The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-03
WANTED-YoUNG MEN.

FIom every Watering place in the country
from Monterey and Santa Cruz and Santa
Barbara and Coronado Beach and San
Rafael. nay. from Bar HarbOr and Nahant
and Ceney Island and Atlantic City and
Virginia Springs. from the thousand
Islands and Niagara FallS-c0mes a paint
i've feminine wall that there have been no
young men anywhere this season. just
such a cry arose from the girls of France
after Waterloo, when twenty years of inces-
SAINT warfare had moved down the flower of
French manhood. and lad walking down
a village street brought all the girls to the
windows with wislful eyes and clasped
fingers. But we have had no wars. There
has been no slaughter of our innocent
youth. No plague nor pestilence has deci-
mated the ranks of the sons Of the Golden
West, or of the East either. Mr.. Porter re-
ports the proportion Of the sexes about the
same as usual. There are on this slope
few more boys than girls, but this is offset
by the prepouderance Of the fair sex on the
other side of the continent Altogether for
every Jill there is Jack, if she could only
find him.
Wherever he may be he has not been this
year at the hotels at summer Watering
Santa Cruz ana Monterey and other resorts
Of a hundred girls and-two men; of sixty
beautiful creatures, sweet enough to lure the
gods fIom Oiyinpus-and only one man; OF
forty maidenS, most divinely tail aud most
divinely fair, and no man at all to divide
among them. AMI when the Saturday half
holiday did start a little streamlet of young
men from city 10 summer resort the sexes
did not mix any better than oil and vinegar.
AT the Saturday evening hops the girls sat
round the room chattering with each other
or reading books. Observation-Disclosures of
horrUrs!-0ne girl would clasp another girls
waist and the pair would 90 whirling round
the room. Meanwhile a group OF callow
youths frIDged the entrance of the room,
gazed a while at paradise and presently
melted away in the direction of the club
house or the bliard-rOom or bowling-alley.
1t is evident that the ballroom had no at
traction for them.
There was something wrong here. and it
is well that girls should try to find out what
1t was. Leaving matrimonial cansidera-
tons out of the question, it is not best for
either sex to dispense with the society of
the other. The girls grow Miss Nancyish
and the boys coarse. Why do young men
eschew hops ami bathrooms?
Has it ever occurred to any one that the
dances of the period are not calculated to be
sources Of deIirious joy to young men?
Men do duty in dancing to please their
sisters aud their friends, but they are Sc
cretly delighted when they can slip away
and take some real fun at the biliard-ta Die,
or in the bowling ALLEY, or the cosy club
room, where the ante is low. May not this
account Tor the unpopularity of bathrooms
among the gilded youth of the period?
We hear the lovely ClarIssa and the ex-
quisite Ethel with the pearl ears exclaim;
But why will the men not talk to us on the
balconies and on the beach? To whom it
may be deferentialy replied that young men
are free agents, and not unfrequently per-
sons of bad taste. To a creature of proper
perceptions, no pleasure could rival the joy
of a tete-a-tete with Clarissa or Ethel But
young mems minds are not always refined,
and some of them are so dull that they do
not appreciate conversation which turns
on what Miss Jones said when she called,
what Miss Smith wore at the opera, and
whether the affair between BluDderbore and
Miss Robinson will come to anything. There
is dazzling briIlancy in this sort of con-
versaton which young men are not always
and consort with people who can talk on
| topics which interest them.
II is, perhaps, high treason to say it-but
girls must be told, if it is only in whisper,
that man is the lord of creation, and that
power goes with the beard. He may 90
where he pleases, and, under certain rules
of good behavior bestOw his society upon
whom he peases; and, in a majority of
cases, he Will 90 where he enjoys himself in
| preference to where he is bored, and will
cOnS0rt rather with those who entertain him
than with those whose thoughts have moth
ing in common with his. 1t is no trick for
a bright girl to read a nan so thoroughly that
she will know precisely the topics on which
he can talk, and the topics which are to him
closed or dull book; nor will it be much
of an effort for her to feign an interest in the
former. A CIR! who does this will never
lack male attentions--boys will go 10 water
ing-Dlaces expressly to meet her. Those
who are unwilling to make this small con-
cession to the other sex viii have to con- plain
| of neglect we fear.