The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-20
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MY comfortless bachelor wears trousers,
says Dorothy Maddox in the "Philadel-
phia Inquirer If he were a girl on any
thing less han starvation wages he
would never merit the term applied to
him.
MY comfortless bachelor is a type He
belongs neither to the ~impecunious class,
glad of three meals a day and a place to
tuck ones head, nor to the millionaire
who kills time behind the windows of
Sweldom's clubhouse.
My bachelor is still young enough to
tug about in his breast memories of
mother and home and all that sort of
thing. He is not a aedgling by any means.
but it takes some men a good many years
to forget some things. He is still young
enough to be haunted by day dreams
that grow mister as the months go by.
He is a salaried man, getting perhaps
fifteen, perhaps twenty. perhaps twenty
five dollars per week. Any one of these
sums. placed in the tiny palm of a bache-
lor girl would insure her a room full OF
comfortable corners, with a kettle singing
on the hob and a chafing dish as well.
The most pitiful product of the citys
CHASTITY life is the young bachelor. He
drifts. When he left home he 1eit eauai
to the solving of any problem. Making
a home for himself away from home mas
been too much for him. He and his con-
science tussle now and then. Nothins
ever comes from the set-to.
Down in one niche of his ofttimes dis
couraged soul is fostered an idea. Some,
day he will find a fascinationg she" an
angel of light and love, who Will guide ms
straying feet into the home he signs Tor.
He marries and curses fate because he mas
Jumped out of the frying pan into the nre.
And the comfortless bachelor, now a COM
fortress Benediek. will not know peace
until the nails of his coffin are screwed
tight and fast.
1t amuses me to talk over matters with
the average bachelor. He is so hazy In
his notions. / was discussing ways ana
means with a young woman the otner
evening when he electrified me by ad-
yancing what he deemed a sage remark.
You see. Miss Maddox, a woman Is
more adaptable to surroundings. She mas
ways as you say. of fixing up. Now,
for instance, she will go down town and
see a piece of red plush; it is a bargain,
and she buys it and thenPshe throws II
over one corner of an ugly old mantel,
and there is the beginning OF a cosy
roon."
And the dear fellow beamed, and 1
beamed. and all the time I was longing TO
say to my misguided friend: Did you
not know that the days of throws,
are over? and as for a red plush throw,
We gods and little fishes!"
Yet how on earth could I expect a mas
culine whe lives with Montaigne and
Browning and Omar Khayyam to know
that throws" with other decorative
nightmares nave gone out? He is Tor
given, and as this particular bachelor mas
the dearest of mothers for an every DAY
city blessing he may be considered quite
beyond the range of pity.
do know one sensible bachelor, mel
Their a ,,auper nor a bondholder. He left
home with a fixed determination to get
the better of a rather Strengthened posi-
ton. He searched the city till he found
a sunny room. He only enjoys the sun
shine one day of seven. That is some
thing. He has set VI . tiny chafing dish
for a hot bite, although he cuts the cafe
lunch room and takes a landlady by pre-
ference. who gives him a fairly decent
breakfast and a very nice dinner.
This bachelors room has it's centre ta-
BILE. There is a students lamp and the
latest magazines on it, and beside 1t a
good sleepy hollow, which is a little shah
by but still very %restful.
There js a box couch covered with an
imitation Bagdad, and somehow my
bachelor has managed to pick up some
bingham pillows. He has a jolly-looking
lounging robe and slippers and a great
pipe rack and a big tobacco jar, and the
last time 1 was allowed a cousinly peep
into his apartment l found he had intro
duced two ported plants and a bargain
canary. The sunshine and the bird would
have redeemed a much uglier. room.
Here is a man who does not spend
money on brandies and sodas-on hail
fellow-well-met spreads-on poker. He is
economical, but not stingy. He is look
ing out for his own well-beirg and some
dav. If he ever gets together enough
money. he will ask some nice girl to mar
nv him. and he will not go to her with a
iendish set of nerves, such nerves as
are driving women to the divorce courts,
nerves exclusively the property of the
comfortless bachelor, nerves contracted
during the comfortless bachelor days.
1 would like to take the comfortless
bachelors under my VIM or put them
under the wing of somebody who would
be kind to them. If I were a comfortless
bachelor here is what l would do. l
would secure the services of a nice little
lady who does nothing but shop for BACH
elors. She is "a blessing. She knows
every foot of the shops, just where to go
for the cheapest and prettiest things.
Usually the only commission she gets is
from the shops. She is willing to manage
a sum of money hat a man would scorn
SO that real Joy can be extracted from
every penn
She knows just what a man needs to
make him decently comfortable She hides
ugly corners. h is resourcefui as well
as artistic.
There is no foolishness about this pro-
fessional shopper. She considers herself
in trade. She is business-lfke. She cannot
only give the bachelor a room that is
honey, but she can buy his hosiery and
underwear and save him dollars and dol
lars.
Frankly state to this shopper that ten
dollars is all she can spend on certain
wants, and Immediately she is ambitious
to do her best with that bill.
; She is conscientious; II she were not
she would soon lose prestige. call hel
the forlorn bachelors good angel, anc
once she has taken him in charge he Il
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