The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-21

Shelter Island. y. Y. July so.-As soon
rs one gets in a hotel. is condescended
10 by the head waiter. approved by the
proprietor and permitted 10 live by the
chambermaid. one is asked 20 contribute,
both by gifts and by ones presence. at
a fair for the benefit Of some thing IN the
village. The idea seems 70 be that city
people see nothing Of those swindles at
home. and that. when they get out in the
country. where the grass is green and the
natives pink. that they must get rid II
whatever innocence they have left and
help to cajoIe dollars out Of the pockets
OF the village young men and anything
else in the shape of man that may be
idiot enough 20 come when he is invited.
There is in every small village social
leader; she Is usually great believer IN
blood, and is happiest when she is tell
ing who her ancestors were. Then. TOO.
she is apt 10 be the result Of some IA
nous failure. That is 70 say. you will
be told, with bated breath, that mir.
own-Robinson went on Wall street one
day and just dropped 100000. and that
they were forced 10 give up their house
in the city. and they came out here 20
live. and she is just too sweet for any
thing" This is the way one Of her ad-
nirers talks. for naturally. she has enc
mics. Every woman does who is boss,
and this type invariably is.
But TO return to the bazaar. which no
body ever does who has any sense.
was invited 10 assist at the lemonade
table. I promptly declined. The joy Of
giving out the juice Of the fiery, untamed
lemon, is not unmixed In the first place
you are apt 10 spill It on your frock'
which means a stain thick with sugar
and shy on color. as acids and colors do
not harmouize. Then TO charge ten cents
for a small glass Of lemonade when the
whole bowl full didn't cost fifty, is too
much OF a cheat even for a city woman
10 give her countenance 20. Bazaar lem
onade Is made after this fashion; To two
gallons OF water put the juice Of hve
lemons. the Jumps OF two pounds OF sugar
and a piece of ice rather larger than Mr..
CleVeland's head. Then you beg all the
orange and lemon skins left over from
cakes and puddings. mince ana circulate
them through the fluid, and II Is ready to
be imbibed. Every time you take five
glasses Of lemonade out, you put In hve
Of water, and so by the end OF the even
ing the lemonade is innocuous. / re-
signed in favor Of a less conscientious
woman, and said that I would like 10 be
a walking delegate and so be able to see
the great fraud In all its perfection.
Following an English fashion, inaugu-
rated by Lady Rective. the prettiest girl
rs~s oh Hhn ~ 70
order on a gas stove, and sold as only
hot cakes can sell These varied in price.
Ten cents was demanded for an ordinary
cake, but il the amateur cake-maker put
in a little extra butter. then the price
was fifteen, and under no circumstances
was change given. rival TO the cake
maker was another girl who presided
over a gas stove on which was a ket-
tie of boiling water. For the moderate
st.rn OF fifty cents, this attractive young
cheat would write your name on an egg
and then drop il in the water, where IL
would boil until IL was as hard as her
heart. and then you could claim your
property.
The most sensible table was the
bag one. You could get a rub
Der bag for hot water or a brocade one
10 hold your opera glasses; you could get
a cotton bag for clothespins and a per-
fumed silk one for handkerchiefs. You
could get knitted string bag, a machine
made Jelly bag a highly ornamental rag
bag made Of blue and white ticking. and
decorated with red worsted in crazy
stitch, or you could get one OF those lovely
ship bags, called properly enough, COM
pactus, and which will hold securely all
the things you most want. Then there
were bags with almond meal in them for
your bath, and tiny bags filed with dried
rose leaves. In fact, there was every
~ Of fsanr IN IN hfara
TO hold the Doodle Of an alderman, and
which had no special use ascribed 70 il.
I advise anybody who wants 10 have a
sensible table at a fair TO get up this
kind.
Then there was a table which was a
very intellectual one; that is TO say, there
were allsorts and conditions of things
for sale, and for the sake Of the knowl-
edge you gained, you paid three times
the value Of anything you bought. The
claim was made that on the white pa
per used for wrapping there was printed
in gold letters, a quotation in harmony
with the article inside. For instance, a
dolls hat which brought a dollar. had
for its motto, Mine be the chip Of purest
white" while fine pocket handkerchief
was announced as TX is the kerchief, a
rare work of art and a pair Of gloves
were described as Pearl gray, a color
neat" Belts bore the motto, Her pass
port 10 hearts is a Delt around ner waist.
A richly dressed doll brought twice what
81 cost because on its wrapping was print
ed
who could live with a doll through its
locks should be curled,
AND its petticoats trimmed in the fash
ion?"
OF course, there were lots more. but this
will give you an idea as to how i was all
managed and II seems 10 me that there
were some clever ideas, well worth irni-
tating. After we had stolen all the money
we possibly could. and the rubbish had
been sold at auction, the tables were push
ed back. and It was announced that they
would finish up with dance.
/ love a dance, that is. I like 70
look at other people dancing. It
IS a CURIOUS thing, though, how
Few women dance well. don't
know what is the reason. unless, it is
that they don't wear well fitting shoes
For, instead Of the lovely glide. which
makes a woman look as If she were float
ing through the air, they indulge in a sort
of jiggle, the result OF short steps, and a
kind OF prance. But still 1t is fun TO sit
among the dowagers, and look at them all