The New York herald., 1874-08-19

punches and brandy smashes afrer they nave
dipped IN the sea-Erchange. Grumpy evidently
slanders the ladies, who prefer promenade TO
either punches or smashes
There Is less over dressing at Long Branch than
az Saratoga, and ladies can 20 with less fear and
fewer dresses to the former place. There is more
street and public promenadIng in Saratoga, and
more frequent visits are made 10 the large hotels,
which are within few steps OF each other while
at the Branch they stretch along the olun for
miles.
If correspondent does not prev aricate some
Brooklynites should emigrate for the summer.
He says:-"rhe age OF chivalry has not hed, if we
may trust o sojourner at White sulphur Springs,
who tells US there is neither gossip nor light re-
mark here upon the ladies, for the young Vtr-
ginian has strange, exalted idea OF women aud
his talk OF them partakes OF the poetry OF Spencer
and the fiction OF Scott"
In answer to the question, What do people DO
herep o correspondent from the Isle Of Shoals
says:-"Matnly keep quiet and comfortable. There
Is little attempt at dispay-none, may say, at the
Appedore-and nothing to undertake except 1sn-
ing and sailing. Horses and carriages are as un-
known as in Venice, and promenading, IN any con-
ven tional sense, is out Of the question.
correspondent OF the st. Louis GIooe, writing
from Newport, remarks regarding the ladies at
that watering place THE majority OF them are
from Boston, Philadelphia and New York. whose
respective traits are easily detected IN the femi-
nine representatives. The Bostonian is the most
sefsatisded, the Philadelphian the most reserved,
the New Yorker the most seli-possessed. The first
Is defiant in her provin ciahsm; the second is In Q
little doubt Of herself, as her primness and reti-
cence denote; the third is assured OF her cosmO-
pOhtanlsm, and convinced she was born to con-
quer. The Hub depends on her culture and her
tongue; the Quaker City on her lineage and
propriety; Manhattan on her individuality and on
her capacity to win whosoever she thinks worth
her attention.
A Put-in.Bay correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times thus discrlmnates on waltzlng:- "A Ken
tucKy girl is q natural waltzer, and She does
it with charming chic and abandon. An Ohio
girls waltzipg Is easy, graceful and melodious.
If she happens to come from Cincinnati and across
the Rhine she swings dreamly round and round
in the endless dutch waltz" II she comes from
Chicago she throws her hair back, jumps up and
cracks her heels together and carries OF her as
tonsned partner as though q simOom had struck
MIN, and KNOCKS over all intervening obstacles in
her mad career around the room. II she Is from
Indiana she creeps closely and timldly
up TO her partner, as though she would
like to creep into his vest pocket, and meIts
away with ecstacy as the witchng strains
OF the ''Biue Danube' sweep through the hail. Ii
she is from Missouri she crooks her body in the
middle like door hinge takes her partner by the
shoulders and makes him miserable IN trying to
hop around her without treading on her No. 9
shoes. II she comes from Michigan she astonishes
her partner by now and then working in a touch
OF the double shuttle, or bit Of pigeon wing with
the waltz step; and If she comes from Arkansas
she throws both around his neck, rolls up her
eyes as she hoats away and Is heard to murmur,
"Oh, hug me, john"