The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-07-03
IN WARM MIDSUMMER.
Fashionables at Newport Cool Thsm-
selves in Black and Crimson
Bathing Suits.
The Beach Dress as 1t Ia Displayed
from the Chair on the
Beach.
Rose and Strawberry show, with Fruit
From McAl1ister's Farm--DNnclug
Fr0cks at the Casino.

Especial Correspondence OF Thu l~NDEPEMpENr.1
EXPORT. II. l.. JULY Pills II,
INcI worth while to talk about Newport
TX bathing dresses? There IL no summer
resort which bnthss so decorously -
the beautiful city by the sea, and IL appears
to be tho general American opinion that
bathing dresses are interesting In direct
proportion TO their indecency. However,
it may DO said that Newport bsthes In
black to a very considerable extent This
summer. The picture as you soc IL from
the beach restaurant or elsewhere ia ons Of
very little variety or interest AZ a whole,
though often beautiful in detail.
Broad crimson or scarlet hats lend touches
of color, n such sea nymphs a. tha
pretty niece of Roger q. Mills. the Corsi-
cana statesman, with her short. wide storm
serge skirt-at least . yard wider than any
fashionable young woman would have
put ON a year ago--her Russian
blouse with crimson facings, her
long black stockings. the crimson bands
Of her black drawers just showing below the
|aknees, her Roman sandals bound upon her
feet with crimson thongs. and her rubber
hat with its flat crimson rim. make piquAnt
objects more French often than American.
There are women who take gay sun um-
brellas into the water and make you think
a covey of b~right-colored balloons have
dropped into the sea and spilled their pas
sengers. This morning by 10 O'Clock six or
eight Of these parasoled or p~arachuted
bathers were bobbin9 about under their
big. ra~inbow-tinted bubbles, and among
them was a big blonde from Philadelphia
in blue twilled flannel or some such stuff,
striped in narrow lines of pale
LIue. A broad pale blue sailor collar
opened down to her waist, and under
it was a pointed vest piece of the darkest
material. Her skirt, drawers, and even hos
stockings were striped, and she took the
waves serenely under q striped blue and
white canopy. It wouldn't be polite to call
her a zebra, because she was by long odds
the h~andsomest woman on the beach, but IL
ought to be remarked without fear or favor
that, stripes aside. the parasol business Is
certainly ungraceful and probably uncom.
Portable. 4" s. y-a5
The bathing wraps which the majority Of
women wear to the edge Of the water and
have thrown around them by waiting attend
ants the instant they emerge are imposing at
fairs this summer, long, voluminous and
much beribboned. A woman artist Of New
York makes a picture of herself regularly
in a dark wash silk cloak that you hardly
note for an instant, but that after it has
caught the eye fixes it with it's wAverin0
thinner of uncertain green and blue. 40 IL
the iridescence of the ocean itself were
dripping off the bather.
The people on the beach have the beat Of
it. after all. especially those who rave the
use the big hooded, shady beach chaira,
from which the blue waves an 4 the gulls are
comfortably in evidence, n the beach
toilet. which is an object at Newport. much