Life — July 1, 1897 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

NEWPORT HARBOR. SHOWING DINGEY OF PIERPONT VAN ASTORBILT, JUST AFTER WINNING THE MERRY-GO-ROUND cUP. fees are sky-scrapers; it impresses the transient foreigner as being as gaudy and vulgar as even dear old London, for its members are close students of the manners of their grooms and butlers; and after a season there the dullest nobleman must believe the truth of the Astorian aphorism, «« America is no place for a gentleman to live in.” Newport amuses itself in many ways in warm weather. Those on furlough from the Jaggeries visit Narragansett frequently; polo and tennis enthrall the girls; and men who are restrained by tearful relatives from chasing tigers in India and mosquitoes in Jersey, go forth upon the trail of the fierce, relentless anise bag. Bathing, also, is a popular diversion. The bike is the latest fashion, and simply transfers the bloomer exhibit from the sand to the wheel. In Newport is the ancestral Casino, the father of all watering-place casinos, where dancing limbers fashionable limbs and cocktails unlimber them, and where fat beaus and hand-painted belles discuss their neighbors’ sins. Some people at Newport go in for ancestry and that sort of thing, but as a rule dead ancestors are left undisturbed, to prevent impertinent in- Jim: CYNTHIA, IF 1 CHUCK MYSELF FROM YONDER CLIFT WILL VER a . ; ; BERLIEVE I LOVE YER, AN’ hen WILL YER MARRY ME? quiries, Cash is the basis of social worth, and Cynthia: MARRY YER THEN? NO, JIM, NO! 1 COULDN'T NEVER BE ancestors as a rule are too decomposed to pay HAPPY WID YOUR REMNANTS, THE IMPOSSIBLE. comicbooks.com