Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-09
How they DO IL.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Flirting at the seaside is full of romance and
You can get in more fine work in five minutes
amid the breakers than you could manage to
encompass in as many weeks in the city. There
Is also lots of good solid spooning to be obtained
after the hops at the hotels when the principal
gas Jets are squelched and you sit with your
charmer in a dark quiet corner of the piazza.
But counting at the seaside has its drawbacks
1t is apt TO be expensive. The average girl will
consume about three times as much candy by the
sea as she will at her city home and the salt air
gives her such an appetite that it is simply ruin
Gus to attempt feeding her after the dancing
After the theater in the eitv she will simply nip
BILE at an ice and go home happy and contented
but 1t is not so by the ocean. At the seaside she
Just starts In on something substantial and keeps
1t up until her poor escort feels that he will be
obliged TO take the last train home or sleep out
In the sand on the beach. She never. has the
slightest regard !Or ones pocket at watering
place. and supposes every young man to e well
fixed as a matter of course If he hasn't plenty
OF money she has no use for him. She must
have a drive at shutdown and if she goes to the
races she will borrow your last dollar to bet on
the wrong horses with a recklessness that
would be charming if you were not the victim.
She is always in her element when she catches
on TO q fresh young man who is putting i'm his
first season By the sea. He thinks it is lust
roose ar the beginning. and writes home to his
chum in the city about the splendid mash he has
made He glOries in throwing out his dollars,
and the more she draws upon his purse the hap
pier he becomes. He feels that he is doing the
correct thing and she is very careful not to dis
enchant him. ToOthpicktoes was putting in his
first season at the sea shore. and Miss WOrkem
was the first 10 capture him. He was on his last
week and glOrying in the splendid use he had
made of his time. II shall propose to her to-
night after the hop" he said to himself as he
struggled into his dress trousers. .'Its been
deuced expensive. but the game is worth the
powder Her dad is worth half a million if he's
worth cent. and ToothpicktOes sauutered
gayiy forth TO the hop.
After the dancing he managed to ret his mash
INTO quiet corner. and at once opened fire.
This looks like the end of the racket"
thought Miss Workem. instinctiveiy taking i'm
the situation. well. the little idiot has only
one more week. and he's getting to be a bore
anyway" Then she slowly withdrew her hand
rom the grasp OF her victim, and commenced
lightly humming waltz.
"Only seven more days of bliss" murmured
Ioothpicktoes, leaning forward and trying In
vain TO recover his charmer's hand.
80 you are going back TO the city," she said
In en- indifferent tone
Yes; one is fortunate to get but a plimpse of
heaven on tins EARTH" he lsped, making
another Intellectual grab at her fingers.
Don't be silly, she replied, moving little
away from him.
II shall never forget my first season at the
Eairyland.'
do drop such nonsense" she replied. NOV
Ing still further away and intently studying
light OUT at sea-
Il hope you have enjoyed 1t as much as 1
nave, he yentured as his heart began to
hump more rapidly against his ribs
on yes, we've had bang up time" she re-
piled I'm sure always like to see any man
down mere It's such a bore talking all the time
towomen, and then can't bear to dance with one
my own SEX
Il should like to go on forever living In the
renection OF your bright eyes" he ventured pull
Ing his chair toward her.
Don't you think it Is growing late?" she
asked. half rising.
"Oh, no. Do not CO." he said, making
another dive for her hand, and again missing
It. II have something to say"
No. you haven't, she said rising quickly
md gathering her wraps about her shoulders
You will lust take NE to my cottage and 90
nome like good boy"
Miss workem, you do not understand. You
must hear"
Not this evening. Some other evening. !"
she said laughingly, as she caught his arm and
fairly dragged him along the piazza. and his
heart was broken for a full week after he re-
turued to his ''demnition grind in the city.