The Selfish Bachelor.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 25, 21 December 1910, Page 64

The Selfish Bachelor.

Selfish bachelors were severely criticised by the Rev. Dr. Hemphill, of Tipperary, at the Conference of the Church of Ireland, at Belfast. A woman of the farm? ing class, he said, remarked to him th® other day that the population was run/ ning very thin. He wondered what hadj come over the young men that they pre* ferred patent-leather boots and spats and a fortnight’s “ swelling ” at the seaside, with a game of billiards every' evening, to the joys of family life. Their wage®, would not allow both the fine clothes anil a wife. They chose the clothes, aud let! some sweet girl pine out her life in maidenhood. They were wretched fellowsi who did not know in what true happiness consisted. Better the love of a sweet? and pure wife than all the silk socks and gaudy waistcoats in the world. “ Comet back,” said Dr. Hemphill, “ to the simple life. Learn that true joy consists in WO-, man’s gentle love. This dreary bachelor-* hood is destroying your life by making* you selfish and destroying hers by robbing; her of the husband and children God. In,-, tended for her.” He knew that thingy were dear, and that people expected mor® luxury than their parents had, but those, expectations must be discouraged. “Foi< God's sake,” he concluded, “ pitch away, your tobacco, annual outing, your fin® clothes, your club, and whatever «ls« makes such an inroad on your incomht that you cannot think of holy marriage* It is'a glorious thing to be the father! or mother of even the poorest Substitute “ tote tickets ” for one or twijj, things mentioned here 4?nd there fit ft hint fog certain New. Zealand, youth* here. _