Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-30

cheated out of its rights This young man
whose advent Is the real sensation of the
season at the hotel deserves more space
imam can be given him here, but he comes
under the general classification of sum
mer men," of whom there are as many
Inherent varieties there are of flowers.
1t would not be fair in speaking of the
motel habitues to overlook the great female
light literature in yellow paper covers is
something simply incredible II YOU come
up the pathway to the hotel in the morn
ing you will find her in shady nook OF
the piazza, with her feet supported upon
the lower rounds of a second chair deer
In new novel, AS the sun shifts and in
vades her nook, she shifts her seat; other
wise she moves not till the time for
luncneon arrives. Then she gets up hugs
the novel to her heart and walks in to take
refreshment Having finished she goes back
TO the piazza, or else to her room II the
weather Is warm, and reads till dinner
Time Sne appears in the dining room
still hugging the book. and in the evening
by the light Of a wretched lamp with a
whist party of old folks chatting away on
one side of her. and a small riot insti-
gated by the hotel boy in progress in the
passageway on the other side of her. she
stu continues to read.
She Escapes Harmless.
sne Is or middle age and neither good nor
pad looking. She wears some false hair I'm
'front.' but 1t Is not unbecoming She dresses
well. She has daughter who does not care
much Tor novels. Her husband ia dead
winch Is not unfortunate. perhaps, as if
gives her chance to imagine that he nos
sessed all the amiable qualities OF the diff
Ierent heroes she spends her time with A
woman with live husband would hardly
care 10 read SO much sentimental nonsense
as she reads. Does she remember any of
the books she reads? Do they make any i'm
preston on her? 1t Is to be hoped not. If
any human being absorbed as much trash
as she reads every summer, she would be
murderess, or a lunatic or both. If Won
taik 10 this novel reader you will find her
entlreiy prosafc, from which It NAV be in
ierfed That novels. like some poisons are
Ihnocuous II you swallow an overdose.
II anybody supposes that this article Is
gong TO deal with the hotel belle. he or
sne Is mistaken. The girls of the hotel are
sastiy IN the majority. and the belle of the
hotei Is the one that catches one of the
stray men that comes along, and these men
are little more numerous than the trout
tHat the prospectus of the hotel decla req
are IN the neighboring creek. Nobody ever
sees the trout at ALL whereas one does &C.
SaslCnaliy see young man at a summer
holei. But now the girl catches him By
what process she can get him to concen-
uate on her rather than on some one of her
numerous sisters is too deep a question
~ would De Just as well to ask the number
tHat WINS prize In the lottery why II
should nave Won rather than any other
number. There is fate about 1t. or luck
or something else that is beyond human
ken. But 1t Is probable that summer hotels
40 10 something toward making few mar
rlages, out II any woman really is search
Ing for a husba nd she makes great mis-
take If she supposes she will be ant To find
one there.