The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25
A BACHELOR GIRL OF 1900.
Her Name Ought to he Victory Ammo
DOmini.


IF you want a name for the bachelor
girl said the woman who knew. q adj
wise you to call her Victory Ammo Dom
mi. She is typical Of the aCe. and is go
ing to do as she pleases. no matter how she
does it or what it is. She may want broiled
ham for her breakfast She has the ham
and the fire Skewer. toasting fork, broiling
rack are all conspicuously absent Does she
therefore go without her tit-bit? You know
not letter in her book If you think so.
The uses Of a hairpin have long been eN-
allied by mere men. To the hairpin she has
added a hatpin. Upon the tip of her long
est. strongest, most priced in windy weather
she cooks her meat as deity as a statesman
cooks a tariff bill.
"She is as inconsiderate of the seif-re-
specting burglar as her age is Of folk who
take themselves too seriously. When the
burglar comes in at dead Of night she does
not sit up and howl, any more than the
world howls at the arrival OF mighty ro
formers, She sits up all right but it is
merely TO tell the knight Of the jimmy that
he has made a mistake in his vocation or
his latch-key. and. either way. is guilty of
very bad taste Sometimes she makes di-
rect attack. more commonly flank move
ment by talking to her cat The burglar,
poor man. seldom gets nearer than the en-
try. A bachelor girl apartment is bound to
have an entry. The prOfe ssiOnal enterer has
no trouble at all with the lock. It is when
he gets inside that he loses himself and
his courage in the mulUfarious tangle of
hangings and bamboo poles and swinging
tinkly things. Terror turks in the unknown
not infrequently he flies in fear lest his
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chine masquerading as an ornament
"Macaulay said the Puritans objected
to bear batting. not because it hurt the
bears but because ii pleased the people
When the bachelor girl smokes. il is not
because she cares for tobacco but because
smoking displeases some people whom she
likes to astound. She does not mean. OF
course, to do anything wrong or unlady
like-she only feels that she must live up
to her liberty those people would
restrict il they could. You see, at bottom.
the bachelor girl is the most feminine
thing in the world.
A chafing-dish supper is a sort of Med
der River to Victory Ammo Domini. since
it is there she achieves the most notable
triumph of ways over means.
A chatting dish. ycu know. is a fetch
which rewards only the vOtaries who give
it single minded devotion The bachelor
girl Is TOO Iaclle 10 be single minded. W nat
with lectures. art. literature. keeping up
with the play houses. thinking out her
frocks and sympathizing with budding
genius. is it any wonder she forgets some
times that Newburg lobster requires q dash
Of sherry. or that a Welsh rarebit cannot
make up with beer for lack OF cayenne.
But What Of it2 When chafng-dish vic
Tins takes their lives in their hands. she
smiles al them. fully persuaded that moth
ing really matters so long as her appear
auce is unconventional enough 10 be dis
tinctly artistic. ] do not say she is wrong
The longer I live the more reason I see In
the Berkeleyan contention that there are
no things only the names of things The
bachelor girl is a sort OF unconscious hyp-
norist whose power is rooted ia her vic
torious faith in herself