The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-23

Raw BATH AT CAPE MAY do not Know,
most exquisite Spirit" whether you have ever
been al Cape MAY, the greatest bathing place III all
creation, but if you have, you must have witnessed
some queer sights there. You will have seen some
thousand or fifteen hundred amphibious individuals
shouting and screaming among the breakers, uhder
the monday sun, and enveioped In such prefer
natural variety of original vestmens that the sex Is
frequently undscoverabe without closer 0bserva-
ton than might perhaps be permitted. You might
also, if your nocturnal avocations rendered early
rising practicable, see some adventurous specimens
OF the male sex emerging from the ocean with the
sum- after enjoying what is technically known as q
g Raw Bath or GO Buff Bath y being impelled
thereto perhaps by their innate dislike to the ap-
Proclamation of wet woollen to the skin; or, more
likely, from some hardy wights having annexed
their bathing pants; or even perhaps from their
having, in simple purity of heart, came down to
the Capes without dreaming of the necessity of
bathing pants or other paraphernalia for dipping,
save the close fitting suit made by the maternal
tailor.
Well, one morning last summer, benevolent old
gentleman tormented by indigestion or the musqu-
toes might have been seen on the little bluff over
looking the beach, watching the rising sun, and the
raw baths of sundry shivering blpeds who were
endeavoring to enjoy the sea-shore with industry
worthy happier cause. With these aVocatlolls,
our friend combined that of limiting what was 60
ing on to any early risen ladies who might wander
that way; information which they might perhaps
have preferred acquiring for themselves.
Suddenly there approached a lady with two gem
men, enveloped in dressing gowns, carrying pun
die of bathing clothes, and evidently bent on hav-
ing an early plunge.
6 Madam, said our friend, hurrying after them,
there are some gentlemen on the beach, still
they swept on. 8 Madam cried lie, they are
taking raw-bath' still answer. Do you
know what l mean and they vanished into a
bathing house.
Piqued and curious, hehad not long to wait be-
fore he saw the party emerge, equipped Tor the
breakers, the young lady walking with very mo-
dest gait, and having her head enveloped in an
enormous bathing bonnet. They directed their
steps towards party of three, who were diving
and floating out by the first breaker. The other
ba,hers made for the shore rapidly, on seeing this
female apparition descend among them but the
devoted three, proceeding edwards, were ignorant
of its coming till sundry warning and indignant
shouts from the beach made them turn round. Two
of them broke for the shore, which they reached
after innumerabe strangulations and overturnings;
but the lady needed them not, continuing her
steady course towards the third who, beWlldered
and stupeiied, could do nothing more than crouch
and cover as the waves rose and fell. His sltua-
ton became critical. A crowd began to assemble
on the beach, laughing and halloong. The lady
approached nearer and nearer; he retreated, win
his face to the enemy, as far he could with safety
AT last finding his situation desperate with all the
courage of fear he advanced in turn, bya dexteros
man9uvre turned the enemy flank, and then broke
in bee-line for the shore, lined with spectators
10 his horror, his prosecutor turned ana iohoWeur
and when he arrived at the margin, exhausted by
struggling with undertow and breakers, she was not
six Yards behind him. Stumbling through the by
ISLANDERS, he made for bathing house, but, tripping
in the deep sand, he fell, and, in an agony OF des-
peration, rolled over and over till he gained sup
Elementary silicious garment. Reused by a shout
of laughter louder than the rest, he raised himself
on his neither end, and behed his fair prosecutor,
taking off her bonnet transformed to well known
JOKER whose practical hits exercised on others, had
often moved hm--but never so much as now.
That afternoon he took boat for Philadelphia;
and since then Cape May is forbidden word
in his house.-Ney York Spirit Of the Tunes.