Show Bachelor Girl Reflections Reflection I By Helen Rowland If marriage were only based upon the selective draft instead of upon chance perhaps most husbands and wives would not appear as sadly mis- mis mated as s the coats and trousers one sees ees on on some of the soldiers nowadays Once upon a time an old bachelor would sit by the fire and m muse se upon the girls he had loved and lost nowadays there and muses upon the-motorcars the ho he has loved and exchanged The difference between spInsterhood spinsterhood spinster spinster- hood arid ad marriage is merely the difference difference dif dif- dif dif- ference between never having anything any any- thing Interesting to do and never having haying hav hay ing the time to do anything interesting Every time a man falls from from grace grace one of a womans woman's illusions takes a tumble along with him I These Thes are bitter days for the bachelor bache bache- lor br who respects his digestion but is invited out five nights a a. week weel by frugal housewives to help eat up the left overs A radical sever never n becomes omes absolutely despondent until things begin begia to look so hopeful f for r his country that he cant can't find anything to object to complain com corn pl plain ln about or rave against When a a. pacifist pa sighs sigh's gh's th that t war turns men into brutes he merely means that it turns mollycoddles Into men and brutes Into heroes The boys over there will have something more thrilling and glorious to bra brag about in their old a age e than their speed records and golf goIt sc scot score thank goodness You cant can't argue frighten or na naman man Into loving you just ought too too because because dearie deane love i inot is not exactly a mans man's feeling for foi thought-censor thought a creditor or a the on Any girl who vho fails faUs to give an att officer officer om- om In a brand new uniform at least one glan glance of ot the ardent admiration which he expects as he passe passes te is guilty of criminal neglect of or her pa patriotic pa duty i 4 T Copyright 1918 1913 by the Press Co the New York Evening World |