Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-21
AT LONG BRANCH.
Prince Erie and the "ReaI. PPin-
cess-IIOw the Branch Gets "a" Cor
ner' on NewpOrt-HfdeOus
cies i'm Bathing Dresses.

Look out; look out, quick, l say; he S
coming" and pbo is not asked, because
a siX-in-hand dashes up, and we know it
can be none other than the Prince of
Erie come to crafty his admirers by a
sight of his magnifcence. 1t is Midas
himself not the same who touched the
clouds and gilded the sea, but he whose
touch has placed palaces on the Sound,
and whose ambrosial nod gives the stamp
of fate to Wall street panics. But | mix
things; it was Jove and not Midas who
used to nod, and it is Jim and not
Jove who passes and repasses before
our astonished gaze in the full glory
of summer sunset. Leaning back in
his carriage, he gazes in triumph at the
assembled spectators. See, says some
one, that is the real Mrs. Fisk with
him, and so we know Long Branch has
got corner" on Newport" The six
horses, three grays and three blacks, ar
ranged like squares on q checker-board,
are presently drawn up in front Of this
hotel, and their owner enters the Office
and retires from eyes profane, mayhap
for refreshments. Forthwith the balcony
is crowded with spectators of every class,
anxious to have nearer look at all this |
grandeur, while the grooms in mono
grams and light cloth hold the prancing |
steeds, bedecked with gold and guided |
with silver reins. 1t is fine sight. /
never saw so fine one except when the
circus used to come to town in my child
hood days. We saw all this on Wednes-
day afternoon; yesterday we saw the
Colonel of the gallant Ninth in his car
riage with only four horses, and his un
pretending-looking partner seated by his
side.
The cry is still "they" don't come.
There are few gentlemen here, and their
happy female owners stick to them as if
believers in the Mormon method of
sealed salvation, thinking that with them
alone is entrance into the paradise of
society possible, The rest of us, who
have no such hopes, affect scornful in
difference to like needs, but nobody be-
leves us in earnest. A proprietor Of one
of the hotels told me he sometimes gave
board at merely nominal price TO some
elegant but impecunious young men, Just
for the sake Of having his bouse made
agreeable TO the ladies. He told me in
rs ttii you. II 10 NoVu
idea, only the jealous husbands who evi-
dently had their own way Of bringing .
about this Ito them) desirable state cf
things, may use means to prevent its alb
rogation. ..-..
Bathing has not beer extensively !
practiced yet, The children bathe al
most every day, but their elders hang 4
back, and for one am not astOnished. !
Il is a great uglifer, that costume which
IS so universally adopted. There Is no !
beauty, no grace, Ho dainty form which :
will not be utterly concealed by bath 5
ing suit. II is not that it displays de-
fects, but that II creates them and con
reals attractions, The dress itself, with &
It's yoked waist and tunic and Bloomer a
irowsers, is bad enough, but the hideoRs !,
straw hat, essential TO any one whose
syes and skin are not proof against c
glare Of light,i unspeakably abominable. :,
L is scarcely fair to criteise existing