Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-29
A BAR HARBoR LETTER.
Buckboards, Girls and Sad Disappoint-
ment.

From Life.
Dear Mr.. Editor: This place strikes one as
being sort of a cross between Corsica and
Narragansett Pier. 1t seems TO consist almost
entirely OF girls, hotels and buckboards; and,
by the way, how like human life blackboard
is-long, narrow and full of jounces. To. a
certain extent, the same might be said OF the
girls and the hOte S, and perhaps 1t would be
safest to keep this TO ourselves.
The air. however, is very fine, and 1t is
fortunate that 1t Is for 1t Is all that one has to
live on at the hotels. Twenty-Five dollars a
week for wind seems rather high, but then
we must have 1t, and, as it always blows half
gale here, suppose IL can't help being high.
The first thing TO doc arrlvingis, OF course,
to look up ones friends, but when this is &C
complished one rather comes 10 a standstlll,
for the water is too cold to battle in; you can
play tennis, for the small boys, who practice
all day long, will beat you too badly; and you
can't go sailing, because the girls won't let
you go without them, and if you take them
along, they will be seasick, and thank heaven
for 1t, for II it wasn't the girls it would be me,
and the scorn with which seasck man IL
regarded is simply unbearable. You can rob
bank or elope with whole Sunday school
and live down the ensuing disgrace, but the
contempt felt for seasick man endureth for
ever and ever, and so / always prefer to do
my yachting in quiet and well-behaved
horse car.
The girls are all here, however, every
blessed one of them, and there must be q girl
iauiHo III Jne rest OF the lduu. AS LOT JHe
men-well, the men were all killed in the
war, and I'm glad of it. But-ah me!-all
my old flames have turned up here, as we'll as
all the girls who eyer refused me; l never
realized before what lot OF them there were,
ana TO stroll ont of an afternoon and meet
them one after another is really too charming
ION anything! The queer part Of it is, how
ever that those of them who have got mar
rled don't remember me at all, while those
who have failed to find anyone worthy OF
them are swfully glad to see me. It's very
odd, ana don't quite understand 1t.
nave decided to 90 in for brunettes this
season. the blondes have always been too
many for me, and when look over the past
1ft-l mean the past few years-and realize
how they have nearly been the death of me, |
feel as though my remains ought to turn over
new leaf, and so, as / said before, | am
going to lay for brunettes.
Speaking of brunettes reminds me that /
nave just been introduced to Her, and she is
ngure-goodness! / have to lay down my
typewriter and gasp when l think of it! And,
moreover. she seems to understand and ap-
preciate me, thing that nobody ever did be-
fore, and she says / am SO thoughtful and
sympathetic!
\
Since writing the above have discovered
that she has got young man-got him nearly
landed, and has been using me as a counter
lrrltant To hurry matters up and bring him TO
a head! just my luck! This is the way it
has always been! 1 never loved q dear
gaZelle but what some other fellow had a
first mortgage on the property aud got left.
And, oh. do so hate to be used as a moral
porous plaster! o dear, o dear! It's too bad,
too bad! feel too i'll to write any more now,
so Will keep the rest for another letter.