Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-05

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another sheet and am" &C.
The statistics were drawn up in the form of a
table Here it is:
| yisbls bc-s Gin the mornins. oO7
Nu%eer on the hotel up to- to miinisti al
| girls riazha ,aN night................ Al
| en2aecd to be married, ..............,.
| t"sHiis 10 DC ensagcd -........-....... l.Q3
Number Of old maids ;sbo 5oIT s.ands =
Number Of men IN iarrcd =! ~
teuzased- g
Number Of young married women who donT
| Number Of children. $3.50 X oOl
Doubtless this table was an exaggeration, but
there Is something in it. for the cry still goes
| forth that there are no men at the simmer re-
sorts. lnasmach as the season is nearly over il
can do no harm 10 look nj this important mat
ter candidiy and fearlessly. In the first place
IL Is, OF course, inevitable that there should be
more women than men At these resorts Not
al men 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 60 away don't stay
very long, and, as they do not all 60 at the
same time. they are not very many when thew
| are scattered about the broad piazza of a sum-
mer hotel. All this is inevitable and cannot be
| helped, but there are other causes that con-
spire to produce scarcity OF men which nigh {
be helped.
| "What have you come back? And why?r
This inquiry the writer put to young man
who had cut his vacation short for some unac-
countable reason.
| We'll, he said, Il will tell you whv There
was only one thing to do down at the springs.
and that was to flirt with the girls. and as 1
couldn't hirt with fifteen girls at the same time
! l ran away"
Don't you see, young ladies? You have so few
I men ABOUT the that whom
| get hold OF a man you make TOO much of him
Really. you sometimes Ugh: to possess him.
there seems 10 be regular competition among
nearly all the girls at the hotel to possess a
man. Now, unless he is very young and unso-
phisticated he doesn't like that. Don't YOU
know that men are lords of creation? They
want to have their own way and they don like
TO be pursued too openly. The result of the
pursuit is That the man goes away to some
place where there are more men and fewer
| girls.
lhere Is another thing in which you make a
mistake, too, young ladies. Know, then, that
you don't as general thing dress yourselves
as men would have you dress.
LEARNED By EXPERIENCE.
TIE STAR writer made a tour of the summer
resorts lately. 1t is needless TO say that he fell
in love half dozen times and that he quar-
relied with fourteen different landlords. 1t ia
almost superfaous to add that he smoked
juleps and talked ncessantly for sixteen hours
a day; that he came home poorer in purse
than he had ever believed it possible for man
70 be- that be was as cross bear and re-
nected upon the forty-five dear friends he had
made, all Of whom he has already forgotten:
that he was glad to get something to eat; that
he was glad not to get nything TO drink; that
1t was pleasant to sleep on bed that wasn't
made of corn cobs and chestnut burrs: that he
ne wanted to go back right of, but il now
recOncllet to his lof- al nd 1,
readily understood by the poor fellow who reads
this ana whore own vacation is over. But all
this Is parenthetical and las nothing to do with
the fact that the girls at the summer resorts
uon dress themselves as they should, except
to convince the reader that the writer knows
what lac Is talking about. Well, let us take the
hotel piazza as the place where all the women
may be seen; but here another parenthesis must
be pardoned, for the hotel piazza deserves a
few words Of description.
on THE HOTEL PIAZZA.
What Wall street is to New York what the
avenue Is to Washington, the hotel piazza is to
the summer resort 1t is the grand rallying
point There the men Of there are auy) 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 o. children
come and romp and run races and make them
selves OBNOXIOUS TO everybody. The hotel
piazza Is not alone for the hotels guests. The
| the 'cottagers. as they are caled-;he people
who live IN boarding houses all con gregate
upon the plazzn OF the big hotel. Let us now
step out upon this famous spot and see how the
women are dressed. 1t is about $50 You
have just finished breakfast and have lighted
your pipe. Over in the corner commanding
! the best view and in the siatlicst place are the
OLD ladies' SlancinS up from their needlework
and keeping their eyes about them, you NAV
be sure. They speak quite frequently to one
mt har a,nA fhs.x
men and women who are not within earshot
with candor OF opinion that IS quite charm
| ing. sample Of the conversation will do
rs that a splasher or tidy, Mrs. Masham?n
says one.
"A splasher Do look at Miss Fetchet and
young Sprawley; the girl throws herself at his
head. Her mother must be ashamed of her,"
says another.
These Saxony woods are lovely. Yes, but
her mother was always that way herself
Now. how wonld one expect these excellent
ladies' to be dressed at this early hour in the
morning: In plain and simple attire, or in
silks with peaked sleeves and jewels on? Sad 10
relate, all wear the peaked sleeves and many
wear the silks and jewels.
But over III another corner of the piazza there
sits young man. He has jaunty country cap
perched on the top of his head and wears a
striped flannel tennis suit, from which il is fair
to presume that he never plays tennis The i'll
evitabie brentwood pipe Is in his mouth. and he
Is
| surrounded by nine beautiful girls. varying in
age from sixteen TO thirty. Let US see If por-
ton of the conversation cannot be overheard
The young man is talking.
"Yes, and the fellows at the Hinkerkooten
Club they wanted me to run for the board of
managers-
Chorus Of maidens: "Oh, how nice-'
But it's no fun being on the board don't
you know SO told EN- to take Charlie Farwell
in my place. You know Charlie?'
Chorus Of maidens. "Oh, yes, intimately.
Dear Charlie!''
HOW THE GIRLS ARE DRESSED.
And that will do as sample of this piazza
conversation. How are the girls clothed? Do
they wear broad, fat-heeled shoes. plain skirts
and light sensible jackets? Have they hats
like men. that can be put on or taken off at a
moments notice? Are they ready for a walk or
a climb row? Not much. One of them
has on pink hat with ostrich plumes another
wears yachting cap at such precise angle
that it must have cost considerable labor to
adjust it properly, and another one wears an
arrangement of fruits and flowers and grasses
on her head that would render her decidedly
unsafe il she should happen to meet hungry
COW.
Their gowns are on the seine principle. 1t ia
the fashion ROW, and a most idiotic, not to saw
untidy fashion. IL is. too, to wear a small train
to the skirt; but ID the country at o'clock il
the morning this train is really absurd Yet
many of them wear it, and they complete the
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