rope a steer and Theodore Roosevelt tells how to lead
a strenuous life ; but in all this great store of condensed
Instruction one field at least has remained still uncov-
ered. No one has w^ritten on " how to be a bachelor,"
for the spinsters seem to have appropriated all the
space. For them there has been advice a-plenty on
how to select a husband and how to keep on the sunny
side of thirty, and so on through the gamut of woman-
lore.
Why has the bachelor been neglected? Possibly
because he is popularly supposed to be quite self-suffi-
cient and omniscient. An occasional paragraph on why
clocked socks are better form than embroidered ones, or
how to tell when the girl of one's choice loves him,
creeps Into print ; but for the bachelor who really wants
to " know how " there Is no royal road to learning save
the rocky, steep thoroughfare that each one must needs
climb by himself on his dally journey In quest of
Experience.
There Is no " complete compendium " for the ambi-
tious bachelor who welshes to become bon vivant,
epicure, " connoisseur de vins " and " up " on all the
little things that combine to make him an authority on
the things of single men of the world. But his pro-
verbial fare of " bread and cheese and kisses " needs to
be modified to suit present-day needs, and the judicious
addition of a few crumbs to his store of provender may
be welcome. From these crumbs from many bachelor
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A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD
On Being a Bachelor
cupboards, then, may he find an occasional *' crumb of
comfort " and a little lift over some hard place along
the road. If he finds it herein, the purpose of " A
Bachelor's Cupboard " will have been fulfilled.
CHAPTER II
" In heat of youtt, poor Jack engaged a
wife
A^liose tongue, te found, miglit prove a
scourge for life ;
Perplexed, te still ^jut off tKe evil day.
Grew sick at length, and just expiring
lay.
To which sad crisis, having brought the
matter
To wed or die — he wisely chose the
latter. "
Of all bachelors, the Impecunious
bachelor is most deserving of sympa-
thy. In fact, he is the only one who
needs It. No one ever asks a mill-
ionaire bachelor why he leads a
single life; the reason Is too obvious.
But too often, alas! It is from neces-
sity rather than choice that the im-
pecunious fellow remains single.
That Is the Irony of Fate. " To those
who would wed, It shall be denied."
A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD
The Impecunious Bachelor
Possibly It may be the invasion of woman into all
the trades and professions of men that accounts for this
dollarless portion of many young men. Where once
they reigned supreme, they are now dethroned and
doomed to grow round shouldered over a ledger at
twelve dollars a week, while a gay, Irresponsible miss
of seventeen fresh from the Business College runs
everything In the office from the temperature to " The
Boss," and drav.^s eighteen or twenty dollars from Its
coffers every Saturday night.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
rope a steer and Theodore Roosevelt tells how to lead a strenuous life ; but in all this great store of condensed Instruction one field at least has remained still uncovered. No one has w^ritten on " how to be a bachelor," for the spinsters seem to have appropriated all the space. For them there has been advice a-plenty on how to select a husband and how to keep on the sunny side of thirty, and so on through the gamut of womanlore.
Why has the bachelor been neglected? Possibly because he is popularly supposed to be quite self-sufficient and omniscient. An occasional paragraph on why clocked socks are better form than embroidered ones, or how to tell when the girl of one's choice loves him, creeps Into print ; but for the bachelor who really wants to " know how " there Is no royal road to learning save the rocky, steep thoroughfare that each one must needs climb by himself on his dally journey In quest of Experience.
There Is no " complete compendium " for the ambitious bachelor who wishes to become bon vivant, epicure, " connoisseur de vins " and " up " on all the little things that combine to make him an authority on the things of single men of the world. But his proverbial fare of " bread and cheese and kisses " needs to be modified to suit present-day needs, and the judicious addition of a few crumbs to his store of provender may be welcome. From these crumbs from many bachelor
On Being a Bachelor
cupboards, then, may he find an occasional *' crumb of comfort " and a little lift over some hard place along the road. If he finds it herein, the purpose of " A Bachelor's Cupboard " will have been fulfilled.
CHAPTER II
" In heat of youtt, poor Jack engaged a
wife Whose tongue, he found, might prove a scourge for life; Perplexed, he still put off the evil day. Grew sick at length, and just expiring
lay. To which sad crisis, having brought the
matter To wed or die — he wisely chose the
latter. "
Of all bachelors, the Impecunious bachelor is most deserving of sympathy. In fact, he is the only one who needs It. No one ever asks a millionaire bachelor why he leads a single life; the reason Is too obvious. But too often, alas! It is from necessity rather than choice that the impecunious fellow remains single. That Is the Irony of Fate. " To those who would wed, It shall be denied."
The Impecunious Bachelor
Possibly It may be the invasion of woman into all the trades and professions of men that accounts for this dollarless portion of many young men. Where once they reigned supreme, they are now dethroned and doomed to grow round shouldered over a ledger at twelve dollars a week, while a gay, Irresponsible miss of seventeen fresh from the Business College runs everything In the office from the temperature to " The Boss," and draws eighteen or twenty dollars from Its coffers every Saturday night.