Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1869-08-03
NO. So.


About the most readable thing in The
norsa Today, Is chatty, albeit slightly i'm.
pertinent, letter from Long Branch IN ibe
course OF which the writer, after describing
ihe lazy, louneing dissipated. do-notbine
llle most OF the masculine gender lead there.
goes on to say -
woman, dear woman, rather gets fat ON
1t. Out on from the bar, the boot-black, the
DarDer, the lounge in the office. she never
lheless exists here with sumpluons com.
placency. Physically, she is greater mir.
acle than ever at Long Branch. She defes
eAnW ana the weather alike. The sweei
shhG Glohlc creature comes out In the damn
soughing sea-wlnd at night with black lace
on her shoulders. When the men throw
neayy blankets on The horses she stands mn
aehinsi Inc chl IN Illusion. Not that she Is
,no ignorant, bnl she is too helpless. The
Medean law Of the Branch, sumptuarv as il
is is not aimed at health or enjoyment but
al appearances. The vasculor hfadOnnas
eat like cormoranis behind closed shuttprs
and sleep, like a fashionable consoience
itself, all day. But they parade at night-
For that they exist. Show on the beach.
show on The bank, show at the table, on the
piazza, IN the narlor. Relieiously, this is
Inc all important question. o, star Of our
destiny moral bali of humanity, thou dear
emotional bang, fall down on thy knees be-
tore II is loo late, and ask God to forgive
thee for going down to dinner when Won
were not In full dress BY yand by the SUM
mer will be ended and the harvest will come.
and your daughters will not be married. be.
cause men are inclined TO regard Long
Branch as something of Washington
Market, where veal and lamb and peaches
are exposed by hucksters for their money,
"The little guide published at Long
Branch says the beach is the finest in the
world, and there 1t stops. It ought to have
added that the contlguity Of Long Branch to
New York should make 1t the finest water
ing place in he world. II don't. Nature has
done everything. Man nothing. In the
highest sense of human enjoyment he has,
perhaps, made il milk-and-wateung place.
lie has built hotels which are as large as the
Chillumbrum Pagoda, as though ihe' we're
enough, and recuperating man could feast
his weak stomach on shingle Doric and an
eternity of piazza. "A little more grub and
a little less airs said blunt visitor in my
hearing yesterday, would do me good
Three walters TO ono plate is not hygienic,
much less consolng, as they arc uncooked,
and, from appearances, would be tough aud
stringy If they were. The sea has a trick of
people. Its tonic reach is aston
lshlng, and when you get into it, the mag
nelic prickle makes cormorant OF you
When you are properly wrung out you rush
Dack to the hotel voraciOusly, and there
grim, mcxorable, but placld loi-de-rol bars
The way to food. You must get your boots
blaeked get your clothes on, and oh, heav-
ems, if yOl have n fashionable wife to wait
Tor, you will die in all the agonies OF starYa-
ton. Nor will the dinner alleviate you
much, unless you can turn fuss and fidaels
and formula aud French fam into chyme.
Some OF these hotel keepers have grandilo-
luent way of calling their guests attention
to the moon and the salt air and the surf, as
though their hotel right extended over the
sidcrial heavens, aud these were the things
we paid five dollars a day for. This take
10 be one Of the phases of the Long Branch
rlckets. Now, no one can Outdo me in ad-
lnlratlnn ol the sea unless il is Victor Hugo.
always bring an extra valise for my senti-
ment, hut don't get 1t checked and left with
-he porter.