ADVICE TO BACHELORS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1079, 29 December 1882, Page 4

ADVICE TO BACHELORS.

Obtain, if possible, congenial companionship. We aie social beings, and our social faculties, like so many mouths, demand to be fed. A man cannot be happy when hunger has him in its clutches arid, hia body demands nourishment that he cannot obtain. Neither can the soul when its hungers are ungratitied. How necessary ,to the child is the mother, what joys it, drinks from her presence and her tones ! How necessary to the girl tire friend into whose ear she can pour her artless tale, aud receive her friend’s in return; and how necessary to the man the woman, to their complete happiness, the wife, the husband. You remember the lament put into the mouth of Robinson Crusoe by Cowper I am monarch of all I survey ; My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Oh, Solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. The man who attempts to go through life alone is doubling his difficulties, increasing bis sorrows, souring his temper, and shortening his life.' Death hastens to rid the earth of his presence that some congenial man may take his place. But you who are married remembei that your wife needs freedom no less than you ; yon have no more right to decide what she sha I eat, drink, oxwear than she has to decide for you Her right to herself, in every sense, is no less sacred than yours to yourself, and if you play the tyrant your wife will be unhappy, and her unhappiness will distil in bitter drops into the cup that you must drink.