Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-25

Special Correspondence of eazstto and Journal
SHELTER ISLAND, N. ", July 19.-As
soon as one gets in hotel, is conde.
scended to by the head waiter, approved
by the proprietor and permitted TO live
by the chambermaid, one is asked to
contribute, both by gifts and ones pres.
ence, at a fair for the benefit of some-
thing In the village. The idea seems to
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 Of whatever innocence they
have left and help cajole dollars out Of
the pockets of the village young men
and anything else in the shape of man
that may be idiot enough to come when
he is invited. There Is in every small
village social leader; she is usually a
great believer in blood. and is happiest
when she is telling who her ancestors
were. Then, too, she is apt TO be the re.
suit OF some famous failure. That is to
say, you will be told, with bated breath,
that "Mr. Brown Robinson went on
Wall street one day and just dropped
three millions of dollars, and that they
were forced to give up their house in the
city, and they came out here to live, and
she Is just too sweet for anything"
This is the way one of her admirers
talks, for, naturally, she has enemies.
Every woman does. who is boss, and
this type invariably is.
BAB's BAZAAR INVITATION.
But to return to the bazaar, which no.
body ever does who has any sense.
was Invited to assist at the lemonade
table. l promptly declined. The Joy
OF giving out the juice of the fiery, I'M
famed lemon, is not unmixed. In the
first place you are apt to spill il on your
frock. which means a stain thick with
sugar and shy on color, as acids aud
colors do not harmonic, Then to
charge ten cents for a small glass of
lemonade when the whole bowl full
didn't cost fifty, is too much of cheat
even for a city woman to give her
countenanee to. Bazaar lemonade is
made after this fashion; To two gallons
of water put the juice of five lemons,
the Jumps OF two pounds of sugar aud 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 buildings, mince and
circulate them through the fluid, and il
is ready to be imbibed. Every time you
take five glasses of lemonade out, you
put in five of water, and so by the end
of the evening the lemonade is in.
nocuous. | resigned in favor of less
conscientious woman, and said that |
would like to be walking delegate and
y SO be able to see the great fraud in all
its perfection.
Following an English fashion, in
augura.ed by Lady Beehive, the pref.
test girl sold griddle cakes, which she
made to order on gas stove, and sold
ne only hot cakes can SELL These varied
In price. Ten cents was demanded for
an ordinary cake, but il the amateur
cnkelnaker put In little extra butter,
then the price was TO-, and under no
circumstances was change given. A
rival to the cakemaker was another girl
who presided over gas stove on which
was kettle of boiling water. For the
moderate sum of so cents this attractive
young cheat would write your name on
an egg and then drop il in the water,
where ii would boil until it was as hard
as her heart, and then you could claim
your property.
THE MOST SENSIBLE TABLE
was the bag enc. You could get a rub.
Der bag for hot water, or brocade one
to hold your opera glasses; you could
get cotton bag for clothespins and a
perfumed silk one for handkerchief.
Your could get knitted string bag.
machine-made jelly bag, highly orna-
mental 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, compactus, 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
filled with dried rose leaves. In fact.
there was every sort of bag, clear up
TO one big enough to hold the Doodle of |
an alderman, and which had no special
use ascribed to it. | advise anybody
who wants to have sensible table at a
fair to get up this kind.
Then there was table which was a |
very intellectual one; that is 10 saw,
there were all sorts and conditions OF |
things for sale, and for the sake of the |
knowledge you gained, you paid three |
times the value of anything you bought |
The claim was made that on the white |
paper used for wrapping, there was
printed, in gold letters, a quotation in
harmony with the article inside. For
instance, a dolls hat which brought
dollar, had for its motto, mime be the
chip of purest white" while a fine
pocket handkerchief was announced
as * is the kerchief, rare work az
art" and pair of gloves were de.
scribed as Pearl gray, color neat"
Belts bore the motto, "Her passport TO
hearts is a belt round her waist.n 4
richly dressed dyll brought twice what
1t cost because on its wrapping was
printed,
Who could live with doll though its
locks should be curled
And its petticoats trimmed in the fashion
OF course, there were lots more, but
this will give you an idea as to how it
was all managed, and il seems to me
that there were some clever ideas, well
worth initiating. After we had stolen
all the money we possibly could, and
the rubbish had been sold at auction, the
tables were pushed back, and il was an
nounced that they would finish up with
o dance.
LOVE A DANCE.
That is, l love to look at other people
dancing. II isa curious thing, though,
how few women dance we'll. don't
know what Is the reason, unless il is
that they don't were well-fittng shoes.
For, Instead of the lovely glide which
makes woman look as il she were
a