ARE BACHELORS MAD?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 243, 19 January 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

ARE BACHELORS MAD?

SINGLE LIFE LEADS TO NERVE TROUBLE.

This article deals with the confirmed bachelor hot with the man who "mi t in a hurry but wants to get married in the end. Th's latter sees a vision of :i comfortable home in the dim future, with a gentle wife awaiting him n tho Ik.ll when he comes home at evening, and his slippers warming by the fire. Wo can nut him out of our mind. He 111av be a .yltish fellow but no. to fi.lfisii ;i> tho confirmed bachelor. The lat'.er is not so absolutely happv as he is painted. It is true he is free from family worries. He docsu 1 have, to think about paying the r"nt o r buying the children new boots, but he docs think about himself, and it s more worrying to think about onrs.ti than otln r people. Ho thinks 1.0 has a cold or a lie.s.laclie or rheumatism or something. He is generally morose and pr«siins-ti Hewitts his m.i.il's in solitiuljo and broods, gets depressed, iui I this denn-s----sion cives him indigestion and make him irritable. _ Tho nervous system is then to-c alfected. and if he roes on in his soli tarv way of living his brain is affected, too.