New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-06
HOME AND SOCIETY.
art, WOMEN AT SUMNER RESORTS.
srerRBAN PLAcE-THE AUTUMN FASHIONS
N paRIs-HINTs on CURRY.

pARIS-HINTS ON CURRY.
-, sisacree with you entirely. said the cxpa.ri-
,,erican Because have liked my home
'leu con think am prcjudiced against my coun-
s oo". but I'm not. simply see them with
nv nr,,ical eyes and listen TO them with more
",.o1 ears than once possessed
ca your more critical eyes ana ears AZ sym
90 &c they used to be-" rctorted the speakers
pr,on They were discussing the American
o".,g-nace on their meeting once more after
oraton of some years. They were seated In
,saies' dining room of one of the great New
" clubs and they looked like women who knew
bereof they spoke
VIZ W, r more sympathetic than used 10 be-" said
. srst speaker. bat sympathy won't do away
N any of the facts of broad perspective rCr
Va broad perspecti,, soften the facts of life.
w. I'll tell YOU wha. happened when went down
40 nv sister at her place, The Oaks. the other
~ our letters had crossed and did not know.
ssore that she had left the seashore for Lenox.
s, a friend Mrs n, who was also leaving. and
-. sbut ND her house 50. as We wanted to be to-
.,sr for a little while, we chaperoned one another
y, uent TO the hotel There began TO revise my
'a,nions of the American women l had once
Tfnh, ,nneccable. The first night went In to
n,rer we naturally wore the simplest black silks
- had in our trunks. The women beside us were
.,,v explosive in crimson tulle and yellow sat
~ inquired of the head waiter if there was 10
Of those lunacieS tnat hotclS eau nops, put
=. said no and as my eyes wandered over the
,seons costumes in the big room. | wondered
20, they were for. Later l found out. Those
ren sat out on a huge vcranda i'll their silks and
.,,rs their decoete necks. their diamonds and
heir feathers with the air of those girls who
'.,.ae for Won at Paquin's while you study the
srssses they wear but that their employer is going
"a conv for YOU or sell TO you outright.
.Tbese women looked like secondhand fashion
,,l,t hay locke od'
n a ballroom they were made to seem dowdy I'M
a., the pickering electric lights and with a foggy
hreezs playng about their shivering threats. Some
~ the men were II evening dress. but others were
IN blazers The latter. / thought had some sense.
fol"
Now. there you forgetting Yourself inter-
,sc,ed her listener why should not all the men
have worn evening dress. Would you have your nus
hand sit down TO dinner in fannels?
"xo,ee,se,' replied the other You know that
tsr't what mean. What am driving at is that in
q miscellaneous hotel where all sorts OF company,
transient and otherwise. is mixed unfortunately
around the table d'hote. It is pure ahectaton and
Rad taste and nonsense to put on your best clothes
The men might ] grant you that; but woman in
silks who brings into the dilmg-room of a summer
hotel the dress she would wear at n NewYork ball
IN midwiner IS simply out of her mind
sraakaby vulgar. that's all. on the whole be-
psye it's vugarty and I'll tell YOU why. Imprimis.
ssl sat on the veranda and studied them could
hear their voices whether they were two feet away
or twenty"
Stuff" pu. in the housekeeping American. Now
YOU are talking English prejudice. which you've
picked up in London
Don't be absurd Fanny" observed her friend.
with some severity 1T doesn't require prejudice TO
know that a woman who shouts her private affairs
and her gossip to the sixty or seventy people on a
public veranda is making fool of herself. How
ever the main point is this: When II o'clock came
they all. and women. excepting the men in
blazers started off in high excitement to the ball
at the club. The club, you know. is a private af-
fair but strangers are admitted spectators, and
NAV even dance II they come in evening dress and
pay dollar at the door. Fancy awaiting yourself
Of that privilege, My friends cousin. Teddy w.
came round and made us dress and go with him.
He said lot Of people we knew were sure TO be
there So we went Then saw my decorative alb
surdities OF the hotel veranda. They didn't know a
soul They had TO dance with save them
selves. They snubbed. and quite rightly. /
thought by the regular subscribers of the club
They were like fish out of water. and vet they
seemed to enjoy it, Next day l came home.
couldn't breathe the air with those people another
hour Why? Because they are intrinsically vu-
gar. They go to fashionable watering place be-
cause the cottagers have made it fashionable. They
know nothing of the real society Of the place. They
ut all day reading the newspaper reports OF dances
and dinners they never see they gossip about
their betters when they are not reading about them,
they talk as though they were Intimately acquaint
Cd with a life which they would give heap OF
their disgusting money TO get even glimpse of.
they talk in ear-splitting tones. they wear costly
costumes which are ridiculous a summer hotel
veranda. and they go where they are not wanted.
natterng themselves that because they can dance
IN the same room with swclldom for a dollar they
are part Of swedom themselves Ugh"
Josephine" said the woman who had been lis
tening TO this speech. "Josephine. and there was
soemnity in her voice What on earth do you
mean? Why never heard you talk such down.
right snobbishness; really. you must forgive me.
but no other word will suit. Why where IL Your
Americansm gomez
"Americanism fddesticks." rejoined the critical
What has that got to do with good taste ana
good manners? You know I'm not snobbish; you
kow would turn my back on any one who was
That's why turn my back on the Summer resort
American women of that particular kind. They
seem to me the vugarest and most complete snobs
ever knew
What delightful variety II would give TO subur-
ban villages IL the owner of every small place
would aim at having it garden picture In ITSELF
not a mere repetition of those about It, There Is
no greater or more essential charm of a garden
than that 1t should stand alone and be original