Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-25
AI GAY NARRAGANSETT.
Bah VISITS THE PLEASURE RE-
SORT WHERE DIGNITY Is
THROWN TO THE
WINDS.

THE PROMENADE AND IN THE
/ ) u RF-FEET OF AMERICAN,
FRENCH AND ENGLISH WOMEN
A ROMANTIC STORY TOLD OF a
LADY IN THE TIME OF CHARLES
THE FIRST-THE CLUMSY SER
Want WHO DROPPED 4 BEAUTI-
| Full PLATTER-WHAT REALLY
/ CONSTITUTES STLYE- PRINCESS
METTERNICH AND MADAME
METTERNICH AND MADAME
RECAMER AS BEAUTIES-WH
JEWESSES HAVE A LIKING FOR
EAR-RINGS-A PORROT EMBAR-
RAISES JEWELLERS AT THE
PIER-HAVEN'T YOU ALL SEEN
THESE?
From Our Regular Correspondent
Narragansett Pier, August q, 1895.
This is the one watering place in the
/ country where even the swells, the eX>
/ tremely smart set, throw aside pro-
\ priety and enjoy themselves There
! seems to be something in the air that
eXciteS desire to be rampant. Moth,
ing else expresses il. The matron and
/ The maid, clothed in dignity and gowned
] quietly over at Newport, come here,
/ throw aside their dignity, put on
bright red frocks, and start out to have
| a good time. The historical Brass Band
no longer exists, for the beautiful and
/ gay Southern women who composed ii
/ are now steady-going matrOns more in
/ terested in small daughters and sons
\ than in acting like his satanic ma
/ jesty, and, to be slangy, raising Cain.
I q n d al fls IFS
| glory. Here no frock is too loud, or
100 extreme, not to harmonic with the
ocean and the people And here girls
who walk langudly through a dance at
some other place whirl about wildly
/ and vertically take steps.
/ THE OBSERVED OF ALL OBSERV~
ERS
/ this afternoon was a Boston girl, who
/ appeared in a bright crimson mohair
I frOck, a hat of crimson straw with
| white roses on il, white gloves, white
shoes and stockings and crimson silk
| paraSOl with an enormous white ribbon
| bow on it. And this came from Boston!
| Even its dignity gets lost some place
| between home and the hotel. The fad
| Just now is. oddly enough, not for bath
ing, not for dancing, not for driving,
| though an these are INDUCED in, but
for wading. The average American
| woman has handsome legs, and one or
/ TWO OF her who saw the French woman
wading az Trouville realized exactly
how coquettish it was and introduced
! The fashion here. 1t looks very naughty.
! It is the half-revealing, half-concealins
/ business which is always wicked, but
| fascinating. Mile. CoQuette starts out
| for a walk with her admirers. One is
ON each side of her, one walks in front
| carrying some of her belongings, and
another walks behind with her fan in
/ charge and sulky expression on his
1 face. Her ladyship is gowned in white
/ muslin with innumerable pale blue rib
/ bous and cascades Of laces, ripping all
over it. while her big leghorn hat has
up0n il q wreath of fOrge,-me-nots and
/ great blue ribbon bows. When the
water is reached she looks at the bath
ers for a while. realizes that they get
| their hair frightfully wet, risk break
ing their arms as they hang on rope,
and looks ugly, and she curls her lip
as she thinks how little they know OF
the real art of flirting. Then she hands
her parasol TO one man, takes OF her
! gloves and gives them to another, seats
/ herself ON a rock and permits the IA
yored one 10 unite her shoes. After
/ this she orders. with the air Of gen.
eraI this regiment to fall to the rear
and she takes off her shoes and stock
/ ings.
SHE GATHERS HER SKIRTS WELL
and walks into the briny deep. Hel
ankles are white and we'll turned, and
She holds her dress up just high enough
10 protect it from the water. She adj
v9nces. The water is to her ankles. ShC
! goes a little further, it is midway OF he'
legs. She sees q great wave coming
gives little cOquetish scream and runs
back 10 dry land to be received VIII
'oud praise about her bravery and adj
| mrat.on thar looks all that it thinks
! but doesn's say it.
The English woman seldom has hand
some ankles. The German woman pos
sesses thick. short stumpy appendages
that i- is q shame 10 call by a civiliZe
name. The French woman has a we'll
sh9pad foot. without a blemish, a small
/ ankle. a high instep. but above the ankle
there is not a curve which beauty de-
! m9nds. and which the American pos
scsses to- perfection. A woman asked
> me. by letter. TO tell again little ro-
/ nance that I told of years ago. ! re-
cited it 10 the girl who waded this after
noon. and now ] viii give it 20 You. i
is q story about q lady and her beauti-
ful white legs. and how they stood her
4 1or eh a xtrpG n
When King Charles the First was fight
inc Cromwell and learning to his sor-
row that Oullys could beat gentlemen
/ the oldest daughter of very loya
/ house forgot herself and fell in love with
/ q neighb0r. who was a Puritan.
| LOVE TRIUlIPHED OVER POLITICS
and 1ocksmi.hs. and these two were wed
/ often of q night the little lady would
! wrap herself up in her cloak, and at
srnjed by her maid, who was in the Sc
cra- would steal 70 the place where mel
/ husband was garr.soned and spend th'
NIGHT there. At last blabbing soldier
/ reDcr-ed this gentleman was beng
visited by closely-clOaked figures, anC
he believed. because his captain was
weU-b~ed man and many of his family
were ROvalists, that he might have tn'
-airt of ROYALTY TO the king still in him
and that these visitors might be spies
Very quickly Cromwell sent soldiers to
watch. The second night after their ar
rival the shrouded figures entered. Inc
soldiers waited for an hour and ther
l-noclyed 81. the door and demanded ad'
! nilsson. The captain refused it, \
| +hrsst was made that the door would be
broken down. Then the captain said
"You know there is no way by whicf