Year: 1877

Some of the fair captors of Attica
have been throwing bombshells into
the camp of old Baches, as they call
them: but as yet 10 hurt, no one kill
ed The girls of Attica, bless their
dear names, have said considerable, of
late, about the Baches here through
the EAGLE, and seme of their remarks
were any thing but complimentary on
our part. The Bachelor seems to be-
long to that much-abused class of i'll
dividuals And now, girls of Attics
and Belle Plaine, would just like to
ask some who find so much fault with
the Bachelor, if they can point out a
single one, either in Attica or any 9TH
er township, that is not genteel and
gentleman in every respect! Can't
YOU honestly, sincerely and without
prejudice, get down on your knees and
say that you do not know OF a man OF
single blesscdness who is not perfect
gentleman in Attica or any other
township, as far as you have any
knowledge Of that detestable class of
beings, that you say looks like grcas
ed monkey up sweet apple tree :? DO
not all of that class of people treat
you and all with due respect? Now,
why do you envy the Bachelor? The
Bachelor seems to be kind of one
horse hobby for the girls of Attica-
Some of The fair damscls have gone so
far as to refer to their manner OF liv-
ing. Now, dent know of more than
four baches that live, cook and keep
house, and do their work ali alike.
They are like the girls, in this respect.
They all have their peculiar ideas
about cooking a meal, when in charge
of the culinary department. l heard
of one brother bachelor that put so
much of the twin brother yeast in his
bread that he had to sit on top of the
stove while it was cooking to keep it
from lifting the lid off But that is no
reason why there are not some good
cooks, who live alone and keep just
as nice a house and do just as much
work in the house as those young Ia
dies that are wearing out their brains
and their goose pens in depicting the
history of single blessedness. Per-
haps if some of the girls would learn
the art of cooking as our grandmoth-
ers did in ancient days, there would
not be one-fourth as many bachelors,
in the country as there is at the pres
ent time. OF course there is excep-
tions all over the country. There is
girl here and there that is an honor to
her house and her home. The old
saying, honor where honor is due. |
know of girl not more than forty
miles from here, that knows as much
about keeping house and taking care of
things generally as a government mule
does about running portable steam
engine. And now, girls, | would say
in conclusion that if you would be
willing to accept the situation, and as
you are favored with the ballot, are
you willing to be drafted into the army
of bachelors, not merely to work on
the farm, but to make clothing, to
cook and nurse, yes, and to blow up
the enemy. AS for washing, women
may excel in the laundry Oh fine work
and sich, but no Attica girl ever got
up early enough in the morning that
could thrash the dirt out of a gray
shirt in a mess pan with the grace and
skill of a bachelor who is hurrying to
get through with that pan before his
brother bachelor gets ready to cook
those prandial beans for dinner.


GREENWICH BACHELORS.


March 10, 1877.