The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-10
POINTS.


Fer ZIderIy People az the Seaside VINE
Have Time TO Spare.
II you are an elderly lady and expect to
pass the summer at fashionable resort,
you are naturally looking forward to pc
Rod of extreme boredom
By = little care on your part this unplaas-
antness may be easily obviated.
IL Will only be necessary for you to move
among the young people and take part In
their amusements- THIS may require q
great deal of tact and some nerve on your
part. and the young people may be inclined
to resent your presence among them. but
the end will Justify the means
It is good plan to become an courant Of
all the hirtations in the hotel in the early
part of the season.
This may be done by keeping a sharp eye
70 windward- Walking aimlessly and noise
lessly into dark corners OF the piazza Ia
usually an interesting occupation. Much
valuable information may also be picked
up oy hiring ooatman to row you into
all the sequestered hooks on the lake. OF
course you will always take the back seat
on moonlight drives and keep your eyes and
ears open.
In addition, it Is well to learn by interro-
eating the bell boys which of the 9entlA-
men patronixe the bar to undu- extent,
and by the same means you may easily as
certain the outcome of all the poker par-
ties.
The results Of these observations of hui
man nature cannot fail to afford agreeable
topics of conversation to the little circle Of
ladies Of your own age who will gather on
the piazza in the mornings.
If the girls in the hotel SO irreproach-
able in conduct as to be absolutely uninter-
esting, much pleasure can sometimes be
derived from looking up their antecedents.
After you have found out where they
come from you will usually be able to
think of some friend who knows some one
in their native city who will be only too
glad to furnish you with mass of statis-
tics in regard to the girls ages their previ-
GUS engagements, their lack of social stand
ing and their numerous dirtations.
This information, judiciously doled out,
will serve to shorten many a long summer
day.
OF course most of the married women
will have husbands in the city. If you can
learn, through your bureau of correspond
ents, of any one of these men taking ad.
vantage of his wife's absence by drinking
a schooner of beer, inviting his type
writer to the roof garden, or by commit
ting any other act Of riotous dissipation do
not fail to inform his wife of it at once
Tell her that you only mention it il conf
dence and then tell all the other ladies In
the hotel directly afterward
The absent husband may also be made
the subject for investigation in regard to
his business rating, the number of times he
has failed, his disinclination to pay his
debts and whether he has ever swindled
anybody Most men have something to
conceal. Find it outl 1t is better for the
truth to be known.
And when the husband comes up to
spend Sunday at the hotel, get him into a
corner and give him vivid description Of
his wife's occupations and the number of
men she has smiled on during the week.
But these are only hints. l have no doubt
You will be able to develop them into some
thing really amusing and usefuL-Brook-
lyn Life.