Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-19

charges, all of whom he has ta,oh+ =.
dance when they went to the Sai.Irda
evening dancing class
The next feature in the Efe NJ a yo,,p.
l Boston maiden is her formal IN ra,,,,n :
ton to society. her coming out. About
| this mOmentouS event is clustered ali
| manner of ceremony For her and ali
connected with her, the universe for the
of the worlds stage. And every detail Of
| her bursting forth upon the world is
carefully considered, and expert advice is
solicited from every quarter. She ALWAYS
comes out at Pierce Hall. where, with
her mother ana usually friend of her
mother both richly eaparisoned, to use
an heraldic phrase, she courtesies to the
admirihg world on a STRIP OF red Garnet
and all the young men come and dance
with her, one after the other. and then
50 ana drink champagne and eat chicken
| croquets and escalloped oysters,
No Boston function of any kind be II
/ sad, is complete without escalloped oys-
tiers and George Becker to omen the front
door. George Becker who is d somewhat
| uecfeplt man OF bS or Whereabouts. has
| been opening front doors for social func-
| tons in Boston since the memory of man.
ana 1t has long been a matter of specuia-
tlon in Boston what George Becker does
IN the summer months when there are no
| front doors to OPEN
| Inc summer life of typical Boston
| girl is given up to the unobstructed ac-
| During of health. Suppose. for example.
she goes to Nahant in the summer Ma
rant being the most absolutely Bostonese
| summer resort of all the places outside
OF BOSTON. She breakfasts at 8 o'clock,
ana then rides down on d bicycle to the
Nahant Club. where she watches her
friends, all girls, because the men are in
town on business. play tennis under a
broiilng sun for two hours. She then in
company with her friends rides back on
n he
called because there is a stairway lead
ing down from the roadway to the beach
containing exactly sixty-two steps and
mere she bathes, and, be it said the typi-
cdl Boston girl IS always a most excel
! lent swimmer. AL II o'clock the servants
of all Well-regulated Boston and Nahaut
households also battle at the Forty-step
beach, which is very pebbly and very
dangerous beach. with strong undertow
and sheering abruptly. but at u o'clock
Inc servants are all out and their mis-
tresses are all in. The bathing suits in
vogue at Nahant are never of a startling
nature. Occasionally Il New Yorker or
that class Of person arrives ana brings
IN an innovation. but these Innovations
have never been adopted. And at Nahant
The bathing skirt retains it's decorous
length
In the afternoon the Boston girl knocks
a golf ball around the Nahant lawn. and
on Saturday evening She SauceZes herself
Is Il form of omnibus. and goes 10 Il dance
at the Nahant club.
II II Boston girl does not marry which
unhappily. does not always happen, she
wearies of doing the same thing year al
ter year ana meeting the same persons
day after day. and in sheer desperation
throws herself into lectures and shallow
crlIdition. Hence the popular idea BnS-
ton is a very circumScrihcd town, cOnSid-
erins its population. The surplus fem
mon lar lion L
menSe. All cannot marry, and those who
do not marry because. OF course they
can. but don't turn. turn to the acquiring
of miscellaneous Information.
MatrimonN, however. seems to qucnch
this thirst for knowledge. Only last year
It young Boston matron discovered in a
magazine that there was such a thing as
hypnotism. and exploited this discovery
1t her sewing circle to her friends. They
were all married ana they listened and
they marveled. which is told to show
that matrimony and information do not
go hand in hand in Boston.