Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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140 NEJVPORT who knew them even in their decadenceand when they no longer harboredSouthern folk and Southern manners I have even met—people who preferreda Jamestown barrack to a Newport cot-tage at the same price, maintaining that
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An Old Revolutionary House. with all the gayety and light - heartedcamaraderie, characteristically Southern,they are charming memories still. Canit be that the hotel life of XarragansettPier, for example, is a fair reproductionof its ol<l-time Ne^^2^ort analogue ? Butthis is a question of only specula-tive interest. As a matter of fact, hotellife has disapj^eared in Newport. Whatis curious, however, I think, is that sofew people are alive to the fact thatcottage life is 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 suggestm

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