Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-24
BAR HARBOR.
The Season Beginning to Boom.
The Great Lack Of Young Gentlemen
There.
Scheming Mammas and Their Charm
ing Daughters.-Social Gossip.

fountain Wmch-here al least-ls lneXhausta
Bile. am more and more impressed will
the matchless grandeur of Bar Harbor seen
cry. 1t is panorama of nature at which on,
never tires of looking, and never looks with
out seeing something new. To be sure som,
envious inhabitant, less favored resort, viii
be sure to make side note here on Bar Ilar
Dor fog but if what | have seen here is
fair sample of that article, say it is an ad
dition, if anything to Bar lIarbor delights
The fog itself is by no means the heavy,
raln-eharged, cough producing thing which
the word fog" usually designates. Indeed
1t is question in my mind whether we should
call it Bar Harbor fog at all Such light
teecy shroud it is, that the term Bar Harbol
haze would be far more appropriate. well
known writer from this place speaks of this
subject in recent article as follows
The life at Mt Desert is all outdoors, and
when one comes for few days only, one in
variahly comes upon a season of Bar Harbor's
inevitable fogs, and such fogs They shut
out the sea, the lovely bay and the pictures
que four "Porcupines," and envelop the
mountains towering up back of the village in
a dense white cloud, that, near as they are,
hide their majestic oveliness But who
thinks of fog when the splendid sunshine
comes again in Il day or two! And come it
does, in such regal way that mountains and
sea take on an added share of beauty and
grandeur. One popularity of II Bar Harbor
fog is its dryness. Usually at the seashore a
! fine, mistlke rain accompanies fog, but at
Mt. Desert even pretty girls bang will re-
main in curl, This is the greatest test |
can find, says one of these same pretty girls
to me, expainingly.
/ So much for Bar lIarbor fog"
cannot help being amused at the very
general wall which is going up at various sum.
mer resorts regarding the absence of young
men always depressing to the feminine world
under any circumstances, when marriageable
daughter are to be "settled" by scheming
mammas and their own blushing, charming
/ freshness, frankness and viyacious inno-
cence. Such a condition of affairs become
positively appalling.
! This feeling is not confined to the charm
ing creatures and their good mamma. The
bare idea of having to carry "them girls
through another season causes the cold
chills TO chase one another down papa's
spinal column, as he tolls amid the heat and
dust of the hot metropolis to get the neces-
sary ducats to float this summer side show.
The Burden of it is of course narrowing to
any man. 1t takes away half his pleasure
in the club room punch, and makes even his
Saturday trip to Cony Island with the jolly
deacon of his fashionable church, seem a
trihe tame. Poor man, he should change the
location of his women folks little oftenei
such game as they seek must be caught will
fly and landed Immediately they
will not be caught at all 1t is really aston.
ishing how much of lion young man
with lingering suspicion of wealth-may
become at a summer resort that is among the
ambitious young ladies'. Ten to one tn,
men vote him conceited prig. But the
'uedn girls Will soon convince MN tnat Ht
is a "deuced clever fcllah," and generally
it takes hasty but fashionable wedding tc
completely and forever dispel this fond de
lusion, Full many fish is caught during
the summer outing with hooks barely covered
with whitening smile-or dainty piece OF
fattery.
But started out to speak of the absence
of young men at our summer resorts. A
writer who essays to air in general way al
apparently rather limited knowledge o
"Watering Place Life" vents himself upor
this subject as follows;
There is a strong complaint, melanchol,
wall, going up from Newport and Saratoga
Bar Harbor and Long Branch, that youn!
men will not 90 to watering places, that the.
have ceased to be fond of the chartere
amusements of the once much haunted bal
room, the bowling alley and the drive, tina
they take their pleasure away from the societ
of ladies'. 1t is even whispered by their de
tractors that forlorn bellies are trying to wo
these tagging lords back to their allegianc
by unworthy batteries.
Certainly the young man element is nc
: represented at the various watering place
, Perhaps the times are not so prosperou,
Fewer men can afford it, fewer men like tn
: life. There are too many dull days; ther
. is too much scandal. The great devotion I
< athletics, giving young men so much more t
= do in a very much more exciting form q
, amusement, the cricket field, the base ba
E match the boating, the polo and the SUNNI,
, in the Adirondacks have all conspired I
( take them from the life once SO dearly halle
e by young men of the watering place seasoi
}. Lawn tennis alone remains the one resourC
: of the young girls and young men for GOO
2 and sensible relief from the monotony of
t watering place Sometimes a person
original brains will, during stress of weathe
e devote himself to amusing the guests;
] will get up charades and tableaux aud pr
4 vate theatricals and recitations. The
o seems TO be paucty, however of the on,
). gay, witty intelligent games, which are
b agreeable in a country house when you kno
$ your people and can measure the intellectu
n calibre OF each person There is still le
S the once fascinating Twenty questions
e which has sent a shaft into many brillia
l. mind and brought up unexpected gol
Y There are the more erudite games, such
|, writing parody on a given author on a give
: subject, with given word, to write a poe
: or proverb, or to play at derivations, gu
n tations, or throwing light" These ha
Illuminated mauv a dull day All these no
ever, may be dull to dull brains, and tn
Of may be of more serious import, more wo
ie and require more effort than people desi
in warm weather, therefore they cease to