New-York tribune., 1873-09-06
A NEWPORT DAY.
rrs RouNn OF PLEASURES.

TISTTC REUNIONs-FORT DAY.
TPRom A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF rliE rRiBuSEI
NEWPORT, Aug. 27-There is always some
thing TO 40 IN Newport You mp TO the glory OF
na,, dav with pleasant sense OF expectation. Nou
breathe the clear stimulating ar-y0u LOOK out on te
bay glad with the breath Of the morning OF he ocean
shimmering sverly in the You mean 20 dresS
lesurely but you hurry before you know 1t, the ar ~
40 nvigorating You go down your breakfast OF Ie
Newport fare-of sh Just from the water, Of clam f'
ters and fresh eggs ripe fruit and delicious cohee
and a dozen other things equally good. Hon Walk OF
drive TO the Post-OGce large square yellow Drlck
building which is CustOmhOuse also and LOOKS
like some governmental edihce Of the olden diys'
standing quite by ITSELF in the midst OF the Ousie'
street in the town. IL it had time enough and space
enough for everything past present and TO come Here
are plenty others beside yourself waiting Tor theT
morning mail. How the bush-rose deepens on the
cheek OF that pretty blonde she receives her letter.
Yon don't need to see the tender Ny Darling at the
70 understand the nature OF It's contents
That handsome brunette knows better than TO Dush
over hors Her watching her keenly Dut ne WI"
not surprise her secret with careless smile she pu1s
the unopened epistle into her pocket.
You drop next, perhaps. into the Redwood Library
quaint old stone building with an ar oi ancient Ie
speetabillty about it. It stands far back from
the street, in the midst of flowers and fragrance
and great old trees Inside pictures and statues ana
precious relics a valuable library, a polite ana
attentive librarian and all the papers and periodicals OF
tue day. You quite at liberty 10 Walk III aliu AVIAN
youref OF these advantages There neither dust nor
noise the chattiest girls s-yet there s hothinI
oppressive in the stiffness. II Is picturesque Deauu
fnl cheerful abiding place, wherein 70 read wherein
70 riteD with nothing to molest make afraid You
read for an hour perhaps, and by this time all the
world has started for the Beach. You drive there IN
your own carriage, II you have one-f NOT you go JusO
as comfortably in eveTybOdy's chariot the OMNIBUS
You dnd crowds Of vehicles the sands before you
from which the occupants are cooly surveying the
bathers. The bathing here is excellent Jhe nelhDor
hood OF the Gulf Stream makes the water warm, and on
the soft sandy shore there are no cruel peooles
10 hurt your feet, as Is the case at Watch
Hill AT first you think you don't know any one Du0
presently you begin 70 discern familiar ineamenE
under oil skin cap or straw bathing hat surely
that nose Aramntas and those eyes must ne SOPHIA d
But the girl you thought beautiful yesterday az dn
ner is anything but pretty mermaid now sne mas SUI
fered sea change On the unntterable hdeosy OF Jhe
fairt fair tu dragged flannel robes made short enough
70 suit the hygenc notions OF that gentle reformer, Miss
E. stuart Phelps with wet dragging tTowsers beneath
them and ugly, dumping, bathing shoes heaVy Win
sand These bathing shoes, by the ~ are an hVeh1oh
of the adversary. They make bathing Win lady
penapce severe enough to have satisfied selftorturng
monk in the days Of iron shirts and sc0urges She cant
stand on her feet alone, poor dear, Wmle
tha waves buffet her. or course she
can T. The drst heavy biOw HTS ner quite on them
and down she comes on yours. You keep smiling
countenance, II you are brave man. AZ the horru'
ropesoled things grind into your helpless tee5 Ior
somehow woman in the water has always the happe'O
gift OF accuracy aghting upon the tenderesb TOE
ont OF her attendant cavalier Up she goes with every
high wave aud down she again. and YOU let the
fox OF torture gnaw aud smile and smile, ana are an
angel OF courtesy stI. Moral: all shops chat sell
bathing shoes should suppressed, and al women VINO
wear them should have nothing better than rope %
cling TO- AT u o'clock the beach is abandoned 20 the
gentlemen, and the carriages roll away.
There are still three four hours before dinner fon
SHOP you read novels you take gaop along the sands
you make morning calls If YOU are tired with yonr
BATH you take q nap-in short you nave hundred de-
vices for dling away the moments, each pleasanter
than the other you dine, in the luxurious ttSe-
your-time fashion which belongs to summer re-t ana
holidays and then. about IN the AFTERNOON count
less equpages roll Out OF the gateways or cottages and
away from the piazzas hotels aud all Newport Is on
the road II You are rich. you elegant turnout
vour horses are tired with gilt ornaments which lsh IN
the n vour men have gorgeous ivere, and no end OF
buttons and YOU sweep away IN all the grandeur or
republican prince But yOu are just as happy II You
hire q landau and a driver an honest yoeman with
a ,onl above buttons and join the throns
or even II Won take horse and buggy and drive your
self To all belong the same divine air, the same glow
flashing pv Won in carriages horseback, the rocks
and the sea Formerly every took the Ocean Drive,
s n is called along Beleview Avenue and round Bate
mans Point The road used 70 be black with carriages
"A procession the right and another 10 the let con
stanrlv meeting and passing Zach other. But WITHIN
the last two years many new drives nave neeh CUT
thar tbe Aveuue is less crowded than OF Old, though,
considering the large number Of new resd nces nere
nust be more people in Newport than ever before
ar this time of wear But while the majority st roll IN
sol.nn silence along tne Ocean Drive many carriages
t,rn aside 20 the beaches between which Is denghud
road 70 Indian Avenue DevOud them, Or 70 Goa
dington's Point. Newport has scarcely anything
10 offer loveler than this iast drive You 20
tbrouch a peaceful country landscape. by which the
sea il scarcely suggested until at LAST you come out
uuon the shore OF Narraansett Bay. Tho bay l. lovely
r tbis point saw it the other ghJ with wv or three
cboice friends The other plea seekers had gone
home We had 10 all ourselyes-the sunset ana the
silence and the lovely waiting shore the Bay Vas De-
-raap M and The sunsea sunset beautiful thar
might go the world and not see one 70 srpass IL
hank Of soft purple cloud with mountain OF flame
hebind H. every now ana then breaking through Ia
golden riffs skrting lonely ROCKS, and clear white
AGAINST the sunset sky stole solitary little sallnoat,
an WIN ,noUs what erand dark sullen island lay inst
IN fron On another nOtfar the lonesome poor
bouse where the sad unfrended lives OF those whom no
one ls M have go and out Fsrtheraway rose tue
lighthouse with It's little star Of hope ana OF safety and
over all hung in the deep intense August sky slender
crescent moon. Shall who saw ever forget ti-the
peaccful land-oeked hay with its waters shat pulsed
and rppied but did not break the which seemed
like a window opened into heaven. the Silent seashore
the eaniug sky the wind that the ghost Of wind
and scarrey auttered leaf the one small sail and the
one bird Aging home, alone. There be pictures winch
no gallery can rival and whose loneliness al artSt
might break hs struggling heart in vain, aud this was
or them.
You drive home from Bateman's, or COddinSton's, or
Purratory or Paradise, or wherever you have beeo
through the soft-fang Dusk and drink your fraSant
Rnhea eat Your mullins. and then gnt ready for your