Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-04
AWAY DOWN IN MAINE.
FASHIONS AT AN EASTERN WA
TERING PLACE.
A Yachting Party and Their Costumes
Curious COntrasts-A Glimpse OF
Fashions at Newport.

POLAND SPRINGS, August 2.-Poland
Springs is not exactly fashionable watering
place. although it is.yisited by some fashiona-
bic people. particularly BOstonians, but it has
wide. beautiful views, magnificent mountain
air without being exactly in the mountains,
and water that is a specific for many modern
ills. so the men who discovered it years ago
and experienced its kindly influence returned
with their families and have gradually trans
formed what was once a Maine farm and gen
erous homestead to a summer cave" with a
hotel that can be seen from lake or road for
miles around and is the architectural feature
of the landscape.
TRAVELLING presents no difficulties now-a-
DAYS East or West the Pullman palace car
and the ready transfer enable women 20 go
any distance with as much ease and as Ilttle
fatigue as would be felt in staying az nome
In fact the protection from dust and the mel
dents OF weather may even De more com Pie L
This modern result Of science and skill mas
changed the aspect of the tourist class ana
gotten rid largely of the vast lmpedlmehta ol
travel. wraps, dust-cloaks, Vells, ulsters, spe-
ciaI dirt -concealing and wear-reslstng cos
TUNES. and the like. What is suitable dress
for the street is a suitable one for the cars,
and instead of plain brown linen ulsters anu
busters which are unnecessarily hdeous,
there are ulsters that are practically waking
suits and wraps that are becoming ana grace
full at the same time that they are protective.
The new conditions, like all Others nave Unelf
good and bad side. There Is more variety 10
he saen in travelling dress, but also more in
cOngruity and less Of certain ntness' LOT
there are persons who are quite destitute OF
any sense of what is suitable, and are only
UrODeTly provided when custom or the au-
thOTitv m their world demands certain con-
ditiOns of them.
1t is quite curious TO see the extreme Oppo-
STIFFNESS of ideas in regard to what is neces-
saI'v for trip of several hundred miles to a
spot in southern Maine less than thousand
feet above tide water. One stout, well con-
ditiOned lady reclines in her Velvet-coVered
chair in close, admirably -hltlng uress OF
dark cashmere without visible wrap or shawl,
and leaves the train without luggage, save
book and small satchel \ party of four on
the contrary-tWO gentlemen ana TWO ladies
the latter stout and tall and well conditioned,
are also burdened with enough shawls, ulsters,
Jackets, knitted scarfs and cOntrlvances Tor
individual comfort to meet all the emefgeh-
cies of a voyage across the Atlahllc. ana APP
parently do not need any OF them, Tor though
they are scattered about and cost an nilnlty
of trouble in collecting again, they are never
put to use. One dainty lady wears SILK
cloak made ike wrapper, WIN square
yoke and full skirt, the back laid in triple box
plait and finished with a bow of ribbon, the
front gathered but the whole hanging loose
from the yoke without belt or form except so
much as can be obtained from the htted sides.
THE "HoLOKU,"
These square cut gowns are feature of the
season. and their varied use indicates the
loose and ineXact ideas which prevail in re-
gard to what is fitting and proper IN ore IS
for different times ana occasions. nave call
ed the square VOked dress the "hOlOku.' be-
cause it is made like the summer house ana
veranda dress of the Sandwich Island women
who gave this name to it. But even there it
is a house costume. and not intended for or
worn upon the street. Here il was first intro
duced as Il morning gown, scarcely adlnlssl-
bic beyond the precincts OF the dressing room,
but bV curious twist or perVerSlOn OF ideas
4 HafTln ma 4
different craniums, comes out acloak, a street
dress, an evening toilet, or travelling COS
tune, as the case may be-
One lady at well known summer resort
has had every dress in her summer wardrobe
made IN this manner and all according to the
original pattern-that is, with square yoke
and loose flowing skirt. Among them Is
cream cOlOred nuns yelling with alternate
lace and satin stripes, pink $lngham, red
surah, an electric blue chudqah cl0th, ana
black silk, which last has decidedly clerical
effect. There is something original and pecu-
liar about the adoption of this uniform style
and the care i'm selection of materials and a
certain appropriation IS to the Weafer almost
justiies its assumption for all purposes; but
il does not excuse the appearance upon pun
lie streets and in public cOnVeyanccS OF low
cut pink and blue dresses with white tucked
and needle worked yokcs, the skirt sometimes
loose. sometimes belted down or tucked up,
the vatican effect emphasized by Heating
ribbons,
4 YACHTING PARTY ASHORE.
bpran bv saving that Poland was not "a
fashionable watering place The society here
is composed largely of business peopIc-solld
men from New y ork, Boston, Portland, and
other cities, and their families, the men doing
penance by drinking large quantities OF water
for the good dinners they have eaten; the
women trying to recover from the fatigue
and nervous anxiety OF nothing 10 90. Inc
place is well adapted for the cure of these OPP
posite ailments. 1t is stimulating and as
similative, but eccentricity or extravaganza
of any kind is rare among the conventional
class, and the dude and dudeen are unknown.
Outbreaks are limited 10 such wild forms of
insanity as red hosiery ana red umbrellas,
red japanese hats and mixtures OF Kate
Greenaway, Charles l., and the Prlnces-ln-
the Tower in the dress OF children. Inc girls
now-a-days anywhere and everywhere can
not help but be pretty in their blue or wine
colOred Jersey, their kits and their nun veil
ings, their large hats and graceful outlines
undisfgured by any unnatural protuberdnce
which the popular Jersey protects them from;
but the mamas are not usually happy or
picturesque looking. They are over=weighted
by conscience, which makes them wear thelr
old clothes. By dread Of servants or no ser
wants: bv sympathy for woes that they cannot
ameliorate or that VIII not be ameliorated,
and bv responsibilities which lay around loose
i'm their own or other peoples families, and
which the proper owners ito not burden them
selves with.
Imagine the advent upon such an assem-
blage of Il yachting party gotten up in the
the coast by an accident, determined to take
be stage coach as one thorn out of their
dilemma, and spend their enforced absence
from the sea craft in drinking Poland water
But it must be said that the gentlemen quite
outshone the ladies in striking effects and
originality, or perhaps II Is because men IN
general look so much alike that any de-
parture from custom is more marked
in them than in women. These lat
ter Sere three ~ number-a mother
and daughter and niece. The mother was the
type SO often seen in the New York Academy
of Music on opera nights-large. coarse and
profusey frnged and jetted. The young
ladies were slender, and one wore a braided
suit, which only Redeem could turn out; the
other a bottle green kilt, elastic jersey,
and red sword sash and cap. The sash was
the stylish doubled one of knitted silk, with
knOtted fringed ends. and the cap knitted
also, with tasseled top turned over like an old
fashioned night cap The gentlemen wore
knickerbockers, one dark blue the other iron
grew one leggings and the other top boots;
one a dark blue jersey with red trimmings
and red fez cap, the other pleated pjamas of
dark grey wool embroidered with blue upon
the front and collar, and a blue embroidered
leather belt from which was suspended
pouch containing ut was said) a pocket
mirror, puff and powder box. The young men
were of the most absolutely do nothing, s.dQn.t-
YOU know" stamp, and there was not a little
turning up of noses among the young doctors
and lawyers who had heretofore carried off
the honors when the prettiest girls followed
portion of the party as it started of in white
flannel and ecru leather principally for a
roV on that one of the lakes known as the Five
Sisters, winch is called Lake Soresis
A CURIOUS CONTRAST
in the fashions of dress is afforded mt Poland
Springs by sunday morning visit to the
Shaker Society few miles distant. The sum-
mer visitors gather from the entire surround
ing neighhorhQod and present the usual med
ley Of red straw hats ana yellow trimmings,
blue basques and white skirts, checkered suits
trimmed with solid col0rs and solid coors
trimmed with stripes. There were bright red
parasols and others Of lowered satteen, and
ribbons of many c9lOrs futtering from
bunched-up skirt and stringent bodice. The
visitors outnumbereh the members OF the
Shaker Society, and were massed together in
the seats fronting the entrance; the men on
the left. the women on the rIght-the Shakers
following the same order in the space beyond.
The majority of the Shaker women were
aged and their Hands and faces were scanned
with hard woEk, but the uniform dress they
wore was SO Absolutely clean and simple so
free from All incOngruIty that ii impaired an
appearances of absolute refinement which was
in strong contrast to the garish mixture of