The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-07-25
SOME WISE SUGGESTIONS ABOUT
BACHELORS.

Almost any animal-even man.
can be conquered by kindness. Some,
of course, are harder to manage than
others, but all finally yield to gentle
treatment.
Nor is the bachelor-that most in
tractable of all "the bipeds withouth
feathers"-an exception to the rule.
Heretofore he has proved a vexatious
problem to society, and time and
again the best minds have valn.y
striven to devise some plan either for
his determination or his uplift. But
the future promise his complete re-
generation.
1t has remained for Governor Gill
christ, of Florida, to offer the wisest
of all the suggestions in these mascu.
line "solitaires."
The executive of the Everglades
State would neither swat nor kill the
bachelor. He would win him over
to the ranks of benedicks by the most
irresistible of all influences-the SYM
pathy of tactful women.
But stop; let Us explain in the
choice words of the Baltimore Ameri-
can, since our own crude speech is
too clumsy for SO delicate a theme,
Says our contemporary:
| "Since the days of Eden it has been
| a matter of ba ement why bachelors
are. Now an inspired genius has dis
| covered that bachelordOm is pre-"
disposition, due to molecular action
in an inverse manner to the normal.
resulting in declination of the power
of propinquity of maids and widows
over the man so afflicted. Whit this
explanation the rest is easy. 1t is
only necessary to treat the bachelor
as man to be coddled and to be fed
In of IA 0s
man. He must be made to appreciate
the sublimity, the divinity sf woman
sublimity, the divinity of woman
without having his eyes opened to
her artifice.
This is something of what Govern
or Gilchrist is driving at in his high
minded contribution to why bachelors
Iare and how they may not be. The
lgubernatorial mind has been fasci-
mated byy the subject and he turns to
the Book of Ruth in the Bible and
finds in the story of how two widows
managed to land a mighty man OF
wealth for the younger and more at
tractive of the pair an inspiration for
advice as to how to get rid of bach
elors. Taxing them out of existence
has been tried in vain. They pay their
tax and are made obdurate. Ridicule
will not work; they are made immune
by their bump of conceit; they can
not be reasoned with because the
molecules in their craniums do not re-
volve right. The onlyy thing thus far
found adequate for moving the bach
e1or to the altar is sympathy and
cooling guilefulness.
eff only women everywhere could
be induced to accept the view of Gov
ernor Gilchrist and employ the model
tof Naomi in her efforts to get well
settled in life her lovely, young
widowed daughter-in-law, there would
be more irresistible pictures of
cleaners than the world could absorb.
Ruth was a cleaner. Here is the
key to her success, according to the
Florida Governor. She did not go
after Boaz with a, cudgel; she did
not invoke a breach of promise suit;
she did not make herself an over.
dressed trump; she simply CLEANED in
the field of Boaz. The willy woman
who understands this art to perfec'
ton can land the bachelor every time.
She must absorb his interest and
dwell upon his merits and be raptur-
Gus over his qualities and boost his
ambitions"