The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-10
Cupid by the Sea.

who look forward TO rich marriage us the
best means Of surrounding themselves with
ease. comfort. and Injuries, that there are In
these United States n vast number Of young
ladies Of fortune who are 50 exceedingly
anxious to get married that any tolcrabe
young fellow Of fair appearance and good
manners has only ~ blde his time and go
In at the proper moment in order to be pro-
vidcd for for life. The young gentlemen who
give themselves up to this delusion are not
in want. They could maintain q wife in
certain fashion, but not the fashion in which
they hope to spend the rest of their days,
when they consent to relinquish the joys
and freedom Of bachclorhood. Most of them.
indeed, have 50 thoroughly settled in their
own mind the sort OF existence to which
they deem themselves cntitled-the town
house, country residence, horses and yacht,
necessary to thcm--that they at the begin
ming of their fortunc-hunting career will
not waste moment or lavish u glance on
any young woman who offers less.
Newport, just about these times, presents
a wider field of operations to the class we
treat of than any other place in the cOun-
try. Saratoga, Long Branch, Sharon, and
New London combined cannot furnish the
amount Of wealth represented in Newport by
the assembled millionaircs from Boston, New
York, and Philadelphia. Some OF the
largest New York fortunes owned by un-
married ladies, veritablc real estate and
stock bonanzas. are to bc found among the
matrimonial prizes which are carefully
aired in pony carriages twice a day, morn
ing and evening, on Bellevue avenue and
the Ocean drive. Hard times up town and
poverty on the Fifth avenue have this year
sent an unusual number Of our jein,esse
dorte to Newport in search of rich wives.
Most of them so well equipped for the
business in hand--a dog cart, saddle
horse, n complete outfit from PooLEs, OF
some other fashonble London tailor being,
though triiling details, absolutely necessary
in any successful attack upon Miss GWEN
DoLINE's millions.
Newport fortune hunters are gentle
manly young fellows enough; they would
not do a dshonorablc action or stroke
Of work for the world. They are well
bred and would not say discourteous
thing to the woman they married, even
though they hated her. They take their cold
bath every morning. don't drink more than
they can conveniently carry and won't take
points at billiards If they fairly think they
can play even. Most OF them have had
various attachments for this or that
woman, but now that they have done
with the fatal passion of love, its
dangerous perplexities and insincero
romance, they take sound, practical,
common-sense view OF life. You will sec
them Of mornings lounging about the New
port CLUB; of afternoons, on the drive, or at
t.,l -.
lawn reception. At nice little dinners on
the Gins each man will, by hook or by
crook, arrange TO be seated next his par
ticular GwENDoLISE Not a moment is lost
He makes his court in quiet, gcntlemanly,
and penetrated manner He can be agree
able, clever witty, tender, and impassioned
| all at once. III the evening at parties no
cannot Of course, constantly monopolize
the object of his flame; but when forced to
yield his place to others he does it grace
fully, retres slowly to the door, leans in
melancholy manner against the Iamb, and
respectfully follows with half-reproachful
| eyes the movements Of his fair namorata
| as she dances around the room with rival.
Oh, yes, he Is very much in love with--the
money bags of Miss GwENDoLINE
Curiously enough, Miss GwESDoLINE's
father who twenty-five years before had
been a gay young fellow about town, a
pretty general faVOrite, clever in his way
| free with his money when he had it,
made his fortune and settled himself lux
uriously in life by marrying an heress.
That sort Of thing is hereditary in families.
Last year when Miss DASH, the great Cincin-
natl hercss, came to Newport for couple
,.f ! Of, 1.t .,.t
young fellows at the Ocean House. where
she WAS staying, that it became necessary
to COLOMBO them out During stay Of
fourteen days, Miss DASH, whose father was
reputod to own large blocks Of real estate in
Cincinnati and three-quartcrs Of al the live
| hogs in Ohio, had love made to her IN eleven
different ways, by eleven different men, and
received eight distinct Offers O; marriage,
all of which she respectfully declined.
II Is claimed by the French that love to be
| successful. must be made, not from the heart,
| bat from the head, inAsmuch as the man
/ vino lo-cs No head, which j. almost inva-
| riahly the cn-o with him who loses his heart,
! loses likewise to Il great extent the art Of
/ pleasing. aud becomes awkward the moment
, BE- approached III" woman he loves. The
T young iu"u now al Newport who expect b.
! lnaoo thoiifortuuc- by Il grand matrimonial
4 emp Aold strictly 10 the French doctrine ia
this nattrr The heart has nothing to do
Niiu the love they make. and be- II said -
ilcircredit they make love veryartistleally
hui not unfioqu"nily ca1y on th" puDt
1hey have their ayos Open aud theh n.ts
about them
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