The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-07
"BAB" AT NARRAGANSEITT.
FAIR SOJOURNERsATNE NEW ENGLAND,s
POPULAR RETREAT.
The Narragansett Girl and Her "Best
Boy"-She Sleeps Two Hours Out of the
Observation-Disclosures to the Core of
Her Heart.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent
NARRAGANsETT PIER. Sept. 6.-"Water, water
everywhere, and not drop to drink" is the cry
of the young woman who is in the swim here.
Before she goes in she has champagne cocktail
to buoy her up, and just after she comes out her
best boy Chats what she calls him nowadays)
has a milk punch strong with brandy and
daintily covered with nutmeg to fetch her up.
The Narragansett girl seems to be in continual
need of stm ulant. which, when you remember
that she gets about two hours sleep out of the
to the core of her heart; that is if she has a
heart. and not an enlarged muscle in its place.
until everybody thinks he's drowned, and all the
nervous women are crying, as she does the one
,n,os wno Is ~ heara t singing lively chorus about
tumbled appearance.
NARRAGANsETT SLANG.
She is very intimate with one woman and no
more; and the two surround themselves with
set of men that they beautifully call "our
gang" Slang at Narragansett is as tough as
that on the BoWery, and the young woman who
can speak it with greatest ease and huency is
1nr esteemed 5er as being Of high intelligence and
iariy charms me about the girls here, and that
a is they t are healthy. think it must be the air
ness that prevokes this. Trouviile is continu-
ally suggested by this place, and yet, while the
she doesn't vulgarize herself as do the girls here.
MEN WHO PREFER LOVE TO MARRIAGE.
A young matron who is very gay was asked
not very long ago where her little daughter was,
and she quickly answered: "Well, certainly not
here; keep her in the convent all summer. You
don't suppose want her TO grow up like one of
us? She had certainly spoken her own judg-
ment and one couldn't but wonder II the
mothers care of the child-her protecting it
from the evil surroundings--were not, after ALL
evidences OF better nature than showed on the
surface. The young matron is undeniably the
Delle. so feW men care to marry that they find
IL more comfortable to make love to her than
Chey DO TO say sweet nothings to a young girl
whose parents may ask him what his intentions
are.
=. The fashionable man of to-day has no inten-
ulons except those OF havinga good time and the
young matron is his boon companion. At q sup
per the other night one OF the best known among
Ihe SVEN SET drank, for bet, three bottles of
supported, on very hgh-heeled shoes She got
her pet-lt was pair of gold garter buckles on
Whlch were engraved, would were with thee -
NOW this was pretty larky, but we know that the
end OF the century is reached when tits realized
that this womans husband was present and
thought it great joke A great Joke" indeed
to take the sweetness and loveliness of a Womsn's
character, and make her lower than the demi
mondaine, at whom she casts look of dlsdain
ana who in reality is her equal, if not her sll,
perior.
THE SUMMER DECLASSEE WOMAN
The decldssee, the woman that nobody knows
how or where to place, is very much to the fore;
she wears the biggest of hats-the longest of
plumes-the gayest of colors-and the most con-
5plcuous OF high-heeled shoes. She has taken on
new dodge this year. and is keeping quiet con-
Sequenty IL is more difficult to find out lust who
she is; SO she goes around seeking whom she
Why do drink Tannhauser beer? Because
1t is the best in the market.