Show THE SEASONS CLOSE I Fashionable Diversions at Lake George THE CAMP MEETING AXD THE HOP Courting en the IslandSome Beautiful Women and the Clothes they Wear r LAKE GeORGE Sept 13Special correspondence corre-spondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD It was on the piazza of tho Fort William Henry hotel that I heard it Sitting therein there-in a retired corner looking in through the window at the dancers I presently became nwaro of the proximity of a woman and a lH tlO girl The former was one of those females with nutcracker faces You know what I mean The nose and the chin were gravitating toward each other the eyes Were sunken and tho thin lips were pinched together In a wide slit The nocolored hair was parted in the middle slicked down an both sides and done up in a little s 1 knob at the buck about the size of a marrowfat mar-rowfat pea It Is needless to add that she wore black silk und black lace mits I The child was a fragile little creature about ten years old with great questioning eyes which were eagerly taking in the scone before herthe lights the musicians i tho beautiful women and the exquisite I gowns Her little breast heaved with excitement i ex-citement and occasionally she sighed from absolute enjoyment and satisfaction Sud iI I i t r9j e lw sku t x i Y f rj 1 i 1 1 UiJll L A LAKESIDE DRIVE eerily a voice as thin and sharp as a darning darn-ing needle broke upon the soft air I have brought you here Amanda that you may see the hollowness of fashionable life It is all vain and empty Those gauus and pomps are of tho earth earthy and soon pass away There is nothing satisfying to tho immortal soul and then she gave a genuine camp meeting sniffle But Auntie II said the poor child its 10 beautiful Beautiful Yes Ill Warr8t1 you Satan knows his business Ho can dress up tho vilest Bin EO that it will allure It is an abomination and a stench in the nostrils of the Lord c7 t l I I I ASSEMBLY POINT LAXDIXQ I I But said the unabashed Amanda I r love to dance Auntie Wo dance at school t sometimes and its lots of fun Sometimes I feel as It I were 11 vine i I r Auntie gave bloudcurdling groanan just then two daughters of Belial stepped through the window out on the piazza Exquisitelygowned thoroughly groomed flesh and blood creatures Come and have a champagne cocktail laid ono Thanks said the other III beilove Ill stick to whisky and they trailed their t silken draperies along the piazza toward f toward their rooms I looked at Auntie She was petrified with horror Amanda aha gasked did you hear those wicked women cnotpAGsx WHISHT I told you what a sinful thing this fashionable fash-ionable life is Come away at once child I and seizing her protege she hurried away from these contaminating influences I This in not a fake story but an actual I conversation and serves to illustrate how I many different dawns of people may drift 1 together at a summer resort Doubtless Auntie und Amanda had i come over from Assembly Point to witness I V the debauch of the ungodly Assembly I Point you must know Is one of those in I II I It I + i t i ps w Lr teresting places whore camp meetings are hold There IB a big tent and psalmsing ing and lots of noise If you get off there somebody pounces you and asks you if youve heard of Christ as if you were a heathen The dock is crowded by gentlemen gentle-men with white ties and big families and ancient spinsters like Auntie What do you suppose two souls with but a single thought do when they wish to be alone at Lake George You could never guess They preempt an Island carryout carry-out the idea suggested by the song 0 had we some bright little isle of our own Engaged youths and maidens or those who are willing to be set out in row boats from the various points and selecting some one of those tiny emerald isles with which the blue lake is dotted hero and there and have little paradise all to themselves liDo you remember that island dear I heard a lady ask of her husband on the deck of a lake steamer Thats where we did all our courting Steam yachting is fast becoming a feature fea-ture of summer life at Lako George In place of coaching parades a brilliantly lighted armada makes a sweep of the lake displaying a feast of lanterns Tho Lake George Yacht club house is a very handsome hand-some and unique building recently finished fin-ished It is a picturesque jumbling of various va-rious kinds of architecture It outlines in Spanish Nor ian andJSnglish in turn are equajly elegant Mrs Dunlap Hopkins of New York made a distinct sensation when she came to the dining room of the Fort William Henry not many evenings since Sho is ONE OF THOSE SPANISH BEAUTIES with great melting black eyes purple black hair and Junoesque form which was displayed dis-played to its utmost advantage in a superb gown of white silk brocaded with huge black jam leaves and trimmed with black velvet and rare lace Her decollete bodice was stuck here and there with diamond pins The celebrated divorcee was simply gorgeous A woman who attracts much attention not only by her beauty and grace but by ner many exquisite gowns is Mrs Spiers of New York She is a golden brown haired beauty and carries herself with a studied hauteur She is one of the most beautiful dancers imaginable At the hop tho other night she looked as if she had stepped from a French fashion plate in a lovely gown of pale blue silk quite docol lette showing a snowy neck on which rested some magnificent turquoises A tiny bonnet of violets and tufts of white plumes crowned the proud little head ana 0d an-a handsome boa of ostrich feathers completed com-pleted one of the most stunning toilets in the room If you think only blue stockings and eyeglasses eye-glasses come out of Boston you should see he trio of maidens hailing from Beantown at Lake George The misses Holden and their friend Miss Tinkham are charming girls whose pretty frocks are limitless The Stockelbery girls are always fault lessly arrayed One woro a creamy pink surah and the other a scarlet tulle at thin bop then there was Miss Gavilind from Albany who came over from the Lake house She is a beautiful girl with the most wonderful coloring she too was in scarlet tulle against which her white arms and neck gleamed like marble Miss White her friend from Glens Falls who is A GRACEFUL DANCER woro an electric blue silk gown polka dotted with white Miss Whites strong resemblance to the celebrated belle Mrs Dulles of Philadelphia who made such astir a-stir at the Ponce do Leon last winter was commented on Mrs Charles Ford of Albany a tall dashing brunette with satinlike hair and big fiery eyes was in gray satin veiled with gold spangled tulle Mrs H P C a r 1tI MM TACHT CLUB HOUSE Johnson of New York a stylish blonde wore a costume of white lace and sea green silk and carried a toy King Charles in her arms The Misses Glcason from Troy both acknowledged ac-knowledged belles were handsomely costumed cos-tumed one in black and silver the other in white silk Miss Siflenburg of New York A f 1 wore black and white silk lace trimmed Miss A Becket was in black lace Miss Cramer of New York daughter of General H Cramer was in rose pink even to her shoes and stockings How do I know I Ah what beauties do not the whirlings and posings of the ball room reveal Miss Thurman of Troy wore a white silk sprinkled with pink flowers and carried a lognette Miss Mamie Suedecker of Brooklyn is the belle of the Lake house She is a pretty brunette and a graceful dancer She was in white moussoline de sole and wore a a big yellow sash Tho most stunning girl at the Marion house is Miss Mary Van Wosmer a well known society girl from Albany She is a brunette and wears no end of lovely gowns Among the cottagers no girl is more popular than Miss May Warren daughter of George William Warren organist at St Thomas church New York Miss Warren is in mourning this season and does not go out much but her pretty face and sweet manner are much admired She is an athlete girl and quite a famous oarswoman The most beautiful garden parties are given by Mrs S Alexander Orr at her charming home near the Lake House The walks about the Caldwell are particularly par-ticularly conductive to flirtation and friendship friend-ship The proximity of two ruined forts is a wise dispensation of Providence and it is whispered that when the young poople wander away by mooniight and stop out longer than they ought on being taken to task by anxious mammas they give as the reason for their tardiness that they have been holding the fort PEGGY PENDENNIS |