The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14
.BAB'S SEA SIDE FROLIC.
SHE DALLIEs AWHILE AT NEWPORT.
The Aston Set and the vanderbilts-BeIIes
of the Season-At the Casino Balls
August Belmont as a Host
Newport Life, Etc.

NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 3. - Especial. -
Going from Narragansett is like going from
a wild cake walk to dignifed dinner
party. At the one there are all sorts of
jollity and a continual desire to gain by a
specially good pace the much desired
cake, while at the other there are served
in regular solemn courses the delights of
the day just as they are offered at perfect
dinner
Newport certainly can lay claim to being
one of the loveliest places in the world.
to having on exhibition the greatest
number Of beautifully dressed women and
we'll appointed turnouts. But, after all,
between you and me. Newport is only a
collection of "us," the creme de la creme of
each city moving around in its usual circle
OF gayety. There have been breaks, the
cream has turned sour and scandals have
arisen therefrom, but somehow it's always
CLOSED over and the sour cream is
whipped up and made into an entree.
The AstOrs and the Astor set control the
City by the Sea, and it's only of late years
NAldI NA4S duucIDlltS ndN0 DG6n
TO the charmed circle; and even now
think it is the dignity of Mrs Cornelius
and the sweetness OF Mrs. Fred, rather
than the style of Mrs. Willie X, that is
most admired. The beauties are out in
full force Miss Sallie Hargous, Miss AMY
Bend, Miss Mabel Wright and Miss Duer
are counted the leaders among them. Miss
Hargous is certainly a very pretty girl;
with dark hair and eyes and a bright,
piquant face, we'll dressed, and with plenty
of money, it is not remarkable that she
should be popular; the fact that she is GO
ing to have ball in a week adds to this
popularity, for every woman is hoping to
get an invitation. Miss Bend looks like
Vatican figure; Miss Duer, like one Of
Greuze's pictures, and Miss Wright looks
like Miss Wright. l have not been able to
discover why Miss Wright is called a
beauty: she has lovely golden hair, and
much the figure of an hour glass; but she
is as awkward as an umbrella, andis as ex-
pressionless as a weak cup of tea
Here's the truth as to how one of the
beauties obtains her much-praised figure:
At tailor shop the other day there was
picked up a bodice which was gazed at
with surprise. 1t was padded, not only
in front, but at the back, on the hips and
about the arms-in fact, the arms were
absolutely made-and when its weight is
felt and its warmth is realized, one cannot
wonder that the special beauty has always
such a delightful flush. Fit it to the right
one if you can. She poses for being ex-
tremely modest, and so her evening
gowns are made high to permit the cover
ing of cotton, and the long gloves are
wrinkled so that the slender arms are well
concealed.
The Casino balls really afford an oppor-
tunity to display wonderfully handsome
gowns, for the women here are clever
enough to know that crush means death
to tulle and destruction to silk, so that
care is taken that the room is not over
crowded, and in dancing in the barn"
every maiden fair and matron gay has
an opportunity 10 show that special
trock which Worth or Felix dreamed
out for her. There is a right and a
wrong way to do this pretty dance. And
Newport, of course, claims to know Just
the proper caper. At most of the watering
places the happy pair dance forward with
one arm around each other, and after four
steps, they whirl around in waltz fashion
but this isn't as pretty as the way it's
done here.
The gay coquette, with one hand on her
hip, raises her gown with the other and
dances her four steps around her cavalier,
who quickly seizes her and gives her the
necessary turn that will land her little
further on in the room. This is much
more picturesque-shows of the gown TO
better advantage; but the girl who is
dancing must not only know just how,
but have the courage of her convictions,
To- oha har c1i,1vare &c
cerned. Dancing in the barn" is frolic
which sometimes, after supper, degener-
ates into a wild lark, some Of the dancers
throwing up their pretty feet with an
abandon that suggests the ease with
which the French girl at the Butler could
kick a mans hat off.
Newport has its dinners; it eats, drinks
and is merry, and then the next morning
it reads Browning. Curiously enough,
the Browning craze, as far as this glad
some place is concerned, does not come
from Boston, but from New York Sarah
Cowell brought IT, and as she is the only
woman l know who can recite without
elocuting, it is a pleasure to hear her.
She can make one weep over "Pippa
Passes, aud can make less like Greek
some of the other Browning poems.
Browning and Russian tea and dainty
luncheons fill up the morning In the
afternoon comes the drive, and after that
the episode of the day-one is asked to
dinner.
At the best houses denominations in
plush and ribbon are not seen on the din
ner table, for millinery and soup are out
of place. Neither are wonderful favors
given, because they are counted vulgar, as
they really are, for one might just as well
carry home ones hosts check for certain
amount of the hostess diamonds as walk
away with expensive fans or bonbon
boxes. Instead, the menus are dainty
etched, and there is fine orchid or some
other rare flower just beside your place.
The huge block of Ice with fern leaves,
lilies or roses frozen in it that is so often
the center-pleces at dinner parties in Lon
don obtains here, for the Newport host is
nothing if not English. The finest dinner
parties, from the standpoint of the true
gourmet, are given by August Belmont,
Col Bonaparte, Ogden Goelet, Mrs.
Kernochan and, of course, the Wander
bilts. With August Belmont fine dim
ner is a matter of knowledge-with many
others it is a matter of money. Mr.. Bel
mont never makes Mistakes something
that is possible where the fine spread
means only an order to caterer to fur
nish his best, no matter what it may cost.
The young people prefer the party that
has an object beside eating-that is, they
choose the proverb dinners, the flower
ones or the rainbow ones. The first offers
to each on her menu a proverb that is
supposed to be applicable sometimes they
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