Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-20

disturbed our serenity, or SO much as
suggested an interference with our plans.
The scene on the beach every morn
ing. from ten to twelve, was a jolly one.
Some hundred or two of other New York
ers than ourselves had found out the
quiet little place, and at about the hour
first above-named, most of them would
come trooping down from the town,
which lies nearly two miles from the
ocean, pressing into the transportation
service every sort of vehicle which it has
entered into the heart of man to con-
struct-buggies, carriages, carts, spring
wagons, farm wagons and what not, in
rafting procession, each bouquet of
humanity, with men for the green por-
tions, and charming girls for the roses,
lilies, fuchsias, heliotropes and other
sweet blossoms. Come to look over nay
botanical simile here, L find it somehow
doesn't read very fatteringly to my own
sex, but as l haven't time to stop and
fix it now l will let it 60, merely re-
questing your fair readers to give nae
proper credit for the comparison. Well,
as | was saying, fun-loving crowd soon
accumulates on the sand, and at once
proceeds to the various business of the
day. The older folks spread their shawls
and their sun umbrellas, the children
get out their miniature pals and SHOW
els, and with their little skirts gathered
into ridiculous similarity to chignon
behind them, rush shoeless and stocking
less for the wet sand, and then and there
perform such complicated feats of civil
engineering in the way of mounds,
trenches and Notifications as would
greatly astonish West Pointer. The
residue and larger part of the company
make for the line of pine bathing
shanties in the background and are lost
to view. Their absence is brief, but,
shades of our ancestors what a trans
formation does it suffice to produce, es-
pecially among the fair creatures Nary
; an artificial charm now. Nary founce,
or furbelow, or bit of lace, or neat boot,
or pretty hat to intensity the attractions
that exist or supply the place of those
t that nature has withheld. Only a flap
: ping bag of blue flannel, topped with
E an oil silk bag for the hair-unless, In
deed the greater part of the latter is
left in the bathing house-deck the
form which SO lately bewitched the OBJ.
server. But there is one advantage
All look about alike and nobody cares
for looks anyway; especially, when, af.
ter the necessary amount of trying the
a water with many retreats and deliciou:
!, little screams, all hands are fairly in
o old Neptune's embrace, and have al
they want to do to attend to his caress
eS.
# But right here desire to prevent Q
s possible misrepresentation. You may
: perhaps infer from my remarks upor
the appearance of the young ladies wher
3 robed for the sea, that myself looked
real pretty in my bathing clothes. But
d | did not. | make this statement with
some confidence because my conclusion
in the matter is not based on my Owl
: unsupported opinion. got good dea
70 of volunteer testimony on the subjec
n from my friends, and it was all so di
rect and uniform in affirming my resem
blance to scarecrow in the rain, that !
d see no ground to doubt its correctness
e But however that may be, the Atlanti,
Y did not appear to mind my costume, bu
n as soon as | got within its reach, picked
me up, turned me over, thumped m,
down on the sand and reared its "Hoy
are you ?" with hearty but somewha
" misplaced cordiality similar to that o
i, your boistrous friend, (you know him o
course: every one has one) who meet
u you on the street after fortnight's alb
TO sence. knocks the breath out of yor
t. with blow on the back, wrings you
d arm out of joint, and talks to you in
g. tone that would reach you if you were
- mile of-all to prove to you the devote
+ character of his friendship.
~ One gets his sea-legs on though afte
he a few tumbles, and it soon got to be a
A. exhilerating pleasure to stand in fv
7 feet of water grasping the lifeline, an
see one great green wall after anotho
Is roll toward us, mounting higher an
tn and higher. and growing thinner an
ly thinner as it approached, till it curle
Ms over our devoted heads and rushe
seething up the sand.
And then the effect of the thing Al
a ter half an hour of such buffeting tn
waves, you feel like a new creatur,
Health, vigor, appetite-every thin
v that the physical system wants seems I
flow In at every pore. Were l to tur
o. physician to-day. am afraid my prt
l., scriptions would seem rather monotonou
= for | would pack every patient off [
the sea-shore and let the great pool
hit health do all the healing.
Il The point on the beach which on
!. surf bathing was done CHANGED to
n0 very near one of the life-saving station
ry OF the U. S. Coast Service, and l ha
an opportunity of learning something
the workings Of this important system
These stations are placed along TIL
portion of the coast at intervals I
about ten miles. During the winte