Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-25
ALTOGETHER TOO MUCH BLISS.
Peri1s of Being the Only Man ut q
Simmer Hotel,

There's such a thing as too much of a
good thing" said handsome young chap
of about thirty; too much of bliss, too
much Of heaven
"As to how?" inquired man at his desk.
In his shirt sleeves, who looked as II he
hadn't stopped a minute in ninety-nine
years.
''Ill tell you. I've just got back from a
little vacation trip of a month or six weeks.
and one week Of that spent at a summer
hotel where there was surplus of girls.
Darn pretty girls, too, and as willing to
filrt as fish is to swim. There were forty
three girls there, and when l arrived on
Monday night ! was the only man on the
spot, not counting a dozen or more ineligi-
bles-that is 10 say, married men, mems
men and men from the country roundabout
who dropped in on occas ions. There was
the usual dance that night, and there was
also a moon. and being a dancer, and also
knowing something about what to do with
moon when there Is a girl around and
vice versa, 1 was kept on the jump till mid
night, and quit with twenty-four engage
ments for next day. 1t never occurred to
me how 1 was ever going to keep them. I
trusted to Providence for that. The first
one was with brown-eysd, thin girl, to go
down to the big spring and drink the water
before breakfast. 1 had no idea what kind
of water 1t was or what kind~of girl it
was. 1 simply had the date and filled it,
leaving the lady at the dining room door
to take breakfast with a blue-eyed fat
girl. After breakfast l took drive with a
red-headed girl in her own cart, and when
l got back from that / had a date with
literary girl to read late novel to her un-
der tree. 1 quit that for another girl in
hammock, and left her to do a game OF
tennis with an athletic girl Then 1 had
to go to the spring with another girl be-
fore luncheon, and left her for a luncheon
date with three girls at their table. After
luncheon 1 had a spooning spell with shy
young thing out under the trees, and gave
her up to walk to Lovers Leap every sum-
mer resort has one, you know with another
lovely being. After this took two out on
the lake. and when 1 came back went with
another out to the golf links, and came
back at o'clock to ride with hazel-eyed
beauty till time to dress for dinner. Had
a progressive dinner-that is. took soup
with girl, meat and vegetables with
another and dessert with third. Had an
other spooning bee after dinner and went to
dancing. Between dances talked moon talk
to other girls, and Notwithstanding my I'M
ceasing activity I found that ] was shy
six dates at II 80. and II was quitting time.
/ walked two of them around the hotel
piazza a time two, and then I punched
the other four and took them into the par
Tor, where l sang coon songs to them till
the varlet came around to put out the
lights.
Romeo and Juliet. but was tired when
l got to bed and when 1 went to sleep L
dreamed that I was in combined cyclone
and hurricane that didn't blow darn thing
D0t girls, the air was literally full or them.
The next day was worse and more of It,
owing to the fact that another man came,
which increased the social activity of the
place and they had morning german. l
stood it all right though. and 1 guess
maybe I might have held on for the two
weeks I had intended staying, but l got
my engagements mixed and the fourth
day 1 wrote two or three notes to different
girls and got them In the wrong envelopes,
and / called Kitty Clara. and Clara Har-
net. and kissed the wrong one Of twin sis
ters, and put my arm around the girls
mother instead Of the girls waist as we
stood on the dark side of the piazza looking
in at the dancers through the windows, and
on through an embarrassment of riches
such as never went up against before. I
might even have stayed on, anyhow, but
just as 1 had about got matters satisfac-
torily, If not amcably, settled with those
on hand ten new girls swooped down on the
place and I saw my finish. There was no
use trying to live In an everlasting at
mosphere of rosebuds and rhapsodies, and
just packed up my luggage and skipped the
ira lie loo. 1t was great and no mistake,
but, just the same. too much Of a good
thing is more than plenty, and have my
emotional limitations"
The handsome young man stopped for
breath, and the man In his shirt sleeves
rose to his feet and kicked waste basket
through the skylight. Then he sat down
again with a thump.