The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-26


The whole makes up scene Of life and
animation entirely novel and interesting,
10 a fresh.waterman from the banks Of
he unpretending Ohio,
RGTHISG II THE SURF.
Those who come here for the season
bring their bathing suits with them.
They are generally blue or gray cOlOred
woOlen goods, mostly shirt and pants
for gentlemen and blouse and skirt-a
Ia bloomer-for ladies. Such people rent
the use Of bathing house for the season,
say for $40, and there they repair once
day to dress and nndress. Those who
come to stay a few days only hire a suit
with the use Of bathing house, either by
tie day or week, paying 90 cents every
time they use it. The metamorPhOsis that
people undergo from the time they leave
the hotel until they come back is amusing
enough to the locker on. Firstthey come
out Of the bathing houses saus everything
you saw on them when they entered it,
even to shoes and stockings. Young Ia
dies step forth in their blue or gray
blouses completely Invested Of panier
and crimps, and all that those two ar
ticles imply, and you see them in aprimi-
tive condition as compared with what
they were ten moments before. Their
back hair is done up in oil cloth caps and
their heads are covered with old straw
hats, but their feet press the sand in a
state Of nature and leave tracks behind
that are not Just as tiny in all cases al
Cinderellas slipper, II it is their first
bath they walk along very shyly and in
an embarrassed manner, but II they are
old bathers Of week or two's standing
they evince becoming degree OF nOnchal'
ance and stride down to the water with the
air OF a fisherman.
GETTING ISTo THE WATER.
OF course everybody recoils from their
first encountre with old Neptune, or, lesl
classically expressed, from bufeting the
white crested breakers for the first time
They expect to be chilled, and are afraid
Of the undertow. They naturally take
hold Of the ropes before they are in knee
deep and walk along with many mis-
giving step. Old hands walk right in, ii
business way, and strike out boldly viii
high steps for the stakes that are midway
out, say up to their hips. Going il
bathing is like many other things in life
once having made up your mind to go in
the altogether most satisfactory way is t.
get in promptly, and avoid the slow tor
turo Of chilling yourself by inches. Gt
right in, buffet one breaker, and th,
ordeal is all over instantly, and you ART
happy as a clam in high water, Yor
wonder that you ever felt cold. The feel
ing is one Of entire comfort, so much 81
that bathers are generally prone to sta!
in too long. Ten minutes is long enough
GETTING OUT OF THE WATER,
You should see the mermaids and set
nymphs coming out Of the water. How
lank, clammy and swashy some Of them d,
look. Their garments stick to them lik,
the shirt Of Nessus, aud II "the curve i
the line Of beauty" as geometricians tel
us, the forms Of many Of these dea
creatures are very beautiful, for they ar,
very curry indeed. Fat people, accord
Ing to my notion, appear to good advan
tage when coming out Of sea bath
They look as II they were not soluble il
brine.
THE DAYS ROUTINE.
Ishould,ere this, have givenyOu a day
routine Of seaside life. As arule guest
at the hotels do not rise early. Most o
them breakfast between eight and min,
o'clock. Those going to New York OIL
the early boat, breakfast between six ant
seven o'clock. The multitude, however
that ia the women and children, are yer.
leisurely in the morning. The New Yorl
papers reach here at half past six, and
nearly every one sips his or her COTE,
with a Herald, Times or Tribune besid
them. They take in the news Of the da.
along with their wallleS and eggs. Havinl
spent an halihour OF so at the tables the!
all come out into the halls and parlors
the gentlemen to smoke, the ladies I,
their needle work, and the children t.
play. The band generally plays for Al
hour or so in the parlor. Ishould hav
mentioned that there is band, three o
four pieces, at each hotel. The morning
hours are thus made very enjoyable.
SLEEPING IN THE DAY TIME.
About eleven o'clock, as have alread!
noted, the hotels empty themselves int,
the sea. Within an hour aitei wards tn,
bathers come streaming back again-alI
making for their rooms, the ladies ant
children especially, to dry out their hair
change their clothing and fix themselve
for an ante dinner nap. One Of the mos
snlulary effects Of sea.bathing Is that il
induces sleep, and this is why II is 5,
beneficial to invalids. The temperature
Of the body il reduced by the plung,
among the breakers, the brain is cooled ant
all inaammutory and exciting influence
allayed. BY two o'clock in the Afternoon
everybody has had refreshing nap, ant
at that hour they come down to Dime
looking pert "a daisies, all dressed in
their best clothes.
THE AFrER DINNER HOUR.
Dinner is Of course the elaborate mea
Of the day. The large dining room IL nliv,
with three OF four hundred people, seate,
at thirty or forty different tables, and tn,
hum Of their voices, mingled with the clat
ter Of dishes and the rush Of waiter.
makes a lively time from two to tire,