The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-11
CARRIE CARELESS
REJOIoES THAT THE SUMMER SEA-
SON Is ABOUT OVER.

Bun 10 AbO III ONHR-
Makes One Feel "Msan"-TabIs Man
ners Suffer-The Love at First Sight
Casos Have, as a Rule, an Ignoble
/ Ending.
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NEW YORK, Sept, 10. The summer
season Of 1892 is now drawing to a close.
The proprietors of the various seaside hotels
and country boarding houses are busily
preparing to shut up their establishments
for the winter, while their victims-I meant
TO say their guests-are rapidly focking
back to town In a considerably less frame
of mind than that which they manifested on
their departure for their annual outing.
Not only have they suffered in pocket, but
also in body and mind. Their digestion has
been impaired by the Summer resort
cookery while both their pride, their self
esteem-and in some cases. too, their hearts
have been affected in a manner the re-
verse Of pleasant.
We, at least those of us who have been
relegated TO the hotel and boarding houses
| during the heated term of the year, return
! to our city homes with distinctly dissatis-
| fed feeling which can best be described by
| that expressive American word inca i"
! We experience the always disagrAsable i'm
| preston that we have been making our
selves cheap and that we have lowered the
! degree Of our self-respect. We have per-
| mitted ourselves to form intimaoies which
we now regret, and we have submitted TO
! treatment both as regards comfort and
| food, which is sufficient 90 fill us with a
! longing TO inflict bodily punishment, not
! alone on the hotel or boarding house man
| ager but also on ourselves.
| What eau there be, for instance more
! thoroughly demoralizing and deteriorating
| of both spirit and digestion than the ordi-
| nary summer resort meals
! Time hanging heavy upon our hands at
! such places as these, the meals constitute
| the most important events of the day. By
degrees our thoughts commence TO center
| upon them, so much so indeed that before
| long the question OF food becomes
| our main preoccupation. We hurry to the
| dining room as soon as ever the doors
are opened in the hope of receiving the
choicest morsels of the daily fare. And
with the object of accomplishing this, we
are willing TO go almost to any length to in-
| gratiate ourselves with the waiter or wait
ress, and become downright sbject in our
! endeavor to propitlate that august funo-
! tionarY, on whose graciousness and conde-
| scension so much Of our well being at these
summer resorts depend
Not that the food is worth the thought
| the diplomacy and the attention which we
| are acc STONED to extend thereto. For the
summer resort" proprietor or manager has
| his or her establishment open during only
| three, or, at the most, four months OF the
| year, and within that brief period he ex-
| poets TO make enough money, not only to
| pay the expenses or running slch place
| where market convenienees are few in num-
Der and costly, but also to amass a sufficient
sum to keep him in luxury aud idleness dur
| ing the remaining eight or nine months of
! the year. Under these circumstances il
| ager or proprietor should procure
his provisions at the very lowest price pos
! sible, trusting 30 the invariably sharp APP
| petite of the summer boarder to atone for
any deficiency with regard to the quality
| or the freshness OF the viotuals.
| Then, TOO. our table manners are apt 10
suffer from attendance at boarding house
meals and eccentricities of demeanor which
| would have made us shiver with horror on
| our arrival leave us absolutely calm and in
| different on our departure, fortunate in
| deed II we have not ourselves unconsoously
| adopted them. Moreover, coarse food and
coarse table manners invariably have
vulgarizing influence upon ones entire be-
! ing, and hence it is that we are apt to re-
! turn to our city homes with our senses of
delicacy and refinement considerably inn
| paired.
AuObueT Cause WHICH contributes TO bl1S
| deterioration, is that social diversion of the
summer known as holiday oourtship." 1t
| is built neither upon a solid foundation OF
| practice, wisdom, nor even a practical pref
erenoe. Though often misread as proof OF
| love at first sight, in nineteen cases out OF
| twenty it Is nothing OF the kind. 1t is SIM
| ply manifestation OF the genial exuper-
ance of unhampered youthful spirits and
the result Of ideness, lack of occupation
and boredom. If any proof were needed
| of this 1t could be found in
| the fact that our return to
| town almost invariably terminates
these ephemeral infatuations and when we
| subsequently encounter the object thereof
| we ignore him. Ia the most cold-booded
manner possible, asking ourselves what we
can possibly have seen in the creature to
attract our admiration or even our atten-
lion. We no longer find him broad-shoul-
dered. his eyes are green rather than grey,
that lower lip OF his is a very decided de-
| feet his feet are certainly uiads for No. 10
boots, that hand which once so lovingly
pressed our own now looks coarse, study
| and ill-csred for, while in nine cases out OF
| ten we meet again our Don Juan Of the
boarding house, the beau of the
summer hotel, not driving In the park
that tandem or that four-in-hand concern
ing which he was won't TO entertain us In 30
| grandiloquent a manner but In some shoe,
hat, grocery or dry goods store, where be
ekes out a scanty living behind the shop
counter as a salesman. We then find, but
little late, that we have waster our time,
our attention. and, in some cases, our affec-
ton and even oaresses on that abomination
OF desoiatlon yclept the cheap swell, ana IL
| there is anything more than another that
can make us feel cheap and mean ourselves
| 1t is this.
l, for one, confess that am heartily glad
that the summer purgatory 10 over, aAd
that am back in town.
| CARRIE CARELESS.