The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
N GAY new YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Lie In the Paris Of Amsrica. -
MISS PLUMPLEIGH.

MISS PLUMPLEIGH.
II love the bathing season.
She's often heard to 'sIy;"
For she has every reason
TO know she's built that way.
The Vacationist In Town Topics.
the "codfshing party" at which the
guests eat the fish they catch.
| "A close relative Of the chafing dish is
the ramekln. What is ramekinI One
town silversmith's recently. a ramekin
| is a small silver saucepan, which can be
| brought to table, with it's contents Of
entree, dessert or fish, free from the s,ls-
plclon of having been just a triie too
| much handled by the cook or serving
maid. Ramekin sets are becoming the
| fad for bridal presents, although they
are uncommon enough at present to be
particularly attractive.
New York's floating "roof garden"
| which is merely vaudeville entertain
ment on an excursion steamer, made it's
last trip few evenings ago. This boat,
which IS hung with incandescent lishts
from end to end, is the most brilliant
object in New York harbor in the sum
mer time. You cannot help seeing it if
it is within three or four miles of you,
and the only wonder is that it has the
! waters to itself for the last five years
or so: The idea looks good enough to
be initiated, and show people usually are
not too modest to initiate anything that
is not patented or copyrighted out Of
which they may hope to make some
money.
The disappearance of the lobster is not
remarked on upper Broadway. The crus-
tacean still seems abundant enough to
supply the demand, although even in the
restaurants the prices of the dish have
been materially raised. The average in
crease in all restaurants has been about
10 cents, although some have taken ad-
vantage of the present scarcity to make
even greater advance. In the fish mar
kets the pr &c asked is even greater evil
dence of the rapidity with which the
popular lobster is disappearing. The
price now asked is three times as great
as it was four years ago. and the pres
2nt indications are that there will be a
still greater increase in the price in the
future.
attract attention: They take their places
with men on the elevated chairs and
have come to be accepted as such an
expected feature of these shops that they
are not regarded with any greater curl
osity than the men. Nobody supposed
ters for their own USE although one of
the places recently opened has set aside
a room especially for women patrons.
They, are enabled in it to enjoy all the
privileges of the most completely
equipped establishment for men and may
be invisible all the time. The possibili-
ties Of the New York bootblacking shop
increase every year. Few persons would
have suspected a short time ago that it's
development would be so great Small
repairs have gradually been taken out of
the hands of the shoemakers and become
the property of the enterprising boot
blacks.
A new method of dealing with shoplift-
ers is to be tried in some of the big de-
partment stores in New York city. The
store, detectives are kept busy watching
caught. But it is found that the present
system of searching them and prosecut-
ing them IN court is not entirely satis
factory. One thing is that if the thief
can prove that lie has taken less than $50
worth of property from a store the
charge cannot be more than petty lar
ceny, and there are other legal points
that professional shoplifters know all
about and which prevent full justice
being dOne-at least in the opinion of the
the stores have determined that they will
take away from the suspects the prop
erty they may have stolen and then hurl
them out of the back door with good
swift kick and warn them that if they
ever return they will be sent to Jail. This
will be only an experiment, but the de-
tectiyes think it will be successful
A place for everything and everything
in it's place." said Miss Gerry Ames, the
in ''Three Little Lambs But really.
my dear, do not see any place where
one can properly wear these open-work
shirt waists unless it be Il nunnery.
They are positively shocking. | would
as soon think Of appearing on Broadway
lad i'll Il bathing SUIT or an evening gown
as in one of those gossamer affairs. Miss
Ames, who set sail Saturday for Wianno,
on Cape Cod, is thinking of establishing
High Neck Association" the members
of which will pledge themselves to have
nothing to do.with diaphanous dresses or
decollete waists masquerading behind
lace and frills.
1t was said on excellent authority that
Mrs. George Gould will go to Newport
with the view to buying land for a man
sion that may rival even the marble pal
Goulds, ever since they were taken up
by Mrs; .Stuyvesant Fish and others of
the fashiona bic set. have cast longing
eyes toward this haven. Lakewood.
while desirable. is not Newport. and it
would not surprise tn" colony ut New
port if ground for the Gc"ld mansion
were broken in tn" late S','nmcr or early
in the fall. Many desirable sites are to
be had, and as George Gould is ever
anxious to forward the 50: iul ambitions
Of his wife. no one thc"c will be- sur
pr:sed to learn that he has paid Il million
or so for the ground alone The fact
that polo is played at NarraganSett for
two weeks each S',r'n,cr is also an i'll
ducement for him to- go there. Certain
" Mrs Gould's fondc.t hopes are that
she will soon be able to vie with Mrs.