Daily Republican., 1881-08-15
Y0,anS Men Scarce.

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Yeunx Men Scarce.
The fashionable Young bellies ut Cape
May, Long Branch aud other watering
places, are said TO be in the greatest
agony and distress at th" scarcity nt
young men with plethoric pocket books
and plenty of time and means tn be
spent in tlirtstion. We do not KNOW
whether this is because Young men
have become averse - a life OF. diSsi
patton or whether they have cot lciaded
Oh stricter habits Of economy. Oae
season at d fashionable wateri ne place
for a young man with plenty OF cash
and dispe sition to spend it, generally
makes a wiser man or { great er fool q
him. II tie first he will be seen nc
more at the watering laces; if the lat.
| ter his cash is gone and the bellies Nave
no more use for him. We are in darkoes'
as 10 the cause of the dGcadence oi
young men with cash to spend at the
watering places, bet it is positive
fact, worthy of comment by the lead
! ing rapers of the country that the
| maidens, who go TO the seaSsore ("
cha-r, and be charrled, have been not a
little exercised ove the scarcity of nice
young men,
AT the risk of being thought har
hearted and cruel we are inclined t.
express our pleasure at this state OF at
fairs, as it iniica.es, understanding
all cur prosperity, there is less triVo'ity
and dissipation going on at our FIRST
class watering Places than there has
beer in forme. years. When the fash
ionable young belle makes d complaint
of the scarcity of young men, We must
recsllect what kid of young men they
are that she refers to. If she III. ant
tha. she was sorry that she could not
enjoy the pleasures and company of
sens be and clear-headed young mer Of
gooe habits, we would be very mE"h
disposed to sympathize with her, Int
as general thug the seaside belle is
not discontented with the absence of
that class, but On the contrary she is
rather pleased. The greatest thing
that gives thea pain and anG.-
ietv is, that the noodles and
dandies of society, the simpietCns
and sons of opuleut daddies who are al
ways ready to spend their money on the
young ladies in fashionable pleasure,
the .aashers with foreign titles whose
attentious inspire h )pe in these butter
tiy creatures that will give them thu
full measure of their anticipated enjoy
meut.
If the giddy young lady whose happi-
ness has been dashed to pieces by the
absence of this masculine element only
knew what il best for them they
would surely congra:u late themselves in
stead of repininS. The tlrtalions
which are carried on with silly fops
and with the more cunning fellows Of
artful designs, are productive of a vast
deal of misery and blightea heal ts when
the season is over, and the bright carni-
val of irivolity by the sea is remember
| .,l 90 on La lrno m o.,I fri-
umphs turn to bitter ashes Ihe girls
who are sent or taken to the sea shore
with narriageable designs, or only with
the purpose at the outset Of enjoying
nothing more than its giddy pleasures,
too often court story Of disappoint.
ment and woe when they return home.
A large proportion "f the unhappy
matcl.es " nich eventually are aired in
the Divorce Courts can be traced to
some Irritation which was carried on to
the music of the sal sea 5 moan or the
still more enhancing music of "thc
hop" The young woma who is capti-
waited by the attentions ofthe we'll dress
ed and polished young man of the world
and the addle Drained young man who
knows nothing of the world and is ena-
mored by the artful beauty who does
know somethi lg, are the chief victims
at the watering places. The melan-
cho' Y wall that there is u "scarcity of
young men," indicates very strongly
that tits kind of victimizing on the
altar of fashionable folly is not flourish
ing as it was, and for that reason we
reioi % at the SAL refrain Of the young
bellies who sit in loneliness upon the
hotel piazzas of tle fashionable sea.
side resorts.