Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1890 — The Bachelor. [ARTICLE]

The Bachelor.

Starr Iloyt Nlebols, in Woman's Cycle. The general presumption that all bachelors are as they are by free ancl unconstrained choice is but a fatuous conventionally. Some men are indeed born bachelors, but more of the single have had bachelorhood thrust upon tnem. They have simply failed to secure the woman they wished. Rejected, perhaps many times, by different objects of their choice, and tin willing to descend to inferior grades, they drag out a forlorn and disappointed existence, backed of most comforts and lean of opportunity They have but a grumbling interest in the present, and but a shriveled confidence in the future. Both church and state cease to be to their minds, and the domestic trials of their married friends fail to reconcile these bereaved natures to their lonely condition. Of course, they carry a high feather, and the seductive smiles of many willing females who would Cheerfully supply the miss- ' ing felicity prevent them from realizing to the full the Irretrievable nature of their actual disaster; but it is real, all the same, ( and plucks down with it the delightsomeness of their fleeting days. Often towards the close of life ' they realize their sad experience, and ‘ are ready to cry with the life-weary and tottering patriarch, “Few and evil have been the days of thy servant.’