The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-07-21
NEWPORT FLORAL BEAUTIES.

Il &2# AGWfunI fL1hAL bEAUIIEns .gsse
The mere valuation of the houses and
grounds It Newport Is but q proportion Of
the great wealth invested. The rarest col
lections OF bric-a-brac, the most beautiful
and artistic interior decorations, the costliest
and rarest OF pictures In the country, belong
| to these villas, Small fortunes are expend-
ed on floral decorations, This 10 one of New
ports -beantios-the temple Of vines and
flowers on every veranda, the foliage beds
that lie upon the lawns, and the exquisite
window gardening. The rarest Of Faience
vases are upon the piazzas, holding exotics
always. On one lawn LAST summer there
was spread IN imitation Turkish rug. So
perfectly copied we're the rich Oriental colors
so perfectly did they harmonic, that only
close inspection proved this to be Of growing
plants. I dare say the real article would
have cost less money. On another lawn last
year was thrown floral quotation from
Shakespeare, every letter Is perfectly out
lined as the artist could do II with his brush,
and glowing with rich color. -. Sometimes
the names Of the villas, are 50 spelled out.
On occasions the outlay for cut flowers 10
enormous. saw the bill for the cut flowers
on stable set for wedding breakfast. II
wn u, 200. Seven men worked all night
stemming these flowers and putting them In
place. But with MI this expenditure there 10
little or no vulgarity Ut Newport; quiet
elegance, rather than .ostentatIon, prevailing
everything.
THE NEwroRT IDEA OF EXTREME DEsTITU-
There Is little hotel life. The one great
hotel has little Of the brillisncy of the Sara
toga hotels. 1t is said ct Newport that to
live At the Ocean House and own nothing
but > pony pheton denotes extreme destitu-
tion, and cslls forpity. To bs { part Of the
Newport life one must be cottager. To be
cottager means, IL you are woman, to be
one OF the hardest worked women In Amer
lea. II means = great establishment Of
twenty or thirty persons, receptions 1t home
every week, everybody else's receptions to
90 to every week, dinner parties TO be given
and attended, coaching parties, luncheons,
breakfasts, musicales, theatricals, one after
another, and ten times the dissipation Of
New York or Boston winter season. The
! fashionable woman 4 Newport never has
time Tor sea-bathing, and that Ia left to
nurses and children. She never rusticates
nor rests. But for the bracins air and health
falness or the place / doubt u she could
keep up sucha life, and, indeed, 1t does wear
upon her terribly. When she can no longer
endure, she goes to Europe and lets her
ff INDEPENDENT BoARDERs. 1rt*'
Board It the Ocean House IL IS day; At
the boarding. houses $3.50 Q day., though
more liberal arrangements are to be made
by the month, the boarding house gnes,s
are - Independent OF the summer residents
rs possible. They enjoy Newport, and rest
and recupsraae, and brassly stand being no.
body. They row and saii-the cottagerl
never gets into boat unless IT - party on
Ayacht--they picnic on the rocks and stroll
on the ciif wall. The fashionable woman
never walks Il Newport. She lives here ex-
actly = on Fifth avenue and Beacon street
n n . life thai soma 81 d, cannot see much
nroft In: FOR Inc and u The se.son linda the
summer resident exhausted and unfit for
winter dutias. TO the gentleman Il ID
ErA.n1.ss q n -. nd sv.n thcugb he work,
80 ~ - IA ,coasSier. ana dinner-eiv-
Ing. and dsnci1ss IL. ke 'rscuperates; but
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