The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-04-07
AMONG THE
BACHELORS

serious. Down in little old New
York City, May 1 is to be bachelors
bargain day; now what do you think
of that? We have read Of bargain
days in white goods, lace goods and
dress goods; in overcoats and suits
and petticoats, in wet goods, in gro
ceries and dry goods but who ever
observed a bargain day in male
goods! New York City is said to be
a big town, and it has city clerk.
This mans name is Mclaughlin and
he announces that he will pay out
of his own pocket the fee for all
marriage licenses issued in his office
ON the first day of May. He Is a
bachelor himself, and probably wants
to encourage matrimony. He is well
hooked up" financially but so far
as is known he isn't hooked up at all
as to cupid. He is said to be young
and popular among those who really
know him, and the inference is that
he believes in advertising so that he
may become better known, for what
live girl whose friend was going for
a marriage license that day would
not take this chance to go along and
get acquainted with the clerk or at
least get a look at him while ar
ranging for matrimony?
Down at Athol, Kansas, the bach
eIors are testing the principle of for
bidding certain things, perhaps with
the idea that they will follow the ex
ample of Adam. They have formed
a bachelors club and the rules and
bylaws forbid fellow being in the
company of a girl, entertaining or
pleasing her in any way or exercis-
ing his preference for one. Poor,
bleeding Kansas How it must yearn
for company and the balms of COM
radeship! The penalty is a fine of
$40 for the first offense, and the girls
of. the town are showing their re-
sentiment by entertaing lavishly for
the young fellows of other towns.
The bachelors club is bound to &C
quire ten-dollar- as fines and to
lose membership thru the natural OPP
Grafton or the law of the days of
Adam. Every bachelor in Athol
should lose his head and run his legs
off in the pursuit of what is forbid
den him. If he doesn't lose his head
he will be working it, so he will
be like the transcontinental rail-
roads are during the blockade of the
Panama canal-busy at the termin-
ais. Let us hope he comes to him
self and wins.
Last week we spoke about the spit
ting habit in men; the week before
we talked to them about carrying
life insurance, and the girls have
been thanking us for both. A lot
of the bachelors have also expressed
their appreciation of the light we
threw on the insurance question, and
some of them have said we gave
them some new and valuable views
as to splitting. The question of screen
doors to keep out the flies is one of
the live question brought to light in
connection with the splitting habit,
and as everybody knows the fly sea-
son is sure to come and that it comes
when everybody is busy, it follows
that the thoughtful bachelor who is
all right is going to get his screen
doors made and painted and ready
to hang before the main body OF
flies arrive. If you see fly screens
at the windows and screen door
hung or stood up by the door of a
bachelors house you will know that
he reads The Republican and is
Johnny on-the-spot, live, progressive
and responsive, and that is the kind
of fellow you want. If he is all
right he has already removed all the
rubbish where flies might breed, has
planted some flowers and set Vir-
ginia creeper so it can run up over
the house. Notice these things and
be assured of his adaptability or the
lack of it. The fly question is going
to be a big question this year, and
the man who keeps up screens with
holes in for the cat to pass thru, or
has screen door that Says and
leaves plenty of places for flies to
pass and yet Obstructs the passage
for people, is the man who splits on
the floor and neglects to carry life
insurance. The editor of this paper
is going to take a Tin Lizzy' and
steer it up and down all the country
lanes this spring to see which farm
ers have good screen doors on their
houses and who has hauled out into
the fields every scrap of rubbish from
about the barn and corrals where
flies might hatch. We are going to
notice who is fixing up nice yard
and who is piping the water into
the house to make the work lighter
there, The man who has family
may have some boys coming on, and
you girls will want to know wether
thoughtfulness runs in the family or
not. Progressive farmer-progres-
sive sons. Thoughtful man gallant
sons. See the idea? We are looking
ahead for you and them.
Somebody has asked us when a
young fellow becomes a bachelor, and
when a girl becomes an old maid.
In our treatise a fellow becomes
bachelor when he needs a wife. He
isn't bachelor when he just thinks
he needs a wife, but might be able
to take care of one, after fashion.
AS to when girl becomes an old
maid (maiden lady is cOrrect) she
reaches that stage when she becomes
serious, thoughtful, appreciative of
men, and frankly meets the question
of comradeship and matrimony as