Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-23
lNeRATlTUDE OF A BACHELOR
Takes Everything that Comes His
way and rails 90 Recip-
rOcate.

Are bachelors ungrateful? Do they make
Il a constant policy to receive and never
to give?
I'm sick Of bachelor men-they are no
better than 'sponges, " said a well known
hostess.
1.-THE trouble is" she continued, "one can
not give a party without them. A certain
number Of 'swallow-tails' are as necessary
to the success OF dance or a dinner as
are the music at one and the food at the
other That il why they score and where
lies the strength Of their position.
III IL were not for this fact there are
not more than three or four men for whom
1 really care who would ever get even a
cup of tea in my house.
1.-THE others--well they are invited sim
ply for appearance sake. Many OF them
are stupid; most of them vain aud all des-
perately keen upon chaperoning themselves
from my own and other peoples daughters,
who. in all probability have absolutely no
designs upon their bachelorhood,
THE average young man adds little to
the general amusement of the room he
enters He has all the air of not wanting
to be there, and his hostess regards him
merely as a necessary bit of the furnishing
of her room. Unless she be blind and deaf,
he gives away to her whenever he comes
the fact that he considers his presence
there quite sufficient return for her hos
pitality.
HE eats lunch and lunch at her house
and does not even bring her a bunch Of
violets in return. lie doesn't want to
marry one of her daughters, won't even
bother to get a rather important introduce
ton for one of her sons and resents being
occasionally asked at the last moment as
fill-up.'
so what manner OF use is he? AS I
said before he is simply furniture. Just
as a suite is not perfect without q certain
number OF chairs a social gathering is
incomplete without sprinklng of black
coats.
| II know a woman whose methods Of deal
ing with such persons are somewhat dras-
| tic. 1 couldn't do such things myself, but
| l am not sorry that there is some one who
can.
when she has lavished endless hospi-
tality upon young man, and realizes that
though he has the means he has not the
intention of making any return. she in
vites him to a little dinner at a hotel, say
with herself and couple of daughters.
| When after dinner, the last liqueur has
been disposed Of in the lounge, the woman
suddenly gives a little sceam of amaze
ment at the lateness of the hour, and, fol
lowed by her girls, she makes a dash for
the cloak room, leaving the young man tc
pay or else she commissions him to buy
the flowers for. her party, or a box fol-
the children at the pantomime, and ther
pTetends to be enormously surprised and
elighted at his charming present!
Does he ever speak to you again?
asked, when she had explained her tactics
| to me.
"'Oh, yes! 1 believe he thinks all th'
more of me forever after. He acknowl
edges to himself the fact that 1 am only
insisting upon my rights, and he respects
me for my attitude.
Il II once heard a young man say to an
other: L have to give old Skinflint din
ner now and again or he doesn't ask M
to his place to shoot. But the Glvealls ar,
not the "cutlet-for-cutet' sort, SO L don
bother to entertain them And that be
lieve, is the point of view of the averag,
bachelor man."-St. Louis Globe-Democrat