The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-28
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For Elderly People ut the Seaside Who
Have Time to Spare,

For Elderly People Mt the Seaside Who
Have Time to Spare.
If you are an elderly lady and expect to
you are naturally looking forward to a Pc
riod of extreme boredom.
BY a little care on your part this unpleas-
antness may be easily obviated.
1t will only be necessary for you to move
among the young people and take part in
their amusements. This may require
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.
1t is good plan to become au courant of
all the flirtations in the hotel In the early
part of the season.
This may be done by keeping sharp eye
to windward. Walking aimlessly and noise
lessly into dark corners of the piazza Is
usually an interesting occupation. Much
valuable information may also be picked
up by hiring boatman 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 we'll to learn by interro.
eating the bell boys which of the gentle
men patronize the bar to an undue 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 are 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 toe
glad to furnish you with q mass of Stats
tics in regard to the girls ages, their previ
GUS engagements, their lack Of social stand
ing and their numerous fiirtations.
This information, judiciously doled out
will serve to shorten many long summer
day.
OF course most of the married women
will have husbands in the city. If you car
learn, through your bureau of correspond
ents, of any one Of these men taking ad
vantage of his wife's absence by drinking
schooner of beer, or inviting his type
writer to the roof garden, or by commit
ting any other act of riotous dissipation, dt
| not fail to inform his wife of it at once
Tell her that you only mention it in conf
dence and then tell all the other ladies IL
the hotel directly afterward.
The absent husband may also be mad,
the subject for investigation in regard tt
his business rating, the number of times h,
has failed, his disinclination to pay hi
debts and whether he has ever swindlet
anybody. Most men have something t.
conceal. Find it outl 1t is better for tn,
truth to be known.
And when the husband comes up Il
spend Sunday at the hotel, get him into
corner and give him vivid description O
his wife's occupations and the number o
men she has smiled on during the week.
But these are only hints. have no doub
you will be able to develop them into some
thing really amusing and useful.-Brook
lyn Life.