, 1876-07-30
NEWPORT.
After tho Raia--Ameritan Timidity--
an Unspoiled Beauty.
The Polo and Hurdle EN-
element.
A Costly Diamond Ring---Liter-
ary Doinss.

| LHc Caulpagua" describes tne climatic at
mosphere Of Rome Us san everlasting waste 0
air." One is constantly reminded Of this |,
Newport, especially after 4 rain SUCH as ell or
Sunday. Always, even in dsyl weather cxccp
tionaliy soft-aircd, after rain there is dew,
blandncss in the atmosphere which makes New
port air such marvel in New England
Running down from neighborly Providence tn
other day. where the thermometer had sud
denly jumped down into the seventies, AM
where, OH account OF such declension, every
body WIS in d little state Of chill, I found New
port in u bcatftic state Of balmy warmth, wlicl
astonished even such an old acquaintance ant
ardent admircr. Latterly, wise people hayt
laughed at alaury's chart, which tells the pleas
ant story Of the inward trend Of the Gull
Stream suddenly divergng into this island
but when such extraordinary weather as this
Of the past few days comes to us, We who ART
experiencing it are perfectly ready to believe
anything about Gulf streams or any other
phenomena OF nature. and, while We cx-
pcrience it, we arc in o state OF wonder ut
the people who trot OFT to the New Hampshire
or the Massachusetts coast, where tsnip winds
blow,"-which Is only another name for the
east wfnd,-aRd where people get cramps, aad
coughs, and colds, as
KNEW 4 DEAR CHlCAGOAN
! or two to do last summer.
l. But can't afford Newport. know it Is
lovely. I know it is full of health and blessing
Is far as mir goes, but can't Afford those prices,
and then the tlrcss!'
This is the excuse that the benightetl travelcr
| oilers from the east winu region- Benig;ltctt
J indeed Dear souls, come to Newport and es-
| tablish your own order Of things. You can 10 it
II you have character enough. The ouly thin,
that will prevent you from establishing this in
xI1 20 .1,rA
and trnthfully lnterprtts Us g @'-Amercnn rimili-
| ty-" The ti1nidity that makes you follow in
somebody's else footsteps, that causes you to
! blush because some
| sTEERFoRrn's VALET
| looks ut you with hi5 elbows! and thinks, or
you think he thinks, that you arc not an tsit to
tue habits Of the ton; that you do not know :.
| drag from dogrart, beacls-wagon from Il
tllbury- The ti1nility TINT makes you tidyetty
beca'lse your skirt hasn't five Iol1nces OF sclii
embroidery, aud ashamed because you can't
kcep lady's maid to cheat aud scandalize YOU!
am constantly reminded here Of this crying sin
OF Americans; for it u sin, perfect gangrvtic
OF sin, which eats into every goo.i quality and
saps the virtue and strength, and bl;ghts NIL
the possible originality of our mental aud moral
constitutions We talk aboutthc snobbisl.lcss,
the ranE-worship, Of the English people. There
are English fools, to be sure; but our people;
refined, and have Il fair amount OF self-respcct,
make fools OF themselves by thinking they must
order their lives near a5 possible utter their
richer ncigtbor, in every detail aud particular OF
social life. - can't come to Newport and stay
because 1t costs SO ulucl, to keep up appear
: ances!" said Il dear soul to me yesterday. And
another, 'Obscurc people here have no cllance!"
DEAR FELLoW-CouNrKYWoMES,
you have cracked the nut OF the whole thing.
1t is matter OF appearances, Of shining down,
and making Us good Il show as the next person.
And how funny it all is, when you consider that
the finest appearances are as often made By the
moneye1 Valgarian, and that not only virtue
and talent, but blue blood, go afoot quite frc-
sons are not obscure In this world outside Of
their own little circle! But to show that there
are exceptions to this sheep-oyer-the-wall buss
ness, there is & beautiful young woman here
who two or three years ago married, not money,
as beauty and fashion Is prone to do, but love
aud worth. And back she comes to the scent
OF her girlhood triumph, sets up her household
gods i'll modest fashion, and, absolutely With
out servant Of any Kind, puts her pretty shonl-
der to the Wheel ,-inother and less 11orid words,
:" does her own work." washes and dresses her
baby, and trundles it out upon the sidewalk
after which performances you may, perhaps, see
her prettily arrayed at some swell garden party,
OF driving on the avenue With some fine frien1
who has q fine turnout.
NoDoDT's PRorR1ETY TAXES COLD
at this. Nobody turns up their nose at t4isfn
dependence. "Ah, WE'LL" comments Miss OBJ
scurity, "she Is in the ranks of the blessed
any gait she pleascs." A fallacy on tile part Il
obscurity, which presents a counter falfaoy By
comparison-that those not in the ranks. would
run great risk Of never qatfn0 in BY conducting
4 vain delusion OF possibilities which con:mon- '
place, obscurity constantly suffers from
Another story, which makes NE think Of Mrs.
kemble's anecdote Of Mrs. Inchba1d In the
dtla"tic, "old Woman's Gossip" and III
drop storytelling for immediate items which
inst tt11un fhf. hfff -
woman OF inherited social advantages,
but not OF inherited pecuniary advantages, is
lcalking, not driving, on the avenue one after
noon, taking her way to q sick friend with 4
70 an invalid appetite and digestion Tho bowl
S wrapped gingcrly in tine napery and white
paper, and the bearer steps gingerly in her care
II it. Presently landau slackens up. anil
iropping out of the line pulls up at tho curb
;tone, and Mrs. Mayfower calls out, atHow-de-
10, my dear; get In and let Us take you uhercyo
lrc going. Here, let me take your howersl"
: Oh, no, no. don't-You'u spill 1t. '1fs not
lowers; it's soup!''
nd still Mrs Mayhower Invites Il my dear" to
get in,'' and "my dear refuses the invitation
because the process will ssjoggle the soup
ver;" and, after much laughter and badinagc,
ile landau proceeds on its way without All adl
ne likes to see, and which would 1eavcn the
hole lump OF society's little cowarCices II in
ulgcd in to greater extent.
But speaking OF avenued1iyfng brings NE to
he Polo Club gano OF the first Of the week,
'hich literally e1nptied the avenue OF its ray
quipages:: It was perfect day, aud strangers
i town who were unaware Of Polo came back
, late tea with lugubrions stories Of the fall
g Of Of the season aAetually nobody on
cfore!'' "Suppose the people arc getting
se!"