eds for the spring
and autumn, and of brown linen or holland for the summer. As yet, except
in one or two localities, golf is not generally played in winter, except
by enthusiasts.

At a match, golfers wear their club uniform coats, which are made of
hunting pink with brass buttons. The club dress uniform is full and
proper dress for all golf functions, such as dinners and dances and
receptions. For golf club evening functions, black silk or lisle thread
stockings and pumps and black knickers would be appropriate dress. This
will be regulated by the rules of the club.

BOATING AND BATHING, TENNIS AND RACING.

But a word, and this on costume. The proper dress in England, where
boating is a social amusement, is the blazer madras shirt with white
linen all-around collars and madras cuffs, same material as shirt, white
duck trousers, and straw hat with colored ribbons.

For bathing, the present ocean costume is all plain, one dark-color
two-piece suits, short trousers coming to the knees, and jersey with
very short sleeves.

For tennis, which I have omitted in the category of sports, as there is
no peculiar etiquette attached, you should wear white duck trousers, a
white madras shirt, white flannel coat, plain or finely striped, and
straw hat or flannel cap to match coat. The straw hat was in vogue last
summer.

In England many men wear gray vicuna frock coats to the races. About
this costume, however, in America, where races are but seldom social
functions, you must be guided by the season, circumstances, and place.
Of course, a top hat must be worn with any species of frock coat, but
the gray top hat has gone out of fashion.

_Gymkhana_ races are burlesque affairs imported from India. The
participants are dressed in grotesque fancy costumes, and are obliged to
race holding umbrellas, toy balloons, or some other absurdity. They are
in great favor at summer watering places.

BILLIARDS.

The etiquette of this popular pastime is possibly embraced in the
general maxim of "the extending of the utmost consideration for others."

Billiards constitutes quite an important factor in club life, and should
have been included in the chapter on that subject but for the fact that
so many private houses have billiard rooms, and the game is better
classified with the different sports of a bachelor.

At the club it is allowable to play the game _sans_ one's coat, or in
shirt sleeves. The billiard room is a place where one