The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-08
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 8.

peop'e"-or. in the lowest VALLEY and still be
numbered among the "hlll people," By some
subtle, intuitive nowledge the thiug seems to
adjust itself aud each to occupy his own place.
1us'e IS no more mingllng than of oil aud
water, aud yet The most ami liable rslations ~
Isl between them and each goes on his way re-
jocing.
A.. from the Opening of January until Lent
toeIe are rhe Casino. generally Club Ball,
1;euIums, musicals, Shakespeare readings,
peots OF private lunches aud dinners All
.nis NJ Intervals, aud in the same quiet way
1nAt people usually entertain 10 small places
Out because from Newport as sur mer resort
are written letters describing everything that
goes 90, the elaborate balls given by this. that
OF the other cottaser, the gorgeous equipages
Oh Bellevue Avenue, the Ocean House hops
the latest fasGionabls wedd,ng; and the corps
OF reporters aod correspondents spare not one
detail OF all the doiogs of tue monde elegant"
so When the butterfly of fashion has
spreso It's wings and fown quite away
Tue notiou seems still to exit that any,
,9'ng written in a Newspaper way from
Cewpott, claims preemiDence as sec ETY. gossip.
Ooo equeu ly, when something occurs at
newport which, elsewhere would pass unno
rceo, tn ,mm -diately telegraphed to the Bos-
tou aed New York papers, with short history
OF each individual concerned: OF what family
ne Is and the Christian, MIDDLE (if there is one)
and surname of hts grandmother, father, and
all the test Of his relatives.
You may break, you may shatter the vase if you
But the scent of the roses will hang round it sti.
Ooe OF the most satisfactory institutions Of
newport Is the Redwood Library, To one &C.
cnstomed TO the srict discipltGe-nece-sary, 10
doubt to the N sinteuauce of Public Libraries 10
our large citirs-there Is something charming
10 tue freedom allowed here az d in the absence
OF ifssome rules Is Que obliged to walk no TO
. oesk, present card, select soma number
from catalogue, receive bouk taken from the
shelves for him. and depart with it-ali ia a
cut.aud-dried fashion of melancholy system
aio precision? Not bit of il! A traI scot
wit 'r a. Newport subscribes tn the Red wood
L'or"y for Two months, perhaps. The library
rooms thereafter stand Hospitality open to hin.
He wspdtrs at will amoug books old AID Ut w.
No brown paper covers, even, confront him
with silent warning Of hands eff" He
roams about without let or hndrapca Suppose
be wishes to read up on a certain subject and il
not quite sure what authors will furnish him
the information. He is at liberty to fiod one
volume. study its contents, and not getting
What be Is 10 search of, to hunt up auothar,
and 20 on. till he is satisfied, eDcounterine, in
the course or these researches, much that
would otherwise escape bis NOTICE. Should
anything elude his grasp, and he be unable to
fioc what be want., he has only to apply to the
librsrisn, Mr. Rboaes, who, himself gentle-
man OF much reading, will give nim all aid
with utfsiliDg kindness and attention.
Fr day evening closed the Casiuo. with
brilliant f.rcg dress party. and LINT brings an
END TO winter esieties. Already the robios are
singing In the trees and spring will not now be
long 10 coming
It's proyeIbia' that the people 10 place care
nothing for those local celebrities that excite a
lively interest IN outsiders. The Round Tower
seems to be zone of those things that no Teller
can fod out" but the native, or the trans
planted Newcomer regards the questions about
i with 8 lscld Indifference and leaves it to the
disssreeing doctors of history to decide whether
it 10 relic Of the Mortimer, or whether Gov
ernor Arneld built it in early colonial times