Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — Reflections of a Bachelor. [ARTICLE]

Reflections of a Bachelor.

Lots of men think they ought to get their wives’ affection on credit. Men who are at hear;: most romantl' - always pretend to the last not to be. Pretty teeth are very often at the foundation of a girl’s reputation for jollity. There’s such a .thing as having too much regard for the feelings of the neighbors. The velvet on the peach may be pretty to look at, but it sets your teeth on edge to touch it. \There are some women who never find occasion to bewail the passing of the days of cb’valry. When .a man says that nobody cares whether bei lives or dies, he isn’t advertising himself very well. When a woman tells you some gossip about another woman, she always begins by saying: “Isn’t it awful how she has got herself talked about!” When a woman gets an idea she must be economical she hunts around and finds an old skirt to rip up. A man isn’t likely to enjoy hearing nls wife talk with a woman who remembers him when tie was a boy. There never was a woman who wasn’t awfully conceited about the way she could love if she tried. A man hurts himself more In bls wife’s estimation by. being brutal to other people than he does by being brutal to her. \ .Some girls’ mothers must be forgetful, or else they were so good when they were young that they didn’t need watching. Women seem to have an idea that because they haven’t got a Greek face they have to friae their hair all up with a hot iron. No matter how a girl feels the first time she kisses a man, it nevei occurs to her that the man may fee) that way too. Lots of men who don’t get married because they can’t afford it give a lot or money to help the poor man along with his family.