| Show advice to td bachelors If Every very dog has his day and BO so has baa the bachelor in all this tuis tills weary old world there is no creature more hopel hopelessly esly forlorn than the unmarried man who has outlived the pleasures ot his youth and findo finds himself jogging alone with ever speed despite gout and r down the sunset slope OL 01 ife while the bloom of youth NV v i n him I 1 he was a gay gallant manibu maneuvering vering mammas aud and marriageable daughters followed flattered 2 sought and sued but when wnm he enters the season of th tho sere and und nd yellow leaf and people divid out is a confirmed old bachelor who positively will not marry then female flatterers flatter ers drop away mater familial fa milias become de vetel to younger and more eligible beaux and the girls turn up their dainty noses at him bo so the social ties of lang syne synell are one by one severed severe sevene darid add no new ones come to take their then ho he flies to his club for companionship but even there he must stand aside and play second fiddle to younger rivals in short hn hi finds himself at fifty a complete social failure and it does not help the matter any when he realizes too lae late that it is all his own fault having been rendered doubly vain and selfish by over in his halcyon days he still h ankem hankers restlessly after admiration mi ration A alid arid were he less concerio conce concerned ril he could discover with hair half an at ae e eye efe atiat his fancied friends do not eare care a straw for him that they use hini him only as suits their own pleasures and that behind his hia back bilek they hold up his foibles to ridicule and it serves him right too for he has neglected his heaven appointed mission in life that of making bome some woman happy and of building up a solace for his own and her old age in the shape of a home and la family tie tle s and nd children to ri riso rise go u up p dt m Y liui 1101 in ili h his 1 4 declining ec dg years andrall and cali cail call him blessed if Longfellow Long nong fellows a idea is dor don correct that no wo one Is so accursed by fate no one so utterly desol desolate te but some heart though unknown responds unto his bis own then there is somewhere a desolate and dried up old maid stranded upon the 06 rugged sands ot of time whose life is aa as barren and bleak as his own all because he neglected to find and marry her oh you crabbed old cus eus customer you selfish and sinful bachelor we call upon you to repent and turn from the error of your ways ere it ia Is everlastingly too fate and you become so chronically spur and snappish and altogether disagreeable that no woman in the world will have you besides you are boeing all the real sweetness of life and are arc pur pursuing suing an ignis fattus faltus of fancied pleasure which will inevitably leave you at last to flounder hopelessly and alone through the morass of regretful old age matrimony may not at all times present paths of peace but in the main its ways are the ways of pleasantness and of two evils evila it is always wise to choose the east least bl is a myth when a man or woman has passed assed the golden rubicon of middle iio nie life and since misery loves lovea company even occasional do double uble ubie wretchedness is preferable to continual solitary woe AS R F ch chronicle roni |
