The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-03-10
BACHELORS
COLUMN

1t is big job, this matter of de-
scribing all the bachelors so the girls
may know. But it is joy, for we
have an excuse to study up on each
of them and it brings us to an APP
probation of their good qualities.
Sometimes a fellow, who reaches the
age of 80 without being married, gets
the idea that he has passed thru the
woods without even selecting a
crooked stick and that he is now
out in the limelight of the open field
and a legitimate target for jests and
jibes, but that is only one of the
follies of the day. Then, too, there
are girls who get the idea that the
man who is over 80 has reached the
period when he has one foot in the
grave and the other on banana
peel and that it isn't safe to cast
ones lot with him. But that is an
other one of the mistaken ideas that
is daily disproven. The man at 80
is just getting over the follies Of
youth and getting SO he has sense.
But he acquires sense faster II he
is married at rs and you don't have
to wait till you are 80 just because
we are defending the fellow who has
reached that age.
When fellow takes his best girl
out for an evening, when they step
off of her parents front porch going
out, he assumes a contract. He UNI
dertakes to entertain that girl for the
evening and bring her back to that
front door safe and sound, happy
and glad she went. When he under
takes the matrimonial voyage he
merely enlists for a longer contract
with her and assumes wider range
of RESPONSIBILITIES. The perennial
home he brings her back to from that
contract is the final parting and, II
he is afraid he cannot navigate the
broad seas well enough for her, he
can take some comfort in the thought
that he does all he can when he
stakes his life on the trip and the
final unsealing of the manifest at
the port of destination. If there is
anything about the trip that you
dread, just remember it will take
care of itself when the time comes.
It may be more difficult than you ex-
pected, but you will be equal to more
than you thought. Keep that in mind
and cultivate the society of someone
you like. When doubts assail you
Danish them and go right on stick
ing to the conclusion that IL you
marry that one it will keep you busy
the rest of your life deserving the
honor of his or her comradship.
Come Thick and Fast
Last Saturday as the editor re-
turned from his noon lunch he met
one of the handsome bachelors we
wrote up last week, and he said with
all seriousness, tits true as you live
Mr., Trego, it pays to advertise. Since
your paper came out yesterday morn
ing have had six proposals of mar.
rage. OF course, / am not saying
how serious each of them was, but
It shows the power of the press tc
direct peoples attention to any GER
tain thing" You may be next.
Has the Garden Sass
Ed Parrish lives east of town anC
is a good gardener. He is not toe
old nor yet too young. He is just
about right If one is interested in
middle-aged man. A good many mar
ried women know the difficulties they
had had with young men and gar
dens. They don't take to gardens
and gardening like they ought to
Just now many a woman is trying tt
get her husband to fix hot bed ant
he finds excuses for doing something
else every day. Then in the spring
when the wind blows he will say Il
is too windy to plant garden, ant
when it is still and sunny he will
predict bad weather because this Il
merely a weather breeder, and SO II
goes till the garden has to come Out
of tin cans bought at the store a.
high prices. Girls! Widows! think
what it means to have husband
who is lover of good gardens; one
who will clean his feet CAREFUL OF
the back porch and then walk in with
bunch of green onions to go with