The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
BAILEYS BEACH POPULAR SPOT
 FOR SERVANTS
Newport Society Hampers Cook, Mail and Butler to
 Get Service.

| your companion that the smart set of l ] Newport is splashing in the rolling | ! wet. For while Baileys Beach is the e7- l 1 elusive bathing beach of the most i exclusive Newport set in the morninG | from II to l, to be exact-in the | ! afternoon it is about as exclusive as ! a public Turkish bath on Saturday night before the continent went dry. l From 3 until every week after | noon the carefully guarded precincts | of Baileys Beach are thrown open to | the buffers, valets, maids and chaur- | feurs of the millionaire stockholders | of the bathing corporation 1 The family bathhouses, which are | used to shelter the more or less aris- | tocratic forms of wealthy cottagers | while they disrobe for their morning | dip, are turned over to the paid mem | bers of their respective households TOT | the selfsame purpose. | High or low tides make no differ | ence. The fashionable bathing hour is ! always the same.
 Rude and Vulgar Kept Away. | The generosity of the ultra-fashio-- l able Newport set in allowing their | servants the freedom of the seas is not l based on any of President Wilson's | IA points. Rather, it is founded on 1 their desire to get three square meals | a day.
 For the Newport cottagers nave suf- | fered from the servant pro--am Jus, as acutely as many flat dweicTs. To | keep their buffers, maids, laundresses and, most importsns of all, their cooks, from leaving them helpless In their marble palaces, they have aopr- ed a new policy toward their help | Higher wages having failed to keep | them COntented, many of the cOttag- CTS have inaugurated a system of pam | pering paternalism. And the privilege
 of bat thing at the exclusive BYiIeys Beach is not the least of these pater- nalistic indulgences.
 | As all Newportwise are aware, the bathhouses at BaiIeys Beach are own ed outright by the members of the corpora ton. And a. new conner in the cottage colony has to pay a fancy : price to rent one of them for the sea
 son-the number is limited and the
 "old guard" is conservative , The rude and vulgar public is kept Y away at all times. But as one old do-
 wager confided to me: One has to do . anything to keep the servants these I i days"
 Ocean Great LeveIer. f Outwardly, if the truth must be Q ] LDAO- tIltIt- IS liOL llluCiA ulllNIt tilHt De-
 tween Baileys Beach al 11:3O in the
 morning and 3:SO in the afternoon. . The same motors that bring the cot l 1 taSers to the beach in the morning S are there in the afternoon In fac. if it were not for the ab- I sence of the array of summer frocks. T | few strands of pearls and the spar . kle of certain celebrated diamonds, an X uninitiated visitor might easily mis- s take the afternoon bathing at BaiI-s $ e Beach for the real thing.
 Q The ocean. especially three or four s waves from the beach, las a habit of
 demOcratizing those who enter it. A - butler. floating on his back 50 yards
 e- m shore, might easily be mistaken I Tor a multi-millionaire; and a trim mid, in a close-fittinE bathing suit,
 might pass for a great heiress.
 Who is to say that the portly and
 highly respectable looking head laun-
 dress, standing mid-deep nearby. is ! not an eminent social leader. For the ocean is a great leveler, especially if
 the breakers are running high.
 By o'clock the group of costly ser . vitors has retired from the beach and [ rolled back in the family 1imousines. f for they have duties no less important
 than their employers. After that Bail
 eys Beach is a deserted spot.
 Quit on Slight Revocation.
 This bathing dispensauon at Bail
 ey's is merely one of the many con sessions which ultra smart Newporters
 have made to thet- help. Shorter
 hours. many half holiays, theatre tick
 cts. automobile rides and greatly in
 creased wages have long since been
 coming in vogue.
 For not only has it been a strenu-
 4,
 maids and laundresses to take engage
 ments, but it is even more difficult to
 keep them. They have a habit of quit
 ting on the slightest provOcation and usually Gt the most inconvenient times
 The number of luncheon dinner in
 vitations that have been recalled this
 summer as a result of walkouts in
 the servants hall is astounding.
 Only the other evening the mistress
 of one of the handsomest estates on
 Belmont avenue sat down to dinner
 about an hour later than was ner
 wont She had been playing bridge 7 with some friends and had forgotten t the time. The butler served the dinner f as usual but the lady of the house a roticed that every course was cold. r Whats the matter with tI: dinner 2 this evening, James, she asked, po- Q litely, for she did not wish to offend
 the butler.
 . 'The cook left half an hour ago to e go to the theater," James explained, , adding that he was very ec:'ry, but also that it couldn't be helped.
 OOock Her Limit.
 The following morning the cook put Q in an appearance.
 , "The dinner was cold last night ," . | reminded the lady of the house, who
 brides herself on being tactful.
 You'll have to have your mea! s :, at regular hours replied the cook, !. "Or I won't stay. I won't stay in the l kitchen after o'clock at night for any one"
 And before the lady of the house could reply the cook added: I'm tired of standing over that hot orange. think I'll quit now, seeing that 5 l-- begun to find fault with me"
 i'd, despite the fact that a
 ests had been invited for Iun-
 Jle lady of the manor not Ito recall the invita tions but
 into the kitchen herself to a. ae preparation of her own