St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-22

upon their odd, pretty and bewitching
tennis gowns. Just now there are five
SOr six hundred fair players added to the
already large list. The Normal college
contributes couple of hundred, and
the grammar schools the remainder.
These young people do not go out of
town to remain all season." but con-
in the country, and spend the rest of
the summer in the park, going to COney
Island and Staten Island, doing fancy
work and getting themselves up to look
like angels every evening before tea
time.
Between4 and o'clock is the best
time to see the pretty Gotham girl in all
her tennis finery. In the early morning
some devotees of the game may be seen
on the grounds ''practicing," but it re-
quires the cool of the afternoon to bring
them out i'll their most bewitching cos
tunes. The stretch of green on the
west side of the park, about Eighty
fourth street, is the best place to view
the players.
A particularly handsome brunette
who belongs to quite a large club,
known as 1.-THE Wild Rose" attracts
universal attention. She has two ten
mis- dresses, both especially becoming,
and is so spirited and graceful a player
that onlookers never tire of watching
her WELD her raquet.
One gown, which is worn on very
warm afternoons, is of creamy white
flannel, richly embroidered in bands of
deep purple pansies with golden hearts.
The skirt is full and drops just to the
slender little ankles, showing black silk
stockings and pair of dark-blue leath-
er tennis shoes. The waist is a Jersey
and shows off the rounded figure, and
the belt, cuffs and collar are of white
silk, richly embroidered. The jaunty
little white felt hat, with its band of
pansies, and long white silk mitts, COM
plete the toilet.
The second gown is for cooler after
moons, and is symphony in white and
yellow. The skirt is of some broad
diagonal stripe in yellow and white,
and the waist of pale yellow silk is belt
ed and has loose sleeves, big bow and
ends of yellow satin ribbon falling at
one side. The hat is all of pale yellow
shirred silk, with a big white bow at
one side, and looks like an enormous
buttercup settled above her crisp black
hair.
In the same club is pretty little girl
with big blue eyes and yellow hair, who
is always running away from the balls
when they come toward her, and there
by provoking the righteous indignation
of her parters.
"But Pm so afraid they'll hit me-" is
her invariable excuse.
She never wins a game, and only
strikes ball about once a week, but
she looks so charming that the mascu-
line members of the club are devoted to
her.
Her tennis dress is intended to typify
the name of the club. 1t is of paleSt
Nf,,Iy do 4 &c, Il
in garlandS of deep pink wild roses,
with humming birds and honey bees
lowering over them. Her hat is of
white leghorn, and is garlanded with a
big wreath of roses. Her shoes are
white and pink, and she has white
lace paras0l.
Of course this is not useful costume,
the paraSol and hat of necessity being
placed Oh the ground when the play be-
gins.
"Such nonsense, playing tennis in
claimed one player the other afternoon
as she passed a novice who was taking
evindently her first lesson in these per-
ishable materials.
The critic was in the regulation ten
mis- dress, short dark blue flannel
skirt, Jersey waist of blue and little
ralliSh gray felt hat, pulled down over
one eye. She swung her well-WOrn
raquet in one hand and carried two
balls in the other. Black, white, red
and yellow gowns made in this simple
fashion abound, and are of course the
most comfortable to play in.
''How much does tennis outfit cost?"
was asked of one pleasant-faced maiden
in pale green and white.
"Oh, you cannot get really good
racquet under S." she began.
Dresses you mean? Oh, that is
different. One girl in our club, the
worst player by the way, paid SIS for
hers, but our champion plays in SIM
pie white flannel frock. She made it
herself and it cost just IS, believe. It's
all matter of taste and means. There
is girl who comes here occasionally,
and. would you believe it, she actually
wears dress of white silk all en-
broiderea in tennis nets, in pale gold
and balls of silver! It's pretty, but how
long will it keep so?'
The girls who play tennis in our park
are most of them schoolgirls or one-year
graduates. On Saturday afternoons a
number of pretty saleswomen may be
found enjoying the game, but one rarely
sees girl far into the tWenties indulg-
ing in the game.