Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-07-21
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"hen we leave home and 90 with "the maddng
crOWd 10 watering place we leave our own house
ana our tools behind US; we leave our books, our
work, the quiet daily round OF duties the un-
pleasant periodicity OF ordering dinner (Which Is
IL always comes after breakfast, finds US without
appetite)s but still which is '.steadment TO the
thoughts" We have not that power OF amusing
ourselves which we have at home when certain
recognized employments take up our time. our
Drains too, are diluted aud distracted by the
hastily repeated and somewhat commonplace
greetings which We give OF morning TO cur five
hundred friends, and the necessity OF a constant
chanSe OF dress of being ready for the beach. the
Dath, the drive, the morning visit, the luncheon or
the dinner, ali break Us uD, and we become a frlg
mentary. irritable particle OF the universe before
Ihree days have passed Then comes desperate
sickness OF the soul. We hate the band we hate
INC crowd, we are furious over Mrs Bamfylie's
striped dress and consider Mrs. Cherry MOya's too
youthful nat anu too youthful bloom as personal
Insult We determine to go home 70 that quiet
house In tbs country from which We have come.
But We have maize an effort TO come 10 Pine Tree
Beach. ami We needed change" Thus we
determine stay three days longer and endure the
striped dress the noise the vUlgarity OF Mrs Cherry
Aoya- and so o. The moment OF desperation
passed, We settled down TO the mingled pleasure
and deSHgreBIcHky OF a watering place life with
conviction that, after ALL IL Is doing Us good, and
that at least We shall derive one benefit from 1t,
We shall be very glad 20 get home again.
GETTING USED Tot.
Then begins TO creep in a sober sense OF amuse-
ment. We get used 10 narrow quarters, noise and
crowd. and We are aware that there are many new
and benencent influences at work. Weare getting
out OF a nut We md ourselves beaming with an
enamel OF good nature and cOr,li.ty and polite
hess which n somewhat enforced Is still good for
our manners (Which are getting a little rusty II
Is certainly creditaOle that we can ind our conf
pany manners by looking them up we do our
last summers dresses We are enlarging our
phylacteries, which, in the selfish preoccupation
OF our retired lives. were getting somewhat mar
rowed. We feel ourselves becoming part OF the
great world. We are rubbing of the hard edges,
We are also seeing the world go by, which Is always
an Instructive spectacle.
After these broad and philanthropic ideas have
fitted Us To the enjoyment Of the nne weather,
then comes The inevitable storm, and we have 10
take The dizziness within the gilded salons Of the
Pine Tree Beach Hotel Two or three hundred
people are bestOwing their tediOusness and eHnUi
Oh each other. Who shall arise and amuse them?
We have all met these days OF duIlnesS. Lie
has now become a very complex thing, and we
apt 10 carry with Us an improved capacity for
eDa,fi as We grow more refined and more luxu-
rious. How we love the brilliant girl who can
illuminate these days OF dullncSS.
INITIATING LADY HAMILTON.
How we should welcome that talent OF Lady
Hamilton OF whom Dean Staniey'S mother (wno
wrote q delightful little book OF her travels in 1900
and who saw Lady Hamilton as she represented
the best statues and paintings, says:
.'She assumes the attitude, expression, and
drapery, with great facility, swftness and accu-
racy. Several Indian ShaWls, chair some antique
vases, wreath Oi roses, tamDOrine and a Few
Children are her only apparatus. She wears
the wrist. She dispOseS the slawlS 50 as to form
GreciaH, turkish and other drapeTy, well
variety ot turDah~ lac ARRANGEMENT OF the
quickly and well. IL IS a beautiful perform
ance, amusing TO The most ignorant and highly
interesting 10 the lover OF art. Most OF
her representations are from the antique"
This performance would De to-day, and
within the power OF many beautiful and clever
women, and would lead them TO refining studies of
art. and would amuse the lOOker-On at a dull
watering place vastly. IL need not be more pub
hal my all 4rI am nf rafl and
would teach young women the value OF grace
giving pose. nowadays much needed where a sort
of Jerky awkwardne>s has taken the place OF
grace. IL i time Tor the pendulum OF fashion 10
swing back To this esthetic grace, which eInbe-
fishes the "MtDuet dc In COuT." IL would come in
Well with this renaissance OF Josephine and Mad
anne kecomier dresses those shOrt-waisted, close
ly-clinging muSlins which SO many Of our young
beauties are adopting just now.
IN FAVOR OF ARTISTIC TABLEAUx.
There Is, OF course, always a well-fOunded objec-
ton 70 anything which can be called display But
there Is not much privacy about the life at a great
watering place. Therefore would it not be fdu1
air and assumption OF delicacy which should urge
against such an exhibition being an Indication OF
holiness IL Is study In the beautiful and sacred
by the study OF art which cOnsecrates everything
In an age when a blUshing beauty can drive a
pair OF ponies alone, or SIT on top OF coach, with
a thousand roughs looking at her from street
corner. and " no can bear this stare repeated for
twelve or twenty miles without loss of caste who
can play 70 thousands OF public stage In private
theatrcals IS this the age TO object TO artistic
tableau? IL would be at least something
new under the sum-" and that mas
been the cry OF the human race for CEN
turtles. Music. OF course, is a great resource.
The man with comic song Is very much
In demand, and the woman who sings well is
great boon, II she does not screech and II she does
not sing too much The laughing boast OF
Autolycus, Il can sing and speak TO him In many
kinds OF music" has always been an attractive
sound But music gets done to death. We have
other senses beside the ear; We want TO please the
other costumes besides those on The beach and
study the antique robe OF Antigone and the
splendid scarlet mantle Of Phaedea IL Will i'm
prove their minds and bodies.
LACK OF YOUNG MEN.
There Is strong complaint, a melancholy wall
going up from Newport and Saratoga, Bar Harbor
and Long Branch that young men will uor got to
watering places: that they have ceased 10 be fond
haunted ball room, the bowling alley and the
drive; that they take their pleasure away from
the society or LADIES' IL Is ever whispered by their
detractOrs that IOrlOrn bellies are trying 10 WOO
these tagging lords back 10 their allegiance by un-
worthy batteries "Wewil give you sleepy drinks,
That your senses, unlDtelligent OF insufficient
cies, may though they cannot praise Us, as little
accuse u.s." Does this refer to absynthe iced or
champagne cocktails? This Is dreadful, perish
the though, that iced absynthe should be used
as reason for inducing noble youth TO
day before a belle should pander 10 the
lower taste Of knight IL is not for her
10 carry 70 him the highly Ornamented beer-sIass
or t1e unhealthy cigarette; she should play to
him different Kinds or music" Certainly the
yOung-man element Is not represented at the vari-
H.
mediate past. Perhaps the times are not so pros
porous Fewer men can AFFORD IL; lever men like
lhe NE Ihere are too many dull days; there Is
Too huch scandal. The great devotion 10 athletics
living young men so much more 10 do In a very
inuch more exciting form OF amusement the
crcAet nell, The baseball match, the boating the
POLO. aAI The summer In the Adirondacks have all
eOhspired 10 take them from the life once so
dearly nailed Dy young men OF the watering-9lace
season
POPULAR CANES
Lawn tennis alone remains the one resource OF
the young girls ami the young men for a good and
sensible relief from the monotony OF a watering
place.
Sometimes person OF original brains Will.
uuilhg stress Oh weather, devote himself TO
amusing the guests; he Will get up charades and
laolearx and private theatricals and recttatloas
There seems 10 be paucity, however, OF the once
gay, witty, intelligent games, which are 50 agreea-
ore IN a country house, when you know your peo-
pie ana can measure the intellectual caliber OF
each person. There Is still LETT the once fascinat
Ing twenty Questions" which has sent a shafr
lnlo many brilliant mind and brought I'D unex-
pected gold There are the more erliIte games
such as writing parody On given author or,
given subject, with given word: 10
write poem or a proverb or 10 play at dertya
IONS quotation or Throwing a Light" These
nave Illuminated many a dull day. All these
however may be dull TO dull brains, ard they may
Dc OF more serious Import, more work and REQUIRE
more EFFORT than people desire IN " arm weather.
therefore they cease 10 be useful as SUGGESTIONS
topeople who desire 70 DE idly amused.
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