The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-29

vice; and he must entertain at least
once week. 1t is impossible to be in
the set for the entire season at an ex-
penditure of less than S. 1000.
Taking that end of Newport's social
life which might best be described as
skinny" the basis of expense is set
at $4,000 for a period of six weeks. The
sum mentioned represents money, ex-
pended actually in Newport. But there
is a preliminary outlay which is almost
as large.
For instance: My lady must calcu-
late on dressing at least four times a
day. She must have in readiness at
least a breakfast gown, the change for
driving, the inevitable tea function and
the elaborate gown for dinner None
of these dresses may be worn oftener
than twice a week, and the cost of the
morning costumes cannot possibly be
less than $50 apiece. The driving dress
es, which must be rather smart, will
cost $40, and the tea gowns-fiuffy
things generally-S25. For the evening,
when all real functions occur at New
port, the exterior feminine apparel rep
resents, in the same ratio, no less than
$3.50 for each gown donned. Eight hun
bred and forty dollars is the sum ex-
pended to make any woman present
able
The male member of humanity, I'M
like all other males of the animal king
dom, is the more soberly CARRIED; yet
he must have a knockabout suit, at
$50; tennis suit, at $40; a golf outfit,
at $40; a driving suit, at SIS, and an
evening dress suit, for 800. Thus even
the mans outlay for necessary cloth
ing is $685.. Here you have a total ex-
penditure of s1,1O5 for attire-and de-
pressingly cheap at that.
There must be four servants, even
in your Cliff cottage. Their salaries
that is the word they use, in ali its
hit NTH NTH NTH mt'tmh mtfamfm
to $500 for the season. And when you
approach the horse question the first
item to be considered is the distance
from which you come and the number
of horses. There must be at least
three. II is safe to assume that the
cost of horses-transportation back
and forth included-will be $500. That
brings the total $2105. One need but
to think of an experience where he
started for an outing without prepar-
ing for incidentals and he will remem-
Der that the incidentals usually occupy
the proportion of two to one of actual
preliminary expenditure.
If it were not that the interest in a
table is as fiat as tables surface a
list could be compiled of necessary ex-
penses at Newport which would be as
brutally discouraging to the aspirant
with a mere competency of afew hun
dred thousand as are those 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 a refuge.
But any list that could be devised, if
it were to pass beyond the representa-
tive items l have enumerated, would
be misleading. Go to a ready made
store and buy its best white vests, and
you can economic at S. or &c. 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 Is vests, all
madeb y your own trusted tailor, at
from $40 to SIS, according to material.
With four vests you will be pre-
sentable and unhappy; with Is you