The age-herald., 1898-08-21
Copyright, 1S9S.]

everywhere for the last eight weeks, have come to the .oaclusion that if l had a daughter who wished to enter the holy bonds of matrimony I would fetch her to Newport. Here everything Is dienified and rich; nobody frivols and nobody enjoys herself very much un- less she happens to be richer and more stuDid than all the rest, and then she Is spoken of with approval ana every body says she possesses so much fs- pose" They may call it "repose. insist that it is inanity. Here you must dress and dress and dress. Your clothes must bear the stamp of Worth, Red fern and Paquin, while Virot must coV- CT your head
 However, each has his own time ana display for his own special smartness. Paouin fits you out in some denc4ous cotton thing that was to cost Sl5O, or "Perhaps madame would allow very little more," and 'the very little more means $50, but as the artist in dress assures madame that she would not have herself appear as anything but perfec- tion when it is a question of few dollars aud madame is fiattered, she nays her bill and is gladly fooled. Pa uuin dresses her for the morning, when she stands out on the smooth green lawn with a wonderful mass of color before her, great parterres of flowers, gorgeous tulips bright roses and rich, red geraniums all seeming to bow stately good morning to her.
 little later in the day and a famcnH French tailor whose name the We're
 We're set do not whisper permits
 lady to be dressed in a wonderful " te sserge of his creation, and then she
 on the yacht built on the Clyde.
 The afternoon finds my lady dre by Worth. She is in some sort
 sheeny looking silk, which seems ccv |. ed with roses, while~pn her head is :" small hat made entirely of roseh cIa her hands, covered with whit
 fs a parasol made of white, fluffy
 Ia handle of pink coral and gold, " ing cost enough to really keep Q
 50 do family in bread and butter and beef for the year. My lady rides in her syictora, large and hung on c springs, 50 that the motion is as easy as if one were being rocked vertically on the bil- lows of the ocean, with no inclination to be mot quite well"
 Up and down, up and down the car ria ges parade while the pretty rider has a cool bow for this one, stately incli- nation of her head for another and an almost imperceptible bow for that other person whom she barely knows.
 q Familiarity is not the thing at New port. You are well acquainted with this 1or that man or this or that woman, who ,5went to the same dancing school with you, who went to the same parties with @a1 kl.- same artificial way you have. Oh. I don't mean that the very fashionable women never do kindnesses, for they do many of them. When so much time is given to dress, when so much thought must be given to having ones jewels reset and when one must entertain and amust visit, really, after all, how can Zone have time to go among the poor land suffer agonies afterward through seeing how unpleasantiy they are sit elated?
 < But we had a little romance here for fall The most dignified lady in the land, the one who traced her blue, blue blood back to the beginning of the blue skies, Ahe woman to get into whose house tmeant the entree to real society, con- scluded this year to fetch one of her cousins from away down near New Or ieans to visit her. 5'he lady-we will call her Mime. Grsn .ne-was in reality a lady, though, as she was an old one, how could you or know that her heart was frozen the day two small boy fig ures were brought in cold in death, drowned while at their play, and she was left childless? An, if we could read each others hearts, how few would we count as entirely selfish!
 So Mime. Grandame, writing to her cousin, said: Send me on the prettiest and brightest of your daughters. pro- pose to make her the success of the season. Don't trouble yourself about her having a lange wardrobe, as one twill come over from Paris for her., yThis letter brought delight to the mother-a perplexity for the three af- efectionate girls. The youngest and gprettiest said she didn't want the old madame to condescend to her, she wouldn't wear her old truck, and, being the oldest, if was Madeline's place to go. But Madeline whispered of the man to whom she was engaged and how im- possible it would be for her to leave him. Then said she of the quick tenn per, Marion must go, for she's the next oldest" and Marion whispered in her mothers ear with much impressive ness on her part, and the mother said.