Scribner's magazine . just as feasible for per-sons of modest means. People go toJamestown, on Conanicut Island, everysummer and live in the hotels that havemagically sprung up there at priceswhich would more than enable them tolive in Ne^^1)ort cottages. Tastes dif-fer proverbially, and I can fancy—for the life was freer in Jamestown. I daresay it is ; it is freer still at Asbury Park,N. J. Costume and manners may bothbe legitimately more iier/Iigeii than wouldbe quite seemly in a denser i302)ulationand amid surroundings that suggestmore decorum. But there are personsto whom a certain degree
Scribner's magazine . just as feasible for per-sons of modest means. People go toJamestown, on Conanicut Island, everysummer and live in the hotels that havemagically sprung up there at priceswhich would more than enable them tolive in Ne^^1)ort cottages. Tastes dif-fer proverbially, and I can fancy—for the life was freer in Jamestown. I daresay it is ; it is freer still at Asbury Park,N. J. Costume and manners may bothbe legitimately more iier/Iigeii than wouldbe quite seemly in a denser i302)ulationand amid surroundings that suggestmore decorum. But there are personsto whom a certain degree of decorumis in itself pleasant to witness andpractice, and to these life in Newportduring the season may be as sinqjleas it is in a village. To such personsthe only obstacle to enjoyment is theconstant juesence of an elaborate andexpensive life which they cannot has capacities for making the en-vious and tlie feeble - minded, peoplewho have no pride of tradition orshrewdness of philosophy or instinctive. 142 NEJVPORT fastidiousness, extremely uubappy, nodoubt. For others with small meansthe advanta<]res of NewjDort are un-equalled. The markets seem high-priced, especially to a New Yorker, butthey are much luore than counter-balanced by the low rents ; and the con-veniences obtainable at low rentals, dueto the way in which cottage-buildinghas been speculatively overdone, areunexampled. Bathing, rowing, sailing,driving, walking, 2)i<^iJit*king are to behad in perfection, under a sky of in-finite delicacy, in an atmosphere ofunique softness, and in an environmentof natural beauty and artistic distinc-tion that exists nowhere else. Then there is the passing show—thesocial spectacle. The social spectacleas well as the summer life has greatlychanged of recent years. Opening theOcean Drive from the end of the avenue digiously disseminated the stately j^ro-cession that used to pass decorouslyup and done the Avenue, turning atBaileys Beach and at Kay Streetwhere th
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