Evening star., 1902-03-15
dropping into the gear of the withdrawing

It generally happens that when the moth
ers and sisters In distant towns OF young
men leading this sort OF an existence hear
or their bachelor nat menaGe they take
OF awful pictures Of dissipation. In which
they fancy the young men must engage.
AS simple matter OF fact. there II exceed
insiy little wildness or even unconyen-
t1onality In the fats Of the character here
described. Not 90 much dissipation on
the part OF the young men. In truth. Al
might be the case were they living IN
boarding houses, where finding 1t out or
the question to stick to their rooms, they
felt the necessity Of faring forth into the
white light district for diversion.
Tendency IL Against Dissipation.
The great majority OF these young men
execute the regular hustle to get to their
offices at 8 o'clock in the morning, ana
men who have to do that can't engage in
much riot on the night before. Moreover.
the fats themselves are generally so cheer
fui and cozy that they invite the youths to
stay in rather than to sally forth to see
what they can see. They are fellows who
join the bachelor fiat brigade for the
chances the fiat offers them to move
around, as opposed to the crampfng coop
ing up Of the solitary boarding house room
and for the foregathering with pals and
men or their own sort. If they have q
box of beer in the Ice chest the harm is
small-they might well be rambling around
imbibing liquids more fiery and deleterious.
IT they mingie up two or three nights
ante and 10 cents limit, they are not ir-
reparably damaged thereby by q whole lot
they might well be trying their luck at
less fnnocuous and certainly less homelike
games Of chance.
Again. these young bachelor f1atters by no
means neglect the social idea. II there is
any one sort OF thing that the average
woman likes more than another sort OF
bachelor fiat. Women like to see how the
animals live and have their being when
there are no wifely skirts hanging in the
closet and no connubial curling irons re-
posing on the chiffonfer. One is bound to
say that their faces inevitably take on an
expression OF extreme disappointment and
chagrin not to say of reproach. when they
hnd that the bachelors almost always live
IN a state OF exceeding great household
cleanliness: that the pots and pans are
secured to the mirror state; that there is
no dirt swept under the bureaus; that the
pa1amas are not deposited on the mantel-
plece; that there are not cigarette stumps
scattered promiscuously all over the car
pets, and. In general, that the young men
appear to be cropping along extremely we'll
thanks. without the aid connivance or as
ISSUANCE or any female person whatsoever
Astonishment for Women.
A woman would not be human did she
not nave to swallow a gulp with the re-
nection that, left to himself, the normal
and healthful-minded male animal of the
twentieth century is an essentially tidy
cleaniy and methodical occupant Of a cage
Merely in the way of an aside, did the
reader hereof ever watch the faces Of a
party OF women visiting a ship of war?
Inelr countenanceS are generally mantled
with expressions Of amaze almost comicaI
Ihe absolute spotlessness Of the white
aecks, the glittering brass and bright work.
the scientlhc orderlfness. the extraordinary
cleanliness and shine and sparkle of the
cooks galley-it all seems so incredible to
the gentle visitors that they can't realize
1t, and they scarcely credit their guides
assurance that mere rough-handed men are
exclusively responsible for the sunerb
housekeeping Of the man-o'-war These
young bachelor f1atters see to it. of course
that their establishments are ready for in
spection when they invite their women
friends to little rarebit parties and the like
put, as matter OF fact, their plants are
In pretty fair apple-pie order all the time
even when the feminine element is not ex-
pected
And craftily enough, the feminine e,e-
nlent very often, such Is the growing mower
or a comparatively recently sprung custom
make sudden sallies and swoops-properly
chaperoned. Of course-upon the dives Of
their young bachelor friends lust to see if
they can't catch the establishments in a
state OF disorder and disarray
Ihe young bachelor f1atters afford their
women friends all sorts Of innocuous fun
under their little vines and fig trees by
taking off their coats. rolling up their
sleeves. and turning to in the concoctfon
and devisement of griddle cakes, rarebits.
omelets and-well. yes, even hash! MANY
an engaged young fatter has performed
these stunts to his future embarrassment
embarrassment, that is to say, in being
mildly requested, after marriage to ...et
the breakfast of the sleepy wife. foxilv
feignins indispostion.
1t doesn't require any especial acumen
to perceive that this bachelor fiat plan is in
every way an admirable one for foot-Ioose
young fellows cast upon their own resources
IN city OF the character Of New York.
G. L. c.