Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-08

The water really never gets warm enough
for bathing. but there are wonderful still
reaches for canoes which somehow will
always balance just right with neither one
For three inmates. And there is noun
tain TO climb where Newport has none.
and there is a fresh water lake or pond
near the salt, and fishing and almost a
taste OF wild life at command. and there
are buckboards wherewith to storm the
neighborinS country in the most approved
fashion. The Bar Harbor blackboard is
every one tries il once.
Besides there are the great Maine woods
very near, and there have been tales told
of deer SO plentiful and tame that they
are Veritable nuiSars ~ about the farmers
premises. And the glorious 18th Of August
Is at hand. when people who have schoole1
themselves to reckon time after the English
calendar feel that II Is the season to be
thinking about killing something.
OF course, there is not in Bar Harbor
one or those great palaces which call them
selves cottages" where Newport has five,
but the houses, because newer, are far
prettier and in better taste. And the So
ctety is a fine compound of the aristocratic
reserve of Newport and the democratic
sayety of Saratoga There are no nicer
people in the world than those who come
here. judged even BY the society standard.
but they seem under these less conventional
skies to have shaken off something Of the
Newport dread that some one not in the
holy of HOLES of the ~ may meet one on
the street.
Bar Harbor is more like Newport than
Saratoga in its frank athleticism. The
canoeing giri-this La her stronghold. The
golfing siri-she is everywhere. like her
cycling sister. The Bar Harbor girl wears
her gown loose but well fitting. She has
no use for the eighteen-iDch waist Even
look, and the thought Of them reminds
me that We are to have this year a welcome
return OF broader, shorter-tOed shoes And
really, the toothpick designs were becoming
frif for hlnlY
taste.
l have spoken of the aquatic girl The
prettiest canoeing gown ! have Seen-bet-
ter suited for being padded than for pad
ding ones own canoe. hoWever-iS a skirt
Of fine blue serge with a bodice Of white
cloth daintily embroidered with gold cord
in oak leaves This opens in front Like q
zouave jacket. though IL Is belted more
like Norfolk. to show a pleat Of the serge
sTnartened with little pearl buttons. The
white cloth Is carried out over the Shout
ders with Its lines Of gold, and there are
fine pipelines of white down the seams Of
the skirt and upon the lower sleeves, which
il not new. Somehow. this bell-muzzled
sleeve seems inappropriate TO canoeing, Il
looks so easy of entrance for the water
which will run back down the paddle
handle if you lift the blade
There in somewhat absurd practice of
wearing ones belt buckled tightly around
the waist outside the blouse. An odd Co.'S
TUNE in this questionable sort is a dove-gray
alpaca, whose bodice is gathered blouse
fashion IN font and back and decorated
with steel ornaments. The front breadth
of the skirt is fenced OFF from the rest,
apron fashion with double bands of steel
jet ana a narrow line of black satin be-
tween There are side pieces Of white
about the sleeves. rather odd effect, the
wide white sash-Eke belt has a long end
falling behind. and up the inside Of the
arm and across the bust runs extremely
line. close p!eating. The appearance is
rather odd. but not at all dtspieasn8.
he na 10 I'D r.r n
far as its final Shape Ii concerned. 1t 10
surely coming. yet its precise nature differs
so much that II is hard TO say whether the
prevailing type will finally be such a sleeve
as i have just Described. where the arm
shape Is outlined by trarsyerse pIeating
down the inside. or by tight sleeves with
the cape oyerSIseyes nOunCed and furbe-
lowed with lace. or the elbow sleeve slash
ed deep 10 show tight undersieevs to the
wrist, or the odd. ugly sleeve which begins
In huge bell at the wrist runs tighI 10
four inches above the elbow and thsn ex-
pands into an absurd little fat puff AT the
lop-
Combinations Of BLACK and white are held
to be very modtsh. Even in flannel goods
one sees them. The combination Of black
and white flannel. the skirt white, the bod
ice black. but much toned down with an
applique OF white embroidery. The pouch
front undor the jacket white and the belt a
bow-tisd black ribbon-that 10 an oddly
matron who 10 resolved not TO be a-coid
along toward evening.
black and white siuk Is moro conven-
tional. 1t has this ugly puff-top sleeves.
with the bsii-n,uzzlss at the wrists yoiley-
ing smoke OF lace. and thsrs are black silk
tabs on the bust and shoulders and q wide,
wide black silk bs3t, perhaps to atone for
the fact that the hnss Of biank IN this ma
terials Of the gown itssif are quite thin and
not very Lear together. The inner bodice
front Is white chiffon covered with dotted
lace. and there - yet other lace In p-ofu-
sion about the jacket and the collar.
The shade hat IL omniprsssat and onnnip.
otent. Its might there II none to dispute,
II rejoIcss In trimming Of flowers or
plumes, and svea tulis quilting Of ths ear