The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-06
TCopyright, 1881
Somewhere In the Adirondacks.

Somewhere In the Adirondacks.
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these There were nc
men,"
That was The lament of a very viva
clous Baltimore belle who was one OF
the last Of the batch To leaXe the alleged
hotel where we had been for a short
time. We did not depart because we
wanted 10, although all of us were tired
of the fearfully dreary place after a
day which seemed about as hours long
The proprietor of the hotel was dis
couraged by what he considered the lack
OF appreciation of the lefty folks" and
he determined to close for the season a
couple OF weeks earlier than usual
And incidentally IL was a mystery To
me. after a brie: experience with the
bewhiskered 2entIeman's hospitality.
how he ever managed to keep a boarder
for more than one consecutive day. 7
have tested a great many hostelres 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 i'm the
time. These were, first the proprietor.
whose face wore an ominous and sor-
did smirk. especially on Saturday. which
ne had established as pay day no mat
ter when one arrived. If you got in on
Friday, you paid pro rata for the imagi-
nary entertainment which you had not
had the next day and thereafter there
were supposed to>be the regular full
weekly installments. The other some
time-or rather. always-cheerful per-
son was the daughter of this modern
Shylock. who exacted his pound OF sill
YER 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 perpetual smile. She had his
trionic aspirations. and II 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 inevitable. She simply made up
her mind that she would always smile
and smile ard 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
ono. and still she would smile. Natu-
rally. through the constant and what |
cannot help believing must have been
the painful effort, the smile gradually
forsook the lady's face, and q smirk
took its place. 1t was present and work.
ing overtime when 1 first saw her. but
despite the drawbacks she was really
the only thing which measurably re-
lieved the tedium OF her Awful DADS"
awful hotel. She was forever asking me
TO use my influence, upon my return to
N..~.r 10 I.n,.
with some first class company. and so
desperately in earnest was she that she
assured me that while she was fully
competent 10 play leads" she would be
willing TO take second parts to begin If
Mr.. DAILY or one OF the FTohmans would
agree to advertise her as heavily as
their protean role exponent. promised
20 do whatever / could. but up 60 the
present time | have heard nothing from
the managers in question. OF one thing
i am quite certain. and that is that II
this young woman should get an op-
portunity in a good tragedy she would
Immediately find herself the possessor
OF vigorous and unqUenchabfe reputa-
ton as a coincidence.
But 10 abandon the lady with the
stage aspirations and to return TO that
other who mourned in doggerel para
phrase OF n famous verse the scarcity
OF men at the various resorts during the
season just ended She was naturally
q bright. cheerful creature who painted
fairly 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
support herself in accordance with her
tastes. had set out at tho beginning OF
the. summer upon "a thoughtfully plan
ned campaign which was to yield her a
second husband. or course any man
would not dc for her. He must have
some money. for i'm her quest for a
spouse il was a foregonc conclusion
that she would encroach upon her prin-
cipal. She had made the round OF the
we'll known resorts. but men of any sort
were go scarce in each place that in
sheer desperation she decided in an evil
moment 10 visit our mountain heights,
which were not we'll known and which.
as 7 have explained. do not deserve to
he. That incidentally is why J have
not divulged the name.
Well. the young campaigner came.
and for a few hours after having discov-
cred that we had but one male guest.
that he was a divorced man with three
"lncumbrances" who had married n sec
ond time, and that mo. g. was also a
divorcee with five children. whose Gus
tody had been awarded 10 her by the
court che was supcrlativcly disgusted.
'rnUH t.Ic ludicrous side of IL all APP
rcaled TO her. and she promptly melted
into q very nice companion. In a burst
~ confidence brought on by the first
and Nv the way the only good meal we
hd1 at the place she confessed 20 me
that. la her opinion men who are worth
having rs husbands cannot be caught
by persistent angling and that those
emo can be ersnared In that manner,