Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-17
LIFE At PORTSMOUTH
Latest Wrinkles of Habitues
of That Place.
RISERS FOR SUNRISE
INCIDENTS OF HOTEL LIFE AT
PEACE CONFERENCE.
Today the First in Three That is En-
joyable-How Foreigners Adopt
American Customs.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Speciai DlspHtch 10 Inc Star.
PORTSMOUTH. N. H, August 17.-Get-
ting up to see the sun rise is the newest
fad around here. The sunrises on this
coast are really superior articles, and of
the hundred who promise themselves each
night to see 1t next morning, probably ten
or fifteen really get up in time. The others
are going to see a sunrise some time when
1t responds to an encore say about am
Today's was worth seeing, really. The
globe, laced with red streaks like blood
shot eye, edged slowly out of the mirrored
sea. The eastern sky burned with the sal
mon and yellow tints that you find in the
bosom of a ripe musk melon. Down to
earth streamed the golden ladder that
Jacob climbed, and in the middle distance
seagull poised on a lazy wing gave just
the one touch of life that was needed to
round out the picture. 1t was Venus rising
from her bath, for sure.
The hotel is a fine place to view 1t. New
Castle Island roughly speaking, takes the
shape of a fattened hand with the fingers
outspread in the surf and the Wentworth
perched upon a swollen knucSle joint OF
the thumb.
Pictures of the Atlantic.
In front is the Atlantic, whose breakers
endlessly lather the rocky reef a giant
val oci' iil'aIiIlS lb SIldNt the SedWGed
whiskers off the jaws of the harbor. but
never finding time to finish the job OF
clear day one may glimpse the silver
flashes the big combers break upon the
white isle of shoals far out beyond. To the
west there is an even prettier view. A sue
cess.on of narrow lagoons and toy penin-
sulas encompasses the knoll itself
Further on are row of hills topped with
stln pine trees, reminding one of angry
tabby cats arching their spines and lifting
their back hair. Further still is Ports
mouth, kittery, the navy yard, with its
wireless telegraph mast speari1g the sky
line, and furthest away of all, shouldering
the horizon out of plumb. lies a vague blue
clump which often passes for a cloud
when there are any clouds-Mount Wash
ingtOn.
Mount Washington is distant eighty odd
miles, measured that way. BY hotel cab
rates 1t is distant about s475. Both these
figures are conservative.
Delightful Weather Today.
This Is the first day in three that there
has been anything much except rain, and
everybody is enjoying dampless weather
to the fullest. But the rain didn't feeze
two of the golf fiends, middle-aged men
with commercial side-w WHISPERS, both of
them. In the midst of a downpour ycster-
day afternoon they put on machintoshes
and played nine holes One of the caddies
throat and his mother made him take IT
along.
Switchboard and diving for cocktail
cherries engaged nearly everybody else that
wears trousers TIC women played bridge
or scandalized the neighbors with summer
resort gossip in groups about the wood
fires in the lobby. Along toward dark
lot OF them went up to one OF the cottages
for a lawn party. Seeing that 1t wasn't
expedient 10 give rain checks the lawn
party took place in the house: The women
voted unanimously to call the weather
mean old thing.
The Japanese Correspondents.
One of the japanese correspondents began
his story with the following words: For
the first time in my life l have just played
Switchboard. Being a Jap l won"
This piece of information cost his paper
| at the exhilarating rate of 81 IS a word He
confessed later that he felt tempted to
tell his readers something about the in
wardness of Switchboard He could do it in
a hundred words easily, but he finally de-
cided to give them Il few lines on the peace
conference instead. 1t is this spirit which
induced the Russians to move out of Port
Arthur
Two other of Nippons exported reporters
had their first game of pyramid pool this
morning. The fact that they used a pony
built table In the ladies billiard parlor didn't
matter. Both of them small men and
they played a very lady-like game One
insisted at the start on shooting with the
butt end of his cue explaining that 1t made
1t easier. Every time either pocketed
| ball they shook hands They didn't shake
very often Meanwhile two OF the Rus
slams winning at Switchboard from
| an all-American team.
Pick Up Our Customs Fast.
The foreigners pick up our American in
| stitutions fast. Several have already
learned to take their rye straight without
settler chasers
Even the humblest New Highlander In
these parts speaks with a Boston accent,
o. tries to. All of the native help are TAX
ing lessons regularly the broad "a, "
but they haven't had much practice and &C.
cas:onally one of them forgets his or her
notes and fats badly The small boy
hes going on 14-who drives the bus to
town, handles his as in faultless style.
ASK him the hour and he says, "Harlf parst
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