Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-08-04
They Have Patience to Fish,
and Ability to Shoot.
ARE DEXTEROUS POOL PLAYERS
Drive Like Charley Bates, and
Can Row.
snoo,al correspondence Of Every evening.


Swiss chalets hung up on the hillside.
The lake, with its broad terrace
fringed with traes, is SO rich with fish
they walk up and take the bait as If
they knew their sole object in life was
tu furnish dishes to dslight pretty
women and brave men. Everything ia
good at Tuxado. The houses are we'll
built, and the freplncs 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 it all up by saying,
"Well, Tiffany had the contract for the
fence." 90.
To be a Tuxedo girl you need to DO
an out and out good one-that is to
uny, you must have patience to Esh,
ability to shoot and dexterity in play
ing pool. You must ride without fear,
you must drive like Charley Bates, and
il you can row boat so much the bet
ter. You can loaf in the clubhouse all
day long it you want to and read or
chatter. You can 90 into the ball room
and rehearse new dance, or you can go
| 10 for being yeritRble athlete, having
taken your lessons in rucing, banging
| the bag or handling the dunbbells
| from that handsomeat of men, William
| commonly known as Billy Muldoon.
| | think the women who loaf have the
beet time of It, But then, always had
a lazy streak in me. Those women who
read or walk just little in the morning
enjoy their luncheonH as only feminine
eourmets can, and then when O'clock
| tea comes they meet the men in the
drawing room and look as sweet and
fresh 10 their cotton frocks as no femi-
nine athlete ever did,
The athlete will get red in the face.
she will burn or freekle. or both, and
somehow she never looks quite tidy. At
dinner she ia something of sight, as
she staid too long to shoot, fish or run
a race, and consequently she hasn't
had time to get her rig on rs 1t should
be. All women agree about billiards.
II is a game that grants frivolity 10
gowns. allows a dimpled arm to show
to good advantage, permits one TO take
charming poses and really shows a
j woman at her best. had always
thought that pool was good game for
woman, but an Old book in the library
here tells me that it was d favorite
game of Cleopatra's, and so the woman
OF today lie not unlike her in prsferring
TO play with men rather than women.
Tuxedo ia dekeiously cosmopolitan.
Gossip is not good form, but there is
an immense lot Of chatter that comes
in letters here, there and every where.
Il Sometimes parts Of these letters are
, read at tea, and a girl who had beer
trolling for trout ALI one morning con.
fessed to drinking five cups OF tef
,, willis she wrangIed with her most init
mate friend over the morality of the
mo, lab No rOpnaraa uIth thu
Of the American. Wien man is dowr
here, he is a joy. But just now mer
, are a hit choice. The special mar
comes in from fishing and finds himsel
surrounded by four or five stated,
beauties who didn't notice him las
year, when men were plentiful. Blu
now in ons way or another they cate
: to him, and each will be saying, "Dea
boy, do come in and have cup o
tea" Somebody, the quickest, no
the fastest, of the lot. gives MIN the de
q sired cup. Then he leans back in hi
9 easy chair and sips the amber liqui'
and wants more sugar and demand
: more cream just to force the women I
T wait upon him. Then he slowly sip
it and listens to the talk.
One young woman, remarkBbl.
3 pretty brunette, possessing what til
t,darkien call ''the gift of the gab,'' ha
Q 4 metaphorIoally the floor, and she !
I'll giving her opinion of the average stree
e5 car conductor. She says: "Did yo
i ever get into Broadway car and no
. have the conductor wipe his feet o
y your skirts? By not walking up th
!, middle he can wipe his right foot al
y the way up. and then, jumping of tn
front of the car and turning. he ca
trot through again to clean of his lei
foot The peaceful young man sittin
: next to tbs average woman shows tina
4, II be is Spaniard in disguise by knock
I ing over her pHrasol with tbs tails c
Z his cont as he starts 1ut. You ar
. showed, you are stared at, and there
= only one way you can retaliate-se
y your eyes ON a mans boots and star
7, him up and down, up and down, u
= and down. First he wonders what
y the matter ard wrigglos; then he
4 certain that something is the matter
= and he twists around, gets nervous an
:, eventually leaves. Cruelty to animals
Certainly not, certainly not' It's th
:, proper treatment Of brutea."
just then one of the few men lei
over came in. Her eyes lighted up, nm
10 the fierce speaker went over toward hil
Sc | anu bHlu, l16Eb, WHou hiu Juu &c
y inf and then she goes over in the col
y nsr and evidently INDUCES in mild'
# flow OF language for her own specii
goud.
The next young woman doesn't tai
:, the floor. Instaad sine leans back
Y, her easy chair, looking as il she hadn
ID either moral or physical strength TO
10 more than psrfect picture, and she
% falling anmeh,dv. ttYNa n partaia tyl
of woman wears the lnonocle in Lol
don, and of course it is popular her
~ since women are such donkey6 40
= wenr conts shirts and waiHtceats iu
80 like man. For my own part, don
care to know woman who wears
monoole. In the first place. it doesn
begin to cost as much money as
handsome pair of lorgnsttes, and th
require q certain amount of experien
to manage them-an experience tn
isn't got by practice or money. b
must descend to one from ons'a gran
mother, who got them from her gran
mother. who landed hare after h
great grandmother was guillotine
/ don't know whether it was becau
she used a lorgnette, but l do kne
that il is only the women who havs Il
real We're de We're caste who succeed
annihilating the rich parrenu. VIII
Mrs. Newly Richie can't duwn poop
as Mrs. Blueblood does. oh, the
are some things that compensate o
even for the small quantity Of duca
possessed ~
Speaking of the guillotine," said
fair haired girl who looks like an ane
and vino has the temper of the peIs
who il not an angel and for who