Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
~BKB'S BKBBL2NOS.
The Scarcity Of Male Visitors at the Various Resorts During the
Season Which Has Just Closed
Copyright 1881
Somewhere in the Adriondacks.

Copyright, 1881
Somewhere in the Adriondacks.
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
line saGaest are these: There were nc
men!
That was the lament of a very viva
cious baltimore belle who was one OF
the last OF the batch to leave the alleg-
ed hotel where We had been for a short
time. We did not depart because we
wanted TO, although all of us were tired
of the fearfullly dreary place after a
rday which seemed ABOUT forty-eight
mours long. The proprietor of the
hotel was discouraged by what ne
considered the lack OF appreciation of
ane city folks, and he determined to
close for the season a couple of weeks
earlier than usual.
And incidentally it was a mystery tn
me- after a brief experience with the
ipeWlskered gentlemans hospitality
NOW ne ever managed to keep a board
ef Tor more than one consecutive dav
nave tested great many obstetrics
IN my time, but this was the worst that
dreams had ever brought me. We all
reached the resigned and thoroughly
miserable stage before the first day was
over. In fact, only two persons in, The
mouse appeared to be otherwise at anv
time. Ihese were, first, the prOpriet0r.
whose face wore an ominous and cor,
old smlrk, especially on Saturday
Whlch ne had established as nav dav
no matter when one arrived If Won
sct IN CHI FRIDAY, you paid pro rata for
lne imaginary entertainment which Won
Had not had the next day, and there
Siter there We're supposed to be the req
uiar full weekly installments. T6a
Other sometlme-or, rather, ALWAYS
cheerful person was the daughter of
This modern Shylock, who exacted his
pound OF silver every Saturday and
grudglngly doled out to us about The
same quantity of food during the rest
of the week. ''
lhls daughter of the noble Boreia
wore perpetual smile. She had his
9rlonlc aspirations, and it seems thai
}ne on told her that if one
beauty of the face
PIX sulkyI The con-
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her mind that she would al
lie and smile and smile, and
yer avoid the abysses of facial
and crows feet. Tell her a
~, and she would smile; tell
letic one, and still she would
|turaNy, through the constant
cannot help believing must
the painful effort, the smile
orsook the ladys face, and
its phase. 1t was present
g overtime when | first saw
spite the drawbacks she was
only thing which measur-
we'd the tedium of her Awful
Wful hotel. She was forever
De to use my influence, upon my
to New York, to get her an en-
ent with some first class COM
and SO desperately in earnest was
that she assured me that while
was fully competent to play
ds" she would be willing to take
nd parts to begin if Mr. Daily
One of the Frohmans would
Tree to advertise her as heavily
as their protean role exponent.
i promised to do whatever l could, but
UP to the present time i have heard
nothing from the managers in question.
OF one thing l am quite certain, and
that is that if this young woman should
get AN opportunity in good tragedy
possessor of a vigorous and unquencn-
able reputation as a coincidence
But to abandon the lady with the
stage aspirations and to return to
that other who mourned in dog
gerel paraphrase of a famous verse
the scarcity of men at the various
resorts during the season just ended.
She was naturally bright, cheer
urh 81, L.,
well on her easel and in a really
artistic manner on her face She was
a widow of about three years standing
and, not having sufficient income to sup
|nport herself in accordance with her
Wastes, had set out at the beginning of
the summer upon a thoughtfully plan
ned campaign which was to yield her a
second husband. Of course any man
\ would not do for her. He must have
some money for in her quest for q
spouse 1t was foregone conclusion
that she would encroach upon her prin-
cipal. She had made the round of the
well known resorts, but men of any
sort were so scarce in each place that
In sheer desperation she decided in an
evil moment to visit our mountain
heights, which were not we'll known
and which, as | have explained, do not
deserve to be. That incidentally is why
/ have not divulged the name.
Well, the young campaigner came
and for few hours after having dis
covered that we had but one male
guest, that he was a divorced man
with three membranes" who had
. married second time, and that mo
2 was also a divorce with five
children, whose custody had been
awarded to her by the court
she was superlatively disguised
Then the ludicrous side of it all APP
pealed to her, and she promptly melted
hts avery nice companion. In a burs
of confidence brought on by the frs
and, by the way, the only good meal W.
had at the place, she confessed to m,
that, in her opinion, men who are wortl
having as husbands cannot be caugh
by persistent angling and that thos'
who can be ensnared in that manner
even though they be wealthy, are no
fit mates for any good woman.
She said that the startling informa
ton which she had received upon he
arrival at our uncomfortable nest was
the last straw in large mass tendins
In the direction Of convincing her tina
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