The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-21

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Doubtless this table was an exaggeration,
but there is something in it, for the cry
still goes forth that there are 10 men at the
summer resorts. Inasmuoh as the season is
nearly over IL can do no harm 70 looE il this
important matter candidly and fearlessy.
In the first place it is, OF course, inevitable
that there should b more women than men
at these resorts Not all men can leave the
city in the summer. They have occupations
| from which they cannot take themselves
away, and many OF them have to make the
money that the ladies are spending Then,
again, those that do go away don't stay
very long. aud, as they do not all 20 at the
| same time, they are not very many when
they are scattered about the broad piazza
of a summer hotel. All this is inevitable,
and cannot be helped, but there are other
| causes that conspirs to produce a scarcity
of men which might be helped.
WHY HE RAN AWAY.
what! Have. you come back? And
why?' This inquiry the writer put to
young man who had cut his vacation short
for some unaccountable reason.
"Wen," he said, II will tell you why
There was only one thing to do down at the
springs and that was to flirt with the girls,
and as couldn't firt with fifteen girls at
the same time ran away
Don't you see, young ladies' You have SO
Lew uleu ApOut YOU III LI0 ku8L W0Sn
you get hold OF a man you make too much
of him. Really, you sometimes fight to
possess him. There seems to be a regular
competition among nearly all the girls ct
the hotel to possess q mau. Now, unless be
is vecy young and unsophisticated he doesn't
like that. Don't you know that men are
lords of creationg They want TO have their
own way, and they don't like to be pursued
too openly. The result of the pursuit is
that fhn IN v1la
where therefore more men and fewer girls.
There is another thing in which you
make mistake, too, young ladies' Know.
then, that you don't as a general thing
dress yourselves as men would have you
dress
LEARNED BY EXPERIENCE.
The Star writer made tour of the sum
mer resorts lately. 1t is needless to sey
that he fell in love half dozen times and
that he quarreled with fourteen different
landlords. It is almost srperfluous 10 add
that he smoked brlerwood pipo all day
and drank numerous juleps and talked in
cessantly for sixteen hours q dav; that be
came homo poorer in purse than he had
over believed it possible for a man TO be:
that he was as cross "a a bear and reflected
upon the forty-five dear friends he had
made, all of whom he he's already forgotten;
that he was glad to get something to eat: that
he was glad not to get anything to drink
that it was pleasant TO sleep on a bed that
WASH. made of corncobs and chestnut
burrs; That he wanted to 60 back right off i,
but is now reconciled to his lot; all this and
more can be readily understood by the poor
fellow who reads this and whose own vaca-
tion is over. But all this is parenthetical
aud has nothing to do with the fact that the
girls at the summer resorts don't dress
Themselves as they should except to con-
vince the reader that the writer knows what
he is talking about. Well, let us take the
hoJel piazza as the place where all the
women may be SEEM but here another
parenthesis must be pardoned, for the hotel
piazza deserves few words of description.
ON THE HOTEL PIAZZA.
What Wall street is to New York, what
the avenue IL to Washington, the hotel pi-
aZza is TO the summer resort. 1t is the
grand rallying point. There The men df
there are any meet and smoke: there the
girls come to be seen and to see; there the
old maids gossip over their fancy work
there the thousands Of children come and
rornp and run races and make themselves
obnoxious to everybody. The hotel piazza
is not alone. for the hotels guests. The
summer residences with houses Of their own
the "cottagers," as they are called-the
people who live in boarding houses. all con-
gregate upon the piazza Of the big hotel.
Let us now step out upon this IA
nous spot and see how the woman
are dressed. II is about $3.50. You
have just finished breakfast and have lighted
your pipe. Over in the corner commaplin0
the best view and 10 the shadiest placs are
the old ladies' CHANGING I'D from their nee
dlework and Keeping their eyes about them,
you may be sure. They speak quite fire.
quently to one another and they make COM
lnents upon the men and women who nre
not within earshot with a c.ndor of opinion
that Is quite charming. A sample of the
conversation will do.
SIS that splasher or tidy, Mrs. Masham9'
says one; ..,.u ~ ,o,,.
young Sprawley; the girl throws herself al
his head. Her mother must be ashamed of
her," says another
These Saxony woods are lovely, Yes.
but her mother was always that way hor
self"
Now, how would one expect these excel-
lent ladies to be dressed at this early hour
in the morning. In plain and simple attire.
or In silks with peaked sleeves and Jewels
onl Sad to relate, all wear the peaked
sleeves and many wear the silks and Jewels.
But over in another corner of the piazza
there sits young man. He has a launty
| country cap percbed on the top of his head
and wears striped flannel tennis suit, from
which it is fair to presume that he never
plays Lennls- 1ne luoVlbaDio Drler wOOd
pipe is in his mouth, and he tits his chair
back lazily. This young fellow is sur
rounded by nine beautiful girls, VARYING in
age from Is to 30. Let us see il portion
of the conversation cannot be overheard
The young man is talking:
YES, aud the fellows at the Hinkerkootef
Club they wanted me TO run for the board
Of managers"
Chorus of maiden: 20, how nicem
"But it's no fun being on the board. don't
you know, SO l told 'em to take Charlie Far
we'll in my place. You know CharlieT'
Chorus Of maidens: 10, yes, intimately.
Dear Charlie~
HOW THE GIRLS ARE DRESSED.
And that will do as sample Of this piazza
conversation. How are the girls clotheda
Do they wear broad. flat-heeled shoes, plain
skirts and light sensible jacketsl Have they
hats like men, that eau be put on or taken
off at a moments notices Are they ready
for q walk or climb or a rowe Not much.
One Of them has on a pink hat with ostrich
plumes, another wears a yachting cap at
such a precise angle that it must have cost
considerable labor to adjust it properly, and
another one wears an arrangement of fruits
and flowers on her head that would render
her decidedly unsafe il she should happen to
meet q hungry COW.
Their gowns are on the same principle.
It is the fashion now, and a most idiotic,
not to say untidy, fashion, it is, too, to wear
a small train TO the skirt; but in the coun-
try at Q O'Clock in toe morning this train is
really absurd. Yet many of them wear it,
and they complete the picture with high
heeled slippe-s Not ali of them dress this