The age-herald., 1898-08-28
Copyright, 1S9S.]
 lJarragansett Pier.

NarraganSett Pier.
 The chief products of this point are whisky and water. The water is for the girls to bathe in, and the whisky Is refined into mint juleps to act as an antidote against the water. No self re- specting woman at Narragansett IS without an attachment in the shape Of some sort of a man, and it is his special duty, after she has been rubbed ana scrubbed and is once more in an inno- cent muslin gown, to provide her with that innocent drink, which has been favored by women ever since the days when Adam toiled by the sweat of his brow to cultivate a mint bed to please Mme Eve.
 Society and mint juleps are compati- ble. There is a decided touch of mauve about society, while mint green is very fashionable. There is a certain type Of girl at the Pier. She is apt to be either from Boston or Richmond. Occasional ly she is a New Yorker, but the New York girl is too knowing in some ways and not knowing enough in others to succeed as a Pier girl-that Is to say she doesn't know enough about Plato and MT Emerson, like the lady who wears glasses and who arrives from Boston, and she is too ignorant of CO., 1uetry-not flirting, but pure, innocent coquetry-like the Richmond girl, to be a success.
 The style of dressing at the Pier is decidedly individual. At most summer places a great point is gained if one is stylish wears frills and -1rufffes and faces and silks and satins and all the fripps and fripperies, but here it is de- manded that a girl must be pretty. If she has three white wash dresses-that is to say, two at the laundress', while she is wearing the third, yet looks pret- ty-she is a success.
 There is one girl here from Richmond who claims that she can manage to have more solid enjoyment in 24 hours than the average girl does in "A days. This is her method: In the morning her colored maid helps her dress in a white pique gown, with plain skirt, jacket bodice, white leather belt and null tie. with big flaring bow nestling un- der her chin that seems to say to each and every young man, Don't you wish you were as near this dimple as I amp Her hat is smart looking sailor, with a band showing the Stuart plaid, while her gloves, displaying no rings under them, are of white chamOiS.
 At the Pier a chaperon is not neces- sary, so my pretty girl trots off to the casino with big Jack Gordon. If you ask her anything about it, she will say in tones as soft as her heart: "Oh, he's all right. He and my father are second cousins, and his mother and my mother are third cousins, and when they were girls they were great friends. Even now when they meet they talk about what the gentlemen did for them-rode horses up staircases, jumped high fences and did marvels to prove just how much each of them loved his lady. It is really great deal better and nightly more effective than sending flowers or buying candies" After rat ting off this the lady looked scorn at her escort who pulled his mustache, hoping to increase its growth, and wished that women's mothers did not remember so much and put such ideas into girls heads.
 These two had very light break fast-some strong coffee, a bit of toast and an egg eaten directly from the shell. Then she and Jack had stroll, and Jack whispered all sorts of noth- ings to her-pretty nothings-while she, WOWdHllhe, NOHutISu II SclcSlthS ileo dressed her properly or if that was her petticoat that was slipping. When home was reached, home being the barnlike hotel, there came the great event of the day-the bathing. Mo- body who is anybody bathes at Long Branch, because where the bathing is good 1t is dangerous. Nobody who is anybody bathes at Newport, because it Is not good style, but everybody, from the small -boy dressed in an airy noth ing up to his grandmother, literally swathed in dark flannel, prances and jumps in the water and feels how good it is to be alive and to be the next best thing to mermaid.
 Nature has been very kind to the Richmond girl and given her hair that ourls naturally; consequently rubber caps and closely plaited braids were not necessary to this sweet maid, as, wear ing 8 long cloak of white serge that covers her from head to foot and accom- panied by her dark maid she joins the group of men waiting for her. The cloak is removed, and she stands sym