Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-20
FOR POPULAR BACHELORS
NEW WAY DEVISED TO PAY BACK
LITTLE ATTENTIONS.
A Pillow Party if They Have
studios or
Dens. .l.-..
Written for The Evening Star.

Society and civilization seem determined
to make the lot of the bachelor man a
happy one. In this society is not farsee-
ing, for many otherwise useful man
thus becomes confirmed to a life of selfish
single blessedness and is quoted as a prece-
dent by eligible youths anxious to escape
the matrimonial yokes which worthy moth
ers possessed of large families of mar
riageable daughters seem determined to
impose.
The deadliest of all foes to matrimony is
the good-loolling bachelor of artistic ten
denotes who has been able to drift along to
the state of incipient grayness without
damage to his heart or popularity.
AS a rule he dwells alone or with some
congenial male chum in studio apartments
and If he has ample means, what studios
they are-noiseless with oriental rugs and
rare hangings that stifle the cumbrous
football and the shrill, penetrating voice
of the katydd type, Then there are pic
tureSque couches and diVanS spread invit-
ingly across corners enriched with treas
ures collected during numerous foreign
wanderings. The den is picturesque lux
ury materialiZed
If the bachelor is liked by the fair sex
his rooms will look like a woman's eX-
change on an opening day for there is no
species of fancy work that the feminine
Noi7iNOiS loo tjttpOIdlt lot HeT
bachelor idols.
NOman's Good Will.
The bachelor, whether he be painter
musician author, lawyer or physician. de-
ponds good deal for his success upon
the good will of women. The painter does
their portraits and lines the walls of their
houses with canvases, the musicians con-
certs are profitable directly or indirectly
through their patronage; women form
large proportion of the readers of the age:
the young lawyer who can work the social
role successfully is the one who comes
early and happily into circle of clients
while the young doctor-well, if it were
not for feminine hypochondriacism he
would be charge upon the town in a
twelvemonth
Since the vanity and the income of the
professional man are both inflated by the
favor of the ladies of his acquaintance il
is not to be wondered at that he loses sleep
thinking OF plans to please them.
Lion and Tea
The bachelor apartments are turned up-
side down for the chic dinners, luncheons
and teas, which are served either from the
caterers or by the bachelors special man
If the bachelor is not yet sufficiently en-
riched for such elaborate functions, he is
sues cards for special at home DAYS. and
at these he diSpenSeS tea of his own brew
ing and light refreshments of the sand
witch and cake variety. To vary the inter
est he secures the appearance of some
lion of the hour-iterary or musical-and
the falr ones fairly besiege him for in
Vltations, for where lone man sets out to
play the host he usually finds that the
other sex snaps its fingers at formalities
because they do not take his functions Sc
rlously and simply look upon him as a
Hidcniile LOT grinding out amusement.
Truly Artistic.
A well-known artst-his name is known
been giving the use of his studio to little
coterie of society women who were en-
gagged in morning pursuit of knowledge I'M
der the auspices of one of the fashionable
drawing room lecturers.
% OF course, the artist would have accepted
no compensation If it had been offered
The ladies were nearly all wealthy women
who had bought his pictures or entertained
him in their homes, aboard their husbands
yachts or at their seaside or country resi-
dences. The artist himself is man of
good position If not of wealth, and his
artist ocratic relatives are powers in the
social world Of which most of the women
rich but aspiring, were but parts of the
background, and, although they wished to
make some return for the favor, they would
not have dreamed of Offering him money
To show their appreciation of his kindness
an old-fashioned surprise party on the
plan of the country parsons donation affair
was organized. Each woman agreed to
make for the occasion pillow whose beau
ty and smartness should only be limited
by her good taste and ingenuity. The
party was held one spring afternoon the
artist having been apprised that as ii was
the last meeting of the class they would
like to make it a semi-social affair Con-
sequently he gave the model a holiday
tucked away his paint boxes, brushes
palettes and rags and, arrayed in the fes-
tive garb of the Philistines insteaI of his
painting jacket, was ready to receive the
ladies at least an hour before their arrival
A Cushion Shower.
About this time messenger boys, bearing
curious looking packages, began to arrive
singly, in twos and threes and at last even
in quartets and quintets.
He began to open the packages, and out
of each one dropped fat cushion. Before |
the first member of the class came in he |
had forty pillows piled up in the corner.
There were all sorts Of cushions, from the |
lordly one Of burnt leather, worth at least |