The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-07-12
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OUR NEW YORK LITTER
nln our regular correspondents

NEW oitH, June 2sth. 1854
The most conspicuous feature of
society just at present is its absence,
The rows Of brown stone houses
have already taken on their sum
.mcr aspect Of barred windows
above, and areas well galnishcd
with blooming beauties below.
Familiar faces are missed from
club windows, and those that re-
main wear an expression of vacuitv
and boredom. Foot people can
walk leisurcly across Fifth avenue
without risk to lite or limb, and
consumers OF ice cream and straw
berry short cake at the ladies' tavorite
lunch counter are becoming by de-
grocs 80 beautifully few that 1t is
quite possible to take aroll or sand
witch with out feeling as if one had
dropped into a mcnagerie. Yet in
spite of all this, many cottages at
/ Newport are still barred and bolt
ed, hotels are unopened at Long
Branch, New London, and Sara
toga gardens are hardly made
among the Berkshire hills, and the
winter SHOWS are only Just melting
in the Adirondack region. "Whcro
i'll the world are all the people gone
to! was the ungrammat1cal quca-
ton at Sheepshead the other dav.
They are gone to out of the way
places to rest and recupcrate; was
the reply OF ono OF the knowing
ones.
Driving parties, riding parties,
fishing and sketching parties, and
even botanizing expeditions arc
now quite the rage. Niagara and
Trenton Falls, the Delaware Water
Gap, Lake Mohunk, and other
mountainous regions are full OF
tourists, whoswith well filled TASKS
IN their pockets, snap their finger,
at total abstinence hotels, and
spend whole days. like Dir Syntax,
III search Of the picturesque.
West Point takes a great many at
this season, and college commence
ments all over the country draw
fathers and mothers as well as sis
ters, cousins, and aunts. to the
scene OF the ''swcet boy graduates"
uiumphs or failures. Harvard
class day, which occurs next week,
will be, as usual, an occasion for
social display and c7lioym1ntwbcrc
dancing, flirting, and racketing
will be Delightfully."- mingled with
salutatorics, valedictories and the
taking Of diplomas.
me C0heY Island races had quite
d largelattcndancc both on Tuesday
and Thursday, although the upper
boxes were not all filled on either
day. There is frce-and- easy, 90
as-you-pIcase character about these
races witch make them extremely
popular with both gentlemen and
ladies Of asporting turn. The form
aiity and elegance, the dressing and
coaching parade OF the jerome
meetings are absent, and the ladies
sit in their boxes and communicates
at their own pleasure with the pool.
booths through the intervention Of
the small army Of telegraph boys
who run to and fro and take the
money, buy the tickets, and bring
back the winnings, when any are to
be had. with surprising eXactness
and CELEBRITY. Thees ladies are
able to use their own judgement
and make their own bets without
reference to brothers, husbands, or
best friends, and Judging from the
number Of messengers who we've
constantly in motion from some
Of the boxes, good many purses
must have needed replenishing,
and good many summer outfits
be still some what incomplete
among the fair inmates.
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