The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-21
AT NAMES FAMOUS RESORT
"sAB" STUDIES THE BAR HARBoR GIRL
How She Dresses-Duckboard Photography
What the Women Do--Flirtations
of the Staircase-Too Much Bliss
For One Man and He Skips.

Bar Harbor girl. She is always to the
fore, and mankind ought to go down on
his knees, even at the risk of making his
trousers baggy, and give thanks because
she only appears in the summer time. L
can not imagine how she is restrained,
unless it is by Wagner's music, during
the rest of the year.
As soon as you arrive and have had
time to discover that they fry the steaks,
you are impressed with the manyness of
the girls. They are athletic-looking, well
shaped, and pervade every place just as
the golden rod does. They no longer sit
on the desk in the Office with their feet
swinging over, waiting for the clerk to in
troduce the last new arrival incased in
trousers, but if they are not to the front
quite as conspicuously, they are Just as
eager. There are q great many young
boys here, young boys whom the girls are
training, hoping season after seas on they
will have reached an interesting sge-of
course they do, hut when this is attained
and the boys have become great big SPLEEN
did fellows, they take to Newport or Mar
ragansett as natural the proverbial
duck does to water, and the Bar Harbor
feminine trainer is-left.
Although she no longer brings one dark
blue flannel suit which she proposes to
loaf around in all summer, still the Bar
Harbor girl is not the dainty mass of frills
and frivols, of laces and shimmering
stuffs, peculiar TO womankind at the other
summer places. She is given over to
blazers-with the biggest sort of B, and
to accordion skirts-she likes the loose
ness of the blouse and big sash around
her waist that will conceal the fact that
she hasn't any STAYS on charms her. A
soft felt hat crushed over her head any
way. and bangs that have lost their fluff
ness are ideal coiffures TO her, and she is
quite as we'll satisfied without gloves as
with. | confess do not admire the Bar
Harbor girl-she has neither the charm OF
a boy. man or woman, and that her soul
is calling, "Oh, for man J" is written on
her face Il came very near writing cheek
This place ought to be a paradise for
men, but between youth and old age there
seems no happy medium. The news of
the appearance of an eligible is quickly
told, and he is certain to be feted and ca
ressed until he goes back home afflicted
with that disease, not alone peculiar TO
politicians and journalists, known as the
| big-head. He will be driven and dined;
he will be told what books TO read and
what soap to use; his breakfast will be
ordered for him, and if one a. his admir-
ers is fortunate enough to preside over
cottage, there will be some special delicacy
sent to him on tray. To be sure, the
driving will be in a blackboard, but then,
is there anything more lovely in the
world?
The Young woman who is managing the
horse takes the reins not in swell New
York style, but grasps one in each hand
and then lets the horse 90 as he wants.
He usually wants to go in ruts, and this
lands the unfortunate. eligible into her lap
on an average OF every five yards, until in
| time he is wondering what her intentions
are. Her intention is usually to have his
| picture taken with her in the blackboard
nothing worse than that--it sounds in
nocent, but it is something that calls for
faith, hope and charity. The faith being
necessary for the horse, the hope for a
| future place where photographs are un-
| known, and the charity for the deceitful
mink who is believed to be having her
picture taken for the first time this sea-
son. 1t would never do to let him know
/ that she is making a collection, and that he
! is one among many of all sorts and condi-
tons ofmen who have posed with her. The
charm of this sort of photograph is that
! just when the group is in position crowd
! collects, and some wretchedly knowing
] old farmers come over and ask the foot
man, who is standing solemnly in front of
| the horse. il he, meaning the horse, "has
! been bit by one of them sort of bees that
make him stand still?" Then they 60 on
! to tell how they seem to kind of paralyze
! him, and there is no use for anybody be-
| ing afeard, as he will come around di-
rectly." This kind-heartedness breaks up
| the group, and after an explanation has
/ been given, then they are all posed again,
the photographer has made the suggestion
! that they will try not TO laugh, everything
seems right and the horse switches his
/ tale at the important moment. This is
/ accounted a good picture, although where
! the horses tale ought to be there is n kind
OF sky such as surrounds the lower part Of
cherubs.
The next picture would have been
! framed by the faces OF natives, but by
! this time the unfortunate photographer
has put out three scouts to warn them off.
! At last success is attained, and the pic
lures are 10 be had in an hour On their
reception it is discovered that for posi-
tive likeness the dog only is a success,
I
daTkey and in others he has an insane
expression on his face that suggests he i5
| Just going TO propose to girl. These, OF
course, are the ones she captures, and
next winter. in Boston or Chicago. every
body who sees them will tell how much
in love with her the eligible was, and he.
poor soul, can not deny it, for there it is
/ is on a tin type. After this he usually
fees, for he has put nickel in the slot
and finds that he has lost just ten pounds
since he came here, and he credits 1t all to
the more than polite attentions paid him
/ by the girls.
To be anxious and not seem anxious is
something unknown up here. Whether
the clear, beautiful air forces the truth to
appear on ones face, or just what is the
matter nobody knows. Any such small
weaknesses as a nap in the afternoon or q
cup OF tea when she is tired is scorned,
for being tired is something not permitted.
Cottage life is pretty much the same in
every place. its chief value here being that
most people have cooks more or less good,
and the wise woman is she who only
dimes at the house where cooks are more.
The same formality that is apparent at
Newport does not obtain, and womankind
can chatter as much as she wants TO and
on as foolish topics. She who has a story
! on hand is always welcome, and oddly
enough, whether it's because OF her asso-
citation with the boys, or whether it's her
independence, the Bar Harbor girl can
| tell story we'll