, 1904-09-14
~ MAN ABOUT
- TOWN
( Writes a Few Paragraphs
TO AmuSe Himself and to
Bore others
BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Rapidly the crowds have decreased
at the seashofe resorts, giving them a
desolate forsaken appearance. The
people do not seem to realize that Sep
TENDER is the most delightful month of
the year at the shore. The weather is
usually perfect-not too cool, nor not too
warm. The old axiom "Follow the
crowd" seems to predominant in the
minds of visitors and as the sombre
month of September looms into view
the crowds dissolve like snow under the
rays of a direct sun.
MMM
Although the crowds have left and
the hotels are closing, yet the "Man
About Town" does not find it as hard
to fill his note book with interesting
personals as one might think. During
the last week several anonymous COM
munications have found their way TO
his desk with the request to please pub
lish jokes on certain friends. The let
ter below is reprinted just as received;
Mr.. Man About Town Correspondent,
Care of Five Mile Beach Journal,
Wildwood, N. J.
| don't know you but | see you
have bin putting in gokes in the
journal about different fellows. mo
a pretty good one about me chum
that wood like you to put in the
paper. He Woodent be very mad
for he woOdent no who put it in.
Last night a week ago about 10
O'Clock in the evening he dressed up
in his best clothes and told me he
rua1 noinn IN faIya bic n;rl 10 DIaI-
ers and the Casino. Then he started
pretty fast down the street to where
his girl works (she was waiter at
II of the big hotels. He asked
for her but got rubbered because
she was not there. Another fellow
smarter than him had got there first
and taken his girl. He was awful
mac and tried 10 get another girl
for spite but coudent find any. He
was 20 minutes late.
A CONSTANT READER.
p. S. You will oblige me awful if
you please will publish this for il is
great joke ON my chum.
Y @M
Another letter received read as fol.
lows:
Mar About Town
Care the Journal,
Wildwood, n. j.
MI. Man About Town or Verbatim
or who ever you are | am writing
to tell yon that you don't want to
put anything in the paperabout me
for | object to seeing my name in
print. | wrote this because | was
afraid you might put something in
your columns about me
Yours
A READER.
Never fear, my friend. Nothing will
be pat in my column that will in any
way harm you or your name. Thanks
very much for your kindness i'll eau
tioning me beforehand.
y y Y
On one of the recent excursions to
this island there came a young man bent
upon enjoying himself in the best man.
ner he knew how. He tried filling up
on soda water and ice cream but they
did not have the desired effect. He
next imbibed of the spirits that driveth
away all cares and maketh the head
fill with fancy and delightful sensations,
the feet to become light and the tongue
to wag. But alas, this was his down
fall. He felt good and wanted other
people to know it. He preached it;
proclaimed it to all who were in hear
ing distance. In the middle of a
f1owery eXpostulation an officer of the
law, stern and business-like, walked
u tipsy subject to the borough hall
where he was lodged in the ''cooler''
and given a chance to ponder over his
boisterous conduct. Just before he was
placed in the lookup, a pretty maid OF
not over twenty summers, went up to
the young reprobate and said: "Nevei
mind Jack, Wen bail you out before the
train starts and you can sit along side
of me all the way to Philadelphia. How
about that ?n
Jack answered, "Good bye my
turtle-dove-Good bye-my lady
love, good"-bye."
Jacks fine was paid and he was re-
leased as the girl had promised and as
far as tits known travelled home in her
company.