The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-02
SQCIETYS WATER NYMPHS.
AQUATIC FEATs PERFORMED At
NEWPORT. BAR HARBOR AND
NARRAGANsETT

bone, Can Put Your Heart in Your
Mouth by Her High Diving, and
Mrs. Bordmnn Hartman Can Part
Her Long Hair Swimming Under
Water-Many Smart Women Now
Take Turn at the TiIIer Aboard
Their Husbands Yachts, and Mrs.
George Gould, Having Taken Les
sons In Navigation, Puts Their Big,
Handsome steamer Through Her
PAGES as CIeverIy as IA First Class
Pilot.
New York, June 30-The society season
Of sport is wide open, and the tendency of
women in the smart set seems steadily
turning toward speCialties in one exercise
or another. Few fashionable danes or
damoselles appear to have the time or in
clinauon to develop themselves into all
around athletic women, and she who scores
best at golf does not pretend to stand in
with the circle of horse lovers or know an
anchor from a binnac,e
On the DINER hand the swimmers are SUI
premely Indifferent 10 brassies and long
putting shots, and this summer the flock
Of fair human ducks is bigger than ever.
All along the coast the women are making
stunning records in the wafer, and Mrs
Regis Post, for example, has pretty nearly
broken all former standards for diving.
Given pool of deep water and spring
board, this slim woman, flexible as a piece
Of whalebone, can put your heart in your
mouth by her surprising exploits She
VIII take The water head on after turning
coupe of times in the air like a circus
rider, or plunge into the sea from the high
est point 10 which she can climb on her
husbands yacht.
Mrs j. B0rdman Hartman, another
fashionable fish who learned to swim at
Bermuda, and her speciality is swimming
under water, dropping down 10 bring sand
from the bottom and parting her long hair
under the green sea wave
AT Narragansett Pier the crack swim
mer Is fair slender Miss Robinson, who
can strike OUT further beyond the surf
into the could Atlantic waves than most
men who have tried to measure her
strength, and Miss Helen Benedict has
silver cups to prove that she is one of
the most daring and graceful divers that
ever took the waters of Long Island Sound
head on.
AT Newport Miss Alice Barnard and
Mis-. Elisha Walker lead all the OF her nler.
maids, and the fashion this ummer is for
the women guests, off on a yachting party
70 dive from the side or bowsprit of the
gallant schooner or steamer with all the
nonchalance of the most seasoned salt.
No to be able to do This much is as great a
disgrace as to foozle your ball when play
ing with good golfer.
Their Turn at the TiIIer,
CuriOusly enough, il is not given the wo
men who swim, dive and execute marvel
Gus gymnastics in the water to make the
most capable sailors nor is it the sailor
women who develop into the first-class
swimmers, and short while since the art
OF yachting made small appeal to woman
kind. Society of the gentler sort has been
recently, however, bitten with a mild ma
rine fever, and the ambition of every Wo-
man whose husband, brother or sweetheart
owns boat is to qualify herself to take
her turn at the tiller.
Mrs. George Gould is one of the ener-
getic souls who thinks it more fun to guide
a huge steamboat through the waves than
trot four-in-hand and last summer she
took course Of lessons in navigation from
her husbands yacht captain. This sea-
son she takes the wheel as often as not,
and puts the handsome steamer through
her PAGES as cleveriy as a first-class pilot.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt is new re
has chartered steam yacht for cruising
about European waters, and is going to
learn how to run her boat herself, if il is
necessary to get out papers and study hard
70 do it, Mrs Paget is third candidate
for nautical joys. She, TOO, viii have a
superb steamboat for the summer, and
stand at her own wheel to explore the
coast or run down the st. Lawrence, and
not least of these lady pilots is Mrs How
ard Gould, who knows how TO make the
Niagara show her heels TO podding mer-
chant and passenger shipping.
Among the very capable sailing pilots
who scorn the numbering steam pleasure
boats, is Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. on
the Aleutis or Neda she uses the tilier with
a wrist of steel and perfect judgment and
Mrs. II. c. Trevor is not bit less skill
full. Another smart yachtsWoman is Miss
Emily Hoffman, and Newport knows no
ADLER seawomen than the two handsome
young daughters of Mrs Orme Wilson, for
they vastly prefer the sea to the shore,
days hard work with tiller and sails to
nights dancing, and a talk with a bar
naclod old salt TO the society of the smart
est youth in the social register. From all
these evidences it will be gathered that
we are in fair way to owning a ladies'
marine fit to challenge those famous Eng
lish women of whose boats and exploits we
hear so much.
Great American Country Houses.
Our rich Americans are nothing if not
hospitable, and in the country houses that
have just been completed or are going
up at choice resorts, the chief command
of the owner 10 the architect has been
for plenty of guest rooms. At Henry VII
iards huge house on the Hudson pro-
vision is made for two dozen friends at
once by means of a second house erected
in The grounds, where bedrooms only are
provided. This is less cozy than the wise
arrangement in the tremendous home of
John S.oan at LenoX, Mass, where four
teen guest chambers are arranged under
one roof, and them in a ponderous square
red tower, the ample room space is given
up wholly TO the comfort of any ten bach
elors who may be included in a party.
Perhaps the top notch of guest accom-
mediation has been reached by that fash
ionable and generous hostess, Mrs. Arson
Phelps Stokes, for, under the red roof of
her greystone mansion in the Berkshires,
she Is able to shelter in uucrOwded con-
tent sixty friends simultaneously. There
are mighty few spreading English castles
thar can heat this record. and fbis is hint