Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-07
Co-espoa9snee Of the Morning Ne'os.

ions IN nOEsGnOlu Az2nen-A hOusc-
keepers Outfit and What 1t Costs
shams for Dressing Beds.
Correspoa9ence Of the AorHin9 Ne'0s.
NEW YORK. Sept. 5.--The majority OF
people found themselves obliged to resign
their quarters and the doubtful joys Of
watering place life THE season just at the
moment when their possession began to
seem desirable. The summer resorts
about New York, especially those by the
sea-Loug Beach, Long Branch and others
have all suffered greatly from the IN
usual cold, dampness and many storms Of
exceptional season; but the cOttagers
and those who had rooms engaged in adj
vance were obliged to face the conditions,
no matter how dissgreeable, and actual
discomfort has often been intensified by
he want Of warm underwear and suita-
bic outside clothing. 1t seems hardly
credible, but it is true, that
women with cases Of jewelry, lace dresses
and embroidered dresses by the dozen,
whose husbands pay 800 and upwards
per week for board at an Ocean avenue or
West End hotel, will nevertheless be
without a single suit of warm comfort
able WGOlen for under or outside wear.
There is, il is true, some change for the
better in this respect. At Long Branch
particularly the difference is very notice.
able. This beautiful city by the sea was
only q few years ago a waste of sand upon
which were great hotels, which were
little more than sheds in which miscel-
IaneOUs crowd gathered on account of its
uearness to New York. Now there are
miles upon miles of picturesque cottages,
velvet lawns, green hedges, vines, trees,
shrubbery rescued from the edge of the
sea. and cultivated at enormous expense.
These homes and the cottage system Of
the hotels have given quite a new tone to
the Branch and made the old time display
seem vulgar and suspicious, as it does
everywhere to the really cultivated and
intelligent. The majority of cOttagers
pack away their Jewels and silver, their
finest clothes and most costly belongings,
either in strong rooms al home or in safe
deposit vaults, and 90 to the seaside unen-
numbered. Their dresses are cotton or
thin wooden, chintz or flannel in the morn
ing, nuns yelling or tapestry wool in the
afternoon and evening. They have al
WAYS the touch of warmth in their cloth
ing which is welcome If it is cool, and not
oppressive if the air GENES from the land
and not the sea.
1t is pretty well understood now that
women who wear very fine clothes at sum-
mer hotels have nowhere else to exhibit
them and are usually the least prepared for
possible emergencies. One such woman
is heralded from Dan TO Beersheba, and
the exaggerated paragraphs concerning
her repeated in every society column as
if she represented her entire sex, while
the 500 incOnspicuOus maids and matrOns
are passed by unnOticed.
The watering place season is expected
to last longer than usual this year on ac-
count of the warm autumn which is eX-
pected 10 succeed the cool summer, and
Long Branch expects to be gay and partly
filed until October. 1t has acquired a
more foreign air than any of our watering
places, principally because of its outdoor
beach life. which, however, Is very tiuc-
tuating, and has no point of centraliza-
ton or attraction. 1t is a little curious
that the very efforts which some of the
hotels make nowadays to entertain Their
guests result IN stiffness, restraint and
he loss Of some of the most agreeG-
bic features. OF late it has been
or men-perhaps only give them
their board for a month or six weeks-On
condition that they play or sing when re-
Quired, lead in charades, and suggest
lively games or amusements for dull
evening. This is so well understood that
{ he old freedom and good fellowship is
asst passing away. Nobody volunteers to
10 any LulAZ AOI lEdI LlltN VIII UG CUu-
sidered paid emplOye OF the hotel; and
every one waits and listens and criticises
and stares, but persistentlY refuses to CO.
operate, so the poor mistress or master of
ceremonies has a rather hard time of ii
and fi0ds, the position anything but an
easy one.
u A pretty dress worn recently upon the
beach was of strawberry figured chintz
with natural bronze LEAKAGE. The skirt
fr.iu with uarrovrr Irr1ffporc tho
panieTed bodice with lace and strawberry
and hrORZe satin ribbons. The high straw
h at was trimmed with bronze velvet and
a large cluster Of strawberries. The par
asOl matched the dress and was bOrdered
with wide lace. The prevalence of white
flannel, white nuns yelling, and white
embroidered lawns, give charming and
ete-like aspect TO drawing rooms and
prOmenades. y striking departure from
he all white consisted of thin wool killed
j u thin knife plaits and striped with
clover red velvet. A high square collar
ormed epaulettes, and yoke OF the vel
vet and the rich color was re-
peated in cuffs and a huge bow which
Ormed part OF the drapery. and was
caught in very handsome buckle of
Rhine stones. Some costumes sent down
Long Branch recently for wear in Sep
tember consisted partly of brown and
dark green wooden suit in two shades Of
the self color and an almost invisible
checkered or diamond pattern. The trim
ming was velvet in the darker shades and
bodice and drapery were buttOned and
oOped to one side. The brown jacket was
cut away from a red vest stitched with
/ Gather eolored silk, and this stitching
}executed in a design reappeared upon
{ he upright pleatings upon the front of
he skirt. A simple and very new costume
was in all-wOOl, in two shades of gray,
{ he darker used for. trimming, and a beau
tiful short costume of hohpareiI velveteen
was in smoke gray over satin with pas.
sementerie embroidery in a pattern of
overlapping rings. The improved finish
of Yelyeteen and the distinguished color
ngs in which II is now produced 1
have stimulated au unprecedented
demand, particularly for the ''nOnpaTeil,p
which includes all the latest and greatest
Improvements, especially in color and real
yeivety s0irness; and, indeed, except for
the idea which some ladies attach to
cotton velvet, there is no reason why
Velyeteen should not be used upon all
occasions when velvet is desirable, for ex-
perts find it hard TO detect difference
when the two are made up. Beige lace
cOstume-nOt new, but very pretty
made over currant red silk, with silk
basque trimmed with beige lace round
he neck and down the front, and beige
STRAW hat VIII sllll seen On
he beach in phaetons or on the cottage
piazzas framed in the green of lawn and
vines. NJ M - I3a
1t is asserted that flowers. feathers and
ewels will be combined in the ornaments
prepared for the coming season for ele-
CANT evening dresses. Clasps buttons
and agrapes are OF dark carved wood,
stone, or metal, very beautifully and mi
nutely cut and the first and last viii be
used largely upon cloth instead Of buttons
fasteu the jacket at the throat and the
waist line leaving the vest or full front
visible r.a.l-s ~ Z. ar.n
A LITTLE END OF THE WEDGE.
Lady WarburtOn may take heart Of glace.
The divided skirt has obtained such rec
IGNITION as is to be found in its adoption
by some lady tricyclists in England as
part of a tricycle. costume. 1t is not
called by this name, but drawers coTres-a
ponding With the dress, that is Of the
same material, are authoritatively recon-
mended instead of underskirts for wear
by lady tricyclists, and it is further rec
commended that the skirt Of the dress be
shortened a trife above walking length,
and that the drawers be ruffled and al
lowed to project below. That is all there
is of Lady HabertOn's rational dress,
and it is simply stealing her thunder with