The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-06-18
from the observations Of Mace SlopeE ]
THE BEACH AT CAPE MAY.

states ana some JerSeymen. lNeSe Jersey
men, or few Of them, it is said, stay in
town in the hope of getting chance to stea
the silver dollar which constitutes the capi-
tai of the bank of Cape Island, and which
to prevent failure, is securely nailed to its
counter.
i In fact the city is not, after oil, so very
imparticularly small rs some may think
since i, contains several local quarrels OF
tremendous size, not to mention four watch.
men who, when imprudent enough to &C
straying about at night, .serve for endles:
amusement to the gay visitor of the Blue
Pig, by whom they are occasionally arrested
and locked up in the bath house or duckeC
in the surf. Consequently or quinsectton.
ally-Cape May can exhibit of evenings
nothing shorter than a tolerably tall crowG
in the way of promenaders, since the bean.
tiful and serene cheese here, consists OF
turning out long, preambulatng funera
every evening on the beach.
Thar they are-by thousands Ladie,
and gentlemen, all out for breeze; all
blowing off the splendid in ge- orgious array
all swelling on n super eminent be der OF
sentiment and old ocean: all tiptotally com.
Portable, (if so be that the mosquitoes arc
on a salt furlough) all upper crusty, shop
sunk, windows closed and out for the even.
ing. Imagine great long, hard beach
covered as far as the opera-glass can reach
with people well ll-dressed and nothing under
it, in couples, triplets, bankruptcies, quad
rupeds, and so on, trailing after one another
just as if it was promenade hour in Brond-
way, only the Broadway wanting. The
contrast between Nature and Art is awful
but whether the shanghais or the ocean are
the most stunning naturalists is not
agreed"
"I!ip-hip-ha-a-a-ay there! shouted q
well-known voice, as a splendid team
went by with dreadful righteousness. 1t
was Hiram IN his glory and radiance, and
his two pet s'kittens,' Wretch and Demon.
The crowd had admiration in them, and
Hiram was bound to wrench it out of them
Or die. "Splendidr r'-''tip-
rous" "Who is he ?''-"Who the hi
is it?"-go it, old Brimstoner' One
glance of that magnificent beard and m ous-
tacbe-one gIeam Of the immortal tile--and
| Hiram was off with tho wind. The wheels
! Of the wagon followed the heels Of the crabs
and the Indies know from the Inlet even unto
Poverty Bench. that thnre) was n new lion
! broke loose in the mona ycrie.
We meandered along and anon. the
crowd--Ameia and lone of her small
! hands hooked to nv arm, while the other
/ regulated, sustained, maintained. and other
wise supported and arranged Q great varie-
ty of upholstry houncee which the evening
sea-brceza insisted on exploring and bal
looming about with as much obstinacy as if
! it had bought tickets to look at her ankles,
and was bound to have fair sight. Sud-
denly one hand slid away from mo and the
smiles Of uncountod skirt INDUCED in a
wild flap o: freedom. =. Amelia with Il small
shrek of rapture suddenly saiuted and en-
hraced a young lady who screamed on the
same scale with corresponding sentiment of
how do -you-fnd, your self at tAness.
The young lady was what IS generally
called ga female Of strikingly preposessns
eXterior,' since she not only had great
white arms and very little pink gloves, but
sev vcral red streamers about FIVE inches
broad and FIVE feet long. flying from her
shoulders and head. The remainder of her
person seemed to be miscellaneous sort
Of hurrah's nest, or promiscuous wilderness
of all sorts of lace and iewe'v, among
which about four dozen bracelets shone
conspicuously. Her ewes were of the mixed
tom cat and sheet lightning species, being
/
of the DEVILS horns, while her immense
crop of jetty curls mado wilderness so
big that a reas enable sized man might have
been lost in them and died Of perfume.
{likc humble bee in backing bottle) be-
fore he found his way out.
"La a''-s.dear''- dcal"-s:la !''-
, ooh ioar !" "whcn did you arrive % 'scal
and see US dear r'-''of course, DEAR
"good evening dear !"-e'cetery, and so on
including, of course, a slight shot on-the
wing sort Of an introduction to "Miss
Bofbitypod-Mr. Sloper.'' The parting
salutes given. and the beautiful one having
sailed away in all the flush of mild rush
Of rogue, grace, ah,tbility, and heliotropc,
the widow proceeded to particulars.
"Lodara Windahcl Bobbitipod great
belle-they call her the Steamboat Belle up
and down the Mississippi. because she's
always going, and rs our friend Hiram SAYS
because she's always ringing it into the
beauy. She has caused great man scnsa-
tons-one in Cincinnati. two in Nat chez,
two or three in New Orleans, four in Wash
ington, and very striking sensation in New
York.
"indeed?"
eyes, indeed. She's quite a gay girl,
very fond of excitement, and perhaps a
I little wee-bt too dashv-for the east
Such things strike one rather more here"
continued the widow reflectivelv. as if it had
Just somehow occurred TO her for the first
time, that Miss Bobbityhell had so far as
outside wcnt-just the least bit in the world
too much fash gaudv about her. ''But-
she's very nice girl--so generous-and so
kind heartcd'
Sand tirstrate lot YOU are, yourself,
Amelia Twiggles," thought !, as we plum
enaded along on the sand beside of the tear
ing old waves. 'Now it's queer-isn't it
that lust now. for the first time in your life,
it came into your head, (and you one of the
| smartest and observingest women that ever
hvcd,) that the damsel who seems to have
gone to Scarlet Babylon for her style and
dress patterns, should have struck YOU as
little too fashy." Well, it's the way Of
| life. We may live among the fast and
| fashy til we notice it no longer, and till q
peacock seems to be nothing more than an
old hen, but the miracle of ali is, that it
we're naturally sensible and modest our
, selves, like as the widow is,) all the scarlst
examples in the world won't make US one
shade redder.
don't know whether this notion will hit
the reader as it did me. Mace Sloper don't
pretend to be one of your smart sort, and
is moreover rather behind time on the lite
rary, so that it probably often happens to
HIM to stop and tinker away ut something
that's no news Mt all to the regular old
hands of the writing business. Yes. tha: 3
so And what hits him queerest of all, and
is most uucomprehenslbIe is, that what
comes ensiest in these observations, and
which is 'quinsequontially" of the common
est sort and least value. is Just what Mr..
Clark and Mr.. Shelton say is the best of all.
That's the way though in all business, drv-
goods, hardware, or books. and nobody
knows beforehand how the taste of custom
ers will rue.
As we tottled along over the sand began
to notice couple walking just before the
man being rugged ont in long tail blue
with brass "butt," and the female iu white
with yellow-frnged green pnrasol.
so Catherine! and isn't it iligant ntirsly
here by the say-side forennst the waves,
walkin over the pibbIcs in the coolth of the
avenin'2 Don't ye see the bits OF waves
a-runnin afther one another, jst rs the