The Osceola times., 1876-09-02
Beautiful Jewcsses at Long Branch
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Long Branch is the place for beautiful
Jewcsses. They grow fair in skin, yet
preserve all their splendid contrasts Of
rich eyebrows and oriental eyes and
tresses here. Domestic, we'll appetized,
taking their leisure most philos0phically,
they make willing mothers, and at mid.
die life are troubled with nothing more
than excess of flesh. There is q hotel
called Jauch's at the Branch, pronounced
Yock, where the middle class family He
brews stop among French and a medley
of foreigners. AZ IL Il good place for
bachelors, having meals a Ia carte,
stopped there week and made, after q
fashion, trip TO the Holy Land. The
husbands and lovers arose at half-past
five, bathed with their faces towards the
east or their heels in the air, and, taking
only cup of coffee, darted of to New
York. At ten o'clock the Hebrew
mother was up looking for her boys, wht
were chasing the pig or the tom cal
across the lawn. The oriental damsc
was reading novel, or practicing a min
strel ballad down at the piano, or flirting
with a christian with pocket handker
chief. They breakfasted light and wen,
off to bathe in plain muslin or bunting
dresses, blue being a fsvorite color
Emerging from the bath house, clad In
bifurcated blue trimmed with white, the
daughter of Judith stands, and, as in the
olden story, she drives the nails in the
temples of Holofernes, but Is now only a
toe-nail; for we nee her milk-white feet,
turned at the tips like the shell Of an
ivory snail, planted on the sand like the
base of a recovered sphinx. There she
is, fresh as the riddle the sphinx pro.
pounded, and older than its creation in
the undiminished vigor of her race.
She stands the type of Miriam with heI
tabor and Mary with her Joseph. Cleo
patra is dead and all the sons of Anthony
and in their place there rules turban
and Turk. But the gold that must
sustain his tottering power and ours Il
the thrift Of the wandering Jew. He
travels from land to land with gold dust
in his garments, his wife with diamonds
hidden in her mouth. They are cast out
Of cities; they lend to kings. Antagon.
lied for ages, they have yielded at last
to the softening influence of federation
and kindness. Assured against molesta
tion, they have bscamc holder Of land
and lots in the cities of the new world
They hold about one-third of the bes,
real estate 10 the city of New York
their synagogues lift their rich facadcs I,
the light, where the Moorish horse -sho,
and bulbous domcsof silver gilt are inter
mixed with texts of chaldean. Many
of them give literally to build christian
churches and to christian charities, bu
in worship and In marriage their faith
fulness seldom wavers We agitate ;,
keep the Sabbaths we will not keep, bu
silently and not to proselytize, the Jew
puts up his shutters on his own seventh
day, and loses the lucre of two Sabbath
without a whine.
The Jewish maiden takes her bath
and rs she leaves the water, with he
clothes clinging to her, she is stalwar
as section Of Solomon's temple. He
thick, black hair is fit for bow-strings
like shafts of cedar are her limbs. Sh
lunches heartily on cold meats and
bottle Of beer, and goes up and dresse
for her lord. When he arrives in tn
stage she is on the piazza wearing vel
vet dress with an overdress of lace cur
tain, a Maria Stuart collar, big diamond
in her ears, and a straw hat full of illu
sion pinned down with a tulip of gol'
and carnelian. They address each othe
in three or more languages during tn
same sentence, being true cosmopolitans
and in minute the carriage is up for
drive. That night, about ten or clever
of the clock, they are eating the entir
Passover lamb, drinking champaign, AM
laughing like the happiest people in tn
world, al. dressed richly, bareheaded
taking the world for all it is worth.