St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-08
A Days Frivolity at Newport.

though within sight of each other, are as
much unlike as Saratoga and Chatauqua,
or Brighton or Monaco. Newport has one
great hotel. the Ocean house, while Nara
gansett has ten hotels, the most fashionable
of which is the Mathewson. The two re-
sorts are very jealous of each other. New
port was established 200 years ago and she
sneers at the infant Narraganset, only
ten years old. In Newport the bellies
and beaux drive bang-tailed horses
hitched to En- glish dog carts, while in Mar
ragansett they play tennis and firt. In
Newport the cadiSh swells play polo as the
bellies look on and abuse everybody out of
''our Set;" while in Narragansett they all
dress in fantastic bathing suits and go
plling promiscuously into the sea. New
port is full of prim, worldly old maids who
try to catch imitation Englishmen, with
blaze faces, dude eyeglasses and inherited
incomes. while Narragansett runs over with
laughing jolly Yankee girls ready to fall
in love with the first handsome fellow who
comes along. In Newport the girls are all
bric-a-brac. They are represented by the
| eighteen thOusand-dollar peachblow vase
While in Narragansett they are real live
JacQuelninot roses. In Newport we hear
| them talking about ''men" and women"
new English terms for gentlemen and ladies,
|
fellows and girls.
NEWPORT DIARY.
The arlstocratic Newporters, having re-
tired from the Casino dance at midnight the
night before, awaken at 9 a. m. After
coffee the fellows, after taking their ''tubs,"
dress in white coats, striped circus-clown
caps, knickerbocker trOwSerS, and dodge
around hotel parlors and city shops with
tennis raquets in their hands. Girls dress
in nuns yelling, and go around to other
cottages to inquire about the incomes of the
men they danced with the night before.
| AT II, all ride to the Casino. Fellows
upstairs in the clubhouse drinking claret
cups and playing billiards, and girls listen
ing to the music and abusing the other cot
tagers. Mothers lay off at home in Mother
Hubbard dresses sigh and say. II hate all
this humbug, and wish the season was
over" Old men swear and damn the ex-
pense and annoyance OF trying to be fash
ionable.
At 1880 p. m. we all go to drive. One
line of dog-carts, tandems, phaetons and
victorias fills Bellevue avenue. Belmont
drives four-in-hand drag. Pugs, poodles,
Skye terriers, Japanese and Prince Charles
spaniels occupy front cushioned seats, while
men Qackeys) ride backwards on hard
boards. Old women in Worth dresses loIl
back, bow sweetly to rich cottagers and
then abuse them. Old men sleep off their
burgundy dinners, while their sons, the
cads, sit up, self-constituted lackeys, but
toned up in tight Prince Albert frock-
coats, with their red ears saving on high
Regent street collars. They ogle rich girls
| through their English eyeglasses and say:
BE Jowve, she's bric-a-brac. yo' kneuw;
she's pill, but her gov'nor'l sugar-coat
horx q nd nf A e.00
| the heartless parade is over, and all gather
at dinner and fill up with champagne and
| burgundy.
At 6 p. m. flirtations on cottage or hotel
balconies. Not genuine love and sentiment,
but intrigues and heartlesS flirting. 'Its
English, you kneuw."
| At II D. m. all rush to the Casino. CadS
and dudes in Swallowtails, and old maids
nd~worIdly mothers in low necks and short
sleeves. They dance, they whirl, they re-
volye, they bow, they wiggle and they
romp. Old blaze men sit N 1.-THE galleries
and chuckle as they use opera glasses on
low necks. Old women sit around as wall
flowers, hold fans and opera cloaks, and
scold because they don't know anyone.
80, but we are so exclusive!"
| At 1 a, m. music ceases. The beaus rush
to the club-rooms to take their might caps''
|
retire to the cloak room to say sweet moth
ings or whisper scandal and secrets about
everybody not in their set.
There is no love, no real joy. 1t is
struggle for place-a fight for position.
| There are cuts and jealousy and hate and
triumphs and defeats, but love and happi-
ness are not here.
THE NEWPORT CABS PROPOSAL.
It was in Newport that the first dude
proposal was made. They were sitting on
the Casino balcony watching the tennis
players in their knickerbocker trousers,
wooden shirts and Bowery target club hats
| She was sweet %, Gladys was, and had an
awful aristocratic father, with no money
He, Algernon, was rich. Champagne
] flowed in his veins instead of blood. His
father had risen from obscurity to arsto-
cratic wealth by economy and hard work.
He commenced as tailor on the Bowery
By and by he became merchant tailor
Then a merchant tailor and importer.
Then the tailor" slipped off of the sign,
and he became IMPORTER. Still he made
clothes. His son Algernon inherited every
thing except the tailor, and when his poor
old father died, Algernon Livingstone
broke out at Newport, Joined the Casino,
and drove beautiful dog-cart, with an
English tiger behind and a tandem team
forward.
Gladys" he said, as his Dig eye opened
to drop his eye-glass, Il think have some
thing confidential to tell YOU"
What is it, Algernon?" she asked as
she smoothed her bang with one hand and
handed him a saucer for his cigar ashes with
the other. What is your secret, Alger-
nOn?"
well, Gladys" he continued as he deli
| d. -
glass, Il think-I think that under some
| circumstances L might love yOu-nOW do
you love me?"
Yes, Algernon, do love you-you
know do"
81 am very glad, Gladys, that you love
me, for L"
80, AlgernonH
'.For l always liked to be loved'
"Well, Algernon?"
But Algernon never said another word
Newport fellows never say any more than
that.
VIM. NJ. EVARTS ON SHORT SENTENCES.
met William M. Evarts, our ex-secretary
of state, several days ago, and asked him if
he could explain the Ell PaSo imbro Clio in
short sentences.
''In short sentences?" he asked, smiling.
"Certainly," said. ''just common ordin-
| airy sentences, such as us ordinary fellows
use every day."
"Why, of course. Here it is: Cutting is
an American, and while living in Ell Paso
an American town, he libeiled Mexican,
living across the river in Mexican town,
and few days afterwards, going over
the river, the Mexicans arrested him
! and -"
THAT was right, wasn't it?" I asked.
''No, sir. Cutting being on American
soil when he wrote the libel, broke an
American law, not Mexican law. He
should be tried by an American court. In
America Cuttings alleged libel is INSIDE
meanor while in Mexico it is penal crime
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