The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-21
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never saw st. Louis so deserted as this last
week. The terrific heat has driven society
away in shoals, even those who have all
along declared with great positiveness that
they were determined to stay at home and
save money.
The hot nights are what does Il. Any
body can endure heat during the day with
a reasonable amount of precaution absti-
hence from exercise and plenty OF cool
drinks. But just let a few scorching nights
come along. with that much-lauded South
ern breeze of ours nowhere to be felt Then
people begin to think with great affection
of that pleasant little. two-by-four apart
,nent in the fire-proof hotel at Swamphurst-
by-the-Slough, with its coQuettish rows of
clothes pegs on the wall. gracefully con-
cealed by a calico curtain: its large dormer
window overlooking a tin roof; its Slated
door. through which the gentle patter OF
those five Tompkins children can be heard
almost any morning before 6 o'clock as they
drag small cart up and down and prattle
10 each other I'm dulcet childish voices, and
its Unreasonable inducement to gentle, but
Notwithstanding exercise, in the way OF
stand. and back again to trunk, all OF
which makes the preparation Of ones toilet
an interesting. not to say exciting. process.
But, Jokes aside. one can manage to put
up with indoor convenience to no fnconsid-
cradle degree, provided there Is plenty Of
outdoor sport and GOODNESS. The Eastern
xeacoast was never hotter than this year,
except way down in Maine. which never
gets warm enough for any but the hardest
persons to battle. But those who went
North very early have written steadily the
most laudatory comment on this summer
weather-warm enough to be enjoyable and
cool in proportion.
"A WeQuetonsing letter last week says the
Thermometer has reached 30 degrees onIy
once this month. and that-this il hardest
Of all to beas>-they sleep under blankets
every night.
The Douglass Cooks have reached Cape
May. They went over from Buffalo last
week. Carrie writes that college men en-
ltvcn the landscape at every turn in the
road. and that the girl who hasn't at least
stx on her stan 10 In the rear pews.
Rz7nceeon. Harvard and University Of
Pennsylvania fellows predominant. They
are mot waiting to be asked. either, but are
prOving themselves very liberal entertain
erx. leading cotiilons and generally getting
land keeptng-busy.
predict 4 summer OF rare sport for Miss
Cook and the Dula girls. who went down a
week ago with more smart gowns than
fail into the trunks Of most summer maids
Let Eddie" Preetorfus. Lewis Tune and
Charles Dunbar Fisher. who are booked for
Cape May, stand not on the order OF their
departure II they wish to stand in when
they arrive. It behooves the Aforesaid gen.
tie Youths to hustle. else they may be re-
duced. on reaching tho Cape, to the taking
OF comfortable chairs on piazzas and the
making OF sarcastic remarks concerning
the college lions.
4r. and MIS- James X. Hackett are cot
tagging at Cape May. and, as is always
ths1e habit when summering, win take q
large part In the gayety OF the place. So
mSllv st. Louisans met the Jackets down
at HafraEansett two years ago and found
them wholly congenial and delightful The
Andrs Scanlans are never done talking OF
the Hackett parties, and when both Mary
Mannerins and her husband were here las,
winter With their respective companies, Mr.
and Mrs. Seaman teciprocated delightedi,
by several dinners and the like.
Where is that croquet plot we were to
have ut Glen Echo this summer? IT'S nigh,
time that We were knocking balls about
On the green sward out Normandy way;
Tor, 10! the ancient. but eminently genteel
game has arrived at Narragansett and
some OF the other places of fashion, and is
quite the vogue.
Anew resorts boosted a weil-kept plot for
croouet last summer. I remember the
Evans girls came back from Old Sweet
down IN Virginia. and reported that one OF
the daily excitements Of the hotel was tc
rec Mira Oliver II. P. Belmont play her
afternoon game on her especially prepared
carefully irrigated and mown-by.muie
power crouuet ground. She did not reach
old Sweet until August, and 1t took the en-
tire month Of July. with four men workine
every day, to get that grass plot perfect,
level and generally In form.
Then Mrs Belmont, always clad In tn
most fetching Of afternoon toilets. weult
sally forth each day about p. m. and with
q young New York woman for her com
panion ana adversary. would proceed t,
knoek 1nl9s round through arches until din
nertlme.
It Il, believe. considered smart to ow,
ones mallet and to have the same made a,
handBome n possible carved things on thu
handle, you know.
Doctor and Mrs. J. ]. Lawrence. VIII,
now belong to New York. are at the Pier
which has always been their favorits AT
Antle resort 30 are tho r. b Marshall
and $heir young son.
wJuiaM Gillette. the actor. has house
Apat this summer and y towering along tn
NAfnGinDett UhoreA 1 am anxious .
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