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JH" THE TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1895. 13 mjiammmmxmmmmM mmmmzmgmm 1 -JS 3$i ' M X J$ dainty shell of birch, with Us crimson live who isn't Irresistible. Pretty, slen- CHVJkP a Sf3 . $ 4&51S ' cushions, as if she were an Indian girl der girls, with brilliant mobile faces JkEL ,y jfirml -5? 1 &W31, bred to the woods and the -waves. Her seem to be drawn here by instinct, and S?3? 'MiSSr & $l favorite excursion is to Long Forcu- among them all Miss Julia Dent Grant, 7fyfa&2F& Ji MBk. V3I Pine, whose cleft and caverns give room Col. Fred Grant's beautiful daughter, 2 "''MllStmsi&S 2E& -?9l jJSL for a whole summer's explorations. comes near to being the reigning belle. I 4$ JltU ''aMxgty J sfc. 8k Jb ' Another expert with the paddles Is Miss Grant is one of the best dressed I $&S i ft ,' WET' CI, $ (WZl Mrs. John Jacob Astor, who, while she girls at Bar Harbor, as well as one of the k&S WhfW vyillrwSs r EX t, was here, sometimes handled the dainty prettiest, and her frocks at the Kebo dinner &? ttffl S--l Sk ' implement Herself and sometimes hand- dances are models of Trench tobto and in- 1 Sk &J Es jA&ZK J ed lt: vcr to nig Thunder, the red genulty. Sweet pea tinted tulle over pale Q'Qh&cZL vw31233 r. mnn wll ls most eJci)erL of al1 Bar UarDor ' " " SaSilSvK yy3F f I t braves with the shining blades. Mrs. "is-g jfm-'h "yVTflfljjfSgE RsW Astor wears dark blue serge when Bhc goes -s l&' 0WJ9m&T? M SH j xgz&Q&y Nf canoeing, tucked up fish wife fashion, over rSy rWW&JV, tS &)) fev a I,etUcoat r crimson. J$iE$$1(t&ik JS3?- mLS? Sp'l$ ff W I&& I II 7 Miss Hliikle, of Chicago, has a canoo built l f''&k, l TSSKfeV i (! .ry F1 7 especially for her, all silvery gray, with tirrrfi C$v Hs!-" jKjly' S il r tlle slIky burcn outside, all blue and silver 'Ci'55 " w fts-H I f Mifi3 IIUlle sLs as far as Efre Rock Jjfv I 4Ql 'PvKS -vil 1 lighthouse alone, but not when bhe can bo '5&T - ,"S ' L nlKSL. . I induced to profit by the muhcle of a bold rSfl'- pSr-v ' SHR n volunteer waterman. '4 VS. ;'J' IMhP. il L ,15 The Bar Harbor canoe ls light and swift, -gjl ll-W J W . 'WSWS I I nearer the Indian model than any other iSk 'l! jj I SSMf! pleasure boat used. "With a crinibon para- ;lS:-P!!;'" fy ''fit I yMJilL I Eo1 at one cud and wullc duck troUfcers at ' v " ---t -- -c v '&'& I cfVfJis!; T the other, it carries as much summer fun i SfjPJlSP r ad frolic as a craft can hold BAH HAKBOR GIRLP. S'fWV J ws?jKSV7' J I Tue be8t ulcvcl r,(lcr al Bar "arbor Is Jy 7 Mrs- wllUa c l)cl,,iy. of Boston, who is V JgS'- z I '( ouL ou luc 0ccau ,)rlve or Ba' Drive every ; m!&m' . CANOEING AT BAR HARBOR How tlie Summer Girl Smiles on Rocky Mount Desert BUOKBOAED, GOLF, BIOYOLES Summer Sports and Well Known "Women "Who Are Best at Them. ' Bar Harbor, Aug. 9. This "Eastern Isle of Bden" makes one think always of scarlet Btooklngs It J b tradition rrom the days from CliRmplain discovered "IIsle des Monts Deserts," or did Mrs. Burton Har iiMi couple the Ideas in a more recent but stfil comparatively remote epoch -when she wrote "Goldenrod" and told cf the daily dress parade on the piazzas of the Rodick, wiiere three times a day pretty girlt gather "u plan exourtJons, abjure fogs, exchange uovelb and cat chocolate bonbons," all TvHIi "tle most dellghftul liberality in the dtejrtay of scarlet Etockings, which, with high-heeied fclippcrs and sparkling buckles, are tcattered over the verandas like pop ples In a field?" Mrs. Burton Harrison ls Btill here, and Jlodlok is still here, the scarlet etockings are still here; everything Is the same, and yet everything Is changed. The "fish pond" of the Rodick, as the office of this famous hotel used to be called, because suoh tempting bait was here available, and to many golden fish were caught by fair girl anglers, is not quite the rendezvous of old. It wah in the "fish pond" that Tred Gebhard met MIra Lulu Morrib, now Mrs Gcbhard, and it was the possibilities of the fihh pond" that made the original cummer girl, if the summer girl ever had an original, fcigh, "Better three hours of Mount Desert than three seasons of New Tori:;" but though there are still scarlet petticoats and bcarlet umbrellas, and though the buckboard and the canoe are in the! r glory , Bar Harbor has become, almost as much as Xewport, a cottage city. Money has destroyed tho quaint yellow, red and brown-unted fish er village huddled on the coast of $JiSr- H M "Itocfclns "Tho gray and thunder-fimiltcn pile which marks afar the Desert Isle." But money has built palace "cottages" which are In better taste than Newport's because bomething of the gay freedom of the life baa got into their architecture and made them lit better -with their background of pine-covered crags and their foreground of blue waters and fairy islands Money has anchored a fleet of pleasure yachts in the harbor side by tide with the fishing smacks and the birch canoes, and withal money has not yet driven away the paint ers, the fetudents, the professors the would be boys again, and all the merry band of vacationers who wear stout shoes, dress like (artistic) tramps and live like gods to gether Uirough long days of glorious sun shine in this crystal atmosphere. The Bar Harbor girl sits on the rocks. The worldisfamiliarwith thatfact. Before she leaves h ome she plans h ersu miner ward robe to be effective agalnste a rock Tho best rocks are along the shore walk. In front arc the black masses of tho bald por cupine, against which the spray dashes white, and behind is the foam-wet shrub bery that hides this multi-millionaires palaces Perched upon a Jutting ledge, in the fullsunshine. for a rich tawny brownskin is as much the standard of beauty hero as in the Marquesas, is a girl in pale green duck, with scarlet blouse and scarlet pop ples nodding on her big picture hat A near let sash ih folded Into a close belt about her waist and tied with long floating ends be- Golfing nt Kelbo Valley Club House. hind. That hat, by the way, Is of green shirred muslin, airy and dainty enough for a garden party There are water colors handy and a book, but Miss Morton, for it ls the eldest daughter of the Governor of Xew York whom onehnacaughfrocking," isIookingoutoverthewatersofFrenchman's Bay A young man lies at her feet in such comfort as young men can take upon rocks, and a little beyond is a blonde girl all in white, from the dancing plume of her white organdie hat to the toe of her little white shoe. Her white organdie dress stirs with every puff of wind thntplaya with the curls of her red gold hair. Rocking by moonlight Is more chilly and more sentimental. The warning light In the tower of Egg Rock lighthouse chines like a star upon the horizon. The waters are still, save for the flash of a canoe paddle or the refrain of a boat ing song. The cry of a loon sounds from overhead like the shriek of a lust soul going out with the tide. Presently the fog settles down damp and dark, taking the curl out of one's hair, and inclining one to nestle rather closely, for protec tion only, to the side of the nearest young man. Thus Jt Is that engagements are made at Bar Harbor. Perhaps the best canoeist here ia Mrs. Frederick Gebhard, who manages her mmm? mmmmff vy-JMfXV jt ' mm A Canoo Tarty. morning in a smart short Bkirt of cheviot, with blouse and high russet nlioes Thr most graceful rider is Miss Pauline Whittle, whose engagement to Almerlo Hugh Paget does not prcent her taking a most lively interest in the n heel In a white serge costume with blue facings, or in trim fitting black, with touches or white here and there, she ls invariably one of the most picturesque figures that spin past the bold mountain barriers or through the pictur esque glens. Miss Alice Webb, daughter of Dr Seward Webb, ls another of Bar Harbor's devotees of the wheel Coasting down the hilly Eagle Lake road, under the spruces and the cedars, she ls very pretty to look upon in her natty dress of blue duck with black and white facings. The bicycle flower drill of a few daya ago was one of the most piquant events of the season. Twenty-five or thirty v heels were in lino and the most fancifully deco rated waB ridden by a Baltimore girl in a long, dark fikirt, with enormous bunches of nasturtiums hanging by gay ribbons from the handle bar. Out at the links . f the Kcbo Talley club house they play golf because they like it, and not, as at Newport, becauso they are "faddy." Kebo is an ideal, country club set around with green hills. The gold course is too Emooth, according to English Ideae, but the summer men in checked tweed Knickerbockers and Highland gaiters, and the bummer girls in blue duck and scarlet linen swing their Eticks as zealously aa if life depended on long drives and keeping well up with the ball. Mrs. W. Seward Webb is the best golfer among the women who have been over the links this cummer. She wcara a tartan plaid blouse and a short black skirt looks as if Bhe meant businef s and makes scores worthy of record every day. Mrs. John Jacob Astor is a good goffer also, but is benteu by Miss Rockefeller, perhaps the richest heiress in America. This much envied young woman appears on the links with her fiance, Mr. narold McCor- :t$- "StaIlwooa,,, Mrs. James G. Blaine's Summer Residence. mlck of Chicago; she in white duck, he ditto; and whether thoy make recordB or not, there is always the ecent of the wild rosea and tho red raspberries, and the flicker of the sun through tho birch trees to make life fairer and fuller of enjoyment. The girl who drives at Bar Harbor may have a smart little trap, but sho is much more apt to handle the lines from the front seat of a buckboard. The roads arc bo hilly that tho Mount Desert buckboard, one of the handsomest and most comfortable vehicles in America, has been evolved. Mlsa Helen Brlce, while on her viBlt from New port, showed her abdity to govern even a five-seated buckboard. Miss Morton and Miss Garland are good drivers, but the es sence of -Jollity in "Eden" though I don't need the quotations, for such iB the truly name of tho township is attained only when the buckboard has three on a Beat with a strong man at tho reins, and goes tearing up hill and down, through woods rich in tho balsam of fir and pine trees to some bold summit, where one can dismem ber cold chicken and eat anchovy sand wiches as ono looks down 2,000 feet of precipiqe into the chafing ocean. A crimson xug or a nig crimson umbrella ia a peculiarly effective "property" to . bring to a picnlo of this order, and against 1 such a background the summer girl doesn't -f-2- "7i ' ''"Sw? lJVEH.'- VCA iSl 9V?V. t 'msP& ?75r plnk silk has been one of her recent suc- cessess. Pale can.irytullo with goldenrod garnitures was another and decidedly buushiny gown. Mrs. Potter Talmer'a toilets are wor thy of remarks everywhere and always. Last Saturdav night at Kebo she wore a Dresden patterned silk flounced with black lace, and with a black laco bertha to the low bodice. At a recent dinner she wore a soft Wattenu satm, with black velvet and Jet , garnitures At a small luncheon sho wore black nccordeon-plaited muslin, with no Adornment, but bunches of Bweet peas, v-j" At Kebo jeatorday Mrs. Levi P. Mor ton woro soft, ,uidreEsed black 6atin. Miss Morton worerwhito corded sllk with broad satin ribbons Miss Mary Harri son, of Philadelphia, who has some claims to the belleship, wore shadowy India mus lin over silk of soJ delicate a tint as to suggest the flush df pink,"rather than to force attention tpithe color Mrs John Minturn woro Persian mauve silk and Mrs Morris K. Jerslp black acoardeon plaited muslin, trimmed with white lace edgings and with a-wbite lace collar. Beautiful Stauwood la open, but one sees little of Mrs. James G. Blaine. Mrs llurton Harrison, too, lives very quietly at the "Sea Urchins," Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the Iew xurk World, hus spent more money than one would like to count improving "Chatwold," an enormous place, all turrets and towers. On Ogden's Polut George W. Vanderbilt is lavishing money without stint on his estate, Point d'Ar cadla. But what matter summer palaces or frocks for the German when sumac flames, when tall grasses bend beneath their weight of brlntnge, when giant brakes spread out their lajers of green, and when under the shoulder of huge rocks drift wood fires burn close to the surf, which swirls up between black and frowning walls? Here is a stretch of beach glitter- Miss Pauline Whitney. ing with the green species of sea urchins, there a pool filled with starfish and starry anemones. The red and gray and purple of the rocks blend with indescribable mel lowness, and, take it all in all, one needs not people when one sees Bar Harbor's charms of cliff and sea, and needs not na ture when one sees Bar Harbor's pretty girls. ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON. Her Way. Clara You've heard me speak of youug Mr. Bagster, haven't you? Maud Oh, yea. l Clara Do you know , the f ello w has fallen in lovo with rael Maud Has he said anything? Clara Oh, no. Maud Aro you eure? Clara Yes, iiuleed. I can tell by so many ways. I know he is on the eve of proposing, and yet diffidence hqlda him back. Maud What arc you going to do accept him? ' 8 Clara Mercy C no. That's what troubles me. He's nhje, and all that, but I know I could never love him, and certainly never would consent to niarry him. Yet I don't want him to think I am a coquette. Maud I nee. 'What you want to do is to atop him where he is. Clara Exactly. Can you suggest a way? Maud Certainly. Send him to see me. Harpor'n Bazar. An TJnromantlo "View of It. "Do you believe in the transmigration of soula, Mr. Oldbatch?" asked Mies Birdie McGinnls. "Certainly I do. Whenever a man goes down on his knees before a woman to beg for her heart or her hand, or possibly hoth, T am suro ho possesses the soul of a camel, that goes down on his kneeB bo that heavy burdena can be placed on his back," re plied the cynical old pessimist. Texaa Siftings. - Tliorousli. Attacked Lady What more do you want? I have given you all my Jewelry and money. Highwayman Havo you do more gold or silver about you? Let me aee your teeth. Huruoriatische Blaetter. . i 1 Iris FEAIL BAEKS, YOU ENOW, AEE GEEAT MATCH MAKEES. Young" Paget Courted Miss Whit ney in One on the Historic Nile. Canoeing must hereafter take an import ant place in summer amusements, and par ticularly in such ones as refer to the summer heiress and the bait by which she is caught. Indeed, the more womanish pastimes must step back while canoeing comes to the fore. It waB going up the Nile in a canoe that youngAlmerlc Hugh Paget, of Englaud, won the heart of Miss Pauline Whitney, of America, one of this country's most noted catches. The Nile stories, like all othcra pertain ing to that btream ever since Mosea and the bulrushes, has different versions. One is that Misi Whitney and Mr. Paget canoed in opposite ends of the boat until patience ceased to be a virtue, and Mr. Paget threw away his paddle and declared himself. Another is that Mr. Paget was not In the canoe at all, but that he remained with the party on shore, which included Mr. Whitney, Mr. Pane, the rich Western uncle of Miss Pauline, and those interesting boy brothers, while Miss Pauline with boine girl friends took a small Egjptian canoe, with a paddle at each end, and started up stream. They paddled. all the morning, and when they tame back so lively a description did they give of their morning that young Paget be came jealous of the wooden canoe and ac cubeil Miss Pauline of forgetting him for a senseless thing like that. Explanations followed and the engage ment was announced to the party ere the Spnlnx of the Nile was bidden adieu. But like the Sphinx the party were to be speechless until bidden to talk. However, actions spoke so much louder than words that the engagement has just been told abroad to the world a season too soon, but none too early for people to know, as the marriag occurs In the autumn. This la one story of canoe life this season. At Bar Harbor, -ih"ro Miss Whitney is summering, canoeing isone of the most pop ular sports. Thre are small inlets where tho canoe can glide wbt jther craft will not penetrate easily, and into these the in teresting ioung woman, her five-year-old sister, to whom she hna been a mother, and two friends paddle daily Miss Whitney's friends are two English girls, relatives of the Paget family, of which sho will soon be a member herself, thouth she will live in St. Paul, tho city of Mr. Pnget's adoption. Canoeing as a girl's pastime is prettier than rowing, as it gives a better exercise to the arms and chest The paddler stands upright in the end of the boat and moves the paddlo in swift back strokes, like sweeping a room, only a littlo blower and deeper in stroke, and the canoe moves on quickly. THE HARTE SISTERS. The t rick of paddling must ba teamed from the Indians, a ho can steiipon a board and with an oar send the rude craft in any di rection, moving through the water faster than a naphtha launch. But tho average girl canoer does not attempt to do more thau moa her boat through the water at a moderate speed, while the steering is done by a rudder, managed by a companion in the other end of the canoe There arc Indian guides "who make a business of teaching canoeing. Two of the best canoers in the world are tho daughters of Bret Harte. Jessamy Harte, the artist daughte"r, is so skillful w ith tho paddle that she islooked upon with suspicion by the mothers of daughters who aro scary about allowing their girls to go upon tho waves w ith the narte girls. But Brot Harte isn't afraid. He sajs his girls are smart enough to look out for themselves. Not long ago they paddled across a rough stream, went around a rocky projection, landod, pulled the canoe ashore, climbed an "inaccessible" mountain, stuck a flag up there, and vound up by paddling back in time for supper. There are different kinds of canoes. Tho American Canoe Association boosts a largo number of "absoclate members," wives and bisters and sweethearts of malo members, who accompany them to their annual meets. And here every sort of a canoo is found. The men for tho most part prefer a canoe with sails and elaborate seafaring apparatus, but the women who go along and who take their own canoes much prefer paddles to sails. If they are going to use frails they prefer the cat-boat, which has all tho sails wauted. But when Paddlersina BarHarborlnlet, (Bketchea by a girl artist "Who la they aro canoeing they like to paddle their canoe, not sail it. Tho women canoeists always have a small settlement of their own, usually called out of regard to the early women canoeists, "Squaw Point," and here, nestled up as close to the men's elbows as the laws of the association permit, they camp out, cook their own rations and paddle their canoes in tho waters alongside tho men. MISS CLEVELAND CANOES. A gray-haired and rather stout canoeist is Mlsa Roso Elizabeth Cleveland ,sl3ter of tho President, and 6ho enjoys going alone. Her favorite spot ls along the Massachusetts coast, where she has relatives. She canoes In very fashionable dress , despite all that la said about her "niannishness." A very pretty little canoeist is "Jennie" Langtry, christened Jeanne, the daughter of the Lily, who paddlesher mother easily and safely through English streams. There is a pretty yachting story told oi tue Ducaess or lorK, and as it IB a true one in all its details, adds much to her charms. The Duchess, be It known, is a great seawoman. Sho doea not suffer from seasickness, like the poor queen, nor does she go dinnerless during her voyage, like the Princess of Wales. She is such an Inveterate lover of the water, that she remains upou the waves as long as pos sible, declining to cross tho gang-plank while any pleasant companion remains aboard, and once on land she looks around for means to get back upon tLo water. Just after her marriage, while she and Prince Georg were traveling around to let people get a view of them, they stopped at a beautiful place up the Thames, where tho inhabitants had gathered to gether a very large and handsome loving cup to be presonted as a bridal gift. Know ing the princess' passion for tho water, they had also placed at her disposal a large, bulky, pondersome, though oxpenEive, canoe, warranted not to overturn, for her daily exercise upon the water. One day a lady in attendance, without whom royalty cannot travel, even upon a bridal tour, suggested a canoo race. "The ladies of X are going to race this after- noou for your amusement," said ebc, adding, "and it would be a source of Infinite pleasure to them if you would race also, though this ls asking a great deal." "Not at all," replied the princess, laughingly.- "But I shall not race! I could beat them all easily, even with that ponderous craft, and not for the world would I hurt the feelings of euch good people." So the ladies raced, and the bniiling princess applauded. A ROYAL PADDLER. When Eulalle was here sho could not understand why she was not permitted to go canoeing upon the Chicago lai.es, which she so much admired. "It is not thw custom," suggested her guide and master of ceremonies, "except at water ing places in the summer." "But am I not a princess away upon a holiday?" queried Eulalle, Imperiously. Tho Infanta ia one of the cleverest teullera in France, where she Uvea much of the year. She has canoed with paddle against several American ladies of Paris and has won every time. To canoo suc cessfully, according to her instructions given to an American lady, you must handle your paddle as though yoa were bniohing tho water aside, first from one side of tho Loat and then the other. The overhand swing of the paddle is easily learned and gives quick musclo. It ia quite a fad for a man and his wife to canoe together. You can see Mr and Mrs. Van Reueseiaer Cruger standing up in a long cauoe gliding silently down stream any afternoon as the sun gets low and back again ere the dusk has fallen. In many of the "Julien Gordon" stories Mrs. Cru ger has placed her heroine In a canoe, and it may be that m these littlo trips she gets the ideas and the setting, as it were, for the story in which tho heroine can never be seated at all, but must bear her love tale as the pioneer women of the Mississippi heard theirs, with both hands guiding a craft. It ls rather sad to learn that after one has paddled successfully and has learned the art so that the paddle does not tire the arms mere rowing becomes insipid, and thereafter there ia nothing except paddling a canoe that can interestl CONSTANCE MERR1FIELD. Accounted For. "She is a ery indifferent actress and yet so many fellows literally throw them selves at her " The other clubman knocked the ashes from his cigar. "If you will notice," he observed, "the most or them are bad eggs." Upon that supposition conjecturo was not entirely deoid of fitness. Detroit Tribune. The Obstacle. " Lady It is strange that a strong man like you cannot get any work. The Tramp Well, jou see, mum, people wants reference from me last employer an' he's been dead twenty years. Phila delphia Telegraph. Miss "Whitney in trie Center. spending uq summer canocing.( GAY DAYS AT LONG BRANCH Uven Clara Barton Sue cumbs to Soft Indolence. J . . T t IS QUITE A SUMMER GIEL ag Bx-Gox. Flower Reducing His Flesh by Bathing-. Long Branch, Aug 8. The entire sea coaat this week has been treated to the novel sight of a new sort of summer girl. Early last Monday Miss Clara Barton camo out to stroll upon the sands, and visions oi her all the week, boating, fishing, sea bathing and promenading the piazzas, have been frequent. $ The object of Miss Barton's sudden cort version to the summer fad has been very apparent, even though shemay have trledto conceal it under a pretext of social enjoy nient. Shehasdesignsuponall thesummer men to be found along the coast, and aho has come to meet them 03 Mahomet cameto the mountain because the mountain would not come to him. ' One day George W. Pullman and Miss Barton were"c!oseted" In one corner upon a luxurious sofa in the hotel parlor, and be fore he had left the little Red Cross woman Mr. Pullman had promised certain valuabla aids In the establishment of certain branches of the society In upper New York. Nox was Miss Barton content then. She en trapped several other philanthropic mil lionaires, and ere they parted from her aha had their signatures to certain little docu ments which meant much to her and he? work. t b " HOW MISS BARTON L00K3. As a summer girl It cannot be sail that! MiS3 Barton is pretty. Her moo th u twice too broad, and her smile three times too be nevolent And her hair is not puffed ad the temples, but just brought down flat and licked 6mooth with a brush. Her kleeves have no balloon attainments, antS her skirts are far too shnky around the an kles. But all have fallen a vkUiu to her goodness! She has an unseiiisn, earnest, x; tbink-you-are-so-kind look that makes yoa resolve to give her societniDg for her ever-, lasting "sufferers" something, even tt be nothing but your last season's bathinjr- suit While poor Saratoga up in the North is rubbing its eyes and choking back us sob3 at the dullness of the season and the shut-' tmg down of its fine chib-house(afteranew S3o.OOO carpet had been bought), Long Branch Is rubDingitshandsanddancuigwith, glee. Its season Is immense There ara more blucfish eaten here in a day than could be caught oft its pier in a season, and more fine horses driven down the avenue than would be needed to convey last month'a bulk of congratulations to President Cleve- landatGrayGable3lnregaIstyle. ) There are many fine cottages here, aa cottage life at the Branch is historic BuO of them all the most Interest centers amuncT the Pullman abode. The Pullman cottaga Is a large building with piazzas and a deep lawn In front. It has fully forty sleeping rooms and a dining-room like a banquet hall, but Its exterior is not pretentious, only vine-clad and inviting. A house party gathers here from spring until fall and over Sunday the cottage is fell to over flowing of young guests. ' Sanger Pullman, the son whose matrl monlal prospects are now being discussed as a great "catch," owns a beautiful tan dem, theleaderof which trotscontlnuallyoa its hind leg3 and the rear hore appears to do all the work with his fore feet This show leader i3 one of the sights of Long; Branch and one marvels at the skill of y ung Sanger, w ho can guide so circus hkta steed safely th rou h the maze of tandems, T-c j rts and Victorias. J" PAST HISTORIC COTTAGES. Summerplaeesmustnowboastamem rial spot in order to be fully ia the swim. Long Branch has the Elberoa cottaga, where Garfield died. Although located a. Elberon, be it known that the cottage la only a few rods beyond Long Branca proper, and that visitors to the Branch find It pleasant to stroll down the broad avenua evenings, taking In the sights that line 1C They pass the Pullman cottage, sure atl this time to have a row or Mcj-cies leaning against its front porch, while the family sips after dinner coffee in an arbor; and they pass the historic Grant cottage, the ilaggla Mitchell abode, the former Mary Anderson residence, George W. Cailds.'. many Elberoc dwellings, and the h.ma, built by Mrs. Wlnslow. whose name ls not unknown in the nurseries of the land Then they reach the Garrield cottage, very beautiful tins year, and, tired with thett walk, are glad to catch a stage heme, i There are a few hours In the morning when the beach is turned Into a bathing apartment, and during which all tho world comes to be dipped in the salty bricS and to go back frEir and strong-. Politicians bathe to clear their brains. Others give different reneona for dipping, and the oean, like the Turkish bath, kindly adapts Itself to all requirements. Ros- ellFlower bathes to get thin and muscular, and T. C. Piatt, who cannot possibly keep out of the water a day, dips to get stout1 and lazy. Too much nerve energy 13 what ha suffers from constantly. Champion Corbetl, since spraining his wrist by falling off a bicycle, has been lying upon the water1, to recuperate and bathe his sore arm, and his tralner3, never far from him, have been s wimming energetically and knocking heads with the mermaids below the surface oi the water. A very attractive driver of fire horses this year is Miss Norma Munro, whose nama is familiar in sound through connection with, publishing Interests. Miss Munro is ono of the youngest, the finest and the mosc desirable girls at-Long Branch, or ot tho summer anywhere. She is "the new, woman," with considerable of the admit abl old in that she ncTer goes anywhere unchaperonsd by her mother.and w the pink ot propriety even when wearing a maag jacket and a sailor hat. DIGGING FOR TOES. There ls no place in the world that sports as many naughty bathing- suits as Long Branch. A bit of black satin, a belt ot scarlet and a bandanna Tor nattiness of headgear, is all that is reeded with a pair of silk stockings. The wearer sits upon tha beach, digs the silk toes in the sandr nvi es all her fridiuls to find them, and when they are dug out laughs hilariously and trips back to tho hotel. She hOfc been "ia ball ing." By far the greatest event of the Long Branch day ls tho watching ot the races between Yigilant and Derendrr. The trial course does not He past the Branch Bug where oue loves yachtinc love wnl find a way. Early every racing aay, and every other day , too , for the snow-white cbampi na look veryattractiveevenl?lngstillo'f Sandy Hook, small boats put out with a company of summerguests aboard to sailup to whcia the big yachts lie. It ls noi a long distance to go to see sirch racing yachts as these, and no wonder that CoL Ochiltree, Lucky Baldwin, and all tho great oranipresents are aboard. Will.'o K. Vanderbilt's Valiant jotusthV little f.et ofonlookersandOgdenGoelet'sWhlteLadya is also among them, am are all the other great white craft that are known all ovejr the world.