The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-07
Tuxedo Park.

sweet little cottages that look like Swiss
chalets hung up on the hillside. The lake,
with its broad terrace fringed with trees.
is so rich with fish they walk up and
take the bait rs if they knew their sole
object in life was to furnish dishes to de-
light pretty women and brave men,
EVERYTHING is good ut Tuxedo. The
houses are we'll built, and the fireplace
i'm the club is all that it claims to be-
Indeed the whole place is best described
nv the man who in trying to tell about
it could only sum it all up by saying.
"Well. Tiffany had the contract for the
fence"
To be n Tuxedo girl You need to be an
out and out good one-that is to say. you
must have patience to fish. ability to
shoot and dexterity in playing pool. You
must ride without fear, you must drive
like Charley Bates and if you can row
Il boat so much the better. You can loaf
in the clubhouse all day long if you want
to and read or chatter. You can go into
the ballroom and rehearSe n new dance,
or you can 60 in for being a versible ath-
lete. having taken your lessons in racing
banging the bag or handling the dumb
bells from that handsomest of men, Will
liam commonly known rs Billy Null
doom.
LOAFERS VERSUS ATHLETES.
| think the women who loaf have the
best time of it, But. then, | always had
a lazy streak in me. Those women who
read or walk just a little in the morning
enjoy their luncheOns as only feminine
gourmets can, and then when > o'clock
tea comes they meet the men in the draw
ing-room and look as sweet and fresh in
their cotton frocks as no feminine ath-
lete ever did.
The athlete will get red in the face, she
will burn or freckle, or both. and some
how she never looks quite tidy. AT din
ner she is something of a sight, as she
staid too long to shoot. fish or run a race,
and consequently she hasn't had time 20
get her rig on as it should be. All wO-
men agree about billiards. 1t is a game
that grants frivolity in gowns, allows q
dimpled arm to show to good advantage.
permits one to take charming poses and
really shows a woman at her best. | had
always thought that pool was n good
for Il woman. but an old book in the lib
rary here tells me that it was a fayorite
game of Cleopatra's, and so the woman
of today is not unlike her in preferrng to
play with men rather than women.
Tuxedo is deici0usly cosmopolitan.
Gossip is not good form, but there is an
immense lot of chatter that comes in
letters here. there. and everywhere.
Sometimes parts of these letters are read
ut tea, and girl who had been trolling
for trout all one morning confessed to
drinking five cups of tea while she
wrangled with her most intimate friend
over the morality of the English woman
as compared with that of the American.
When Il man is down here, he is a joy.
But just now men are n bit choice. The
special man comes in from fishing and
finds himself surrounded by four or five
stately beauties who didn't notice him
last year, when men were plentiful. But
now in one way or another they cater to
him, and each will be saying. Dear boy.
do come in and have a cup of tea"
Somebody, the quickest. not the fastest,
of the lot. gives him the desired cup.
Then he leans back in his easy char
and sips the amber LIQUID and wants
more sugar and demands more cream
just to force the women to wait upon
him. Then he slowly sips it and listens
to the talk.
STREET CAR CONDUCTORS.
One young woman, a remarkably pref
ty brunette. possessing what the darkies
cal "the gift of the gab,' has metaphor
cally the floor, and she is giving her
opinion of the average street car con-
ductor. She says: did you ever get
into a Broadway car and not have the
conductor wipe his feet on your skirts!
BY not walking up the middle he can
wine his right foot all the way up, and
then. jumping off the front of the car
and turning he can trot through again
to clean off his left foot. The peaceful
young man sitting next to the average
woman shows that he is Spaniard in
disguise by knocking over her parasol
with the tails of his coat as he starts
out You are showed. you are stared at,
and there is only one way you can re-
taiate-Set your eyes on mans boots
and stare him IN and down. up and
down. up and down. First he wonders
what's the matter. and he twists around.
gets nervous and eventually leaves.
Cruelty to animals? Certainly not. GER
tainly not. It's the proper treatment of
brutes."
Just then one of the few men left over
came in. Her eyes lighted up. and the
fierce speaker went over toward him and
| said, Here. when did you get in?' and
| then she goes over in the corner and
evidently INDUCES in n milder flow of
language for her own special good.
| WOMEN WHO WEAR MONOCLES.
| The next young woman doesn't take
| the floor. Instead she leans back in her
easy chair, looking as if she hadn't either
| moral or physical strength to be more
than perfect picture, and she is telling
somebody: Yes, Il certain type of wo-
| men wears the monocle in London, and
| of course it is popular here, since women
| are such donkeys as to wear coats, shirts,
| and waistcoats just like Il man. For my
| own part, don't care to know Il woman
who wears a monocle. In the first place.
| it doesn't begin TO cost as much money
| as handsome pair of lorgnettes. and
| they require certain amount of expert
ence to manage them-an experience
| that isn't got by practice or money, but
must descend to one from ones grand
mother. who got them from her grand
mother, who landed here after her great
| grandmother was guilotined. | don't
| know whether il was because she used
! n lorgnette, but do know that it's only