The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-26

popular diet lists for honest clerks who
earn 81 per week The diet lists make the
clerks take TO riches as their only chance
Of happiness; list OF Newport expenses
would make the man who is simply well-to-
do take to poverty as refuge:
But any list that could be devised, IL IL
were 10 pass beyond the representative
leading. Go to a ready-made store and buy
its best white vests, and you can economize
at s. or IS, and be presentable with four.
You can take Newport in Its proper spirit,
on the other hand, and be a gentleman
worthy Of your environment, with fifteen
vests. all made by your own trusted tailor,
at from so TO SIC, according to material.
With four vests you will be presentable
and unhappy; with fifteen you may be less
unhappy, but you will not be much more
presentable.
Among the ultra wealthy the rent item
must be eliminated and replaced by interest
on capital invested-a varying gain or loss,
by comparison. Leaving out such special
functions as the theatricals given by Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt this season, wnlcn
cost some $4,000. the average expenditure
OF the great financial families will foot up
each year from $4,000 TO $4,000 and SlcOOOO.
Whether IL Is better to spend their money
in this way and have IL find thousand
outlets or TO accumulate wealth and con-
serve IL, is not a very serious problem.
1t is a hard and stony path, indeed. that
the person treads who seeks an entree into
Newport society without proper creden-
tails. Great wealth. by persistently batter
ing with it's golden hammers. may ult-
mately accomplish the purpose, but at what
expense TO personal feelingi Even though
the magic barrier be lowered there are in
Vulnerable little intentional sights; quiet
ignoring of witty sallies; a cold liberation
Of anecdotal "Reminiscences, and an absolute
freezing out when Ii comes TO any discus
sion OF the newcomers personal posses
sions.
A wit-and he must be a clever one-who
reaches the Ultima Thule must always go
beyond his reputation. God knows the brain
flag those weary candidates endure, or the
number Of books they assimilate, to hold
their footing.
gauche or MISUNDERSTANDING which.
though old, is dressed in new garb-will
serve the purpose. Being a clown, wearing
impossible clothes, assuming an exagger-
ated walk, doing anything extraordinary
and coming from decent family, and.
above all, showing calm assurance while
doing IL. Will make Newport welcome the
eccentriques with open arms. But they
must maintain their Standard" their
stock in trade must never fall low. or there
Will be one more social corpse before the
season ends, with no mourners.
THE FOREIGN ELEMENT.
The one class at Newport whose MEM
bers do no entertaining, make no attempt
| to play cheap Scarrons-even though it were
possible-and indulge In no attempt at orig
inality. is the titled foreign element. Why
| do they go to Newport? Why abandon their
| favorite Monte Carlo, Trouville, AK les
| Bains, or Ostend?
Because there is no place in England or
the continent where a man takes his wife
| to meet his equals and settle down for a
| season of social intercourse. There is no
| comparison between Newport and any Eu-
| ropean summer resort. At Monte Carlo or
| any other among the transatlantic places
| the demimondaines rule practically the
social world, such as IL is, while gambling
is the chief attraction for all. Save AK les
| Bains, whittier numbers go for the honest
| curing of disease, the sole object of the for
| eigner in visiting the resorts is to gamble,
| while his wife becomes learned on the lat
| est mode in fashion from her husband S
| mistress, who smilingly acknowledges the
husbands salute In any public place.
| We have not come to that yet. But many
American men and women, If the evidences
| of Newport society have any weight, are
longing for the time when they can enter
| tain their social equals in their home and
| abroad and meet their mistresses openly as
| our distant neighbors do.
There is compensation in everything, and
| the very standard which Is being set at
| Newport in recent years has had an effect
| which Is essentially American. We have
| been and always will be busy, energetic
| people. Every man at the end of the season
| has asked himself and his neighbor:
| rs the Newport game worth the GAMBLER
| The answer growing more vigorous each
year, is that IT is not. II is not sane thing
| for a man or woman to spend six weeks
| running, coursing, tearing madly after a
myth of pleasure, after the unattainable of
! happiness
Perfect enjoyment is not yet. All things
are comparative. The man who mas spent
| $780, 900 in Newport may not grudge the
| money, but he remembers the days when he
| had many better time at the cost of s.
| bill.
Numbers OF families within the past few
years have left Newport forever and are
| enjoying their summers at more quite re-
| sorts along the Atlantic coast from Massa-
| chusetts to the Canadian line, with a sim
| plicity that makes the return to the city
| and its attendant renewal of winter gave
| ties sensation OF the spirit very different
| from the bored WEAKNESS of that return
| from Newport, when they merely wear
their evening costumes under a different
| environment.