St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-09
NEWPORT DUSTClOAK
This and the Lawn Party
Gown Will Be Used by the
400 This Summer.
New York People Preparing
to Vacate the City for
Resorts.
Something Concerning Life
at Newport and Other
Places.
How They Amuse Themselves,
and How Controlled by
Fashion.
Special Letter to the Globe.

special Letter 10 the GLOBE.
New YORK, July S.-When the sky
above us is like great dome of tur-
quoise intense in its depth of color,
when roses are nodding and blushing
everywhere and the sweet peas are try
ing to rival them in fragrance, when the
south winds come like the breath of a
furnace, and the sun is sending forth
scorching rays. until every human
being seems to have but one desire. and
that is to get as far as possible from his
present surroundings, then know all men
that July is here, and that New York,
as far as society is concerned, is about
to become a bowling wilderness, i'll
which to be seen is to proclaim ones
self far removed from even the outer
most circle of the -Four Hundred" So
"everYbody who is anybody" (and who
of us is so insignificant in his own eSti-
nation at least as not to be some
body?) is about to put himself or herself
somewhere, anywhere, outside of this
big, hot, dirty town. Those fortunate
few for whom circumstances have COM
bIned TO make life long holiday, those
butterflies of fashion whose names APP
would think they would be sick of the
sight and sound of them-they are lux
uriating at beautiful Hollywood. or
down at exclusive Southampton. Some
are off on their yachts, and several
score of them are installed in those SUI
perb palace villas which at Newport
masquerade under the name OF cottages,
one of which, that of the Ogden
GolletS, opens for the first time this
II
Is the most magnificent country resi-
dence on the continent. But the rank
and file of the holiday crowd is settled
In boarding houses and hotels, where
they dress and dance and gossip away
the golden midsummer hours. You
know what life is at most of these
places? The children romping about
everywhere. and too often making them
selves tremendous nuisance, the young
people coming and gong, ever on the
move in quest of amusement, the men
well, there are so few of them they
are hardly worth mentioning, and we
all know what a man does under any
circumstances. First, he sets to work
10 make himself thoroughly comforts
bic, and then he tries to delude some
woman into thinking him the finest
fellow in the world. This is generally
not hard task, but some
times, in the end, his lordship
wishes he hadn't succeeded SO
well in this special diversion, and The
matronS? oh, they just sit around on the
piaZZas, fancy work and novel in hand,
compare notes as to babies, servants
and "chitfOnS," quote what my hus-
band'' says, and always, in season or
out, find fault with the management,
service and cuisine of that particular
hosiery which is honOred % by their
patronage. For that seems to be an obi-
CATION de rlgeur, TO the average summer
boarder, whether her temporary sojourn
is a S7-aweek CatSkill farmhouse or
s5-a-day seaside hotel. When she's at
home she may, and probably does, live
In the most unpretentious of three
story, narrow houses. two or three
blocks away from the avenue, with
Rt most an unframed cook
and nursemaid to keep the
machinery going, or she occupies
q modest fiat uptown, with a more or
less Objectionable neighbor squeezed
against her across the three foot hall
way. But when she gets away for the
summer, nothing is quite as good as
she's accustomed to, and any stranger
would suppose from her carp
she lived in Vanderbi!t-ish
palace on the Riverside drive.
All of which proves her, l am sorry to
say, pretentiOuS, underlined cad, de-
spite any surface veneer of refinement
But, to 90 back To New York-although
the SomebodieS have all taken wing and
dispersed in divers dire directions, there
are still many thousands OF more or less
jolly people here who can't get away,
and who find compensation for their en-
forced detention in evenings spent at
the roof gardens and i'll Sunday
and half holiday outings to the
nearby beaches and parks. They
have pretty good times, too, and am
not so sure but that they get as much
fun out of their summer as do the birds
of passage. This is the time, also, when
Southern and Western visitors choose
to swell the city's populations; but,
though they help to increase the crowds
and turmoil of the streets, they do not,
as a rule, add much to its style. Indeed,
to tell the truth, there isn't any
really smart dressing here now. One al
ways sees, at every season of the year.
few conspicuous, badly gowned
women, who have no proper ideas as to
costume, but nearly all the women one
meets at present, are gotten up in some
sort of blazer suit. In fact it is safe to
say that good three-Quarters of us are
wearing blazer or Elton suits, either of
serge, duck or chambrag, according to
temperature and weather, and they are
probably as comfortable and apprOpri-
ate as anything one can get for city
USE. OF course, when the races