The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-06

Russell and Miss Margaret Metz recently
Joined Miss vreeland at the Metropolitan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Davis and family
are at the Gramercy.
Mr.. j. S. Coward, of Bayonnei is at the
Brunswick.
Mr.. F. M. Price and Mr.. George B. Ack-
erson spent Sunday at the Coleman
House
The Misses shaper are staying at the
Victoria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry MacBride, Miss
Jean MacBride and Miss Lucy MacBride
are at the Hotel Columbia, Asbury Park,
where they will remain the rest of the
season.
Mrs. Alexander Reid, Miss Anna J. Ell
lis and Mr.. Vernon Ellis are at the Sea
Side Hotel; Ocean Grove.
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1t would seem as If the whole Cuban
colony Of New York had migrated to
Long Branch for the summer. With
these people it's greatly a case of
whittier thou goest I will go, and
whittier thou lodgest I will lodge" AS
soon as one Cuban family decides to go to
a place for the summer, that place be-
comes the rendezvous for all their coun-
try1nen. All HI hotels and boarding
houses here are being patronized by these
delightful people, and 1t is refreshing to
take a seat on any of the pavilions along
the ocean front and watch them. The
women are, of course, most interesting,
and sometimes one has to wonder II they
know what rights they make of them
selves. Cuban women by gaslight and by
sunlight are very different. The first
softens their beauty and shields their de-
fects: but the sunlight is not kind to
their much powdered faces. But 1T Is
their abandon and vivacity which are SO
refreshing. Literally unconscious of the
smudge of powder on her nose or ear the
Cuban girl will fescinate in spite OF 1t.
she makes even the American girl seem
stiff and conventional. She comes to the
4 pavilion escorted either by a chaperon or
an elderly gentleman, kisses her compan-
ions on bsth cheeks, and then follows a
chatter, chatter, which. in its utter unaf-
| f-ectedness, is simply delightful, and, in
congruous as it may seem, is restful.
Another race from warmer and foreign
cliines is the Turkish, who, unlike the
Cubans. come there for business, not
pleasure. Hundreds of these frequent the
Jersey coast resorts every summer, and
unload their bags of beautifully embroid-
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teresting women folk. The are wonder
fully patient.
The other day a faxen-haired Jersey
City boy, OF small proportions. went up
to one of these peddlers, a white bearded
man, of unusually large physique, ana
asked him what he had in the pack on his
back.
pretty things" answered the Turk.
rs your name Santa CLAUSE" asked the
boy.
mo, Mohammed," was the reply.
Pleasure Bay Park draws crowd from
the adjoining towns every evening. Among
those there last Saturday were
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Young, the
Misses Young and Mr.. and Mrs. Under
hill.
The ocean drive is very popular for
those in carriages as well as those Wheel
ing. MRS. Livingstone Clifford and her
little daughter drive almost every fine
| afternoon. while among those wheeling
have been Mr.. Ed. Wooiiey and son, and
Miss Ida May Demarest. who are staying
| at Asbury Park.
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Mr.. and Mrs. George Cole Of Arlington
avenue nave taken a cottage at Asbury
Park for the summer.
Mr.. Adna H. Underhil is spending his
vacation at Narragansett Pier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Allaire and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Meyer and family are spend
| ing August in the Catskills, back of
Cornwall.
Miss Laura Dawson of Clerk street has
| been spending a few lays with her mother
at New Brunswick. Her sister Margaret
Is visiting relatives in Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas II. williams are
| spending the summer at Brielle:
DR.. Benjamin Edge is at Brielle.
Mr.. and MRS. r. s. sebring are staying
at Brielle.
MI. Charles D. Horning and Mr.. Thos.
Purcell are at the oxford, A~von-by-the-
Sea.
Mrs. william B. Taylor, her two chill
dren, Harold and La Rue, and her sis
tiers, Miss Minnie Strausser ana Miss
AIDA strausser, have gone to Maui
istique, Michigan, via Niagara Falls and
the steamer Beull through the lakes.
They viii remain until the middle of Sep
TENDER.
Mi. John Glenn Of Exchange place will
| leave town tomorrow for Cape Vincent
| for j fishing trip. He hopes to catch
enough to supply his friends with suckers
| for a week or more.
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