New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-28
Southern girl will ever be as chic as native

Southern girl will ever be as chic as native
New-Yorker, but the change from the correct anu
dawless, but somewhat monotonous style OF
Gotham, to style which likes TO be original,
which affects odd clothes and dares TO wear gowns
that are quite different from anybody eses, IS
delightful. These Southerners. tOo who are not
nearly 80 clever or SO shrewd as the Northern
women. have distinct sense Of humor. are often
lazily witty, are rarely bitter. have sweet,
sleepy smile for all the world. and take pride
in their own slipshod, Clipped way Of talking
that prevents them from adopting mongrel
English accent which is enough to make John
Bulls hair stand on end.
The Western beauties come from the land Of
enterprise and energy, and have both. The West
has fondness for out-IIeroding Herod. The
Western girl. heard Narraghnsett was place
where an elaborate wardrobe would meet with
intelligent appreciation, and each girl brought
one. Undoubtedly where clothes concerned
the West has. in its own strongly fgurative
language. taken the bun" The beauties from
the great towns that spread on lake edge and
prairie have got the most stunning clothes at
the pier. They have more parasols. they have
larger hats they have more lace their petit
coats than any other women in the place. On
hop nights they their diamonds-a few Of
them scattered carelessly over the upper half
Of their anatomy. They have French capes with
long, lace-like frills and high collars They have
stunning carriages But when they 60 in bath
ing their "mommcrs" come to the edge Of the
water and call to them
Daughtcr-r-r, go in where the water-r-r is
deeper-r-r clearcr-r-r-!"
OF course, in an article on the Eternal Femi-
nine at the Pier one ought to allow a long para
graph for the ladies with the histories There
n thousand interest
ing creatures-whose careers would he subjects
for understanding about the little town. All
il is with their handsome, blase, enamelled faces,
their tight-waisted, upright, broad shouldered
figures, their fascinating French clothes so ee-
gantly appropriate so artfully simple heroine
of this sort is common at Narragansctt as she
is in French play. A dozen varieties Of the
species sweep about the board promenade or
sit under white silk parasos on the sand. Half
dozen men are always in attendance on the
somewhat pasSe beauty. and a score OF stories OF
her doughty deeds in her rlcl,etty past go from
lip, TO, lip as she comes waggIIing along on her
little high-hceled boots, with her face very red
under coat Of powder and thick white veil,
and her plump hands crammed into little burst.
ing white gloves.
She and her kind enjoy the distinction of be-
ing more stared at than any one at the Pier, I'M
less it may be Edwin Booth. Everybody turns
his or her head TO give the ladies with histories
The matrons turn and stare at them, wondering
where they get their clothes The young girls
turn and stare at them wondering why. it Is the
men find them so attractive, envying them their
charming frocks and their perennial flock Of ad-
miners. The young person who i eenclne
young person has very little place at Narragansett
unless 10 stand foil in her long, lank, sirllsh
simplicity with her checks Drowned by the
sun and her Thoughtful blue eyes full Of q frank,
open envy rs they dwell on the more experienced
charmcr whose story is at once SO pathetic and
so thrilling, better even than novel by the
Duchess.
The last Of the bcllcs-the belle that has grown
out Of the old summer girls the real watering
place girl who Is cheeky and slangy and pretty
and sometimes witty. This is the sort OF girl
you never find anywhere but at a watering place.
This is the sort Of girl that foreigners meet
This is the sort OF girl whose parents you never
rules OF hotels YOU know that she must have some
sort of a chapcrone, a parent, an aunt, an aged
cousin-but you never them. Her accom-
plishmcnts consist Of ability 70 talk pertly on any
sort of man, perfect mastery Of slang and cool
mpudence. good deal OF self-rellance. n level
head, and pair Of small feet that can dance like
drcaln for four hours on "a stretch
She is always strikingly and stvlishly dressed.
When she is short OF frock, she looks herself up
in her room after breakfast, and at dinner comes
ont in "a creation that she has herself created
ont Of several yards Of chcese-cloth md roll of
ieht blue ribbon. She has the smallest waist at
the Pier and the neatcst feet. She knows nearly
by turns. Looking closely at her you remark
that she is not real " pretty, but she has laughing
eyes and her carecssly impertincnt manner has
an ineXpcablc, saucy charm As 20 falling in
love with her-no one ever thinks Of that The
Eternal Feminine when she takes this FORM like
the lady in the poem, is not for heart wounds but
FOR scratches"