Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-21

saults upon him.
The first one, probably. comes in the
shape OF fair young lady. also n guest at
the hotel with him. 1t is said propinquity
has great deal to do with people falling in
love with each other, and undoubtedly this
Is true but just think of such propinquity
as two people at dull summer hotel I'M
dergo. The very first thing the young man
sees when he is sitting in the dining room
at breakfast is the young lady. This, how
ever, Is sight not usually calculated to
make him love her, for breakfast is a try
ing time to almost any woman. She may
dress herself as freshly as she will. but the
marks OF deep sleep are upon her. She may
smile ever so much. but 1t will be several
hours before she can smile away q some
what puffy look about the eyes and perhaps
a rather wrinkled look about the cheeks.
VI course. all this is very irreverent, and
beauty Is thing to be worshiped at all
times. but, nevertheless, a man as he sits
at the breakfast table and sees beauty
come down to that early meal, cannot I'M
less he Is blindly in love, help from reflect
Ing that there are degrees of beauty and
tnat this Is not most attractive degree
However, here are a man and girl in a
summer MOTEL. There is literally nothing to
co. There is a lake somewhere, but one
can't live on the water; there are drives
100, out the hire of horse is too much of
an expense to be incurred every day; there
are trout to be caught. II You choose 20
Undergo innumerable hardships with a very
doubtful prospect of success
They Talk and Then Talk.
What then. is left for the man but to
talk to the girl? And, .cmerciful heavens.
how much he does ftalk. From soon after
breakfast until dinner time he and the
girl sit and talk. Then he takes I'D the
conversation again In the evening. He
walks, perhaps but whom has he to walk
with but the girl? He OCCASIONALLY drives.
but he takes her with him. After about a
week of this sort of thing they take TO
reading aloud to each other The game is
practically up then, for after a very short
time the reading takes the form of poetry
Wen, here Is country snare that the city
man Is very apt to fall into. Perhaps he
proposes and is accepted. and a marriage
Is the outcome. or perhaps he stops Just
short OF that, which Is the sensible thing
to do. and leaves the hotel, never to see
the fair charmer again. These summer
friendships are strange things. You seem
10 be forming lifelong and intimate ac-
quaintanceship. but when you separate
there Is every probability that you will
never meet again.
There is a decoy which floats serenely at
the larger and more fashionable resorts
which it particularly behooves the parents
of pretty daughters and the pretty daugh-
against. 1t is the foreign nobleman come
to America to see what 1t is like. and OBJ
viously bent upon following the prevailing
European fashion of marrying an Ameri-
can girl.
The Spurious NobIeman.
There has been a good deal Of talk about
this species of human being, and doubtless
a good many stories have been told that
are very wide Of the truth. but 1t is true
that enough cases have occurred Of decep-
ton from these gentlemen with whiskers
end titles to warrant every man with a
Eighty wife daughter in being on his
guard against them. Yet it ought not to
be difficult to tell If the man is what he
represents himself to be or not. II he is a
real count or baron, he will probably lay
no stress upon his title. and he will not
brag of his noble acquaintances and rela-
tons. If, on the ether hand, he Is a sDuri-
Gus nobleman, he will do this very thing
He will describe to you the glories of his
estate, he viii draw glowing picture of
his own Importance at home, and he will
speak slightinSly of the minister his coun-
try has sent to Washington.
This last is an Unfaiing sign. The sp,Ir-
ious count never knows his minister. and
always represents him as being a man
whom he could not afford to know at home
Another sign by which you may know hin,
is by the fact that he will propose to your
daughter just as soon as he gets a chance
him or no? If she does, he will wish 10
marry her. If You will Let him, unless he
sees some better chance, when he will
coolly jiit her. Having married her. he
will undoubtedly, first of ALL get all the
money out of her that he can, then he will
abuse her. and, finally, he will probably de-
sert her. When you meet ore of these men,
and have the slightest suspicion of him. go
first to the proprietor of the hotel and ask
him whether the count pays his board bill:
then, If 1t appears that he does this salts
factorily, send line to his minister The
latter may open your eyes. But of course
he may really be all that he represents him
self to be, in the matter of birth and title
and still never pay his board, and If he be-
comes your son-in-law, may prove to be
Just as bad a one as If he We're a fraud
Unfortunately, there are not only instances
On record of American girls marrying spur
ious foreign titles but also of their marry
ing genuine foreign titles and being beaten
by their husbands afte"wari. The person
who demands the same credentials of re-
srectability from a foreigner that he insists
upon from Americans is safe from, all dam
ger on this score.
City and Country Shrewdness.
You are not always safe. for that matter
from the American men that you meet at
summer resorts. Sometimes they borrow
money from you, or they try to, and come
times without doing you any material in
jury, they so utterly deceive you that YOU
again 1t is not only at the summer resort
that the city man encDunters snares Let
him go into the real farm house country
and try his chances against the raw bu-
collie nature and see how he will come ont
Yet 1t is matter of proverb almost, that
whenever the cOunEyman comes to the city
he is marked at once lawful game by the
wicked people of the city. He hardly alights
from the train before the noble bunco man
appears. who asks him about his wife and
family at home, and then steers him where
he can have q little game" or, perhaps.
purchase a few thousand bright new green
dollars for a paltry sum in cash. Of course.
one cannot help rejecting, when the co,Ir-
tryman Is robbed of his money and goes to
the police with his complaints, that he
would have been safe from all harm IL he
had, as soon the thing was proposed to
him, promptly said that he was not in town
either to gamble or TO buy ''green goods"
There are many other snares that entrap
him, but they nearly all OF them show that
he came to town to see rather it's worst
side. or else he would never have been in
the way of the snares.
The truth IS that to the average country
man the city IS associated in his mind.