Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-11
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SORTS.

SORTS.
For the nenent OF the stay-at-IIomcs.
Mount Washington Is to be Illuminated by
electricity.
Many children wear Turkey red calico at
the sea side
White dresses are more fashionable than
ever at all places.
Three horses abreast to T cart is the style
of rich Newporter.
A dancing master at White Springs is
coming money by giving lessons in tho
minuet.
A college students encampmcut is one
OF the features OF the season at Niagara
Falls.
Electric sparkling Is what the spoony call
ilirtations carried on under the glare of in
candescent carbon.
A Chicago girl at Newport writes home as
follows: ave are Just as gay as cocka.
too's topknot down here, aud you can just
bet I'm hummer with my buds. Them
New Workers are awfully stuck up making
believe they hail from Philadelphia"
The New York Mail and Express says (:
Prof. Wise is giving balloon ascensions at
Cape May, and has bran.ncw balloon. lie
goes up for cash and not for glory, and when
he is up the people say he is awfully high,
although under cloud. And the band
plays: There was man in our town, and
he was Mister Wise; he jumped into big
balloon, and went up to the Skies"
Western Girls AT the sweet Sulphur
springs.
"Are the Western people not just as
agreeable and pleasant socially as the
others ~
mo with emphasis and look OF con-
tempD. They lack the grace, refinement,
and high culture of our Southern people. A
few Kentucky families are exceptions, and
that is about ALL"
There seem to be some pretty girls
among them ~
eyes, some; but they are not like our
Southern girl, or even the Eastern Yankee
girls They are pokey, and lack that tact
ease, and suavity of manner which can only
be acquired in good society,""
They will improve, OF course p
"Oh, yes. The West is young yet, and
has given more attention to pork, grain,
and iron than to the cultivation of the
girls?'
"What are the distinguishing characters
eieo VI thS Vtbtclu Rils
"Well, they are as pleasant as they know
how to be; little awkward, perhaps, and
(but don't say told you so) they have big
feet"
''Are there any Yankee girls here"
Eyes, few, and they are very clever and
charming girls, but they have nobody to run
with The young men or the girls that
they would like rs associates are not here.
They will be here after awhile, and we will
have lively time yet before the season is
over"
"AmusemCnts are rather limited here z"
''Our amusemcnts are simple, ample and
inexpensive. The girls play lawn tennis, ten
pins court, flirt, ramblc about and dance as
much as they please. The old gentlemen
play whist and little poker, and the boys
can have all the fun they want at very
moderate cost. We have few if any vices
to indulge in here. "-HeraM Intsrrieto.
Picturesque Newport.
Correspondence OF the Springfield Republican,
1t seems doubtful If anywhere in the
country can be found town so distinctly
divided in its social life as is Newport, a
place where the great wave of fashionable
society life has never broken through the
wall of exclusive antiquity that surrounds
tut VI luC IuuuUllHulS.
Walk the length of Thames street, the bust
ness thoroughfare of the town, and note its
narrow, old-time sidewalks, its queer old
fashioned shops, many looking like old
dweling-houses and then glance at the
throng of elegant carriages. laden with
richly dressed women and trim, fashionable
society men slowly picking their way to and
from the postotiice and you sec how dvis-
ion wall runs through all the local life
Until very recently Thames street was paved
in round, uneven cobblc stones which must
have greatly frcttcd the souls of city coach
men doomed at least once day to drive its
wretched length.
But let us find our way from this narrow
old part OF the town to something more in
teresting to Summer sojourner. Strollng
up Thames street we come to the Parade
green with grass and pleasant with shade
trees. Here is the Democrat omnibus, and
if the sea breeze is starting up a ride to the
end of Bellevue avenue and stroll back
over the Cliffs to the bathing beach in time
for dip IN the foam-capped waves, will
prove II delightful way of spending morn
ing. This walk across the Cliffs is by no
means public way. passing as it does
through the grounds of some of the loveliest
homes ever built for the rich in this worlds
goods But that it is popular can be proved
any moonlight night, for Newport still
clings to tho old-fashioned idea of love and
courlship, and where could more fascin-
ating spot for the tender passion be found
The entire walk skirts the ocean, and SC
grand and wild are the rocks lying many
feet below that it needs the brush OF an art
ist to paint the beauties of the Cliffs As
far us eye can reach lies the heavng, surg
ing ocean, with here and there sail in
sight on the left rise beautiful villas sur.
rounded by grand trees. lovely gardens and
well-kept lawns, for, almost to the waters
edge these cliffs have been made and kept
green by the cunning hand Of man. The
beach is lined with vehicles, the water alive
with bathers, though since the opening OF
the Casino the fashion Of bathing at n sci
time every morning is no longer "the thing. y
A pleasanter way to spend an afternoon
can hardly be devised than to drive to the
second beach, Having hitcehd your horse,
start over the rocks for Purgatory, first stop
ping to examine the spot WHERE tradition
tells that the devil killed the squaw. Here
are the well defined marks Of the Ratchet
sinking deep In the rocks, the little pool in
which his majesty washed his hands after
the deed, and tlis great blood drops from
his victim still mark the rock, never to be
washed out by the angry waves of the ocean.
Not satisfied with his work the devil started
with mighty strides for Purgatory dragging
his unresisting victim over the rocks and
leaving not only the impress of his clover
foot, but also a smooth. well-dotined trai
where the poor squaw's body passed. Tn,
story ends with the devil throwing the bod,
into Purgatory, and surely more fitting
spot for such deed could not be found
Some mighty convulsion of nature has her,
rent the rocks SO exactly that. one car
picture the great fissure closing again, Sc
nicely do the hollows of the one side mattel
to the curves of the other. Below you som,
| 20 or so feet the ocean breaks with dul
sound on tiny, sandy beach, the opening
to the sea being well guarded by large
rocks Purgatory is so narrow 1t seems as
| IL strong man could spring acrcks. for il