People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — MEN WHO NEVER MARRY. [ARTICLE]

MEN WHO NEVER MARRY.

Confirmed Bachelors Exposed for the Benefit of the Fair Sex. The men who never marry are too often only sons who are made too comfortable at home by their adoring female relatives Here is a case in point, says the Boston Globe. He lived with an old widowed mother and three devoted sisters in various stages of spinsterhood, and if ever a man was regularly spoiled that man was he. They would, when he was dining out, put on his gloves and socks for him, perfume his pocket handkerchief, and leave a buttonhole in a specimen vase on his dressing table. He was not allowed to pin it in for himself, though; they did that. Last thing of all, they would run downstairs and tie a silk muffler round his neck for fear he should take a chill. When he came home one of them would be waiting for him, and run to the door to open it. Dinner was ordered with an eye to his special tastes and likings, and the whole house was ordered to please him. Now, that man would never marry. That was a foregone conclusion. Nobody else could ever make him so comfortable; one wife couldn’t vie with three maiden sisters and a mother in petting and spoiling; he knew tfiat he was a great deal too well off ever to change his state. Another kind of man never marries —the man who is overcautious. He thinks he will be quite sure before he asks a girl to marry him that he won’t see another girl he likes better. Then he considers that he isn’t, perhaps, quite in a position safely to marry just yet. So he waits and waits till old age comes upon him, and then he thinks he will marry and provide himself with a nurse. But still he can't decide whom to have. A young wife wouldn’t show him enough care and an old wife would soon want takipg care of herself. Finally he drops out of the world, a lonely, unregretted old bachelor, and not a woman weeps for his loss. You can generally pick out the men who will never marry by one or two pretty certain signs. Selfish men marry. Women haters marry. Confirmed bachelors marry pretty often, and so do the men people call most unlikely. But the spoiled man’s name never figures in the list of marriages in the daily paper, nor that of the man who is overcautious.