Middletown transcript., 1881-08-19

OF Mr.. SelDy and the L1aldS6HiohC ~
Mr.. Farley, is gaining wide reputa-
tion as a model seaside caravansary
has been full nearly all season and IS
caring for about $50 guests at present:
Harry Goodwin, Mr.. Stephens and
Jacob Maxwell, all well known to our
people. and none of whom part thelr
hair in the middle, officiate in the Dusl-
ness office. They are clever set OF
fellows. and either Of them viii at any
time loan you an umbrella, dog, d
hymn book, fishing-line, a euchre-
deck, or do anything else in the world
to make it pleasant for you. The Al
Iantic House has done well this season,
too. It has had five hundred guests at
one time. 1t maintains, at great eX-
pense, a small patch of corn that has
Just got through the ground, tor the
amusement Of the guests. The sea
siden hotel has not been full. Its pro-
prietor is said to be clever fellow,
but somehow the other two hotels nave
had the bulk Of the visitors. MI. oelDy
has had Congress Hall only two seasons
and his success has been remarkable.
He will have to build another addition
before opening time next season. Inc
Peninsular editors are here this week
conducting themselves in very proper
manner, except that they are flirting
with the girls. We saw one OF the
oldest of the lot, a staid, dlgnlfied,
gray-haired head Of a family, prone
nading on the shore by moonlight with
Washington belle, and his wife at
home, probably, canning tomatoes and
labOring under the blissful hallucinatlon
that her loved husband was in bed, or
sitting back some where talking to
another gray-haired editor about the
impending crisis and the turnip crop.
The editors are enjoying themselves.
They generally do. They come up
smiling at the sound of the dinner bell,
and take their nourishment with appar-
ant relish, as DR.. Bliss would say.
They find it very pleasant at Congress
Hall, and when they have a touch Of
home-sickness they go and see Doctor
Bradshaw. They held business meet
ing to-day and ordered an advertising
agent on toast for supper, but learning
that this was the close season for kill
ing advertising agents, they changed
the order to soft crabs. The editorial
exercises last evening were enjoyed by
the guests Of the hotel. MI. Selby
kindly gave his parlOr for the affair,
and the very excellent orchestra, con-
nected with the house, made sweet
music between the literary efforts.
After the exercises there was an eXhi-
bition of fireworks in front of the
hotel. Then there was dancing, and
some of the editors Waltzed with the
girls. We should like to be waltzist,
but we are too old now to learn. We
should want a ten-acre lot to practice
in. There is something bewilderingly
charming about waltZing with a pretty
girl, particularly to man who has al
ways had to stand still to do his hug
ging. The editors adjourned to-day,
after passing some resolutions about
advertising agents, and thanking the
railroad officials and Mr.. Selby for kind
treatment. They all said this was the
most pleasant and successful meeting
they had ever had here, and ere this
they have reached home, happy with
tender memories of pink stockings and
soft-shell crabs. There are two men
at one of the hotels who have been
playing a curious sort of game with
pieces of pasteboard embellished with
pictures. They get some other men to
help them, and they sit around table.
One man stirs the pieces of pasteboard
all up and then distributes them around
and another says "I'm in two chips, :"
and another replies g l call yOu.' We
hear that it costs heap to learn this
interesting little game from these two
men, and we shall not learn it this
year. Quite a number of those who
have been down here this season have
taken course of lessons at high rates,
and yet they are not happy. This is a
free and easy letter, you will observe.
We are putting down our ideas just as
they flow, and to-day they seem to fly
sort of prOmiscuously. We commenced
to write lying on our back, in the cOzy
pavilion down here in front of Congress
Hall, but we have had to resume a sit
ting posture in order to get our ideas to
gallop along smoothly. We have al
ways found it difficult to write while
lying, though we can readily lie while
writing. You have perhaps noticed
this popularity about us before. Ocean
City is a nice place among watering
places to rest and recreate at in the
summer season. The bathing is usually
excellent, the hotels set an inviting
table, and mosquitoes, that pest of
most summer resorts, are seldom
troublesome here. The guests are So
cial, and there is far less fashionable
fOolishness than one usually sees at
summer resorts. AS a health resort
we can conscientiOusly recommend the
place. DR.. Bradshaw, physician to
Congress Hall, looks after the sick. He
has not lost case this season, and is
gaining great reputation as health
restorer. But, to be serious a little
while, it seems to us that resting at a
summer resort is about as hard work as
people ever do. The great object seems
to be to kill time, and when one starts
out to kill time, Old Time generally
comes off first best. The wild-eyed
young man and the sad-eyed young girl,
when they go off together to list 'what !
the wild waves are saying" are about |
the only ones that can succeed in kill
ing time successfully. With them,
time flies "a way time has when you
don't want it to fly. Following out
the programme of sleeping, eating,
playing ten-pins, bathing, flirting,
dancing and dressing, may do for a
/" change" but there is not much |
'' rest" about it. 1t is like cutting off |
a little fire wood to rest yourself, after
you have done a hard days work. |
That's the modest opinion of
THE BALDHEADED EDITOR.
WHILE Isaac Fennimore and his
hired woman were driving near Mount
Holly, New Jersey, during the storm of
afternoon, the carriage was
shattered by lightning, and the woman
and the horses were killed. Mr.. Fen
nimOre escaped without serious injury.
HUGH MOTT, aged 20 years, and
George Grubb, aged 50, both of
Chester, Penna., were drowned in the
Delaware, on Saturday afternoon, by I
the capsizing Of small yacht.