Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-30
The End Of the Season.
THE MOUNTAINS AND SEASIDE

ihE WIT MAINE AND SEASiHE.
Congress Hall. Cape Nav closes to-day II has
had a successful season.
Boston capitalists propose To build two large
hotels at Moosehead Lake. Maine
IL is said that Judge Hilton is going to erect o
'baronial castle" at Woodawn. Saratoga.
IL is expected that business at the Atlantis
City hotels will be good throughout September
The Adirondacks are crammed full. All the
stopping places are crowded.
Each OF the Long Branch hotels has lust
about as many guests as can be conveniently
taken care Of
The facilities for visiting and enjoying the at
tractiye places in the vicinity of Saratoga were
never before 50 ample or varied as they are this
summer.
There are said to be lever so many pretty
girls at Rye Beach. but no nice Young men"
This is rather hard upon the swells who are lin
gering by those particular sad sea waves.
Some people are of the opinion that the long
season of races at Saratoga is more of an injury
than benefit To the place. and keep away the
stald and circumspect old people who used To be
regular patrons of Saratoga before it had any
race course.
No." says Miss Culture, of Boston. when
asked TO dance the lanciers at the Ocean House.
NewportA mo. | rarely permit myself to be led
into square dances. They do not have the re-
quisite element of intellectually and social
science about them for me-"
The Long Branch cottagers appear to be de-
termined to protect the bluff at the ocean front
from the storms of the coming winter.
Thick overcoats and sacques have been taken
out of the limbo of packing, which accounts for
the prevailing odor of camphor in trains for
the seaside.
The statement that the Greenbrier White Sui.
phur has two thousand guests is much exagger-
ated- The highest number lodged at that resort
at any one time this season has been 99S.
An American woman, who has been at the
French watering places this season. writes that
they are not amusing after the fashion of our
summer resorts. They lack sociability, are in-
tested with bad characters and respectability
keeps itself severely aloof.
Pretty girls at Newport were crochetted Tam
O'Shanters when IL Is foggy weather. to save
their best hats with the ostrich plumes
september is the most pleasant month OF tho
year at the seashore, If the people would bus
believe 1t. As a general thing the weather dur
ing that month is delightful and the bathing il
finer than at any other time during the season.
We disclaim all originality for the above. The
idea is about as old the reproduction of IL 10
remarkable. People have long enough been
told that September is the month of all Others at
the SeashOre, and il they fail to recognize the
fact they are at least to be pitied rather than
condemned for their stupidity.
Young women walters at Bar Harbor, Mount
Desert. wear spectacles.
The fool-women are not all at Newport and
Saratoga this year. There is one of them at
Cresson, with sixty-two dresses She requires
two extra rooms in the hotel 10 keep them i'm.
Petroleum is the supposed cause, though it may
have been whisky
Putting hop-tOads and chestnut-burrs in
boarders' beds lie one OF the amusements of Cats.
Kill young ladies.
The frolicsome oysters summer vacation ID
over next Thursday
Fox hunts without fox continues to be one
of the features of life at Newport
The hire of horsefesh at Atlantic City is rea-
sonable-Sl per hour for good team. The
surf bathing is excellent, and the sailing and
fishing are Incompatible.
Two bellies had fight on the veranda of q
White Mountain hotel The cause is a secret,
but the encounter was public. being i'm the
presence of about fifty guests The girle
scratched faces, pulled hair, and tore clothes
in a lively manner for a few seconds and were
n OF parted till both bore marks which lasted
several days. They belong to wealthy and re-
spectacle families
1t looks as though Cape May would have q
race course by next summer. One would make
things liveer there, and she can stand plenty Of
life.
AT European watering places some of the
ladies carry Japanese parasols while they are in
the water.
When it rains i'm Newport the girls just crawl
up under fteir big hats and do not hayeto open
an umbrella at all.
Sharks are reported plentiful along the New
jersey and Delaware coasts