The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-11-01
BACHELORS NO GOOD
That Is Opinion Expressed by a
Married Woman.
Says Matches Men Are s:arred II
Over ThIrty-Fiwe-cIaIms They
peterIorate Rapidly After
That Ass.

London.-Should Q man marry before
the age Of thirty-nve to save himself
from becoming sort Of social pariahf
Men who do not marry detsriorste
rapidly after they have reached the
age Of from thirty-Hve to forty" IL
the opinion, expressed by 4 married
woman.
There seems to be q natural law in
operation" she said, which ordains
that II man does not marry in tho
early thirties he breaks down social
ly. and becomes only At for the club
smoking room, the music hall and dog
fights.
Il know a large number of my hus-
bands men friends, and, Of course. I
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.
Nov the bachelors below the age
Of thirty-flve 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. I'll at ease in the
society Of women. and they have be-
gun to assume that every girl IL 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 wakened up to a
great extent, but I am perfectly sure
It would be better II they had gone
to sleep.
"Their sense Of how to dress seems
to have withered, for there is lax
ity in the way they wear their
clothes that shows they want nothing
30 much as a wife to see they garb
themselves with some approach to
civilized neatness.
TN fact, though they do not, OF
course know II, their whole appear
ance is a confession that they dc
not matter
And that Is the key of the prob
lem. They do not matter, and theil
outward air confesses their inward
self-stultifying conviction. A mateless
man is a married man.
Their homes. when they allow
their friends wives to penetrate t.
them, show the same thing. Pipes
in all stages of foulness, are Uttered
everywhere. Dust lies on everything
"a decanter of good whisky. a sy
phon of soda water, and several lazy
chairs constitute their ideas Of home
comforts. Untidiness, and a sort o.
squalor, are the distinguishing fea
lures of their rooms.
| "They have adopted the doctrine O
pandering to their own whims, ant
the older they get the deeper that self
ish instinct sinks into their minds.
They are intolerant of anything
that give them the least trouble, ant
the older they get the worse they ar,
In this respect. Nothing else matters
The real, vital things of life pas
these self-centered people by.
They shut their eyes to the beaut,
of children, their minds are hermetic
ally sealed to the really sacred human
emotions. They drift about town in an,
out of their clubs. They help no one
They like no one. Their best In
stincts perish for lack of nutriment
"If they are invited to go any
where their only questions are: VIVA
is the shooting like? is the che
good?' is there decent golfing t.
be had near?
Literature means nothing to them
for they are out of sympathy witt
love, and books about racing canno
be called literature"