El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-15
= a BACHELORS DIARY ::
Sympathy Help
By

ULY 24.-The days go by as mo-
nOtonously for me as if were a
keeper in a lighthouse.
This statement will not be credited
by the women. Every woman thinks
restrained cavOTting. Neither Will the
married men believe me. Every married
man nkens himself to a prisoner in jail
who looks through the bars and plans
of what he would do if he were on the
outside. To be a bachelor means free
dom. To be a bachelor of great wealth
means greater freedom. If 1 told
married man of the monOtony of my
days he would look at me with pity, as
we look at those who are blind to their
opportunities.
Everyone envies me because I am
rich and free. Even the clerks in my
office envy me, though they must know
from what they have learned of my
private life that I am the most unfor-
tunate of beings
This is what I have been doing every
day since the morning the little white
hearse stopped at my door:
I get up at s, read the morning pa
pers while eating my breakfast in this
great big house all alone. Then walk
to the office and, after boring and both
ering everyone there for an hour or
two, 1 go to the club for a lunch. In
the afternoon I go for a brisk ride in
the evening alone on my porch, smok-
ing and thinking Of the past and won
dering what the future holds.
SPencers Invite Him.
The SpencerS want me to come to
them. They are now at the seashore
and write that Manette is getting as
brown as a berry. She plays on the
sand bareheaded all day long, and Jack
is teaching her to swim 1t would be
an ideal outing-if I had Elizabeth with
I Nit }, ont h,r-
We had talked so much of just such
summer as Manette is having.
4 will get a big cottage" I would
tell Elizabeth, when she sat on the
arm of my big chair with her arms
around my neck we will call it Dream
Cottage, and we will take Richards and
Manette and Miss Lee and the house
keeper"
Then to tease her I would tell her we
would have to leave TOmpkins at home
He was always a great favorite with
her, and she would coax me with kisses
to take him along. Many hours were
spent in furnishing our summer home,
and I had promised her we would go
downtown some day and she could get
just what she wanted for her bedroom.
1t will be my very, very own room"
she would say, and one day she would
decide to have pink curtains and the
next day she would change to blue. and
the next day to yellow. But she never
changed in this: her room was to be
next to that of her darling, uncle Max
and in Dream Cottage Richards must
let her stay up till 9.
1 can't go without her. I have found
I am not brave enough to go to any of
the places Elizabeth enjoyed most or
made the greatest plans for seeing
some day. I can't go to the seasncre.
1 can't face Manette and answer her
childish questions about that journey on
which her sister has gone.
An Auto Ride.
July 26.-I was sitting on the porch
all alone last evening, smoking and
thinking of Elizabeth. and pulling my
self up sharp every time my mind
turned to Josephine, when a big touring
car turned into the street and stopped
at my gate I arose but before 1
reached the steps Hardin Jones bound
ed up them two at a time.
Come on" he said 1T isn't good for
you to spend so much time alone. and
your friends have formed conspiracy