TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11483, 16 January 1903, Page 3

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS.

Sir.—fcomaone must ccme to the assistance of "Old Bachelor." Let us suppose, instead of having ->een disappointed many times he has remained faithful to one perhaps married to the "other fellow." Men do remain faithful sometimes' And, having burled his love and affection in days that are gone, he has wakened and wondeis, "Are things what tbev "seem, or are visions about?" "Poor old fellow! They are all alive, although transparent. Women are the same as ever They are "incomparable" and "adorable (being one, I know), and delightful. Their vanity and their ignorance but a reflex of the society of tbe men with whom they associate Let tbem sway, .and k& them swathe their sweeping garments round them-tn the public rtrt-t-, if they can and wdlSoY iae other woy, O Bachelor !-but kZv there axe rtiU many women, wives aS mothers, in the .^^J h ° h £ niain old-fashioned on more than their

d T'w Bame Fashion who has decreed ♦W these www flfould be "dreams and thai tttcse i 0 "'* ,w« 0 f the build of "confections (rega-Xtie-S m -u° *>

the wearer), but Dome Fortune is too stingy to provide carriage, and footmen, and Uke accessories, as a finish to these would-be fashion olates. Dame Fashion

does ' no. expect wive* and daughters ef striving men io follow in her train, but the wilful woman wilt. The result Is

that she is the butt of all the idiotic remarks of those imbecile- loitn.ers at street corners, w_to «noke a L.t.e more, and &wear a little louder ,and who are certainly ,-o better for her womanly ir.fl_eixe. It is only an epidt-mic, "'Old Bach?ior," and you only oat.'h it once—perhaps you lived in the days of crinolines, and from all accounts they were as scarlet fever is to scarletcna.—Yours, etc., MERCY.

[We hive received a hirer? number of letters on this subject, but are only ableto publish a selection. This correspondence is now closed.—Ed- "The Tress."]