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l Mrs. James B. Haggin's
Batting Costume, Mrs.
; Stuyvesant Fist in Motoring
Dress and Mrs. Ckarles
Spencer Hall Wearing a
Braided Linen Gown as I
Saw Tkem at Newport on
Bailey's Beack. A Batkmg
Sun Bonnet Worn ty Miss
Katkenne Lawrence
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AH.ET8 BEACH on (tinny tram- made of Mac tarrtta. on a anape or
mT morning U a plcturssqus the "baby hat" order.
Tfce brim and crown were rormea or
Ken.
Weather we sea-bathe or not frills which stood out saucily. The
we always spend a fsw minute orown waa circled by a band of taffeta.
there to say "How-d'ys do" and gossip
Outside In ahlnlng rowa stand our
tnotora and basket phaetona
Inside w aro sure to see all tire
latest arrivals among the Four Hun
For trimming there was a large bow of
taffeta placed Just In front.
That the envious mermaids might not
teal away this really chic bathing bat.
It was tied securely under one ear with
it thev are not ooouettlng with Wack taffeta ruffles.
Old Father Neptune, clad In tha trim- It was a very excellent protection for
taest of bathing costumes, they are sit- complexion. How It woulJ stand
ting on the little shaded verandas over- the strain of real swimming la another
looking the beach. question. But as I never see Mrs.
As I have said before, soma of the Haln more thaa and
women have become quite expert swim- the" com8 ut- lt wlu P"bablj not be
tners. The raft at high tlds Is far from Y,rmmm w. ,
Shore, but some venturesome rd-oappd The upper part of the waist was closely
beads are almost always to be seen out tucked and was pulled down snugly at
beyond It
But they are really quit safe, for the
llfo-savlng men In white sailor costume
hover near in their small boat. They
the waist line.
The skirt also was tucked around the
hips to give the Decessary flare at tha
bottom. Just above the hem was
stitched bund. The sleeves
would be only too glad of the ohaac, .h,&VWSl& Sand
or sua.
And as black next the face Is not al
to rescue some fair heiress.
Bailey's Beach Is a favorite try ting
place for the members of the younger
jet.
Sometimes they may even be seen
lilebelanly wandering bathward along
the Cliff Walk that 'ao-foot fisher
man's right-of-way which we haven't
been able to wrest front the villagers.
It crosses all our lawns that face on
the ocean and ends In steep little steps
running; down to the beach.
In bathing costume, as in so many
other things this year, simplicity seems
to be the note struck.
Black silk and satin nave the prefer-
ways becoming, a wnite embroidered
collar gave the needed relief.
Around the waist waa a girdle of silk
With long flowing ends, each on
adorned with a tassel.
As she emerged frum the water and
stood chatting for a minute or two
with sonie men on the beach, she was a
smart little figure with her crisp short
skirt and ruffled hat
This summer a bulldog seems as
necessary an accompaniment to one's
morning costume as a parasoL And
What a good time the doggies have!
They aro caressed and cooed over
talked to and about. In fact they are
nn ever present topic of conversation.
ence. Both shed the water quickly and for we all have them and their rnsnoc-
nve morns are onen our only toeme
for a morning's chat.
Mrs. William Sands has a price-winning
Pomeranian, which she usually
has with her, but she is the one excep
tion, I believe. In the fad for bulldogs.
.mi a, i nnriei opencer naii nas a very
have the recommendation of looking
well on the beach as well as in the
sea.
The fashion of braiding has extended
to bathing dresses, and many of them
tire braided on waist and skirt with
tine soutache braid. Sometimes lt is
applied on white, but more often the good booking brfndle bull that Is her
vraiuing is uutu& on uihuil ur um& ujue. uevuiea Slave.
All kinds of head coverings are worn.
'from the jauntily tied bandana to the
large frilly confection of the smart
milliner.
Miss Katherina Pressott Lawrence Is
wearing a most fetching bright scarlet
un bonnet with a dark colored bathing
dress this summer, and it makes a bril
liant spot of color on the beach and in
the waves.
It is a real country sun bonnet as to
Shape, with the regulation high crown.
it ties under her chin with broad
Strings and makes a most effective
screen against old Sol, whose kisses are
sometimes a bit too ardent for delicate
comDlexlons.
Mrs. James B. Haggln Is the daintiest
figure imaginable on the 'sand.
Always aressea wun a nne eye lor
You will recall that Mrs, Charles
Spencer Hall was formally ths wife of
Charles A. Stevens, one of the famous
Stevens family of Castle Point, Ho
boken, a grandson of the Stevens who
founded the Stevens Institute.
After hlH dfath ahe married a good
looking Knglishmnn. Major Charles
Spencer Hall, a marrlape which has
proved anyihing but a happv one.
I don't know whether matrimonial
worry has had anything to do with
turning her hair white, but lt la pre
maturely snowed.
Howvver, with her bright color, It's
not unbecoming, and onlv adds one
more to the number of smart women
who recognise the piquancy of snowy
hair above a youthful face.
Mrs. Charles Spencer Hall usually
effect, her bathing costume Is no ex- wears strictly tailored gowns of light
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sartorial.
Mrs. James B. Haggln. like Mrs.
George Gould, has a passion for pearls.
Her pearls, too. have a sentiment at
tached to them, although not of quite
the same quality as Mrs. Gould's, whosa
husband gives her a strand of pearls at
the birth of each child.
Mrs. Haggin is called Pearl, a name
which suits her admirably, for she has
the pure pale coloring which Instantly
suggests the white lustre of these deli
cate gem
But on a hot mornlne lnnt- traair t
saw her talking with Mrs. Stuyvesant
r Ish and somo others on the verandah
at Bailey's beach, clad in a suit of
braided linen.
How very charming fine soutache
braiding la on the confections! It
fives an air of distinction which em
roidery never, never bestowed.
The jacket was one of those short
loose-hanging ones dubhed nnm, t
was elaborately braided on back ' and
front and sleeves. Two little slash
Her husband indulges her In her fad broke the straight line of the back and
and consequently she Is the possessor
of some of the finest pearls in the
worm, one nangs tnem on her frail
little body like strands of pop-corn on
a Christmas tree.
Mrs. Haggln has rather a fancy for
friljy things wisely, too, for she is
slight enough to stand them. But quite
the frilliest thing I have seen her wear
for a long time waa her bathing hat.
I could use tip a large stork of ad
jectives In describing and admiring
It. But 111 refrain.
Instead. I'll just tell you that it was
rave character to the littin rant
The embroidered sleeves hung straight
from the arm hole to where they ended
just above the elbow.
The skirt was walking length, under
which shewed trim white canvas shoes
Above the stitched hem it was heavily
braided In a design which ran up in
points.
Her hat was not very large and was
trimmed with rather vivid blue hy
drangeas. She carried a salmon-pink
parasol an odd combination of colors,
which I can't say I much admired.
THE DECADENCE OF ELEGANCE IN MEN'S
CLOTHES AND MANNERS By Dion C. Caltbrop
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I HERE can be no doubt that
clothes are as essential to the
heart of man as they are to his
body. Clothes do not only show
the state of a man's purse, or the
manner of his upbringing, or the po
sition he holds In worldly affairs, but
they are the expression of Individual
temperament or the lack of Initiative.
Old ideas, historic needs, long fallen
Into disuse, have given a place to Orna
mental buttons, no longer used as fas
tenings, which no man but a sartorial
anarchist would ever seek to displace.
- We are not, in the matter of certain
details of dress, slaves to convention,
but lovers of old associations.
Fashion Is bo far a symbol of the
snse of the time that it la indeed, tbe
only composite Idea of the progress of
national thought The fop. the rake,
ths dandy, swelL beau, masher, dude
from duds:.: elothes) ars keynotes in
tbe pageant of history, nd show not
only the folly tnif in, reverse, tha man
ner of their times wisdom,
There is a decay of elegance no ooe
ean fall to notice that. Ths times of
. war and stirring changes of. politics
T rod uo fiTat leaders of men eve tm
little things, and - fashion holds ear
(Osuasi court Jlbea .irXt.AA OUtifiXM ot
wars produce the men to meet emer
gencies. In these times of comparative peace,
as always, tho mechanical arts rise to
a supreme height and with the rise of
these arts there comes a certain new
form of aristocracy, a lordship in brains.
The aim then is to apoear either busi
nesslike, after tha manner of commerce,
or workmanlike, after the manner of
engineers. Tha beau on these acco
st ons disa pears.
Today the poet aspires to be taken for
a chauffeur and tcs aristocrat for a
man of affairs.
It was not so long ago in England.
Tor example, that we ware lass demo
cratic, and class distinctions showed in
a hundred varieties of dress and mode,
subtle perhaps, yet none ths less ob
yloua The family lawyer wore his
legal whiskers, his short-tailed square
coat, his stout blacking boots. Tke fam
ily doctor used macassar oil, and a
peculiar brand of scented soap sup
posed to add a breath of gay, healthy
worn his bedside maaner. Those
m "SS? a sporting dress were sporta-
iLtT,h nop-walker did not step from
ritrfi!. 1iark ln his dress, and. ths
tlr kkw BOt th fling f a
k Nortlk jacket.
J. ei!2?nay " d to the care
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metV ts other word
'nMS n&k W nil. I M -"s.
A. Mrs. James B. Haggin'a bathing B. Mrs. Charles Spencer Hall Wears C. Mrs. Stuyresant Fish Wears a,
Costume Is One of the Smartest a Suit of White Braided Linen. White Pongee Coat and a White
Seen on Bailey's Beach. Lace Veil When She Motor.
D. A Red Bathing Sun Bonnet Worn by Miss Katherlne Lawrence.
To be entirely correct this year when
you go a-inotoring you must be at
tired In white spotless, speckless
white. That is, the spotlessness and
specklessnesg are there at the begin
ning of the trip. What you look like
at the end is another matter entirely.
Mis. Stuyvesant Fish's big motor car
was waiting outside the little bath
house while she chatted with friends on
the shaded verandah.
She was wearing a white ''Bon gee mo
toring coat, which did not help at all
the appearance of sslendernesa, to at
tain which we all know Is now one of
her chief objects in this life.
But it was a very smart motoring
coat, with big "comfy" pockets and a
high collar, which buttoned up tightly
under the chin.
It fastened In double-breasted fashion
down the front with largs carved pearl
buttons. The same buttons ornamented
the deep backward-turning cuffa
Her hat was white, trimmed with
white taffeta bows and wings. It had a
white lace veil draped from the brim
and caught in tightly at tha back of
the head with a Jewelled pin.
White lace veils seem to have quite
taken ths place of chiffon veils for mo
toring wear. They have certainly the
merit of being very becoming, but I
question their being as practical. The
dnst sifts through the lacs mashes In
an Irritating; way.
We are all wondering what novelties
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is going to give
us ln the way of entertainments this
year. Perhaps her very latest pose of
simple dignity will interfere with any
Very startling dinners or other enter
tainments. The Fourth of July dinner
she gave at "Crossways" was as con
ventional as the most conventional peo
ple could desire.
However, she usually has "some
thing up her sleeve," and when H. R.
H. Prince William of Sweden comes to
Newport in August we may expect
"dolnga"
decadent, greenery-yallery style com
menced, men (perhaps I should say
aesthetic people), faint from the en
closed air of drawing-rooms, strolled
languidly to giddy heights, and there
biliously began the faded art tones, the
yellow ties, the appearance of personal
neglect, rigorously conventional, which
marked an age of thought, typified by
dress. ..
Give us a man in his clothes and we
can tell what his age thought. The semi
monastic apearance of the middle ages,
the gay eihuberance of the Kllsabeth
an, the lolling daredevil of the times
St.,9.harles- Ji- the Dntch rlgldness of
William of Orange, the brutal snuff
Btalned Georgian stocks, ths facetious
Srimness of Beau Brummel all these
own to our queer new fashions of
today ars as Important to the study of
mankind as any written books.
With What weapons have we laid ele
gance low? With a certain Ideal utili
tarianism, that everything, nature, art,
all ths orafts and graces of life, have
a proper place and a proper use. tha
world is, at present symbollssa as a
workshop, In which all ths tools and
implements have a certain ordered placa.
ln a- few words, the advent of motor
cars, and the other forms of machinery
which are fentertlng mors rapidly every
day into ordinary use.-
If vou look about carefully you will
sat gigai of sparis elegance i& syery
form of men's dress. " Patent leather
boots, ones so universal, are giving way
to stout, wsllmads black shoes. Soft
hats, collars, shirts ars seen on fashion
able men; stout ash sticks hold a front
&lace ln shop window The voung man,
i college for example, looks as If a
sudden order to. depart for the wildest
of wild wssts would not find him un
prepared. His pipe Is Innocent of a
silver band, his boots are square cut
and excessively serviceable, his gen.,
eral nnoearanee leads one to suppose
that he owns, at least, three acres and
a cow. .
Tho chauffeur has overshadowed
Fifth avenue. His neat appearance, his
leather buttons, ths multitude of pock
ets in his capacious coat, his leggings,
cap, and. Indeed, every vestment of sis
calling, have eaten away the heart of
elegant fripperies.
Tot, whenever you find a fashion ovs
whelmlng the people, you And also a
Strenuous effort on the part of opposi
tion. Never have coats been so walsted,
top hats so. shiny, waistcoats so chaste
ly colored.
Wltlrmanners, as with clothes, there
is a change? vf are to become very
cleancut and hearty in our speeches,
epigrams are to be abolished, romance
of open air is established, tans of ths
middle ages take ths place of rennais
sancs diplomacies.
There ars peopls ready t deplore tha
o ha age of affairs. J am not with ttiem;
to ne this new idea of stout elothes
brings a suggestion of health of the
open, and so of poetry not mads at mid
night but. in ths early morning air;
and U (hla be lodged, a I Jta Jit, a
SLICING IN GOLF-S ome Causes of a Common Fault,
ana How It May Be Avoided tv Proner Use nf fine Hands
Ths one fault ln golf most la svt- Is an lmproc grip. If the left hand
denes among the general run of players ba turned) over too much to the left a
is slicing, says Walter Travis In Coun- 8,t! wtl1 inevitably result, unless a
trv Life ln America There Is another corPondlnf change be made with, the
try ure m America, inere is anomer r,Knt an(J g turning lt over to ths
more common perhaps but not so no- right.
ticeable. and that is raising the head The mors ths left hand Is turned
a fraction of a second before striking over to ths right the greater is the ten
technically called taking one's eye off dency to pull, unless the right hand is
S,?11- v . j,, l at the same tlms turned ova correspon-
Sllclng, however Is different and dingly te tha left Thess is a point
springs from a variety of causes, resld- where both hands act la unison, and it
lng both in the player and his clubs. For should be the aim of every player to
Instance, a wooden club with the lead find out his particular point
improperly set In toward the toe or Irrespectivs of ths relative position
at a wrong angle- with reference to ths of the hands, balls may be sliced by
face lying off will have a tendency to gripping firmly with the left and loose
slics. So also will any club with a ly with the tight o tightly with ths
whippy shaft or an iron club with a right and loosely with ths lsft
very short socket Irrespective of shaft. Again, apart from any question of
Now for the faults which reside with grip, heaps 9t halls are sliced by being
ths player himself. Chief among these., hit" off tha heal of ths club. This Is
1 ' ' . . generally, though sot always, due to
.. , . , . , . the slayss standing too far away, and
stirring of blood ln a nation so much. tha fault arises-from this very circum
the better. . . stance, the player In the effort to reach
Please forgive the extravagance of ths ban properly falling into It This
all young Ideas, forgive the too stout, may ally. be cured by standing a corn
boots, ths excesses of leathern buttons, fortahht length away and by keening
the cap, and forgive, also, ths ultra- the weight of ths body on ths - heels
workmanlike motorist swathed up In during ths whole course of ths stroke
hearthrugs like a human Taear, and think Another rry potent provocative of
kindly only of the now. strong fashion, slicing Is an Improper stanc etasiMnr
as I think kindly, sadly, of that trim- around too much toward ths hols. This
walsted shining fop wh sighs now for particular sort of fault only fattens
Um &lriea eJ lilt & wUch u dprta. .with what it XJa-ujjqa, flaw, often
you may see the owner of a pronounced
slice make allowance for the slice he
feels will assuredly come off in the
mistaken idea that he is doing some
thing to correct it.
What does he do? He aggravates the
trouble by facing sven more toward the
hols. This simply causes ths club to
cut mors than ever across the ball.
Tha true remedy is to reverse ths
procedure and turn his back more to
ward ths hole just the exact opposite
of what he thinks he ought to do. At
first ho will be Inclined to sooff at ths
suggestion and argue that his ball will
unquestionably go away off to the right,
but lt will not.
If anything lt will go to the left of
where he aims. Let a straight driver
stand as If he were about to drive to
the extreme edge of the right of ths
course. Now, ask htm, wltatsjit changing-
his stance, to aim right Tkwn ths
middle, and it's a hundred to oiathat
ths ball will go decidedly to the leiW
Still another cause of slicing is
ttnor tha hands awav In front f tha
clubwduo to not utilising the wrists I
propeny. aauus or mis character may
easily be corrected by moving ths hands
back a couple of Inches from the normal
position assumed ln ths address. The
better plan, however. IS to go a little
deeper and endeavor to curs ths troubls
by cultivating a proper swing and cor-
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