Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-09-01

peclai Correspondence OF Gazette ana Journal
Narragansett Pier, Il. t., Aug. %. -
the chief products Of this point are
khisky and water. Tho water is for the
kirls to batho in, and the whisky Ia
se.nsd into mint juleps to act as an
ntidote against the water. No self re-
meeting woman at Narragansett 10
kithout an attachment in the shape Of
pune sort of man, ana 1t Is his
pecial duty. after she has been rubbed |
ind scrubbed and is once more in an
innocent muslin gown. to provide her
With that innocent drink, which has
been favored by women ever since tbs
lays when Adam toiled by the sweat
bf his brow TO cultivate a mint bed TO
eass Nine. Eve.
Society aud mint iuieps are compnti-
bic. There Ia decided touch of
hauve about society, while mint green
3 very fashionable. There is CERTAIN
ype OF girl OF the Pier. She is apt to
be- either from Boston or Richmond.
Occasionally she is New Yorker, but
tie New York girl is too knowing in
some ways and not knowing enough In
hthers to succeed aH Pier girl-that
y to say, she doesn't know enough
,bout Plato and Mr.. Emerson, like the
tady who wears glasses and who arrives
rom Boaton, and she 10 too ignorant Of
coouetry---not flirting, but pure, iunn-
rent coquetry-like the Richmond girl,
to be SUCCESS.
The style of dressing ut the Pier is
hecidedly individual. AT most summer
placs a great point ia gained il one is
stylish, wears frills and ruffles and
laces aud silks aud sHtins aud all the
irippa and frippsries. hut here ir is de-
mandsd that a girl must be pretty. II
she has thrae white wash dresses-that
ia to say, two at the laundrese', while
she is wearing the third, yet looks
lretty-she is SUCCESS.
There is one girl here from Rich
mond who claims that she can manage
to have more solid enjoyment in "a
hours than the average girl does in "a
days. This Is her method: In the
morning her colored maid helps her
dresa in a white pique gown. with
plain skirt. a jacket bodice, a white
leather belt and null tie, with hig
Aaring bow Nesting under her chin
that seems to say to each and every
young man, Don't you wish you we're
"a near this dimple as l am?" Her
hat is a smart hooking sailor. with
band showing the Stuart plaid, while
her glovos. displaying no rings under
heu, are Of white ohamois.
At the Pier chaperon is not neoes-
harry, 10 my pretty girl trots of to the
asino with big jack Gordon. II you
lss her anything about 1t, she will say
} dtones az soft as her henri: ''Oh, he's
fright. He and my father are second
bouains, and his mother and my mother
are yhird COUSINS and when they we're
giris they vera great friends. Even
now when they meet they talk about
what the gentlemen did for them--rsde
horses up staircases, jumped high
fences and did marvels to prove just
how much each of them loved ais lady.
1t ia really great deal better and
nightly more effective than sending
flowers or buying candies. After rat.
thing off this tine lady looked acorn at
her escort, who pulled his mustache,
hoping to increase its growth, and
wished that women's mothers did not
remember sd much ard put such ideas
into girls heads
These two had very light breakfast
some strung coffee, bit OF toast and
an egg eaten directly from tho shell.
Then she and Jack had stroll, ano
Jack whispered all sorts of nothings te
her-pretty nothings-- while she
womanlike. wondered il Celestine hat
dressed her properly or 10 thst was he
petticoat that was Slipping. Whsr
nome was reached, home being tht
barnlike hotel. there came the grea
event Of the tay-the bathing. Nobody
who is anybody bathes at Long Branch
because where the bathing is good it il
dangerous. Nobohy who ia anybod,
bathes at Newport, because it ia no
good style. but everybody, from tn,
small boy dressed in an airy nothinJ
up to bis grandmother, LITERAL,
swathed in dark flannel, pranres anc
Jumps in the water and feels how goot
it is to he alive and to he tine next bes
thing to a mermaid.
Nature has been very kind to tn
Richmond girl and given her hair tina
ourls naturally; consequently rubbe
caps aud closely plated braids wer
not necessary to this sweet maiu, az
wearing q long cloak Of white ssrg,
that covers her from head to foot an
accompanied by her dark maid, sh
joins the group Of men waiting for her
The oloak is removed and she stands
symphony in white and yellow tina
would have delighted Whistler himssll
Modest? Oh, her dreas 10 modest
itself. 1t ~ plated skirt owe
knickers and bodice that shows
little waistcoat OF yellow, while on he
head ia white cap, from underneat
which flows all her yellow, curly hnil
4 Every other girl is furious because he
hair want stand this, but Nanny {
Betty or Matty flor her name is sure
be one of tho three) ia deliciouH
sympathetic, and in her wise lit
head she realizes that it 10 we'll to |
liked by the women. She is floatet
shs ia dipped under, she swims abou
she rolls on the sand until her hair
full OF it, ana then gets one OF her d.
voted slaves to wash it out. She 60
out as far as she dares with Jack, wi
tells her tho old story of her lookir
like Venus rising from the sea, and b
only reward is handful OF wat
thrown at him. which makes hi
splutter and choke.
My Lady Caprice comes 10. III
maid ID to the fors, and in less than
hour she 10 on the veranda dressed in
pink bingham and looking flushed ar
pretty, like tue rose that Ttackeri
w wrote about. Then shs will tell "
quite confidentially: "Son,e Of II
men have a julep mads with brand
nut at home they uso the same reel
they did when Gen. Washington pa
!hein visit and approved of it. Not
Ing will convince me that good r
whisky isn't tho proper thing to US
ana tina iden Of IN Ignorant barkeer
uarlng to hint at using suGh tiuu
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