The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-11-28
BACHELORS NO GOOD
That Is Opinion Expressed by a
Married Woman.
Says Mateless Men Are '.arred II
Over Thirty-Five-cIaims They
Deteriorate Rapidly After
That Age.

London.-Should a man marry before
the age Of thirty-five to save himself
from becoming sort of social pariah?
Men who do not marry deteriorate
rapidly after they have reached the
age Of from thirty-five to forty" is
the opinion, expressed by married
woman.
There seems to be a natural law In
operation" she said, (which ordains
that If man does not marry in the
early thirties he breaks down social
ly, and becomes only fit for the club
smoking room. the music hall and dog
fights.
81 know a large number of my hus-
bands men friends, and, of course,
have friends of my own. Many of
them are married, and they are charm
ing people, who seem to understand.
"But several of them are bachelors.
"Now the bachelors below the age
Of thirty-five are quite endurable, but
those who exceed those years are not.
They are mentally relaxed, and
their manners have lost their edge.
They are awkward, Ill at ease in the
society Of women. and they have be
gun to assume that every girl Is try
ing to marry them.
When they came to dine with us
they devote themselves entirely to
their food and their efforts at CONVEX
sation are perfunctory and paltry.
left alone, with other men, one
can hear they are Weakened up to q
great extent, but I am perfectly sure
1t would be better II they had gone
to sleep.
Their sense of how to dress seems
to have withered, for there is a lax
ity in the way they wear theil
clothes that shows they want nothing
so much as a wife to see they garl
themselves with some approach Il
civilized neatness
I'm fact, though they do not, o
course know It, their whole appear
ance is a confession that they ID
not matter
And that is the key Of the prob
lem. They do not matter, and thei
outward air confesses their inwar,
self-stultifying conviction. A mateies
man Is a marred man.
Their homes, when they ALLOW
their friends wives to penetrate t
them, show the same thing. Pipes
in all stages of foulness. are littere
everywhere. Dust lies on everything
"A decanter Of good whisky, S!
phon Of soda water, and several laz
chairs constitute their ideas of HON
comforts. Untidiness, and a sort c
squalor, are the distinguishing fei
lures of their rooms.
"They have adopted the doctrine c
pandering to their own whims, an
e the older they get the deeper that sci
" ish instinct sinks into their minds.
T. "They IRE intolerant of anythin
. that give them the least trouble, an
l. the older they get the worse they ar
in this respect. Nothing else natter
The real, vital things Of life pas
these self-centered people by.
" "They shut their eyes to the beaut
l. of children, their minds are hermeti
l. ally sealed to the really sacred huma
/. emotions. They drift about town in an
|. out of their clubs. They help no on
q stincts perish for lack of nutriment
"If they are invited to go an
where their only questions are: 'Whi
is the shooting nke?' is the oh,
4. good?' is there decent golfing
l. be had near?'
I Literature means nothing to ther
, for they are out Of sympathy wit
love, and books about racing Cam
be called literature"