The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1865-08-21

It, sud following one of Franklin's
des. retire rom the table with an APP
Promenade to the march in Faust vigorous
y played by the band
Sit In the corridor and abuse the company
Drive to the beach and battle, or drive to
the beach and not battle and wonder how other
women can. 4....
Return home and wait patiently for the
hairdresser.
Hairdresser. #u4
Grand toilette '.. .
Dinner.
Ladies in black go to the table early to see
and not be seen. Ladies en- grand teaue wait
until the second course in order to be seen and
not see. Very little eating and a great deal of
remarking what other women have on
Promenade to the March in Faust If you
are young and pretty, and have admirers you
begin your flirtations for the day If you are
not young and pretty, but are a coquette, you
fiirt all the same. t.A "a
a If you do thezheavy dignity, you sit down
IN the corridor, learn everybody by heart, and
abuse the company
Driving on the avenue, when nobody looks
at the sunset and everybody continues to look
at everybody else.
lea, Less eating than at dinner and more
gossip. Retire to emerge in evening costume.
Promenade to the March in Faust Flirta-
tons at their height A general desire to look
at the moon. If you don't indulge in flirta-
tons, you watch others, and thereby acquire
fund of information for the next days Cos
sip To bed at midnight
e.. ,S FOR GENTLEMEN.
Rise late and buy n Y paper. Break
fast: read very little of the newspaper,
and look a great deal at the pretty girl oppo-
site. HIf .rs.
Get an introduction to pretty girls and prom
enade
Smoke a cigar on piazza, and talk about
the pretty girl and the Saratoga races.
psf Go down to the beach and watch the
bathers ridicule the women and pronounce
them rights.
- Cigars or billiards, Or both, or an equva-
lent. Another cigar and gossip.
a Toilette. 5a
Dinner. "7s2N .'' fft
4 Lounge and watch the ladies' Go in rather
late. Gaze unabashed at all the toilettes
that were invented for the purpose of attrac-
ton.
Fee the waiter and take what you don't
want.
Promenade with as many pretty girls as is
possible. Talk an infinite deal of nonsense
Invite the prettiest and silliest to drive Drive
and display your horses, OF be driven and
talk about men that have turn-outs extraor-
binary. i'y5
Tea with pretty girl. More nonsence.
3g9 Cigars on piazza. More talk about horses
in general and pretty woman in particular
Promenade with pretty girls. Flirtations
Some gentlemen, those who approve of
b early hours,-are up betmes to visit the grand
moral men-agerie before referred to. 1t is
also said that the Ocean House proprietors
would be bankrupt were it not for the inn
mense receipts taken at what is called ''the
BAR
Such is life at the Ocean House OF course
there are variations from the routine laid
down, but the programme given holds good in
the majority of cases. 1t is a fine experience
for young people. 1t is an admirable place
to take the down off girls bloom. Nowhere
can one SO rapidly learn the superiority of
show over substance. They say that water
ing-places are matrimonial nets. 1t may be-
They must be if Mrs. Grundy says so. If
were a young woman think | should be seen
as little as possible at the Ocean House. If
Were Young man think | might flirt with
young ladies at the Ocean House, but marry
very few Of them. Being correspondent, of
course like Madame de Staels genius, which
has no sex, am neither the one nor the other
Straws merely show which way the. wind
blows.