Chinese women are very practical, he told me: "You need to have your own house to be an eligible bachelor, so I have to go through this to be able to afford it.

I fail to understand that some men want both; they want to get married and they even want to live like a bachelor with all hook ups and freedom.

What items in a guy's apartment tip you off that he's a bachelor?

The photographer, a bachelor in his late thirties, watched the three girls giggle and was moved by something in the girls' faces that was beyond their understanding.

And here the teamster, on his way to Portland market, would put up for the night; and, if a bachelor, might sit an hour beyond the usual bedtime, and steal a kiss from the mountain maid at parting.