New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-15
JOHN PAUL'S VACATION.
LIFE AT LONG BRANCH

LIFE AT LONG BRANCH
narHrxd UNREASONABLE At THE WEST IND
WATER As A MOTOR--LOoKsG AT TIE sHA AND
TALKING; or TIE UNATTAISABLE-THE BLUPF-
AN EGYPTIAN GAME.
rrRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rhisosA'
LONG BRANCH, July 12.-What is there han 30
sweet in life-if wo except loves young dream and
tho first scollop of the season.
As the girl late concealed
when she rushes revealed
In the light OF the bill0wsi
Occasionally il occurs TO me that I'd like to be
bilow. several pillows in fact. But Pd be eclectic
in my treatment. Some Of the bathers I'd drown.
For standing on the shore notice many who should
never 90 in an equal number who should never be
allowed to como out. We of the West End don't
botbe much. II isn't "quite the thing" you know!
Too heavy swells for the surf, you see! fellow
can't carry his eyeglasses and cane into the break
ers, and without them we'd bc lost. The LADIES
would do It more if Worth-or the other man.
Northumberland bathng-tlresses. Bot they
won't. They'll make woman into muslin
megathcrium and her husband bankrupt but they
won't make her a bathing-dress. suppose this is
because of the mpossbty of putting thirty yards
Of erenadne into one.
Well don't blame others for not bathlng. ihdi-
vidnally, had rather see bathiR than sea oathe'
lief be undcrhanded as undertocd. A common bath
tub answers very we'll for me, and soap does the
work thoroughly enough without the aid of sand.
There's no great fun in getting wet all over unless
one needs washing. III | made d practice OF sea-
bathing think I'd have an lnda-rubber suit made
and take an umbrella in with me- Water As the old
Frenchman remarked has go tasted of sinners since
the food!
Apropos Of water do not believe in it "a a motor.
once moved Appleton's dog. when he sat bowling
under my window at Riverdae at night, nigh upon
a mile with comparatively small dipperful OF hot
water; but that locomotive can BIO run, from here
to Philadelphia, say, by no other moving power,
will not believe till | see it doneand then I'll say
it's spIitualism.
Better than bathing like to sit on the beach and
look ont upon the and talk OF the Unatalnable-
The Unattainable with big u.
There il that about the which veyes while 1t
fas, mates nc. Gazing out from the shore, far rs
human vision can reach, you only see far enough
70 know that there is something beyond, and OF that
be youd YOU can only conjecture unless yOu take the
word of others for it, And the others. sitting on the
beach with you and looking seaward. can see no far
thcr than you-unless they happen to have a pocket
telescope along and even Chat won't enable them to
sec vs. hat isn't going through an umbrella! II
the sea would only he still for minute or two! fit
would only come up to the beach Just once and fold
its hands and for brief instant hush it, sad mon
otone. the complaining of dissatisfied soul.
II IL would but "let thc old cat die" once-as we
usad to say at school when took turns at swing
ing nnder tree then it does TO me that too
! coud 20 away and rest
But no last thing at night the wall of the waves
is in my cors, and whom wake III the morning still
their sobbing is andible and l know that all night
long they have bsen tossing and tunbng like one
in pain. knowing sleep, finding no rest
Far ont where the horizon" the sapphire 9pan-
glcd marage-ring of the land all seems
peaceful enough from there you hear no sound and
there Won see no motion. and you think that on the
shore Ms Browning mnst have sat. and far away
from the shore she must have looked, when she
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