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Show A BACHELOR TELL8 WHY HE I IS AFRAID TO MARRY I In the July Woman's Home Coin- I panlon appears li letter written by a I bachelor of thirty to a newly ongnged i girl who abandoned a promising liter- I ary career. Somo efficient wives will I resent tho writer's, attitude; many I will admit the truth of what he says. I A part of tho letter follows: You havo probably chosen ns dlfll- k cult a career ns tho ono you made a J start In, only tho world doesn't put I It that wny. For In tho wife's Job the ' standards of success are low, while In ' tho literary Job they aro high. i Wifehood is h profession nnd a scl-'i enco This Is an ago of efficiency, f We Americans aro sacrificing our j lives on tho nltar of efficiency. My I work makes me nn efficient engineer, and when I am asked why I do not j marry, I never like to give tho truo I reason The girls for whom you hovo f tho right feeling do not come up to the standard of efficiency as wives, home'makers, stimulators, companions, compan-ions, ndlsers. How can I be wrapped wrap-ped up in tho efficiency craze all day and como homo to find less practical efficiency than in any plant or mine I hm connected with? And the women themselves are to blame for this, for they bare not looked look-ed on wifehood as a profession ever progressing, but have looked upon it as a privilege. A man's work today Is harder than it was in the past. A woman's work has been made easier. She has not progressed with the times Fifty per cent of her energy is misdirected. mis-directed. Your advice that I go and do like wise Is characteristic of newly engaged en-gaged folks. Seriously no man Is more keenly alive to the possibilities of the right wife than I am. Nobody wants one or needs one more than I do, for being alone, much of the time and having a tendency to cut otft social so-cial nonsense. I can readily see what a wife would do for me. But I am afraid I havo reached the stage of the game where the conventional sweet little thing that all my friends Introduce mo to Interests me about as much as a doll or a toy. A fellow who Is traveling all the time and 1 mingles with all classes of people muBt Inevitably develop a tendoncy t0 discriminate, and" If" he doesn t hap ' pen to hit the right combinationit i8 I on'y naltural that ho should become j the varloty of outlaw known as a ! bachelor. Men are not bachelors thru choice, but from necessity and Card I luck, and they really should be given sympathy." b |
