The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-24
NARRAGANSETT
PIER GOSSIP
Moist Weather IntGrfGrGS with TOINttRS
Of the Fair Sex.
MEN ARE A DECIDED NOVELTY
In a Week or Two the Season
Will Be Fairly on.
MEN ARE A DECIDED NOVELTY
THE SEMI WEEKLY HOP

NARR RRAGANSETT PIER, July "a
The weather here has been variable, al
most too damp and moist for the fair
sex TO don their choicest CONNECTIONS OF
chiffon and lace and fllmy things
though to be sure they may have an
entirely different reason for holding
back their most fetching frocks. AS yet
the season has hardly set in, some of the
hotels having the most forlorn and de-
serted look and men being a decided
novelty. few of them being seen even at
the Casino.
The beach looks fairly gay. but later
in the season when the coryphees come
dancing down in all the glory of abbrev-
lated skirts and men Of stalwart build
and blase air stretch their length along
the sand, their gayly hued bathing cos
tunes lending color to the scene, the
place Will outrival Trouvile. These men
by the way, seem TO derive more pleas
ure in lolling on the beach taking in the
manifold charms Of the same coryphees
which their brief skirts so generously
display than In the splendid bathing for
which the place has become famous.
In week or two Narragansett Pier
will TEEN with life for there will flock
beautiful girls from Baltimore, fair
maids from Philadelphia, smart girls
from New York. bonnie lasses from
Providence, and intellectual sirens from
Boston, beauties all as Edgar Saltus
puts ii with arms of satin and lips of
silk, ready for conquest, eager for ad-
miration and dressed like French dolls.
Lucky indeed, are the men who can
spend season at Narragansett Pier.
Their eye for the beautiful Will be graft
fed IL nothing more.
There has been a semi-weekly Casino
hop with an occasional dance at the hc-
tells to enliven the season thus far.
Many we'll known Providence people
were seen last week at the Casino and
elsewhere. Among them were noticed w.
r. Taft, c. Fred Cooper, John f. Law
ton, Mrs. George II. Slade and son. Mr..
and Mrs. William G. Baker, d. l.. d.
Granger. Mrs. George A. Brug c. II.
Hidden, w. V. Hidden. Thomas Gaines.
accompanied by his family Louis c.
Newman, G. III. Blake, II. +. Campbell
DIR. II. p. Keefe. ]. w. Clark, Mrs A. Il.
Potter. c. Il. Wing. DR. D. F. Keefe,
Miss Sarah l.. Sayles, Mrs. +. G.. Radeke
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Ames. George II.
Bunce and family, w. Fred Hazelron.
lou A. O. Banding. T.. ID. McGuinness.
Jessie Metcalf, II. A. Hidden, James r.
Angel and family.
1t is whispered that Mr.. and Mrs. Oil
yer Iselin (Mrs. Iselin was beautiful
Hope Goddard). will put In an appear
ance In their yacht, The Hope" early
in August. Mrs. Iselln is quite as good a
seaman as her gallant husband and
could easily man yacht herself In an
emergency, in fact many OF the smart
American women are becoming expert
sailors and take great pride in display
Ing their nautical skill Mrs. Royal
Phelps Carroll. who was noted for her
beauty as Miss Marion Langdon being
especially fond OF yachting. and who ac-
companied her husband on very peril
Gus voyage across the Atlantic a couple
OF years ago. is one OF them.
Since | am speaking OF yachts / am
reminded that the Gould family owes
whatever social prominence they may
have obtained entirely 10 owning
yacht. a racing yacht which brought
Brother George" to the notice Of II. r.
H.. the Prince Of Wales, who gave him
his royal hand to shake and whose roy-
al and experienced eye detected beauty
in Mrs George, thereby setting the seal
OF approval on all the Goulds as being
eligible 10 what Is known as society.
The George Goulds are In Paris at pres
ent, but for some unaccountable reason
the Count and Countess Castellane are
not entertaining them, they having sail
ed away on their yacht with some Eng
lish visitors directly Mr. and Mrs.
George arrived. The ways or French
counts with rich American wives are
like Bret Hartes Heather Chinee." pc
culiar.
Mr.. De Forest Danielson OF Provi.
dence. who married Mrs. Billy Otis of
Boston, and who now resides there with
his wife IL spending the summer at
Newport and is seen with his handsome
wife on Bellevue avenue on horseback
every pleasant day. and as they both
have fine mounts they AFFORD keen de-
light % lovers OF fine equestrianship.
Miss Bessie Clark Of New York is
guest at the Narragansett house in
Providence.
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