Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-12-02
Bachelor Apartments Tend TO
Make Men Selfish.
THE POOR GIRL WEEDS
Meets Fiance in Humble Boarding House
Where Many Good Matches
Are Made.

| returns of laborers and clerks who earn
| less than $500 year.
| A partial explanation of this state of
affairs, i'll The opinion of some men of
experience, is the growing popularity of
| the bachelor apartment house. The de-
cline in marriages of men in easy cir
cumstances, they remark. has kept pace
! with the increase in the number of
houses put up solely for mems use
The laborer and the clerk of small in
come can't afford to live in bachelor
apartments. They stick to boarding
houses, and sooner or later-generally
| sooner-marry. With men of larger in
come the boarding house. be it never
so imposing or well appointed, has
dropped into disfavOr.
From the marriage standpoint" said
one of the men who are concerned over
the drop in the marriage statistics, Il
consider fairly good boarding house a
much more desirable institution than the
bachelor apartment. The latter makes
man selfish; and it lessons by 80 per
| cent, believe, his chances of getting
married.
The Boarding House.
Even the bitterest foe of the board
ing house must admit that in nearly ev-
cry one of them are to be found charm
ing women, excellent women; women
whom any man might be glad and proud
to marry. Men and women in q board
ing house are bound sooner or later to
come altogether. Then follow frequent
chats, walks together ON Sundays and
holidays, visits to places of amusement
IN company, chance TO size each other
up pretty well, and in a good many
cases happy marriage afterward.
I'm the bachelor apartment it is noth-
ing like that. No petticoats are allowed
on the premises.
hundreds of the young men living in
the less expensive bachelor apartments.
two or three clubbing TOGETHER to take
one suite. are comparative strangers III
New York and have few, if any, desir
able women acquaintances. and the few
/ they may have are not always located
within easy visiting distance, or they
may not be sufficiently attractive OIL
first acquaintance to inspire men to call
upon them often. Had they met these
same women in boarding house the ac-
quaintance might have ripened into a
sincere friendship, if nothing warmer,
most valuable to the man.
Tired After Days Work.
Men living in bachelor apartments,
particularly if they have been working
hard all day, get out of the way of MAX
ing social calls in the evening, unless,
indeed, they get interested in some one
woman, and for that reason every year
their chance of getting married and their
desire for matrimony lessons.
Not often, | think, does q man turn
his back on a boarding house to get
away from women. but once having
tried bachelor quarters, where he is
spared the eXertion of showing attention
or extending even slight courteSieS to a
woman, he promptly proceeds to make
the most of this freedom by getting more
selfish every day and giving matrimony
wide berth.
There are two large houses situated in
central, very desirable locality and
run as one big boarding house, where
| comfortable rooms and excellent board
may be had by n man at less than the
cost of living in a bachelor apartment
house and eating in n restaurant.
| Eight years ago the clientele of this
| house was two-thirds men. At the pres
ent time tllirty-ive women and three
men are living there and last winter the
| family numbered thirty women and five
| men.
Can't Get Men Boarders.
| 1--WE can't get men boarders any
| more" admitted the proprietor. If Il
man does come he only stays few
j weeks and then clears out, frightened,
| | think, by the sight of so many women.
Almost the only male applicants we
! have are men who want to pay 81 and
! SIS week. and as we have no rooms at
! that price, naturally they do us no good.
| Men who can pay from $40 to $50 a
week pattern after richer bachelors and
make a bee line for bachelor apart
ment house or flat house which in
! cudes what they call bachelor apart
mpnts-suites of two and three rooms
/ and bath. without Il kitchen. Most OF
! the new housekeeping apartment houses
! have some of these suites.
! IF most of the better class boarding
II III for laals ms rnV-
age they would have to shut up III
| hurry Even the cheaper grade board
! ing houses near the big department
| stores which at one time were crowded
/ with men have fewer than formerly;
Talk about women's hotels! | don't
| see the least use OF building any more
when there are dozens of boarding
! houses like this for instance. where there
| is scarcely pair of trousers to be seen.
/ Il will say this for most of the wom-
| en here: they would rather have men
around than not.
Men Quit Landlady.
/ Il first noticed the tendency of men TO-
| Give this house a wide berth about six
years ago. when eight of my young men
| boarders dubbed together hired an en-
1 tire floor with the exclusive use of al
/ bath in furnished room house for men
not far from here. packed mp their be
| longings and gave me notice that they
meant to quit.
No: we parted the best of friends.
/ They simply wanted TO be in n house
where there were no women, they said.
In two years there were five Young
men and one widower who met their
| fate in this house and afterward got
married and went to housekeeping In
each case the man ans; woman sat to-
gcther at the same table, and three
out of the five women were Self-sup
porting
An the men were hard workers with
only moderate salary. and | suppose
/ had they lived in bachelor apartment
none would have found time to 20
ACQUIRING. Maybe they would not have
/ had Il chance"
Few Men Marry Young.
/ The manager of bachelor apartment
/ house the tnnnnfS of Nhicl, y 70 rr1.,1, ~