New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-01
ON A FLORIDA WHARF.
THE TAILoR-MADE GIRL AND THE oYSTEI
WOMAN

como often to the warf here We snail proosoy sce
every variety OF human nature. Some tine ago we
had supposed there could be very few specimens left
which had rot already become familiar TO us. We
had gazed erertly upon the tournured aud geneF
all, sell gotten up girl OF tho period, the tailor
made girl' whose costume left nothing to be desed
| and whose face frequently suggested that all her
brains had been exhausted In the selection OF thar
costume. There had been also her attendant cava
Her the tailor made young with his fatnous
gaze and his langud air Of receiving the attentions
Of his companion It much to DO thankful for
that he would even those attentions at ALL and
We hoped she was duly grateful for his kindness, for
| It Is not every young OF his powers OF wearing
clothes who will allow a girl to pay her addresses
to him. IL not many Of these people that we
had seen. however for such as these pass on 10 ot
Augustine, whore thore is plaza, and sea wall,
and an old fort whcreon to disport themselves ana
also better facilities for spending money. People OF
fashion are very much out Of place In terbahuha'
and Il must be a peculiar combination OF clrcum
stances that keeps them here at all There Is realy
no proper place provided BY the city for the display
of toilets and I warn those whose life lies IN the"
toilets not to come here. These creatures OF 'no
| great world whom We have noticed strollng on the
wharf are not usually sojourners In town. Dut haNo
come from somewhere by rail, and are waiting for the
arrival NJ the Yacht Of some friend take them away
A great many yachts stop here. 1t is pretty s'gn
TO see the graceful shapes sliding up to the doch
over the smooth waters. To the spectator II soo"''
an ideal life that must be lived on ono OF these pay
| things OF wealth. Not Ideal. however, II ohos
| companions are to resemble Of the beings We
have seen waiting to board yacht. We stood aiar
off and cazed with suitable humility upon them what
time We we're not trying to sit on pile OF pianhs
near enough to catch few words OF the Engish IAN
guage that might drop from their lips we were
never very successful In eavesdroppns al 'ea''
We never heard much upon that one ume WIND
we were quito near a group OF two girls ana one
Young man The hour sunset anu the SKY anu
sea were beautiful I'm the extreme, with that peculiar
softness that belongs the sky and sea OF florlda
Ono girl was continually drawing the attention VI
her companions to the perfectly exquisite tlnts, III
this and that direction. She asserted dozen times
in half an hour that she had certainly never bcioro
seen such perfectly exquisite tints
"Now, Belle. look yonder toward DnngeheS'i
Oh Mr. Romer Just SEQ that lovely cooring' LOOK
at those perfectly exquisite tlnts Belle, am posi-
tive ! never anything so lovely Gracious
feel Just Wild about it Now, Mr. Romer, don't you
| let me get silly the beauty OF this sceGc
hop, YOU understand that after have appealed to
you like this t viii be your fault. and not mne II
do got slly"-hero little by-play with eyes and
brows directed toward Mr.. ROmcr,' who received
It with apparent calmness.
She is sure, she adds. that she doesn't know what
II is I'm her makeup, but she always Is afraid when
she looks on such beauty that She will get weak
|
sItlon 10 get silly Is result OF being So exquisitey
sensitive sho has often told mamma that she would
give anything In tho world II she not SO sensi-
! tive.
All the time she Is talking the young man IS Gaz-
ing at her with look intended, perhaps, to DO adj
mlrlng but which is really sort OF stare with hshy
eyes. The other young lady listens and smiles con-
tnuousy, occasionally murmurlns an lndStnct acqu''
escence
| BY this time white yacht comes Into sight from
| the north and there EXPLANATIONS Of delight and
Joy, the representative young lady seems about
to comfort Into something ndescrIbable In the access
| OF her happiness sight Of the boat My friend
proposes that we leave seat on the panks lest
by some chance that girl should become even siller
| than she had yet been; In which case my friend
AYERS that she should certainly strange her That
may not be accessory to a crime, consent TO 60 a
few yards away. AS wo depart the pretty yacht
touches the Slip and the party board her amid much
laughing and talking and small shrieks on the gang
way plank as tho female enthusiast is helped across
The next day We see a very different sort OF a
creature from these butterflies. We are at our
regular occupation OF loahng on the DOCK "hen
some one approaches and says nterrogatvely that
she reckons like oysters
We sec no reason why should deny that we
consider oysters a pleasant food, and so we say
YesD and refrain from expressing our surprise that
she should have begun an acquaintance by making
such an assertion.
The speaker is woman whom we have seen
great deal the wharf; she seems to share our
prediction for tho spot. When seen few rods
away she has tho look of being fairly well dressed
but when you look at her closely you perceive
that She is very shabby indeed, and that her clothes
| are strained and pinned about her in ptiable at
! tempt have them look stylish"
Neither my friend nor l seeming disposed to
tlnue the bvave topic, the woman looked at us
moment with queer little smlrk on her small
e.fd Col IL liza hnt
that good many folks didn't know whore to get good
ones. Here she stopped to restrain the too demon
stratlveness Of two small dogs who arc her constant
companions, and who now, without doubt, try
ing tell something about oysters. When the
dogs had subsidized somewhat, their mistress said
| was afraid didn't know that they want the best
oysters out there where they sold EN-, bat that the
man In that boat at tho end OF the wharf had she
deal hctter. Her family liked oyst'ls much that
they had 'em every day they had 'em stewed and
| toast, md most every way. Her husband
mighty fond of EN-; he eat 'em raw, but she
ddpt ever eat en- raw though she liked EN- fried
and with meal and stew)I, though She couldn't
'cm raw but her husband eat 'em that-a-way. She
said that she thought II would be doing kindness
TO tell whore could get the deep river
that were larger and latter and far superior when
| We tried to say that sho was very kind, but she
broke In upon our words to repeat that her family
| very fond Of them raw" she thought that he could
eat as many raw oysters Us any two men In the city.
she Furthermore explained that u made her cOOkln
come good deal easier, for tho reason that they
were all So fond Of ysters Ia her family She said
too, that when her usyand took his share She
| was not obliged 10 cook them for him, and so of
course tho work was good deal lighter for her than
Il would have been II he had not liked them raw
After few moments OF listening to this stream OF
talk was sczed with morbid fear lest, when / had
reached my own room and could think quietly, |
should not be able TO tell positively which II was
this woman her husband, who liked oysters raw.
We attempted to turn the conversation into another
channel but the attempt was useless. When this
person finally started to leave she volunteered TO
seult ID al rs end ut " harf
who had deep river oysters and who peddled them
out in glass Jars We tried 70 tell her that we
should mol want any boarding, but she
| went of saying she would send him up
she could.
she kept her word. For three consecutive morn
ings after orr Interview a came into the yard
bearing Jar Of oysters and asserted that one
In that house had engaged the jar For two morn
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