The Opinion of a Bachelor.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4647, 14 February 1894, Page 3

The Opinion of a Bachelor.

A correspondent enumerates the ,- following reasons why he remains a bachelor:- "As a bachelor, I get a great many invitation cards and (1 plejsant attentions wherever I go, My married friends don't have anything like so much luck, and their ,t wives make them angry because it is, o so, It is exceedingly nice when I dine out to be paired off with an unmarried girl ldy married friends d look across tbe table at me enviously. ; As I am, I can do exactly as 1 like"; j, go to bed at 9 or 3 o'clock at my own j sweet will, and breakfast in bed, or t, sit up at any hour. Most husbands are expected to be at home by 10 or 11 o'clock, or face cold coffee, tea, is toast, and cold looks next morning, i- Every married man marries for himself—for his pleasure and comfort. Am I to blame if I choose to remain e single for the same purpose ? There >. is no absurder cant than the talk i. about it being a man's duty to the il' race to take a wife. It is next to i- impossible for a man to say definitely I, -"1 can be happy with such a ,1 woman for ray wife." I know sweet i. young girls who, five years from their j, wedding day, wore untidy, course, negligent women, either openly InviDg i ( their children to the neglect of their v husbands, or openly indifferent to d both. This sort of thing is frightful '. to think of. Married men, in some d cases, seem to get used to it, but it ut wearies and kills the greater part of i, them. Ido not write altogether as o a novice in matters of the heart, I have been in love over and over 0 again, Somehow, though, I have I, always put off popping thi question - until surai' other fellow has done it i, on his own account. OF all thcsi girls whom 1 might havo married, only ono now, as a married woman, seems to answer tho expectations 1 had formed of her, The realisation of this makes me morn and more fond of my bachelor liberty and irres- / ponsible freedom, Besides. I have a grey hair or two, and my habits are getting fixed, An astonishing man:l berofmen, like myself, remain sins gle for reasons much like those I e have mentioned. Unmarried, we have but one bird in the band—oone tentment, How can wo tell that we 1 may get hold of that gay, long-tailed e paroquel in the bush—married felicity 1 —if we suddenly charge our state ?''