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Show NEVER ENTIRELY WIPED OUT The Bachelor Survives In Great Numbers, Num-bers, Despite Attacks of Most Skillful Foes. Bachelors, like the poor, we have always with us. They never become extinct. The rising army each year is attacked by an opposing army of females, fe-males, and each individual Is, of course, defeated and led away to the slaughter; yet, in spite of this fact, the bachelor still persists. Many things conspire to keep him going; for one, there are (he cities. Bachelors who live in cities learn to be very comfortable. They can arrange ar-range their home decorations to suit . themselves, and can at any time bring home a friend to dinner without any criticism from the management. Bachelors wJio live in cities can also eat and drink what they please without with-out interference, and so far as all the material comforts are concerned, they can regulate their lives to suit themselves. them-selves. On the other hand, the thing that depletes the ranks of the bachelors more than anything else Is lonesome-ness. lonesome-ness. Many bachelors are willing to put up with almost any kind of a hard life so long as they can get someone to share it with. Ease and luxury are, after all, among the minor concerns; con-cerns; alter a bachelor has experienced expe-rienced them for a sufficient length of time he is willing to get married, if only to have someone to quarrel with. Man is always looking for trouble. Life. (- |