The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-27

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encampment here), nom early morning until
nine O'Clock at night. am glad to say that the
bowling alley has not lost casse here. The one
overlooking the lake and attached to the Gregory
House In constant requisiti0n. and IL In connec-
tion with billiard room. Feminine bowlers and
often. IL it not true that there is little that is
graceful IN the spectacle OF woman, however
young and beautiful, trundling down lot Of nine.
pinsf There Is too strong smack OF mascnlinity
In 1t. Billiards are much more feminine, but even
the poetry Of pretty female arm cannot quite KIN
iiards without also thinking OF brandy and cigars
an association which not all the feminine beauty
and sweetness In the world Ia able to disspatef
You know there are islands In the lake, and very
pretty islands they are too-Petrie. Fairy and
Blackberry; Petrie IL the one most visited-lin,
three Islands are wild and tangled in their beauty
and you might, while threading them, imagine
yourself in the mazes ola Brazilian jungle. Such
expect to hear such quaint music within the
bounds OF civilization. Here the solitary eagle
makes his home here the lonely parroques screams
prayer among these Dirds and II you want to hear
It you are obliged to get up before breakfast
soary snd rere1 par & the
shingy and sloping beach, where the boys occa-
sSass sgGs T hs s .se s
beats some Of them propelled BY young ladies'; A
yacht sw0ops in and out at intervals filed with
generally Ing neaest AND
yacht here Is the Trlner owned by Mr. U. II. Crosby,
who Ii stopping here for the season. Mr.. CROSBY
thoughtfu enough to proer the hospitaities Of his
yacht to the company among which ne finds NM
conyersant with the reauirements and Necessities
OF the occasion, and bringing to bear upon them
skill which is professional in It's nicely
i've feet wide and offers q most lovely drive.
Drives here are not so much In order as boating
sos Evening" At is the
night During the middle OF the week the greater
proportion OF the gentlemen are in the city leav-
ing on Saturday afternoon Then the band plays
its hveliest and the hour of brilhancy COMMENCES.
York n merchants ana their families Very little
shoddy, little nothing Of the dem-monde, are to
be seen. The fair adventures, who Is as beautiful
sion as plausible epitaph and as full OF disas
ter as an American railroad, finds her field some
A. Bos tv and family, + a. Brown and vile
E. Ellsworth and family, Richard Butler
S ana family p,yn,d ana T,a,]s:
Kerner and family, A.: Harris and family, L. B.
Boot and family Davies d Snf , family
Simmons, ]. ]. Latting and family, G. q. Yvelin
and fanny, E. b. Hart ana family, w. .. Ward and
family, Christopher Moller and family, N. T. Bren-
and family, L. A. Smith and family, J. W. Goddard
and family, +. J. Sears, LII. D.; $. Henry HoWes
and family Dr., Mcmillan, James Lunch and family,
81 - A. PANAMA HATS.
Are you-aware that very few men know what kind
OF hats to wearP They show just as little Judgment
and taste on the subject as ladies do with respect
to their bonnets; Bonnets, did ID say owd
a aestincoD DDI between female Bonnet And
female hat, and the only conclusion arrived
at was that one covered the head little more than
the other. TIE female mind is distgangbt On the
SSefa al Useless Saf aesaar 80 set mt rga
readers. This gentle Mahppac air has cooled my
HhQ9tannd
plenty Of time TO tklhk the matter over. have
travelled hither and thither sufficiently to see
good many male tourists IN q short space OF time,
and regret to say that the Panama hat IS on the
decline, You almost never see one. And why noti
II g S6 respectable, SO quietly elegant so unob-
trusve and unpretentiOus, so lasting, SO service
able that you might reasonably expect to see
little more OF it. But no; you see these cheap
straw hats with turned up brims instead-these
do9e-ike crowns. Everybody wears them, from
the statesman down to the gambler, and the gem
tlemanly and sefpossessed Panama is Knocked
the Chastity Of its color and the neatness OF its
braidf 1t is clean Quaker and as graceful as
. willow, as soothing as nocturne by Chopin
and as compact as an essay by Emerson: lts
opposition to the nineteenth century. Ii looms
among occasionally like the despised voice OF an
old institution. once In while some gentleman
puts one on, and It seems to invest him with an
almost clerical air. There is an aroma OF the pull
| pit about him from that moment, unless ne hap
| pens to have q fierce mustache and dangerous
| looking eyes, Even at Lake Mahopac where there
| seems to me more genuine, genial and cordial en-
| joyment and comfort than At most OF the othel
| watering places, there Is sad lack OF common
| sense so lar as the Panama hat Is concerned. Ol
| Is 1t myself in whom the common sense Is lacking
Is the Panama hat deservedly erfete institution
deserving TO rank with the stagecoach and the
bugle horn and the Waterman with the lanternp
don't know Pm sure, and In this ignorance call on
the acute reader to decide.