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BY EMILY H. MAY. THE advent of summer begins to make people think of watering-places. Already, ladies in our great cities are talking of Saratoga, Newport, Sharon, Long Branch, Cape May, and the White Mountains. As a matter of health, those who live near the sea are benefited by going, in summer, to the hills or to the interior, while
therefore , we give a pretty bathing-dress and some appropriate watering- place toilets. A pretty bathing-dress is very rare, but the one we give is really elegant. It is made of striped blueand-white serge, and trimmed with blue of a darker shade. The "bottines " are of canvas, bordered at the tops with blue, and have flexible leather soles. At the back of the cap, to which a couple of blue streamers are generally attached , is an oilskin- bag designed those who reside in the interior, away from the } ocean , derive new health and spirits , from to hold the bather's back-hair. Our second engraving represents a very spending a few weeks beside the "boisterous stylish evening-dress of pink poult de soie, deep." At least, this is what the physicians say ; shot with white ; it is trimmed round the botand such is also our experience , for it is change tom with a flounce of Honiton lace, headed with of air that is required , more than anything else. a ruche of pink satin. This dress is looped up As appropriate for this time of the year, 67 VOL. LVI.-5
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