REASONS FOR NOT MARRYING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 96, 18 December 1912, Page 3

REASONS FOR NOT MARRYING.

A Paris paper has been asking its bachelor readers why they do not marry. Here are some of the answers : s A City Man : “Lovemaking takes too much time. There’s more durable happiness in making money.” A Barrister; “I am fond of travelling, and want to be able to pack my bag and clear off when I like. A wife would be in the way.” A Commission Agent: “I dont’t want to be asked where I’ve spent the evening or what I’ve done with my money. My time and money are my own.”

A Shopkeeper: ‘ ‘My mother spoiled me. I should never get the same attention from another woman.” A Journalist: “I should have to reduce my personal expenditure. No, thanks!” A Stockbroker: “I am afraid ‘she’ would say ‘No.’ ” A Tailor: “I am afraid of a woman’s tongue.” A Postman: ‘‘A widow once jilted me, since then I have never been able to pluck up enough courage to propose to another woman.” A Doctor: “1 meet so many unhappy couples that I am afraid of sharing their fate.” A Professor: “I can neither work nor think in the society of chattering

women.”

An Architect: “Women only want your money and a home. I have no intention of playing a fool’s part.” An Electrician: “Girls always grow to be like their mothers, and I’ve never seen a. mother-in-law to rny taste.”

A Grocer: “I have proposed to three girls and been rejected each time.” A Chemist’s Assistant: “Mother doesn’t want me to marry, and would make my wife, unhappy if I did.” An Omnibus Conductor: “I’m the eldest of a large fatherless family, and I can’t marry until they’ve had a start in life.” A Scientist: “My life is entirely given up to my work.” A Commercial Traveller: “I will not ask any girl to marry me, as I am often away from home. Wo could not be happy under these conditions.”