New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-02
LONG BRANCH!
HOW THE LADIES KILL TIME.

NESS AND NOT OF EAEEClsb.
lYRoM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE rRrBUSE.l
LONG BRANCH, July Cit has been a ques-
ton with No ever since to Long Branch month
and half ago. what reason SO many ladies had for com
ing TO this place ~ spend the dreary days OF Summer
know very we'll the reasons assigned Tor choosing
this In preference to other resorts, but tue
true reason yet TO be ascerthheu'
There is even less excuse for the single lahV'
because marriageable young men are rs scarce mere
musketoes II you ask them, they VIII tell you tneS
come for the seabathing. but you press them closely
mean with questlons-you VIII learn that they never
take seabahs or that they so rare as not to be
worthy of count, One OF the most beautiful young
married women at the Branch told me yesterday that
she never went bathing at Is 50 much trouble, Salu
she; "you gentlemen do at know how much trouble
1t is for lady make her toilet two or three times
day. The bathing is worth it," or the two or three
hundred ladies at the West End Hotel probably not
twenty-five regular bathers, certainly not forty
They all say 1T much trouble" and they all refer
TO the same thing the making Of two OF three toll
cts. 1t Is plain, then, that the ladies, what
ever they may say, do not come TO Long
Branch TO enjoy its bathing. Other ladies VIII tell
that they come for the air and the ocean view
II you watch such ladies closely you will ind that they
the beach, that they rarely on the p-
azza, and that they bend their daily lives that they
have almost little of the beautiful view and Its
stiff breezes they would have in NewYork.
There Is now. is said in OF the principal hotels
at the Branch, lady careful Of her complexion,
which is said to be remarkable III many respects. that
she never leaves her during the day and has all
her meals brought to her. She remains in darkened
room all day long gloomy and desoate fearing that the
SUM- shining through, may frecke her fair face nrn
it to a healthy brown. What pleasure has she,
pray, at the Branchi Every night she comes
out radiany beautiful the gaslight giving soft glow
to her fair cheek and sparkle TO her eye She has spent
time at her toilet you may be sure aud she moves
grandly about among the crowds In the corridors in
the parlors, and the piazza Tor half an hour then
WHAT She her and ays there for another
twenty four hours Docs she for the bathing for
the view the srl have heard ladies
say they here because they so near
tho scountry that they could here have city comforts
with country landscapes. Taey liked the woods, the
streams, the picturesque farms and quaint old farm
houses hedged about by fruit trees and flowers; they
for the drives too the level roads and tho pure
air which only be had in the countryand for the
pleasure OF riding; they always delighted
to mount horse for canter to the country
These ladies, let me tell you In confidence,
rise before 10 In the morning and this is the way
the hours spent: 1t takes hour and half or two
hours to dress and get their breakfast 1t is u o'clock
An hour two is spent n their rooms loungng about
in wrapper reading novel, perhaps taking little
dOze, until 1t is o'clock, when the dress
ing for dinner begins. Tho maid comes IN, the
hardresser sent for and the fair gets the best
Of hours before she L. ready for her dinner sesa
of half hour follows the dinner, aud by that time the
band begins to play the lawn and the fine carriages
pass to and ro making enyening spectacle. little
promenade hall with the young gentleman who sits
for all the fashion plates and then the orchestra strikes
up Ia the parlOr and fairy feet chasing each other
over floor in the Boston. little supper follows the
hop which stops at II o'clock and it is u or before
those bright eyes with painted eyeashes and eyebrows
are closed in sumber. What chance has one leading
such life TO take drive galop into the country TO
admire the quiet beauty Of Nature
Young ladies do not come here to frt, because,
have said there gentlemen Of the marrageable
persuasion hereI may, perhaps, except one young,
TAIL dark, handsome army officer, the youngest OF his
rank in the service, a hero during the rebellion. who
carries the lead OF three mimic balls IN his shouldeIs
and legs. Secretary Stanton saw him shot from
the parapets of Fort Fisher, and gave him
the commission OF Colonel in the Regular
Army, while dhe was on what was thought
to be his deathbed. which he kept for two years, step
ping backward and forward from life 10 deat until he
was finally able ~ accept years leave OF absence to
enable him to visit EurOpe-he being able having
swallowed opiates enough during the eight years follow
ing his 2ist year TO have killed his whole regiment,
walk slowly and with little appearance Of lameness,
without tho use OF cane. L did not mean
TO mention his name, but his deeds have
been so gallant and his patience and seriugs 30 heroic
that his name ought have the little tribute which
these unworthy words may convey to the distant
reader The men who watched for gallant deeds In the
war. who read the daily heralding Of comets that
blazed to-day and sunk tomorrow, who recall the
striking events OF the period, may remember the
young PennsylYanian whose desperate bravery
and hercuean endurance made him colo
mel In the regular army before he was tventy-One
years OF His glory Is enrolled In the capital and
every head OF the War Department, from Secretary
Stanton down to Secretary Belknap has recalled the
deeds and the sacrifices Of this young officer and have
treated him with unusual kindness, His name
is Peunypacker Il believe there ought
to be G. before it,, and he is the
colonel of the 10th Infantry stationed at Nashville.
He was Breyet MajorGeneral at 23, and is 80
young q man In appearance that you would sooner
pect to see on his shoulder the gold bars of hrsteu.
tenant than the silver eagle ola colonel.
This all palpable diversion. started this letter
could not discuss the attractions of seaside
Sort 1t my purpose to show that without the
bathing the drives the rides the vew and the
air. Long Branch sufficiently attractive to draw all
kinds of people to It's shore The letter 10 too far
advanced as space TO admit OF any philosophy. A
Sumuers residence here may be OF Infinite to any
body IL the advantages made Of 1t scarcely
be detrIment any. If the young belle OF society in
Washington, which must, by the way, here
after be tho social center OF the country, New
York is the commercial center, and Boston the
literary center, after Winters dissipation at the
fastest capitals, out every evening, suffering with all
the diseases that Overtake women-pale, exhausted
wasted, and without life interest-if such young
lady would come 10 Long Branch, and follow the
pie OF young lady now here, one OF the most
plished girls that mounted horse, she may regain
the that have left her cheek and the strength
which has left her muscles, and her mind will improve
apace. This young lady fears not the burning suuso
much gained She will walk, drive, or play croqnet
without caring whether the bottom Of her modest dress
is daInpened by the dew whether her face is rae
burned by the sun. She battles without caring whether