The sun., 1903-07-05
EADS THAT AMUSE NEWPORT.
rBE HATLESS YOUNG WOMAN A
VERY POPULAR ACCIDENT.
chance started the "Hair-Huan giny-DOwn-
thc-Back' Fashion, hut II Has Spread
Red Riding Hoods. Parrots and
Punching Bags Other New Notions.

aCcitnlul. lllS was llt NdSt NltAi NlIT
.Inr- hanging g-down-the-back" fad. 1t has
become popular, and the fame Of the three
Young women who started it has spread
far and near. 1t has even gone so far
tha, when the excursion boats come to
Newport half the girls who land from them
have their hair dressed in child fashion.
Miss Natica Rives, daughter OF Mrs.
George l.. Rivcs, and Miss Cynthia Roche,
daughter of Mrs. Burke Roche, made an
engagement one evening to meet the next
morning at o o'clock. As the fates would
have il, that very morning was the time
appointed for the maids Of these young
women to shampoo their locks.
Whatever the cause of the maids delay
in performing their duties, when the opera
ton was only half completed ii was nearly
Q O'Clock, and both young women, each
unknown TO the other, were in quandary.
That engagement could not be postponed,
but then there were the moist tresses
Of both girls TO be considered
Miss Rives in a worried state OF mind
tclephoned to her friend and told OF her
predicament To her surprise Miss Roche
Lad a similar tale OF woe to unfold. What
could they do?
A series of Il will, if you will" went
ewnoping over the wires between Swan
hurst and Elm Court and the result was
nat half an hour later Miss Rives and
Miss Roche appeared on Thames street,
10 the surprise of their friends and every
one else, with streaming locks, which, by
that time, had been dried by the wind
While Miss Rives was on the high seat of
the carriage she looked like pretty little girl
of ten Her ut-brown hair, which doesn't
reach far below her shoulders, was tied
mp on top with wide black ribbon, and the
rnconfned ringlets were wind-bown about
her pretty face.
Miss Roche rejoices in the fact that her
hair reaches far below the waist line, and
on that morning the long plat of dark
brown hair hanging down her back made
her look like a very tall, very young school
girl.
There is a trinity of leaders in the young
set, and the other member of the trinity
is Miss Natalie Schenck. When she
happened to meet the other two with their
flying locks. she stopped short and gazed
at them until they gave an explanation,
She thought it was a good joke, and
straightway removed the hairpins that
confined her blond tresses and climbed
into the cart with her two chums, and all
three, with flying hair. drove about the
town. SO much for the introduction of
the hanging-hai fad.
The trinity that lead never adopt the
fads introduced by anybody else. They
prefer to be strictly original, and when
the Presidents daughter, Miss Alice Roose-
velt, set the fad for the walking sticks it
was utterly ignored by the Newport girls.
They never play the game Of follow my
leader. Their game is TO lead.
Last summer when a stray kitten made
its appearance on the Casino lawn not a
soul noticed it for weeks. 1t came and
went. receiving no attention unless it hap
pened to get under somebody's feet. But
suddenly kitty, heretofore unnoticed,
achieved fame, and was Immediately taken
up by society.
Happening to see it one morning, Miss
Roche picked up the little bundle of fur,
caressed il, named il and announced to
her friends that she had adopted 1t, and
expected every one of them to treat it
politely.
Poor kttie never recovered from the
shock The change from her former humble
tIHIIlfl WItIl Etlt' iRi' w ct tippi'd'li
of the smart set, was in too vivid contrast
to her present position, when she was
whstlrd for coaXed, petted and fed with
the choicest mor els from the grill room
tables.
As some one termed it, the sine SOM
brero" fad is an old one. 80 old In fact that
To 500 girl with n hat is novelty. The
delicate pink and white compilations have
all disappeared, and the bright red cheeks,
wit healthy coat of tan, to say nothing
Of fe rrectlrs, max, a vast difference in
I'll" 10, of the girls,
r ivon up the month of June, which was
droa,nlly dull in Newport, the girls tried
ifsr one scheme and then another. 1t was
too wet for tennis and golf and too cold for
bathing and all sorts of stunts were tried 10
Kill time
Long walks in the pouring rain, hatless
mGrmbrelaless, were tried for time and
even that palled Then all their energies
were concentrated in designing rain coats.
the like Of which had never been seen be-
fore
If this rain coat fad becomes as popular
a. the hatless and hanging-hair fad, there
will be a season OF countless little Red Riding
Hoods, az the girls finally decided that moth
inr but bright red rain coats would do.
and the effect was startling. 1t rained
almost continuously during the month
Of June and the young women found plenty
Of time to sport their new coats, ana any
dav vou could see either driving or prom
enadnR, Miss Natalie Schenck, Miss Gym
thia Roche, Miss Natica Rives, Miss Gladys
Brooks, Miss Laura Swan, Miss Anna Best
and Miss Nora Iselin. veritable studies in
scarlet
The red rain coats furnished topic of
conversation for a few days, and of course
1t was time to search for another fad. But
what should it be? That was the question.
People must have something new, and
the trinity announced that il must be some
thing athletic.
Why not have punching bags? some one
asked Punching the bag IL great exercise
and had never been tried before by these
Young women. Consequently in the pavil-
ion at Blilev's Beach half "A dozen punch
ing bags were suspended, and the young
women met there every morning to exhibit
their skill to ndmiring spectators.
The adoption Of iads IL not confined 10
the Younger set. Even the Staid matrons,
Young and old, indulge their pet long
ings Mrs, Belle Kemp has marvellous
parrot n beaut iful green bird with bright
round eyes and wonderful vocabulary.
Not only is this parrots vocabulary exten-