The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25
SUMNER LIFE AT TUXEDO.
"sAsD AT NEW Works. SWELL RESORT
Its Charm to the Fashionable Girl-BIue
BloOds-Gossip and GOwns-A Bevy of
Pretty women-Bright Observa-
tions of a Clever Woman.


the watering places TO the more
natural and healthful ones Of the
country. But is it the country idealized;
it's the country with everything that art
can do in the way Of bringing out more
decidedly the beauties of mature, or making
life luxurious?
The club house with its reading and
billiard rooms, with its wonderful restaur-
ant, and its many visitors, is the meeting
place for all the cottagers, who gravitate
as naturally toward that as the needle
does to the pole. Most of the cottages look
like Swiss chalets hung on the side OF
a mountain, while the lake, with its broad
terrace fringed with trees, is so rich with
fish that they walk up and take the bait
as If they knew that their sole object in
life was to furnish dishes to delight pretty
women and brave fishermen. Everything
is good at Tuxedo-that is to say, the
houses are well built, the fireplace in the
club is all that it claims to be-indeed, the
whole place is best described by the man
who in attempting to tell about it could
only sum it all up in saving that Tiffany
udQ the contract lOI lu6 lcuCt. ltIIt
Lorlllard has been the Aladdin of this
modern garden OF Eden. He has spent a
lot of money. and what is more valuable
TO busy man, given great deal OF time
and thought to his pet hobby.
The charm of Tuxedo to the fashionable
girl is that everybody can't 60 there. That
only those OF our special set are either
members or invited by members, and that
there is no fear of iostling against anybody
whose blood is not already blue. or else
rapidly changing its cOrpuscles TO an indi-
90 shade Even blue blood has its transit
ton stage, and naturally Mr.. Astor, whose
blood only began to get blue when his
grandfather sold sables, is further adj
vanced than the young man ofto-day whose
father has not passed the selling of skunk.
Though it may be said, in parentheses,
that when skunk is dyed it makes very
pretty trimming, and you can only tell
that it's the maodorous animal when the
day is wet and dreary, and the dyed skins
resent the station of life In which they
are.
To be a Tuxedo girl you want to have
patience to fish, ability to shoot and dex-
teritv in playing billiards; you must ride
and drive, and If YOU can row boat it is
so much the better. You can loaf in the
clubhouse all day long and read or chat
tor; you can rehearse a new dance in the
lovely ballroom or you can go in for be-
ing athletic. / think the women who
conclude to loaf have the best time of it,;
they read or walk daintily about in the
morning; they enjoy their luncheon, and
then when ) o'clock tea comes they meet
the men in the drawing-room and look as
sweet and fresh as only the non-athletic
woman can look With the development
of feminine muscle it has to be confessed
that the eyes are correspondingly blind to
the charm Of the tea gown or the pretty
frocks that are so essentially feminine.
With billiards there is a difierence-this
is somehow game that permits frivolity
in gowns and shows woman at her best,
for from the time of Cleopatra down she
prefers always to play with men to being
able to execute all sorts of fancy shots
with a woman as her opponent.
To be here doesn't mean to be out of
New York, for the newcomer is continu-
ally arriving with news; and the latest
gossip, the newest frivOl and the last play
are all discussed overth eafter.dinnerc coffee,
or later when a nightcap Is taken to make
one sleep well. Beautiful gowns abound
here. You see there is room enough to
keep them without creasing, and it is
known that the women OF "Our set" can
keenly appreciate them. The last box
opened, fresh from Felix and Worth, show
that what Is known as the early English
has held its own in the hands of the great
costumer. This gives a woman broad
shoulders, very small waist, and then
the skirt falls in soft, full folds very
slightly draped. All fullness about the
bodice is drawn In to a point in front, and
the waists are long enough to have de-
lighted the soul of Queen Elizabeth, who
yearned for Just such designs, and who
brought them out in huge ruffs and in
tensiied the slender of her waist by rich
stomachers. BY the by, all semi-preciOus
stones. and some of the veritable gems,
are being set IN belts 10 be worn after the
fashion OF good Queen Bess; it is getting
quite the thing for the newly-engaged man
10 present his fancee with one of these
golden girdles that are funnily enough
called "cOntentment belts because they
make glad the waist places
Engaged girls like TO come here because
they think they get an opportunity to see
Charlie as he really Is. Deluded souls
AS II anybody ever saw Charlie, the hus-
band, in Charlie, the sweetheart. He will
swear now that you are a wonderfully
, good poOl-piayer; six months from now,
when the orange blossoms are faded, there
pool with somebody else or 10 declare that
if you win il is the fault of the table,
which was so made that nobody but fool
of a woman who had dumb luck could
manage to pocket the balls. And vet he
doesn't mean to be nasty. In fact, think
few men do, but when the worlds fair
comes off about five hundred of them
ought to be given medals for their ability
10 saying the words that are sure TO hurt
a woman, and not meaning il. They
might just as well mean it. because il
leaves It's sting behind, and sometimes,
my dear Charlie, your rude words are
in reality the little rift within the
lutte that by and by will silence
the exquisite music Of domestic bliss.
Tuxedo is cosmopolitan they don't Cos
sip about the people who are here es-
peciallv. but letters from everywhere Oh
nowhere bring subjects for discussion
and an interested girl confessed to drink
ing five cups OF tea as she listened to an
ardent wrangle over the morality of the
English woman as compared with that oil
the American. One of the prettiest OF the
women is Mrs. Burke Roche. She was g
Miss Work and married an Englishman
but life over there not having all the hap
piness she wished, she and her little ones
have returned to her fathers home. Mrs
Burke Roche is a woman whose great
charm is her refinement OF appearance
ara manner-she always dresses well, but
never conspicuously. and wears that idea
OF the English woman, little bonnet