Neither, as a crowd, has more than a superficial regard for the natural charms of its surroundings.

The people at both places are entirely preoccupied with themselves--and their neighbors.

At Newport a reputation is like an umbrella--lost, borrowed, lent, stolen, but never returned.

Some one has cleverly said that the American girl, unlike girls of European extraction, if she loses her reputation, promptly goes and gets another,--to be strictly accurate, she promptly goes and gets another's.

What a world of bother could be saved if a woman could check her reputation with her wraps on entering the Casino; for, no matter how small the reputation, it is so annoying to have the care of it during social festivities where it is not wanted, or where, like dogs, it is forbidden the premises.