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A
BACHELOR'S
CUPBOARD
On
Being
a
Bachelor
rope
a
steer
and
Theodore
Roosevelt
tells
how
to
lead
a
strenuous
life
;
but
in
all
this
great
store
of
condensed
Instruction
one
field
at
least
has
remained
still
uncov-
ered.
No
one
has
w^ritten
on
"
how
to
be
a
bachelor,"
for
the
spinsters
seem
to
have
appropriated
all
the
space.
For
them
there
has
been
advice
a-plenty
on
how
to
select
a
husband
and
how
to
keep
on
the
sunny
side
of
thirty,
and
so
on
through
the
gamut
of
woman-
lore.
Why
has
the
bachelor
been
neglected?
Possibly
because
he
is
popularly
supposed
to
be
quite
self-suffi-
cient
and
omniscient.
An
occasional
paragraph
on
why
clocked
socks
are
better
form
than
embroidered
ones,
or
how
to
tell
when
the
girl
of
one's
choice
loves
him,
creeps
Into
;
but
for
the
bachelor
who
really
wants
to
"
know
how
"
there
Is
no
royal
road
to
learning
save
the
rocky,
steep
thoroughfare
that
each
one
must
needs
climb
by
himself
on
his
dally
journey
In
quest
of
Experience.
There
Is
no
"
complete
compendium
" for
the
ambi-
tious
bachelor
who
welshes
to
become
bon
vivant,
epicure,
"
connoisseur
de
vins
"
and
"
up
"
on
all
the
little
things
that
combine
to
make
him
an
authority
on
the
things
of
single
men
of
the
world.
But
his
pro-
verbial
fare
of "
bread
and
cheese
and
kisses
"
needs
to
be
modified
to
suit
present-day
needs,
and
the
judicious
addition
of
a
few
crumbs
to
his
store
of
provender
may
be
welcome.
From
these
crumbs
from
many
bachelor
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