The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07
"BAB" ATNARRAGANSETT
FAIR sOJoURNERs AT NEW ENG
LANDS RETREAT

Boy"-5he Sleeps Two Hours Out of
the Twenty -four-A Larky Married
Woman Narragansett Women
Wear the Biggest of Hats, the Long
est of Plumes, the Gayest of Colors
and the Most Conspicuous of High
Eeeled shoes-Individuslly,M Man Re-
CARDS Woman as Famous Wingless
Angel.
NARRAGANsETT PIER, r. l., Sept. g.
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 that's what she calls him nowadays)
has milk punch strong with brandy and
daintily covered with nutmeg to fetch her
up. The Narragan EFT girl seems to be in
continual need of a stimulant, which, when
you remember that she gets about two
hours sleep out Of the twenty-four, is not
surprising She is athletic to the core of
her heart; that is, If she has heart, and not
an enlarged muscle In its place. She adores
the young man who can swim out until
everybody thinks hes drowned, and all the
nervous women are crying, as she does the
one who is heard singing a lively chorus
about o'clock in the morning. when he
presents a most tumbled appearance.
NARRAGANsETT SLANG.
| She is very intimate with one woman,
and no more, and the two surround them
| selves with a set of men that they beauti-
fully call ''our gang" Slang at Narragan-
| sett is as tough as that on the Bowery, and
the young woman who can speak 1t with
greatest ease and huency Is esteemed as
being of high intelligence and culture.
There is only one thing that particularly
charms me about the girls here, aud that is
they are healthy. l think 1t must be the
air and the sea, and not the bad manners
and fastness that provokes this. Trouville
is continually suggested by this place, and
| yet, while the Fre1chwoman is up TO all
sorts of naughtness, she doesn't vulgarize
herself as do the girls here.
MEN WHO PREFER LOVE TO MARRIAGE.
A young matron who was 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 usE' She
had certainly spoken her own judgment.
and one couldn't but wonder If the mothers
care Of the child-her protecting it from
the evil surroundings-were not, after all,
| evidences Of IA better nature an showed on
the surface. The young matron is undeni-
ably the belle. SO few men care to marry
that they find it more comfor able to make
love to her than they do to say sweet moth
ings to young girl, whose parents may
ask him what his Intentions are.
WHEN WOMAN IS A FOOL
The fashionable man of to-day has no in
tentions except those of having good
time and the young matron is his boon
companion. At a supper the other night
one Of the best known among the swell set
drank, for a bet three bottles Of champagne
and then walked home alone, unsupported,
| on very high heeled shoes She got her
pet-it was pair of gold garter buckles.
Now this was pretty larky, but we know
that the end of the century Is reached when
| tits realized that this woman's husband was
present and thought it a great joke. A
great joke, indeed, to take the sweetness
aud loveliness Off woman's character.
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 conspicuous of high-heeled
shoes. She has taken on new dodge this
year, and is keeping quiet, consequently IL
is more difficult to find out Just who she Is
80 she goes around seeking whom she may
devour among the innocent and cody.
The only way to find her out Is to ask men
and the only way you can find her out is to
get a man when ne is drunk, for
when he is sober he never tells
tales out of school. They are funny
fellows, but they have special creed
Of honor that is better than yours or mine
that is generalizing, because OF course, in
dividually we are the famous angels with
out wings; while general y-wel, we have
our little weaknesses. For my part ]
always say, "Giye me a MANI | do not
| mean this as an advertisement in the paper
because doa't think no is that difficult to
| Ret--yet. But 1t is the cry, backed by
$1,000, OF sweet creature here who wears
the miniature Of her grandfather on her
paptating bosom, and wonders why the
Lord has cursed her with the lack or hus-
band This is one of the oases where it isn't
the Lord-it's man, wicked man. lie would
have none of her, notwithstanding she is
Offering the bell boys $4,000 for the desired
athlete.
WHEN OLD AGE rs GIDDY.
The waters, as well as the woods are full
of curious people, and the ancient maiden
is one of the most curious Of them. AT 6t
| she has learned to dance, and she will triL
the light fantastic with small boys, with
the superannuated master of ceremonies -
anything, in short, that wears trousers; she
has a. false front which, in her excl cement
will get little awry, and she gloats on
white muslin and pink ribbons. She il
gushing beyond expression, and nothing
will down her except the cool impertinence
of a woman who tells her that she doesn't
want to know her, and has no intention
whatever of including her in her circle Of
acquaintance That sounds rude, doesn'i
itl But 1t is self-protection at a summer
watering place.
PoKER-LOvING BELLIES.
Do they do anything but battle and drink
and firt herel o, yesl There Is many
beautiful little game of poker goes ON in th'
afternoon, when madame is supposed to b.
taking her nap, and the group Of sweet
young things in exquisite tea gowns los
their money and their temper alike over tina
blissful American game that has emptied SC
many purse and caused so many naughty
words to be said.
} WHAT MANS INNOCENCE MEANS TO WOMAN
The smart girl, who is following the
English fashion and rouging up TO her eyes
has gotten the real French dodge, and use'
lovely pink decoction that stands the watel
very well and convInces everybody of thu
reality of her complexion. Her head goes
down under the water and comes up, is Wig
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