The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

GSpecial Correspondence of SUNDAY HERALD.l
BAR HARBoR, Sept. 9.-Civilization has been
the damnation of this place. The days when the
girls sat on the clerks desk. dressed in hannels,
and with their legs dangling over the edge, show
ing shoes that were meant to walk in, hailing
each arrival in bifurcated garments Won
drous something, were days OF Joy. The days
when the blackboard jolted all indigestion out
of the ''mealers" and the day when fruits and
meats from the city were not to be gotten, and
people eagerly ate bread and butter and buckle
ship Dame Fashion has entered and taken pos
and gossip exactly as they do at Newport, Sara.
toga, or Long Branch. The original blackboard
and upholstery has all its discomforts without its
pcturesqueness. Everybody IS just as eager as
they were in their a6orlGnal yin m state to maee
fashion, and you feel like paying for hand
organ that can warble THE Heart Bowed Down
With Weight OF Woe"
wOFUL LACK OF MEN.
There are not very many interesting women,
and men are as scarce the proverbial hens
teeth. She who expects a husband up on Sat
urday is envied by all the Others who don't, and
a week is counted the most lucky OF all women.
do not understaI4l for my own part this lack
of men-what's the matter with the women
But of course that's where the trouble lies: If
Jeanette were sufficiently attractive, Jean
calculated to bring on nervous prostratlon that
he might leave the city on Friday and stay with
her until Monday, DaSk III ner Smiles, anu De
happy merely because he was in the sunshine OF
her presence. But Jean doesn't see IN to be built
that way. He would thousand times rather
bask in the smiles of some married belle at Mar
ragansett or Newport, and he will tell you con-
fdentially that you see, It's much SAFER pc
cause, after all, the old woman isn't round trying
to find out whether you have got any inten-
tions."
The day of the girl is not now, and girls abound
at Bar Harbor. 1t Is true in many instances they
are very knowing girls, but still they have the
feminine desire to possess for their very own a
man. and there is nothing quite as difficult to
catch. Eels are as nothing beside them. Just
when you think the big fish is landed it slides
away, because the bait isn't tempting enough or
the fsherwoman hasn't enough patience.
The fishers of men up here are in many in
stances the mammas. They are very braZen
about 1t, and do not wonder that all the eli
gibles flee. while only those who adorned
with sash ribbons remain.
THE YOUNG MAN IN A SASH.
young man in a sash is to me the greatest
abomination on the face of the EARTH If he
would come out and be real honest and wear a
red. flannel band to keep his "tummy" in order
should have some respect for him and offer
him few drops of paregoric but when he
dawdles around in pale-blue sash rose and
white striped one want him to be gently eX-
termiuated-not hurt, because inoffensve things
like that oughtn't to be hurt not electrocuted,
but Just ehloroformed out of existence. l sup
pose there is a use for him-he points moral
and occasionally he may adorn tale, but
doubtit
There is one up here who does fancy work
He makes all his sisters bonnets, and the result
Drink Tannhauser beer. II. Benzler.