The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-29
RY THE SAD SEA WAVES.
Sights Mt Long Branch-All About Surf
Bathing.

The season at Long Branch Is now at It's
heioht. correspondent of the New York
World says:
The bathing is superb, and is participated 10
by old and young with Intense satisfaction.
Sea bathing, at the right time and under the
right circumstances, is undoubtedly The 1nest
Alternative In the world. 1t restores the tone
| OF the whole system, and stimulates to acttvi-
| ty every sense and faculty. Jaded, care-worn
men come down here. plunge into the surf,
aud come out younger by twenty years. 10
| women 1t Is an elixir of youth and beauty.
Not at first, according to the crude notion
thew have Of beauty, for it reddens and tans
somewhat, and not unfrequently develops any
| latent tendency to eruptlve diseases, but per-
severe beyond that, and the complexion OBJ
tains clearness and brilllancy which 1t never
before possessed.
The usual hours for promiscuous bathing are
| from eleven till two, but men go In more or
less during the whole twenty-lour. This morn
ing an immense number OF persons, of both
sexes and all ages, took advantage OF the nne
condition OF the surf, and rolllcked In 1t to
their hearts content. Watching the young
sters tumbling In and out among the waves,
rolling in the sand, then plunglng Into the
white surf, wild with fun and excitement, one
could but wish that the humanltarians who
are getting up the monster excursions for stray
/
New York, bring them here, and give them
one clean ocean bath. How nightly they
| would enjoy it.
II looks very queer to see crowd OF men
and women bathing together, until you get
used to it, and then you do not mind it at all.
In the water they all look alike, and IL is some
times difficult to tell which Is which when they
come come out of it. AS for ''becoming" bathing
costumes, any old bather, male or female,
would laugh at the idea The elongated rat,
set upon two feet, and thoroughly drenched,
gives as near conception as one can get OF
the human form divine clad In an ordinary
bathing dress and fairly emerged from the salt
sea waves, with the loss OF the frlghtful bit Of
head. gear known as bathing hat.
Dry 1t may have been charming blonde or
lovely brunette In a regulation costume OF
soft gray or marine-blue serge, and crowned
with the approved Nantucket head covering,
which Is shallow chopping. bowl made OF
coarse straw and tied down upon the head.
But salt walter is exceedingly democratic; It
for gentlemen say lady can be distinguished
even while taking an ocean bath, but 1t rem
ders it difficult to tell blondes from brunettes,
and even men from women.
There has been no real change In the style
of bathing costume for the past ten years, nor
Is 1t necessary. OF course the thiags to let"
though designed upon the same general prln-
ciple, are hideous, but 1t Is because the mate
rial is coarse and common, the cut bad, the
making worse, the lit a mile to wide for
shrunken shanks a mile too small for plump
ones
Ladies' who wish to really enjoy their salt
water baths should purchase an outfit at Union
Adams's, six hundred and something Broad.
way, before coming down here. The suit con-
sists of trousers and blouse of serge or twilled
flannel, trimmed with fat braid In contrast
ing color, and includes shoes made OF white
sailcloth, an ollskln cap or Nantucket chip
hat-all for nine or len dollars.
Young ladies who study the picturesque will
find ash-graX trimmed with scarlet, or marine
blue with white, with very light, creamy chip
hats, (broad BRADY best calculated to produce
sensation among the loungers on the beach.