Year: 1868

RYE, N. H., August 7, 1868.


This somewhat out OF the way place for New
Workers has proved itself far this year to be second
to no summer resort in New England outside OF
Rhode Island. The crowds that have already been
here this and have gone their various ways
other resorts have been counted among the thou
sands, and there are here at present in the hotels
and private boarding houses over seven hundred
permanent VISITORS


The attractions OF the place are manifold, many of
them not unworthy Of


Poets dream or summer idy.


The beach, however, Is the principal object OF In
terest, and finer cannot be found on the Allan
tic coast True, 1t is not 80 extensive as some we
wo Of but what there Is OF it is of good bottom and
there s q total absence OF undertow which, if no.
thing else, should be sufficient to render it quite
popular.


The hotels are all doing very nne business and
as the landlords are in the best OF humor think that
extraordinary fact il the strongest desirable proof
that comfortable profit Is being daily recorded in
their favor. There are at present two hotels and
each is conducted plan that cannot fail to make
their patrons feel at home and consequently con-
tented with the world and all the rest OF mankind.


BY the way there are many New York girls here
Now Gotham, In its gallantry, would doubt call
them young ladies' even to those who wear short
skirts but the foolish people about Rye have the de-
spcabe habit of calling things by their right
names However, many OF these girls are doing their
best TO create sensation and in many instances
they succeed beyond their own desires Now, /
don't take the register authority for saying what
with an awfully unpronounceable name, and who
lives not hundred miles from the Bowery, cooy
register himself as from st. Petersburg the other
day; but the majority OF these ladies advertise them
selves In ways that are unmistakabe.


A New York 'girl OF the perod' at Rye doesn't
differ essentially from New York girl out Of town
anywhere else. She rises the morning after all
the dishes are cleared away, and comes down to
breakfast dressed to K because then she is seen to
better advantage the young men being unearly
grubsl and the admiration Of the multitude is con-
oentrated on the point, as 1t would not be if
servers the better aud as little competition pos
sible, for light, even dim light il best seen by
itself than among other lights, you know. She sits
down to table with her siken skirts all carefully
spread about for frightened walters to break their
ebony necks over, and gives her order oh with what
an air OF ''Do you know who am, sir" The order
executed, the steak that has been the theme OF
praise Of host OF guests she turns over and over
with knife and fork held as near the tip ends as pos
sibe, as though even proximity to the article was
communicating; and then, showing the plate aside,
with poutng lip she declares the ''stur positively
vile, and such potatoes Why they were actually
boiled with their jackets or and what is that dirty
T@ e e se az ms Of
stewards treasures to please only to dsplease, and
finally comes to the conclusion that the young lady
must have been so tenderly brought up and Of such
well bred family Just what she doesn't want him
or anybody else to think of course Strengthened
by this thought he disappears moment, comes back
with steak, and swears that 1t was prepared for
her especially. 'FOr me especially ah. indeedr'
and the young gentlemen across the table are looked
at patrOnzingly, as though she'd like to say, "YOu
see don't eat the same meat ordinary people do"
Yet the steak is the same she at first declared sun
eatable." But then that's her business, not the
walters And between meals how the New YORK
girl fixes up What excessive labor to make ones
self look as though the country air must moderate
its freshness IL disurbs rufie, curl scarf
for didn't she come to the side for health and not
for show Then, just after tea when everybody takes
q little walk and tres to alnuse him or herself in
various country ways In all sorts Of neglige attres,
is she lost to views BY no means. She bursts out
upon the take-iteasy thing with silks and sstins Of
tall and diameter actually exceeding that OF five
cent piece, which give her such . graceful bend In
for something and the something couldn't see it,"
and she were held fast about the waist by an elastic
the little man in the organ Who asks You for penny
and don't get 1t. Moreover, she Is so particular,


is the New York girl She despises the choking dress
Of the Bos0nenne worn at evening hops and herself
wears much about her feet that there Ia scarcely


any covering left for the shoulders; but then little
pretty, and II they do slip down once IN while and


the waist with them, why It's nobody's business


And isn't hop hop after allf And II the trail bt
you YOU know, std that's exactly what ATT the 'U weare,
doesn't want any one to admlre.not she; it Is moi
always takes the relns, ana il She gets hold q 3
four Ia hand and drag "a scarce article herel why
Se psar sOs on te % e 8 e' as t vs ss f


boisterotis tone quite delightful to hear; but then
sac won't tolerate any gentleman being 30 profane as
to say ''by George" In her presence, for George
must have been an improper character. She knows
that, and you can't argue the question with her.
But in conversation, II she enlivens 1t with a few
choice expressions such chang II, ~ 'skedadde,
you little devil" TO child, or In the midst Of a
breakdown, to gentleman friend, Ego in lemons,''
she knows that she Is well Bred her father owns his
brown stone, and such lively phrases are sign OF
smartness.