The morning times., 1896-06-14
DRINKING SONGS.
Fancies for Beguiling the Glass at
SAratOXA

girls OF New York came out with {
volume OF original poems and Miss Sloan
and other OF the Vanderbilt daughters com
piled their books of religious verse tn,
fancy for getting into print through bOOl
OF little rhymes has spread.
Its newest form is that of the summe
drinking song, and if the glasses of tn,
summer girl keep pace with the verse;
that are being written for her she viii
become the paragon of perfection which
summer spring water is supposed to make
The songs are not for the glass convivial
like mans drinking songs, by any means
but for the cup of sparkling spring watel
| that cheers because II is such very gOot
| thing for the health. The Saratoga cir
has her rhymes, also the Newport, the Rich
field and the girls OF the other resorts
Each place has its own poetic fancy. To
| collect these is the present hobby.
One of these drinking songs OF summer
| is written for the Saratoga girl, and il
| was the work of a girl VI bO goes there every
| summer. 1t is the Poetic Album of
| very extreme girl who copies all the new
things with much gusto. and its lines run
| very Well considering that they are anna
flourish effort. They should be pasted upon
the fan OF every girl who goes out for
her early morning glass of water.
SARATOGA DRINKING SNOG.
Up in the morning gray and cool,
For a cup OF sparkling water,
The spring is Lethe. crisp and clear,
And l her daring daughter.
| In thy depths. cup, is foreetfulness;
Drink and remember naught.
A God given draught for the summer girl
With the havoc she has wrought.
But in the depths of thy bubbling cup,
One thing leaves thou for me,
take, If thou canst all else away,
But memory Of summer and thee!
The way to manage good spring
water drinking song is to paste il in ones
album-very neat little books come now for
poetic effusions. as they used to i'll the days
of Fanny FerD-and To carry it To the
spring on the early morning excursions.
After few minutes at the little tables.
when morning talk begins to lag. the little
book is brought out and the poems read.
If musically inclined few bar can be
written around them and the summer
Thinking song poem becomes n popula {,
song indeed.
In summer there are numerous bellies at
Richfieid Springs. They come from all
parts of the country and from all I he world
to taste its fluids for rheumatism, COM
plexion and tired ills. Even English girls,
with Carlsbad near them, come across
the water for the Richfield cures. Every
summer you can find them there They
like the American good times while getting
well.
Last summer a party of these young
and pretty society "invalids' got together
and scribbled down their sentiments line
by line, preserving the rhyme al well as they
could. There were six in the party.
Each wrote a line and the little tablet
Travelled around three times. This spring
one or the girls took the little forgotten
tablet, and copying the lines regularly,
sent II to all the other five, asking them TO
be present this summer at the annual re
union" OF the six. The Tired Club" they
called themselves last summer. This year
they will be the Poetic Six" The lines
without alteration as written by the six run:
TO THE RICHFIELD CUP.
OF dancing and flirting
I'm sick.
OF the whole sad world
I'm tired.
Say, clear little glass, dost thou know
A spot where sweet buttercups grow?
Thou'rt up from the fresh
Young earth.
Thou'rt bubbling yet
With its mirtb.
Say. little glass, wilt thou whisper to me
A place where l can be happy as thee?
Thou'lt heal. oh yes, but l asked
Thee more.
Wilt thou spirit as well as
Body restore?
Say, little spring, wilt thou bring back
The gladness had when i froiicked with
thee?
These little verses, however simple,
brought envy to the mind OF a Newport
girl whose summer cure. like all the New
port peoples consists in taking the waters,
luwardly as well as outwarily. Fresh
from the ocean the. glasses are brought
and drunk down.
why" said this Newport girl, I'VE had
a song. drinking song, last summer in the
Casino that was prettier than that. We
used to sing il while we put down our daily
glass of cold salt water. You didn't know
it was recommended for tired nerves, did
you? Well IL is, and we made as merry
as we could over it. We called our song
The Ne wport Salt Sea Song
NEWPORT SALT SEA SONG.
One swallow for beauty, one for love;
Ab, love has a bitter taste,
Ee:,rty and love 20 hand in hand;
Ofttimes with a wOful face.
This cup is like a hitier-sweet;
fcu take II, il does you good;
Bat, like the taste of your bitter-sweet
IL must be understood.
One swallow, too, three, nd four five six;
Six swallows make one whole cup,
T:''s swallow for beauty, that for love;
And so we drink il upI
One very ambitious young woman is
I1aEing a collection Of these summer drink
ing songs, with view to putting them in
book form, with her name upon the cover.
Original poems are TO be added, and the
Drinking Songs of Summer will make n
Pretty volume.
Several artistic devices have been Thought |
u for decorating the summer rooms with |
tlcfc songs. One of these is to print them |
IL gold, dashed in big letters, upon large |
;Gpanese fans. and to fasten them against |
the wall, behind the afternoon tea table, |
upon which there is always spring water |
1t q summer watering place. Another'is |
10 letter glasses with verses from the |
drinking songs. Spring water pitchers |
4an also have their rhyme.
Al Sc only pretty summer notion, but it
,.s in it much tina. is poetic and less that
!. :'!c than most OF the follies of the hot |
? Cn.bs. HELEN WARD.
An Admirable Hotel.