The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-03

terest.
Copyright, 1898.
Somewhere in the Adirondacks.-
OF al sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: There were no
men"
That was the lament of a very Vtvacious
Baltimore belle who was one of the last
OF the batch to leave the alleged hotel
where we had been for a short time. We
did not depart because We wanted to, al
though ali of us were tired of the fearful
ly dreary place after a day which seemed
about forty-eight hours long. The pro-
prietor of the hotel was discouraged by
what he considered the lack of apprecia-
ton of the city folks and he deter
mined to close for the season a couple
of weeks earlier than usual
And incidentally it was a mystery to
ne, after brief experience with the be-
whiskered gentleman's hospitality, how he
ever managed to keep a boarder for more
than one consecutive day, / have tested
q 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 per-
sons in the house appeared to be other
wise at any time. These were, first, the
proprietor, whose face wore an ominous
and sordid smirk especially on Saturday.
which he had established as pay day, no
matter when one arrived. If you got
in on Friday, you paid pro rata for the
imaginary entertainment which you had
not had the next day, and thereafter
weekly instalments. The other sometime
--or, rather, always-cheerful person was
the daughter of this modern Shylock, who
exacted his pound of silver every Saturday
and grudingly 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 histrionic as
pirations, and it seems that some one had
told her that If one would preserve the
beauty of the face one must never look
sulky. The consequence was ineVita-
bile. 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 a pathetic one. and sim she
would smile. Naturally, through the con-
slant and what I cannot help believing
must have been the painful effort, the
smile gradually forsook the ladys face
and smirk took its place 1t was pres
ent and working overtime when / first
saw her, but despite the drawbacks she
was really the only thing which neasur-
ably relieved the tedium of her Awful
Dads" awful hotel She was forever
asking me to use my influence upon my
return to New York to get her an en-
gagement with some first-class company,
and so 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 If
Mr.. DAILY or one of the Frohmans would
agree to advertise her as heavily as their
protean role exponent. / promised to do
whatever l could, but up to the present
time have heard nothing from the man
ayers in question. OF. one thing I am
quite certain, and that is that II this
young woman should get an opportunity
In a good tragedy she would Immediately
find herself the possessor of a vigorous
and unquenchable reputation as a come
dienne
But TO abandon the lady with the stage
aspirations and TO return to that other
who mourned In doggerel paraphrase of a
famous verse the scarcity of men at the
various resorts during the season Just end
ed. She was naturally a bright, cheerful
creature who painted fairly we'll 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 support herself in accordance
with her tastes, had set out at the begin
ming of the summer upon a thoughtfully
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 IL
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 decid-
ed In an evil moment to visit our noun
tain nights, which Were not well known
and which, as / have explained do not de-
serve to be. That incidentally is why ]
have not divulged the name.
Wen, the young campaigner came, and
for few hours after having discovered
that we had but one male guest, that he
was a divorced man with three "incum-
brances' who had married a second time
and that mo. q was also divorce with
nVe children, whose custody had been
awarded to her by the court, she was su-
periatively disguised. Then the ludicrous
side of 1t all appealed to her and she
promptly melted into a very nice compan-
ion. In burst of confidence brought on
by the first and, by the way, the only good
meal we had at the place she confessed to
me that, in her opinion, men who are
worth having as husbands, cannot be
caught by persistent angling and that
those who can be ensnared in that man
ner even though they be wealthy, are not
fit mates for any good woman
She said that the startling information
which she had received upon her arrival
at our uncomfortable nest was the last
straw In a large mass tending in the di-
rection of convincing her that her sum
mer's campaigning had been a very unwo-
manly proceeding. She would go home live
well within her means, make some sacri-
fee of her tastes and preserve her self re-
spect., If the right man happened along
she would marry him without reference to
his worldly possessions If she loved him.
and, If not, she would die single and happy
in the consciousness that the one unworthy
act of her life had passed over without
working harm to anybody.
But when the time came to leave this
reformed would-be husband-c catcher could
not resist the temptation TO immortalize
her sentiments upon the scarcity of eligi-
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