Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-10
BATHERS
At Long Braneb-The New Costumes
Contrasts in Beauty and in Form
The Glory OF woman
Sweet Innocence Of JAP
anese Bathers.

From Gaths Long Branch letter to the
| Cincinnati Enquirer: Generally speaking,
| the young ladies battle now in stockings
blue, red or gray-barred; tied at the knee
with the string Of the trouser. The effect is
modest and free, giving action to the bather
| or swimmer, and provoking less comment
| than the baggy breeches which were until re-
| Gently considered necessary for purity. Large
ladies heretofore afraid to don the stockings
lest comments might be started en- their huge
or starYeling calves, make the best of it, and
walk in like storks or elephants; as the case
may be. There is nothing so abstruse as the
size of a fat woman's legs. Logically, they
| ought to be in proportion, but it often hap
| pens that when the body punches, it draws
I elJ tfKe 81 req apple on a pair OF toothpicks.
| The only way for such ladies to get even with
the shapely Is to adopt the Ironv1lle style of
uncovering the arms and the Arctic zone por-
| ton OF the bust, that upper part OF the naked
globe where geographers trace the northwest
passage. This is called the Nova Zembla
style Of bathing dress. 1t acts magically on
the other sex, elevating their eyes and minds,
SO to speak, until a miss in her teens, going
around in blue, white, or even buff stockings,
is no more regarded than a spring chicken
plronettingj In comparison to the gracious
obesity of Musco7y duck Long Branch is
rot a very good place for aquatic Irritation, as
nobody can get IN deep enough, with safety,
to be floated, ducked and brought up stand
ing. Cape May is the paradise of the wading
family. They wade deep enough to dodge
the mosquitoes, which ever pursue, and also
beyond acute observation. The youths who
bathe all along our coasts wear little N our
day beyond a breast-piece and clout. No Of
tense is taken by the ladies, who sit on the
beach under parasols, and select their respect
i've types of Apollo. The sensitiveness of our
misses to sunburn will probably lead them to
keep within bounds, or, at least, to bound
within limits; yet it IS pitiable TO see active
women bathing in heavy woolens, every i'm
perfection of stature revealed and not one
grace. ITO arms!'' exclaims one, looking
over my shoulder, well bust itl'
word ''Mn-stripped, creating confusion of
meanings, is very apparent in that part of
the female sex brought up in the country.
AS | sit in my lonely bathing cell, wonder
ing why sand sticks to the soles of the feet,
and whether modern times is equal to the
manufacture of a suspender buckle, | hear
voices in the adjoining house of woe shout
ing: sally, are you on strpped?" Another
voice, further on along the corridor, replies:
Il m all on-stripped except me chimmy."
"Wen, says voice the first, I'm quite on
stripped" This seems to me to contain
deep secret. That ''the glory OF
woman is in her hair" must be
whose glory was In other women's hair, but |
at the bathing hour the female stock of hair |
Is sad quantity. She must either tie it up |
in a ball and put it in an oil-skin bag, or let |
it stream down her back and shed the brine |
like canvas. Then, for weary hour she |
can be heard combing, snarling, crying |
''ouch" when gum drop has melted into |
the said tresses, and letting Sally come in to |
tie 1t all up. You can hear Sally winding it |
around, as if she was hosting water by |
windlass, and wadding it full of hair pins,
and gathering up all those stray hairs that |
make pin-feathers on the neck, SO that, as the
poet says, THE plumage closest to her back
thus winding it up and tucking it in, so as to
such bunch of glory, they grow
confidential. The voices drop to whispers,
swell only to loudness In laughter, and still
they wind up the glory Of woman and stick
it full of pins.
De B. Randolph Keim, in Philadelphia
Press: AS we were about to leave, lady of
elegant attire and attended by female SER
want bearing her toilet apparatus and another
with other luxurles of the bath, entered. We
thought the license of a stranger in foreign
parts would warrant US in lettering a triie In
order to crafty a little curiosity. Our new
arrival, after giving, directions, with the as
'istance of her maid, began to arrange her.
self for the bath. There are many points of
-adical difference between the human gen.
alphabetically, mentally, morally and
physically, and all in favor of the gentle sex.
And so IN their gentle habits. masculine
lisrobing for the bath filings his clothes in all
directions and bounces into the water with an
mpetuosity and violence anything but grace
ul. Our Lady Godiva, for such we will call
her for short, with her maid, neatly folded
md laid away on a cloth in a clean place each
particle of apparel as it was removed. First
he silken robe, then the flowing gown-like
,obe of purple, then the neither garments Ct
white, until we reach natures own. 1t is
'aid that astronomers frequently level their
5ele 'cOpes at one star IN order to see another;
We levelled our sight apparently at pretty
title creature in the bath, but by an obliduity
If vision took IN the other scene unobserved.
As gently as zephyr playing upon the foli-
lge of the trees she stepped along toward the
water. Her beautifully rounded form and
poetry of motion would have been worthy of
he sculptor's chisel. A beautifully rounded
mike and a pretty foot vaguely visible be.
heath the Illuminated folds Of dozen skirts
would set whole community agog at home,
whilst whole form nude as nature and more
} =auti!ul than an angel would not so much as
Ittract a passing glance in Japan.