The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-07-19
The Season of Gaieties.

Now is our season of gaieties. While
the burned denizens of the sunny South fly
from their counting rooms and cotton fields
to seek the cool retreats of some faShiona-
Die watering placc-while dashing bellies
rustle their laces and satins in admirable
profusion at Saratoga, Newport, Sharon
and Cape May-while the busy worlds ca
gerly seek surccasc from labor and city dust
in some suburban villa-while Fifth Ave
nue., and Chestnut street are temporarily
deserted, here are we in the crotch of the
great Mississippi" ruroIj-iag and falling
with a modicum Of each just enough to
make both a pleasure to Il nicely.
Ify We discontinued mortals, who cry aloud
the pains Of heat here in Minnesota, could
only imagine yourselves translated into the
city of Gotham, walking upon the burning
pave of Broadway, sweltcrng through the
day, and melting through the night, with
just enough business to make you run
around three or four torrid hours, the de-
lightful freshness Of orr mOrns and eyes
would find better appreciation at your
hands than now. It is the nature of man
to he disconnected, and uomea, too, for
aught we know to the contrary.
Will any one Of You, attentive readers,
wander with us, in the minds eye, to some
fashionable summer resort, and see the ka-
lcidcscope Of life +? Come along. We are
now at Newport-our names registered at
the Ocean House" Mcssrs. Incor. and
Recog. Residence, Minnesota Dcs-
tination, Fancy Free" Well, after per
forming ablutions, and doing renance at
the tonsors shrine, we arc in time to get an
observatory scat at the dinner table.
First Course - Turtle soup; second
bass, salmon, halbut and rock fish third
all sorts of French dishes, roasts, stcws,
brols and fries F.; fourth-pastrics, creams,
preserves, etc. lifth-oranges, nuts, prunes,
figs, and watcr-iccs sixtl-cloths rcmov-
ed, finger bowls and napkins seventh
ladies retirc-cigars and small talk-opn-
ionS given and discusscd-railroad frauds,
Nebraska bill, candidates for presidency,
stock jobbing, and the rise Of property.
All this over, let us promenade upon the
huge balcony facing the ocean, and listen
to the surf breaking in bounding pillows on
the shore. We sauntcr arm in arm, taking
our place in the regular line of procession.
swalmng up and down. Do you see that
wcll-got-up man, about sixty, trying to look
thirty-livc, with large diamond ring upon
his finger, which he takes good care to dis
play so gratuitously. How he shippers and
smiles upon that fair being at his side I!
He is Il retired rag dealer, who having ac-
cumulated reefs enough from his sale of RAGS,
bache'or:zcs it in fine house in winter.
drives tandem team, oclcs every feminine
III the street after the most approved Paris
ian fashion, and "gocs it" with yellow
kids and gigantic fril!s every summer. At
watering places, his hair, naturally of a
grizzly Grey, is dyed black by the barber,
and his glttcring teeth are so arranged as
to be diSlocatcd and taken out every night
upon retiring.
That Sylph-likc form, gliding by his side,
Is an orphan, and under tic care of that old
cronsh, vincgar-faccd ducnna, who rcioiccs
in the cO@nomcn Of Aunt" The Girl is
poor, but how beautiful !! The ex-rag deal
or is rich and a bachelor. The old duenna
has manoeuvcrcd it so, that the poor Girl is
on the brink Of immoation to this dotar,l.
1t is called " fine matcll"-so we shOull
judge from the look Of sheer despair swim
ming in the beauteous eye of the fair vic
tim. Perhaps she loves and is beloved by
that youth Of noble bearing, whose anxious
glance hetrays the deep feelings of his heart
-mayhap he is poor-an author or just
commencing the fortunes of profession,
and to fame unknown.
See that dashing belle seated in the dam
ask armchair, surrounded by a group of
wcll-drcssed men, each striving for the palm
of prcfcrmcnt. How she dashes the satire
right and left, sparing none, and forbidding
all retort +! She is very beautiful, but if you
examine closely, you will find wrinkle or
two almost invisible from the application of
some powdery cosmetic. She is ''clcvcr'-