Year: 1874

OF the gay silks as they work their "tent stit CHI
heacet proceeding and suggests Iuture work
Tor the oculist in rather unpleasant manner
There is nothing that these ialr workers DON'T
the old array OF sofa cushions and tides, aghans
&C., but an entirely new motion" which seems 10
take the place the endless slipper and suspender
GIFT to the IN ascullnc friend. has up, in the
form of a napkin holder, which Is really an embroi-
dered strap Win mo- nook & az eacn end TO Whic m nne
about the neck OF the masculine recipient when be
is feeding. That really seems to be the most fitting
word to Ue used In the connection. The fashion Is
French so questionable compliment OF the gllt may
be freely translated. But outside of all these IDLE
occupations OF the jewel people and the carriage
QUITE ANOTHER STYLE OF LIFE


at Newport One OF the mliOnnaireeses, season
or two ago, when the question OF the horse rail-
road was brought up to be put down again by the
carriage folk said quite seriously, when the argu-
ance TO the poorer class Of day visitors ralsed
LET the mel poor people 60 somewhere else. Newport
AS matter OF course the rich people have had
their way to o great extent. The horse railroad
has been defeated because OF the contemplated
injury TO the carriage driving. and as It is tue car
riage driving people who have made the great
modern prosperity OF Newport nobody can deny
their right OF way; but that there was another
way out where no property could ba injured and
no lastdtous taste offended there ls also no deny.
ing, and that way could have been found by max
ind longer detour skrting Thames street and
the Bath road, but landing the car passenger on
the hill or the beach at his pleasure, thus saving





old omnibus all these years at the extOrtlOnaJe
price OF fifteen cents per person. This year the
day excursoning has grown into such "a feature"
that the omnibus has been replaced by light, airy
beach wagon, similar to that used at Central Park.
Every day now until September bOatloads OF people
will come down from Providence and all along shore
with these excurslOnists. The first thing to do IS
to take seat IN the beach wagon and "0yer to the
beach.n Back again, there Is Hartmann's on the
hill, where lunch at Parker and Fifth avenue
prices can be had; or II one Is familiar with New
port, there are Dad little shOps-quaint, Old-iash-
ttn p,.nOn tkn thA <A nuliSh
pastry cook shops, down Thames street-whefe
cup or tea and homemade bread and butter and
% mestic dainty can be had ior an Old-iashioned
price. And sitting there the visitor may fancy
that he is in the ola days when washington e made
visit OF his so queer and quaint are the surround
ings even now. Newporti Is not alone for the rich
people, great as the Outcry is at season prices.
The person of limited means may rent early in the
summer simple questionable, but comfortable
house, for the year. He may occupy it Tor the sea-
son and rerent to townspeOple at the same mod


SOLVES THE coNuNDRuM


OF moderate living at Newport for the markets are
not unreasonable. And with this manner Of living
one may get some of the most cultivated society,
the charm that Is always there OF unequalled
climate and the fascination OF the old city itself,
which dOzes along the wharves In the old fashion.
Any woman, too, be she OF the ultra fashlOnables
or In simpler state OF society," II she have shred
OF wOmaniy taste, will turn kindly to q watering
place which gives her such pretty range OF shops
where she can buy, not unreaS0n3bly, every thlng
IRON


FRENCH HAT


to shoestrfng. Newport in the season offers
something TO everybody. II you are blue and book.
ism you can go up to the old Redwood Library and
read books the French officers read in the days Of
the Revolution OF 1774 or the mornings HERALD OF
1874. II you are lover OF nature and want quiet
and rest you can get 1t at the Point on Washington
street. Colonel Higginson's old port, which, thus
named though 1t has q very why and convivial
1lavor, is the very acme OF quiet and-dulness II
you are fashionable you can have bit of Paris and
London and New York society compressed into a
drives round Tor your pleasure. And II you are
young and giriish and delicIOusly foolish you can
have all those pretty youths at the torpedo station
TO look at and hirt with. WHAT more can young
lemininlty ask AMI what more can any one ask
than to be separately suited at this rate ?