The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-09-01

members Of the fashionable set are
practicing this season with great vigor,
which is the bestowal Of their patron
age on questionable resorts. Nothing
is a severer drain on a family purse, as
every head of a house knows, than
sending ones wife and daughters to the
smart mountain or seaside resorts; and
yet it was with fears and tremblings
hard-pushed husbands have asked for
some scheme for the reduction Of this
expense. Of course, there is Europe al
ways to be thought Of for economy;
one can go to some tiny French, Eng
ish; or German town and "do'' on moth
ing at all. But, after all, little CONT
mental and English towns are deadly
dull for a prolonged stay; and the daz-
cling idea Of testing picturesque little
New England villages, that occurred to
a few thoughtful persons, has seemed
to solve the problem. The hotel keep
ers Of Newport, Narragansett Pier and
Bar Harbor, watch in vain their regu-
lar patrons, who are playing tennis on
the green commons Of villages tucked
away in Massachusetts hills, attending
quaint old Congregational churches on
Sundays and identifying the characters
in Mary Wilkins books.
To the hopelessly frivolous-minded
there may seem at first no chance for
anything but desperately dull exist
ence in these out-of- th-way hooks; but
wholesome pleasure and gayety in
abundance is to be found by the happy
hearted, society girl, who is determined
to have it, even on a desert island.
eve improve our minds, for one
thing explained very rosy-cheeked
maiden who flashed into town in
Bingham gown for a days shopping.
1--WE study wild flowers, for example.
I am staying in a dear old colonial
house that looks out on the common,
and go for walks in the fields with a
regular artists outfit. In my portfolio
I carry big sheets of drawing paper,
on which, in outline, are New England
wild flowers. look up the blossom to
match in form the drawn outline, and
then with my water colors I fill in the
little drawing according to the tints of
the real flower; and so I learn a lot
about field flowers and water colors at
the same time. Most of the girls make
collections Of pressed flowers; we do
great deal Of exercise with gilf: and we
fish, and walk as much as EnglishWom-
en- are supposed to.
Men! Oh, we never want for men.
You see, the city men love to come up
and stay over Sunday, because nobody
expects them to wear anything but
fannels and loungs about. It rests
them after the hard weeks work, and
all formality is dispensed with. Then,
you see, those little villages are always
the haunt of summering artists charm
ing, unconventional creatures-who
paint one in all sorts of graceful poses,
tons, teach one how to dabble in water
colors, and dance delightfully."-. We
dance lots at the quaint country balls
ers in our hair, like regular village
belles-Lady Washington's reel, Money
Musk, jolly square dances and the rest
of it-and the farmers wives, daughters
and sons, and have supper in the kitch-
Ell. There are about a dozen Of the
smartest girls staying in our village
girls who are wonderfully topping and
exclusive in town, and who usually go
abroad or to Newport in the summer.
They are going to introduce the country
dances next WINTER IN new 1OrK, ana
say this season is really the jolliest
they ever spent. Funny, isn't it? And
we live fourteen miles from a railroad,
but think the stage drive the best part
OF the fun Society Fads," in Demon
est's Magazine.
Floral Decorations for Fireplaces.
1t is no longer the fashion save in
certain exceptional cases-where the
CRATE and mantelpiece are particularly
hideous, for instance-to conceal our
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