girls and heart for none, these men
look with feelings of dissatisfaction
and of sympathy at other men whom
they call the unfortunate victims of the
matrimonial trap.
He's caught, is he?" they say, when
announcement is made that an ac-
quaintance is about to be married.
Then these self-contented creatures at
tend the wedding feast, laugh, chat and
eat, and go back to their bachelor
apartments congratulating themselves
that they are so much wiser than the
they think of their friend who has been
caught in the whirlpool of sentiment
having soon to begin to curtail ex-
penses, and not being able any longer
to keep up his end with the rest of the
boys. Oh, these shirks of the response
bilities of the home! These towards
in the race of life! These fellows who
are helping to take the foundation
stones out of the home lifei Reared
within the walls of their own home,
cared for by loving parents who them
selves bore the responsibilities of a
home, these men refuse to pay the debt
which they owe to humanity.
WANTS BACHELORS TO REFLECT.
Say, now, you bachelors, when you
this evening and are enjoying smoke,
just take few minutes in which to
think of what it means for one TO do
what you are doing. You are the end
of a line of descent running back into
the ages, for how long period no one
knows, but, to say the least, for a great
many centuries. Like the links of
chain your ancestry traces itself back
through generation after generation,
and here your are at this end of the
chain. You are the last link. Are you
going to end this chain with yourself?
Are you going to be the last link in a
chain which might go down through
the centuries? Serious thing, my bach
elor friend, to be responsible for end
ing a chain that has taken millions of
years to make thus far.
Change your position in your easy
chair, take another puff at the fragrant
cigar, and think some more. Just fol-
low out in theory for all men the prac-
tice of your own life, and see what it
would lead to in fifty years. You know
this earth swallows her population
more than twice in century, and If all
these married fellows on whom you
bestOw your selfish sympathy had done
the same that you are doing there
would be but few people left at the end
of fifty years. Streets would become
almost depopulated, the ways of COM
merce would be grass-grown, and even
the hotels and fashionable boarding
houses would no longer have the ranks
of bachelorhood from which to recruit
guests. You are helping to check the
flow of humanity, and if all other men
initiated your course this old mother
earth would be upon the market for
rent in 1899, if not before.
SINGLE MEN LACK COURAGE.
Take another puff at the cigar and
use your gray matter little more. Be
honest now. Is it just the thing to al
low these women, who, with wealth of
love. wait to bless a mans heart and
home. to 20 on toiling separately and
waiting in vain?' Has it occurred tc
, you that there is another kind Of cour-
age beside that shown at Manila? Has
it occurred to you that it is manly
thing for one to take q wife TO love and
to protect? Has it occurred to you that
society cannot afford TO lose its home
life, and that old bachelors are not
the kind of material out Of which
homes are made? After all, the man
with the tin-pail is ten times more oil
man than you are. He shares the
strength Of his arm and the love OF his
heart with a wife and children. He /,
a colaborer in the cause of humanity
and you are not
IF marry | shall have to give uT
living in my present style and shall
lose lots of good times" That is it
Doesn't the selfshness show clearly