The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-08-02
copyright, 1851

We have commenced to go a-gad.
ding. The first place we reached is one
Of those sweet little cottages that looL
like Swiss chalets hung up on the hill
side. The lake, with it's broad terrace
they walk up and take the bait as II
they knew their sole object in life was
10 furnish dishes to delight pretty wo-
men and brave men. Everything is
good at Tuxedo. The houses are well
built, and the fireplace in the club is all
that il claims to be. Indeed the whole
place is best described by the man who
in trying to tell about 1t could only
sum II all up by saying, well. Tiffany
had the contract for the fence"
To be Tuxedo girl'you need 20 be
an out and out good one-that is to say.
I you must have patience to fish. ability
to shoot and dexterity In playing pool.
You must ride without fear. you must
drive like Charley Bates, and IL you can
row a boat SO much the better You
can loaf in the clubhouse all day long
if you want 90 and read or chatter.
You can 90 into the ballroom and re-
hearse a new dance, or you can go in
for being a veritabie athlete. having
taken your lessons in racing. banging
the bag or handling the dumbbells from
That handsomest OF men. William (com-
monty known as Billy Muidoon.
think the women who loaf have the
best time OF It. But, then. / always had
q lazy streak In me. Those women who
read or walk Just little In the morn
Ing enjoy their luncheons as only FEM
lnine gourmets can. and then when 3
o'clock tea comes they meet the men
In the drawing room and look as sweet
and fresh in their cotton frocks as no
feminine athlete ever did.
The athlete will get red In the face.
she will burn or freckie, or both. and
somehow she never looks quite tidy. At
dinner she is something OF a sight. as
she staid too long to shoot, fish or run
race. and consequently she hasn't had
time to get her rig on as 1t should be.
All women agree about billiardx II IN
q game that grants frivolity in gowns.
allows a dimpled arm to show to good
advantage. permits one to take charm
Ing poses and really shows a womaa at
her best. ! had always thought that
pool was good game for a woman. but
an old book in the library here tells me
that II was favorite game of Cleo
patra's, and so the woman of today is
not unlike her in preferring to play with
men rather than women.
Tuxedo is deliciously cosmopolitan.
Gossip is not good form, but there is an
immense lot of chatter that comes in
letters here. there and everywhere.
Sometimes parts OF these letters are
read at tea, and girl who had been
trolling for trout all one morning con-
fessed to drinking five cups OF tea while
she wrangled with her most intimate
friend over the morality OF the English
woman as compared with that of the
American. When a man is down here.
be is JOY. But just now men are a bit
rhoice. The special man comes in from
fishing and finds himself surrounded by
Tour or hve stately beauties who didn't |
notice him last year when men were
plentiful. But now In one way or anoth- |
er they cater to him, and each will be |
saying, Dear boy. do come in and have |
r cup of tea" Somebody, the quickest.
not the fastest. Of the lot, gives him the |
desired cup. Then he leans back in his |
easy chair and sips the amber LIQUID |
and wants more sugar and demands |
more cream just to force the women to |
wait upon him. Then he slowly sips II |
Ind listens to the talk.
One young woman. a remarkably pret-
~ brunette. possessing what the dar-
<ies call the gift OF the gab," has met
'phorically the floor. and she is giving
her opinion of the average street car /
She says: Did you ever get /
nto a Broadway car and not have the
conductor wipe his feet on your skirts? |
BY not walking up the middle he can
wipe his right foot all the way up. ana |
hen. Jumping off the front OF the car
md turning. he can trot through again
o clean OF his left foot. The peaceful
'oung man sitting next TO the average
woman shows that he Is a Spaniard in
lisgu;se by knocking over her parasoI
With sfhe tails OF his coat az he starts
ut. You are showed. you are stared At
nd there IL only one way you can re-
aliate-set your eyes on a mans boots
nd stare him up and down, up and
own. up and down. First ne wonders
hats the matter aud wriggles: then he
certain that something is the matter
nd he twists around. gets nervous ana
vcntually leaves. Cruelty TO animaIs7
certainly not, certainly mott It's the
roper treatment of brutes."
Just then one OF the few men left over
anne In. Her eyes lighted up. and the
cree speaker went over toward him
nd said. Here, when did you get in 9'i
nd then she goes over in the corner
"a evidently INDUCES In q milder fIow
language for her own special good.