The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-04
Narragansett Pier, Aug. 26.

WnlSkey ana water. Ine water is Tor
the girls to battle in, and the whiskcy
is refined into mint juleps to act as an
antidote against the water. No self-re-
speeding woman at NarraganSett is with
out an attachment in the shape of some
sort of Il man, and it is his special duty.
after she has been rubbed and scrubbed
and is once more in an innocent muslin
gown, to provide her with that innocent
drink, which has been favored by womel,
ever since the days when Adam toiled
by the sweat of his brow to cultivate Il
mint bed to place Nine. Eve.
Society and mint juleps are compatible.
There is n decided touch of mauve about
society. while mint green is very fashion
able There is a certain type of girl at
the Pier. She is apt to be either from
Boston or Richmond. Occasionally she is
n New Yorker. but the New York girl
is too knowing in some ways and not
knowing enough in others TO succeed as
a Pier girI--that is to say, she doesn't
know enough about Plato and Mr.. Elmer
son. like the lady who wears glasses, and
who arrives from Boston, and she is too
ignorant of coquetry-not flirting, but
pure. innocent coquetry-like the Rich
mond girl-to be a success.
INDIVIDUALITY IN DRESSING.
The style of dressing at the Pier is de-
cidedly individual. At most summer
places great point is gained if one is
Stylish wears frills and rufflles and laces
and silks and satins, and all the trips and
fripperieS, but here it is demanded 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 pretty-she is sue
cess.
There is one girl here from Richmond
who claims that she can manage to have
more solid enjoyment in twentyfour
hours than the average girl does in TWEEN
ty-four days. This is her method: In the
morning her colored maid helps her dress
in white pique gown, with plain skirt,
jacket bodice, white leather belt, and
a null tie, with a big faring bow nest
ling under her chin, that seems to say
to each and every young man, Don't
you wish You were as near this dimple
as / ann" Her hat is a sma"t-loOking
sailor, with a band showing the Stuart
plaid, while her gloves, displaying no
rings under them are of white channels.
At the Pier a chaperon Is not necessary
so my pretty girl trots off to the casino
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 ily 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 1t is really great deal better
and nightly more effective than sending
flowers or buying candies" After rat
fling 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
BATHING THE EVENTS OF THE
DAY.
These two had n very light breakfast
some strong coffee. bit of toast and an
egg eaten directly from the shell. Then
she and Jack had stroll, and Jack
whispered all sorts of nothings to her
pretty nothings-while she. womanlike
wondered if Celestine had 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 Nobody who is anybody
bathes at Long Branch, because where
the bathing is good it is dangerous. No
body who is anybody baithes at Newport,
because it is not style. but everybody
here, from the small boy dressed in an
airy nothing up to his grandmother, liter
ally swathed in dark flannel, Frances 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
curls naturally; consequently rubber caps
and closely plated braids were not ne
cessary to this sweet maid, as, wearing
long cloak Of white serge that covers
her from head to foot and accompanied
by her dark maid she joins the group
of men waiting for her. The cloak is
removed, and she stands symphony in
white and yellow that would have de-
lighted Whistler himself.
LIKE VENUS RISING FROM THE
SEA.
Modest? Oh, her dress is modesty it.
self 1t is a plated skirt over knickers
and a bodice that shows Il little waist
coat Of yellow, while on her head is d
white cap, from underneath which flows
all her yellow, curly hair Every other
girl is furious because her hair wont
stand this, but Nanny or Betty or Mat
ty for her name is sure to be one OF
the three is deliciously sympathetic, ano
in her wise little head she realizes that
it is well to be liked by the women. Sht
is foatcd she is dipped under, she swlmS
about. she rolls on the sand until her han
is full of it, and then gets one of her de
voted slaves to wash it out. She goes
out as far as she dares with Jack, who
tells her the old story Of her looking like
Venus rising from the sea, and his only
reward is q handful of water thrown al
him, which makes him splutter and
choke
My Lady Caprice comes IN. Her maio
is to the fore, and in less than an hour
she is on the veranda dressed in q
pink gingham and looking flushed anC
pretty, like the rose that Thackery wrote
about Then she will tell you quite
confidentially: "SOme of the men have
julep made with brandy. but at home
thov 1Isa tho mo rpcinn tbov did xphny