Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-10-06
BALTIMORE BELLIES LAMENT
She and Bah Met at "AWfui
Dads" Awful Hotel.
SOMEWHERE IN THE ADlRONDA0KS'
One Day Seemed Forty-eight
Hours Long.
There Was only One Male Guest, n Divorced
Man with Three "Iucumbrances" Who
Had Married n Second Time, and "No. 90
Was Also Diyorcee with Five Chiidren.

Somewhere in the Adirondacks, Sept. 1
30.-To paraphrase the poet:
OF all sad words Of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: There were no |
men !" N
That was the lament of very viva
cious Baltimore belle who was one of the
last of the batch to leave the alleged
hotel where we had been for short
time. We did not depart because we
wanted to, although all of us were
tired of the fearfully dreary place after
day which seemed about 49 hours
long The proprietor of the hotel
was discouraged by what he considered
the lack of appreciation of the city
folks" and he determined to close for
the season a couple of weeks earlier
than usual.
me, after brief experience with the
bewhiskered gentleman's hospitality,
how he ever managed to,keep a boarder
for more than one consecutive day. l
have tested great many hostelries 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
house appeared to be otherwise at any
time. These were, first, the proprietor,
whose face wore an ominous and sor-
did smirk, especially on Saturday,
which. he had established rs pay day,
no matter when YOU arrived. If you got
in on Friday, you paid pro rata for the
imaginary entertainment which you
had not had the next day, and there
after there were supposed to be the
regular full weekly instruments. The
other sometime--or, rather, always
cheerful person was the daughter of
this modern Shylock, who exacted his
pound of silver every Saturday and
grudgingly doled out to us about the
same quantity of food during the rest
of the week.
This daughter of the noble Borgia
wore a perpetual SMILE She had his
trionic aspirations, and it seems that
some one had told her if one would
preserve the beauty of the face one
must never look sulky. The consequence
was inevitable. She simply made up
her mind that she would always smile
and smile and smile, and thus forever
avoid the abysses OF facial wrinkles and
crows feet. Tell her a funny story,
and she would smile; tell her pathetic
one, and still she would smile. Natur-
ally, through the constant and what /
cannot help believing must have been
the painful effort, the smile gradually
forsook the lady's face, and a smirk
took its place. 1t was present and
working overtime when first saw her,
but despite the drawbacks she was
really the only thing which measurably
relieved the tedium Of her lawful
| Dad's' awful hotel. She was forever
asking ME to use my influence, upon
my return to New York, to get her an
engagement with some first-class com
pany, and 20 desperately in earnest was
she that she assured me that while she
was fully. competent to play leads"
she would be willing to take second
parts to begin il Mr.. DAILY or one Of
the Frohmans would agree to advertise
her as heavily as their protean. role ex-
ponent | promised to do. whatever
| could, but up to the present time
have heard nothing from the managers
in question. OF one. thing am quite
certain, and that is that Il this young
woman should get an opportunity in a
good tragedy she would Immediately
find herself the possessor of vigorous
and unquenchable reputation as a
comedienne. A..
But to abandon the lady with the
stage aspirations and to return to that
.other who mourned in doggerel para
phrase of famous verse the scarcity
of men at the various resorts during
the season just ended. She was natur-
ally a bright, cheerful creature who
painted fairly well on her easel and in
really artistic manner on her face.
She was a widow of about three years
| or md n,a1 \, n,,s., a..
come to support herself in accordance
with her tastes, had set out at the be-
ginning Of the summer upon thought
fully planned campaign which was to
yield her second husband. OF course
any man would not do for her. He
must have some money for in her
! quest for a spouse it was foregone
conclusion that she would encroach
upon her principal. 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 well
J known and which, as have explained,
do not deserve to be. That incidentally
J is why l 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 "incumbrances'' who had
married second time, and that mo.
9" was also Divorce with five chill.
dren, whose custody had been awarded
I to her by the court, she was super.
i, latively Disguised. Then the ludicrous
side of it all appealed to her, and she
promptly melted into very nice com.
a panion. In burst of confidence
brought on by the first and, by the
I, way, the only good meal we had at the
I place she confessed to me that, in hel
. opinion, men who are worth having a.
husbands cannot be caught by per
; sistent angling and that those who car
= be ensnared in that manner, ever
I though they be wealthy, are not Fl
= mates for any good woman.
She said that the startling informa
tion which she had received upon hel
arrival at our uncomfortable nest wa,
, the last straw in a large mass tending
? in the direction of convincing her thai
her summers campaigning had been {
very unwomanly proceeding. She
would go home, live well within hel
means, make some sacrifice of hel
tastes and preserve her self-respect. Ii
the right man happened along, sh,
II would marry him without reference Il
i his worldly possessions, if she lovet
: him, and, If not, she would die single
!, and happy in the consciousness thai
2 the one unworthy act of her life hat
S passed over without working harm t.
,. anybody.
q R,,t vvban tho five ,,,,,n - 49,