, 1891-08-01

Others to know it too. They nave n healthy
disregard Of sunburn and colds in the
head, aud they wear the nattiest and pref
test Of suits, all made with a view OF tempt
ing old Neptune out of the bottom of the
sea. TO say nothing OF the would be Ncp
tunes on the shore.
There is one close circle of young ladies'
in Newport who are most accomplished
swimmers, but they try to keep that n pro
found secret and they hire a cookie shell Of
a boat and go padding about until they
find themselves Just where they wish to be;
and then there Is "A confusion Of screams,
mingled with striped stockings and pretty
bare arms, and the whole four are in the
water waiting to be rescued, and they
always are, and then their profound graft
tude to their gallant resCuers is always the
opening Of a very pretty romance, and you
will Thereafter SEQ rs many couples as
there were girls incoming around the
sands, In the sunshine or IN the glOnming,
q, with their little tanned hands closely
clasped in bigger and browncr ones. In
the evenings later the saver and the saved
waltz together or wander lovingly about
the grounds or on the beach-and the end?
All, the end. 1t ends with the season. 1t
Is not expected TO last longer, Romance is
to last the season out, and no longer. 1t
lasts from June to September. and IS sweet
and pleasant, but it is something that is
TO be taken" just ms one takes mountain
air or sea bathing.
If there is n better forcing place for the
tender plant of n summers romance ! don't
know where it could be found. TIT girls
are all so pretty, they know SO well how to
make the most of their beauty, they are so
far above the general run OF people in the
scale OF society that they can do almost
anything with impunity, and 1t is right be
cause they do IL. Then the quiet little
WI tN-ss .. ,..-.
smooth by the romantic couples who, sea
son after season, sit there hand in hand
listening TO the soft aisyos Of the waves,
and the faint strains of music. and each
others honeyed words.
Sometimes these little romnuces have a
sad ending, as for Instance when a hard
hearted husband comes on the scene and
insists that he only has the right to sit on
the sand under an umbrella with the angel,
or keep a manly arm around her waist
when in the beating surf, or hold her pretty
little hand while sitting on the rocks in
the cleaning.
Again. a wife will object to her hus.
bands taking so much pains to tuIk In
lonely spots to some other lady, but gcncr.
ally speaking such cases ARE rare, Tor II izn
generally understood affair all around that
everybody is to get all the pleasure he OF
she can out of the summer ut Newport.
and as old married couples can't he expect
ed to get much fun out of sitting on the
sand and hugging each other, and 1t b
rather nice to go through all the prehmi
nary stages OF "A romance with some on
else, why, they take the romance of it "A
they do the bathing, and 1t is usually al
right.
II has always seemed queer to me that
man who has a pretty and thoroughly mic
little wife Of his own, should as soon II
she is out of sight tip his hat over on on
side of his mead and suddenly forget tina
he is married. and only remember that he
fore and beside him is n pretty girl u
~hom he Is bound to try his now.-- .