The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-28
BACHELOR HAS
SOME FEW USES
He Is Handy to Fetch and
c Carry and a Good
COnfidant.
SHOULD BE LEFT AT PEACE
In Fact His U~ntrammeled
State Gives Him Many
Virtues.

To the far-seeing woman with an eye
to the fitness and comfort of things, 1t
must remain a mystery why so man.
people bubble over with the desire to
reduce bachelors to the state of bene-
diets. says the London Mail. What TINS
planet would be without the presence
of the so-called Confirmed bachelor
the wise woman trembles to think.
There he Is at her beck and call, ready
to fetch and carry for her, ready to
sympathize and befriend. the handiest
and most useful person going.
1T is a curious psychological fact thai
bachelors should know womankind in
general so infinitely better than the
usual married man. The bachelor,
possibly through long experience of
women in the aggregate, has a most
correct. knowledge of her requirements
and her Weaknesses; he realizes far
better than herself what Is necessary
for her and what is good for her. Most
importan mt of all, if he is worth his salt,
he never takes her at her word-one Of
the wisest determinations a man ever
came To.
married mans experience OF
women must Of necessity be more or
Ices Iiroited. he Is prone TO Judge all
women nv rho one whom he has taken
"for better for worse'-a fatal error,
since women are the most diverse
creatures in Christendom. d
Should the. day ever come when an
government should see the
necessity to turn. nv n system of heavy
TAXATION bachelors into married men.
ffiis fateful mistake would goon be felt
Among the bulk of women, and the
feminine world would be full of lamen>
~tstions Life would be bereft of half
lie ssvrr1natbv and empty and desolate
would he the outlook.
There must always be much in the
doctrine that e"He travels the fastest
Who travels alone" Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds felt as convinced as Michael An>
cello that to marry would be fatal to
bis career Sir Isaac Newton assured
bis friends that for the man who loved
his work marriage wa a mistake.
pasarihi was of the same opinion. Pitt
was welded to his country. AS for
A1aernon Charles S%winburne and Lord
Eitcheneri their lives are bound up in
their work. To change the course Of
their daily existence would mean inter-
ests tilrned into now channels and
would result in irreparable loss.
esA. man married is a mar spoiled for
The general world of women. 1t is in
the fitness of things that he should
lose interest in all women save the
me who has conquered him. Were it
otherwise. he would lay himself open
TO be misunderstood IL o observe
his conversation. it always bears round
TO his wife, his children. and his home
subjects of practically no interest to
those outside that circle. He soon be
eomes s~elf-absorbed and selfish, and it
Is hut human that he should be utterly
un%synpathetic to the outsider. How
could it be otherwise, when his life is
50 full of domestic interests? Of
course, no one wants to blame the dear
man for a state Of mind that is beyond
his control, inasmuch as it is begotten
out Of his associations II his sur
roundings. The very day he walked
out tncng the rice and slippers he be-
anne as dead TO the women of his ac-
quaintance as if ii were the day of his
funeral.
! Nor can the widower take the place
OF the bachelor. He is all right in his
way, but as a rule he is a trthe too keen
or the late laneuted-a charming char
octerjStic. no doubt, but one which does
hot appeal to other women. He is prob
ably unaware that no woman in the
world ever wants a man TO discuss with
her tho virtues Of any woman, past 81
pr~esent-only her oWn--for In dolng sc
she feels herself at a certain disadVan-
tage.,
Besides. he can scarcely be expect Fl
to possess The illusions of a bachelor
and. however matter-of-fact a woman
may he. or however replete with com
mon sense, deep down in her heart Is
the love OF illusion; h likes to cherish
the fond fancy that slle. is the first ano
only woman who has ever really alp.
pealed to the man she loves. Again. t'
he expected to live up to a certain
standard is always n trying ordeal
and II a woman hopes to keep a def
mite place in the regard Of the widowei
she is bound to rise to that. Compact
sons sre ever odlous. and she must a.
ways feel that she is being compared
with that oth~er-generally to disadvan
tage
I'm q world where there is such al
enormous preponderance OF superhuou
women the bachelor is a valuable asses
Ills small kinduesscs and harmless at
tentions are cminently agreeable. ans
the modern woman. with her scepti
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