Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1852-09-02

Times it is from the pen Of our es-
teemed friend, Mis-. ii. Marion Ste-
phens'- .af fE'
RIPPLES FROM NE WORT.
+ NEWPORT, R L., Aug.2 1859.
Dear P-Can You compr' hend the
humbu luxury, mean--of a season AZ
Newport, where You. are SO host amid
the intricacies of fashionable society, 80
hustled about and go bewildercd, that
you are ready to bat old Time over the
head for cheating you into the living OF
a season for somebody eise-so sure you
are il is not yourself that's enduring so
much punishment for so little pleasure 2
That was my last years experience.
This season finds me located in sweet
| cozy little home, with dear friend,
whose joys and sorrows have been my
own for many years, with the hearts
tha. love" about me, and last not
least, with most loveab!e and affection
ale mother TO fondle me. Should not
be happy2 Be assured there is but one
drawback, and that, the memory Of n
lonely one in Boston. who is apt to miss
me when all else forget.
Well, here am, in Newport, and
the spray that rises fiom the. waves TO
float of with the moonbeams shall not
be more light or evanescent than my
regrets while pleasure rules The hour
But where to begin /! 1t has been
week for distinct sensations, separate
impulses, and lifelong remembrances.--
Dressing, ri ling, dancing, and shall
confess i,-.firing but then, one does
feel so tliyfdtiondf fled in the midst OF so
much gaiety, and il men will indulge in
such trivoliiies, and if they should occa-
sionaly be caught mapping, waking
only TO find their inforicdfion spirit "a
married 'oInan, why--a-as very
agreeable writer in Harper's last oh
serves, "aH baggage at the risk of lis
opner," them's the consequences
Tomorrow (Which will come, des-
pite the adage) will be only fresh da-
guerreotype ol the to-day, which has
Just snuggled under the star coverlid of
TO night; and the next day, and the
next night, and many more days and
nights yet TO come, will all bear the
same stamp oil festivity and mirth. The
beach is the centre Of attraction during
the mornings. The long, bright sweep
Of water, glittering with its myriad
eyes. and singing its perpetual song, is
in itself an attraction, but when the
smooth sand is alive with grotesque
rms, for miles and miles away, there
is food for mirth as well rs interest,"
The dresses are so nearly alike that the
men look like women. and the women
like corn-ied Undines, bobbing up and
down with the rise and fall Of the waves.
Nv first experience IN sea bathing was
rather rough one, but perfectly salts
factory / have always expressed an
almost Byronic love for the watcr.-
"The sea, the sea, the open sea-" has
been the theme of thousand eulogics,
but confess that much as love The
crash and roar Of the pillows, .he Wild
fury of the wave, and all that sort Of
thing, my poetic impulses are cowaidly
enough to suggest that their grandeur
is quite as pleasing TO look upon from
the shore, with firm ioothoId upon the
ground, as IRON the more romantic en-
inence gained by rocking upon the
breakers. With all my cowardly pro-
pensities rising up in Judgment against
me, ventured into one Ol the .hingum-
les called bathing dresses, and suffered
myself to be led out upon the beach
until the waves were piled up around
me full three inches. Trying hard to
make believe liked II first rate, and
wasn't bit frightened, and didn't bo-
leve in the sea serpent any how, ven
,ured to suggest the proprety Of return.
ing, but il was M go, was pinloned
pn each side by a pair oi roguish sea
fotcs. The more l struggled the more
they held me tight. l thought of the
expediency of slipping out of my bath
ing dress and cutting for the dressing
car, but unfortunately, had so tied and
and buttoned and pinned myself up, IN
a vain attempt TO make il HI, that there
was no getting in or out of il without
more effort than was capable oi max
ing just then. My perplexities were
soon brought to a close, however, Tor
before had time 10 faint, NJ, Who
was OF The party, caught ne in hi. m
and sprang through ''three frills Of the
seas Shirt" as Willis very indeiicdteiy
expresses ii. | was dro,onded TO death
and knew it-a gone New Correspon-
dent, to all intents and purposes, yet,
there were my companions, laughing
so loud and heartily, that the fish, II
there were any around must have
thought tha; drowning an inofiensi We
woman was one Of the greatest luxuries
which humans INDUCED in. ! resigned
myself to my fate, like a hero, as am,
but after remaining under water rea-
sonable length Of time, and finding my
faculties still unimpaired, ventured to
take peep at their royal highnesses,
the Mermaids, confidently expecting
that was somewhere in their vicinity.
A great, broad, brilliant sheet of water
first greeted me, then very un-Mer-
maid-like oil skin cap, then pair OF ro-
guish blue-eyes, and then mouth,
which | was sure had seen before
while alive, and, to my surprise, there l
was, swimming away as artistlcally az
any fish among tn, m. And since that
morning! Well-there has been a
scrambIing for the sea shore, you may
believe-and such striking out into the
ocean, TO DRIFT back again on the big
breakers, and such diving down into
the far off depth, and staying there un-
ill we are given over as lost, and such
an unfashioaaJty merry set as we are, is
incredible-dLmost. The Atlantic and
are on the very best Of terms. can
hear him now, tumbling about in his
rock-bound bed know his suit, he's
growing for me TO come out and have a
time with him Not bit OF it, you old
buffer! You ducked me this morning
when l was flirting with you, and Pm
going to define my position when we