The evening times., 1895-09-04
ounaer slsA<,'. baby show .. A.Dury

Founder Bradiey's baby show at Asbury
Park.
There was no, flower parade last year.
No one can swear that there will be one
this year, but undoubtedly the pretty Gus
tom will be revived. On some date not yet
fixed, but pfobably between the 18th and
goth of September, abeut forty carts Of
various sorts. rcompletely ecked with
golden rod, shcavcs of wheat. ferns, flow
ers, autumn leaves and other ornaments,
will form Inline on the village street and
slowly passinp and down before the eyes
OF onlookers. Only women take part In
the parade Aiiss Lila Sloane may lead
the line this year by virtue of her beauty.
youth and popularity, or Miss Kate Carey,
VINO has. In addition TO other gifts, the
repute of being the best driver in Lcnox.
Flower parade or none, how the girls
are goIfIng. The new sport is as great a
rage here as 1t was in New York and Bar
Harbor. The course lies south of the town
and covers something Ike two miles.
There ls no clubhouse as yet, only a few
small tents at the various putting grounds
and patent ake-to-pieces- s-and-put-up-
again house at the home green The course
Is q rather easy one naturally but some
artificial distractions warranted TO spoil
any but the most lovely temper have given
1t respectable degree of difficulty Golf
ing claims the attention of a number of
girls not conspicuous as horsewomeD,
such as Constance and Gertrude Parsons,
Miss Davis, the Misses Sands, Miss Nary
Honeymoon and Miss Ives.
Club life in Lenox is modest and unafsum-
ing. The LeE0x club house is q quiet little
dwelling near tie pOstoffice, neither large,
imposing nor much freQuentcd On ordinary
occasions. Inddcd, all places of public
resort in Lcncx arc of little account in ap-
pcarance The rostoffioe is TRY, the rail-
way station is not only very null but ridicu-
lously shabby. The people who rfe it
doubtless perfer 1t 70. They Could easily
caused II to be charged II they wi.hed.
The boat club house ON the lake is a triile
smarter, but By 10 means large Canoeing,
rowing and sailing are praciiced, and,
though the lake Is about nile long, there
is to be O regatta during the month for the
Stokes cup.
OF course the best club ie called the
Lake Mah-Kee-Nac This is faf1iy fnir
to the old name of the "stockbridgc Bowl"
which really gave the region its vogue, and
deserves better treatment. Mr.. William
d. Curtis. who has been in Lenox Fince
1859, says that even at that date few
..smart" people had begun coming to
Ienox ard the Berkshire hills, attracted
doubtless by what had been written of the
life there of the people like Holmes,
Bryant, Longfellow. Mrs. sigour ney,
Mrs. Mariipeau. Fanny Kemble Mrs sedg-
wick, Hawthorne, Fanny Fern. N. P. Willis,
G. W. Curtis, David Dudley Field, Herman
Melville, G. p. R. James, Fields, Dewey,
Holland, Sumner. Bellows, Evarts,
Beecher. Phillips Brooks, Winthrop,
Emo rson, Sargent, Lowell, Thoreau-
really the list is long enough To estab-
lish for the istockbridge Bowl, which was
what all these people called it, a fame
something like that of the English lake
district.
And a pretty name IT is, and We'll ii de-
scribes the rounded contour of the lake and
the way in which it nestles deepdown among
the green bills.
One doesn't hear much in Lenox OF mar
ried women golfing or rowing or trampinS
or cycling. though the daughters OF the rich
have taken TO the wheel with enthusiasm,
riding in tan leggings, with lehigh
skirts, never in boomers. The passion OF
the women of niaturer years at the moment
is for collecting colonial furniture ana ''auld
knick -knoc kets'' for the furnishing of
their stately homes, which are usually in
the colonial style. All Western Massachu
sets is rich in colonial examples, being a
long settled, prosperous and httle-ciians.
ing community. ! should say that Edward
II. jennings has as fine a collection of CO.
loDiai wares as there is in the country.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and President Cleve-
land have taken $4,000 worth each OF
colonial furniture out OF Berkshire County,
for Newport and Gray Gables. Anson
Phelps Stokes has IN his great house many
colonial rooms, and one Dutch rom, with
painted side walls and ceiling, which is the
wonder of those privileged TO see it.
There is little trace OF the literary col