The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-09-10

quaalfancesos The woman Szhoas cook
is = Gordon k!sa and whose wines are
Of che proper vintage does NOT find
that her rinyitations aBo re2.sed5 be,
cause she is eingle, and while hus-
band maybe a luxury, he is BY no
means social necessity.
So far as men are concerned, Che
statement thatFe single person has no
ststus in society is even more untsn-
able, for it is an axiom that so long as
o man 10 unmarried he is an object Of
burning interest and solicitude to
every woman in the communis/ !. The
old bachelor 10 always persona grata
with the wives Of his married friends,
. welcome guest at their table, and .
perennial object Of their philantropic
matchmaking endeayor. Indeed, one
OF the severest jars a mans vanity
ever gets is the dull, sickening thud
with which all other women throw
him over the minute he is married.
Up to that time he has been figure.
Women's faces have frightened at his
approach, they have hung with eager
interest on his words, and laughed at
his witticisms, but the minute hs ,ets
married he is Of interest and import
ance t9only one woman. in the! world,
and tne other woman is mean enough
to do MIN reverence. a.1'SfS3
But the society chat 10 Of most Inn
portance in the world .is the great
brotherhood Of man, and nothing could
be less true than that the unmarried
man or woman has 40 part in this.
In every community there are old
maide and old bachelors whose M.ee
are so helpful to their fellow crea.
lures That ii almost seems as If they
had o special call TO celibacy, and that
they were cut off from tender family
ties in order that they might assume
. mission OF fatherhood and mother
hood broader than that bounded By
blood, and far more unsel6sh.
We all know the old maid sister or
aunt who is the stop.gap in the fami-
ly life and makes good the defcien.
cies and inefioiencies Of the wise to
the husband, and who mothers moth
1erless little childEen. We know old
bachelors who have never known the
love Of wife or child, to whom no cry
Of the widow or the orphan ever comes
nnheeded. All about us there are
thousands of unmarried women and
men who are spending their lives maxi
ing good the married failures, and to
say that these people have no place in
society .is like disappearing against
the saints. i tits ths unmarried men
and women who are carrying on the
great altruiatic, philanthropio work Of
the world, form the maioritysof cases
family life makes people selfish, and
theydo nos look Beyond their own
brood. az
Some Of the most beautiful stories
Of f.unselfish devotion that the world
has ever known could be told by these
unmarried men and women, and many
q man who buttons his prim little
black coat over his withered heart is
entitled to pin there the CROSS Of the
Legion OF Honor, for his gallant sa,ri-
fee Of himself to his duty. The world
gees In hSm only a thin old man, dried
up and wrinkled, WHO has acquired
fussy, particular ways through much
living alone, and it guys him good
naturedly about being an old bachelor,
and never dreams that somewhere
down the road Of the old man life is
q grave where he buried love and ro-
nance and the hope Of wife and child,
and turned his back on happiness Cor
the sake Of others, who often do not
appreciate him,
Somewhere, in little country,
tcun, I know an old bachelor who is
called "Unole Jim By half the COM
munity. he 10 2 wisened old man
now, always serupulohsly dressed ii
black, in the fashion Of 20 years ago,
and ell day long he stands behind the
counter Of a drug store and Listens.
with nnfailing patience TO the tssymp-
tons''of his neighbors. and preacribes
for them, for Uncle Jim B remedies
are esteemed far above doctors stuff, },
and NOS man, woman or child who
does nos go TO him with their aches,
whether Of body or heart. It is q
aourishisg little town 10 which Unole
Jin lives, and he does a flourishing
business, and many people wonder
Why. he has never married.
One night it CHANGED chat I dropned