New-York tribune., 1881-07-17
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS
ON THE BEACH AT LONG BRANCH.


BROKERS' SPINNING YARNs-How FORTUNES
WERE MADE AND LOST IN WAR TIMEs-A GYPSY
ON GYPsIEs
"The bathing hour is the only hour at the seaside
for those still conscious of youth There is a driv
ing hour also, but it is not the same Any old
cripple can drive"
At these remarks the pretty Miss dived and shook
one blue toe and its accompanying tipper above the
waves, and struck out for the ocean direct.
If such your sentiments thought |, "hero
goes with you; for IL is better to be drowned than
TO miss the bathing hour"
We swan beyond the stakes and lines, and the
bottom had given way beneath us.
Keep your eyes mine, said the pretty Miss,
still striking out like watcr-dog. "Pcople who
can keep cheerful cannot sink"
Assuredly it never seemed so easy to swim in deep
waters. She was "a gray-eyed grl. a lttlc freckled
but with plenty of color and her voice IN particular
articulared so distinct and manful like that it
made the whole ocean submissive. SAID |: al
mover tri"d, but with you think could cross the
whole pond"
That's what everybody says" she exclaimed
laughing. IL suppose because I'm not afraid |
assure other towards Now learned to SWIM from
man. and thai gave me confidence Man can
teach woman to swim, and Il woman who knows
can teach man, but | never was able IL make a
swimmer OF any woman. | learned at a swimming
school. saw that the teacher in love with me,
and that was some encouragement; as one victory
giN es confidence and leads 20 another finally beat
him swimming Tnen l had no more respect for
him-and he drowned mself"
"Gracious hcavens~ said |, swallowing half a
pint or sea water and going down. When came up
again she was lying her back with 10th feet half
out oi water, making love to the angels above.
FEMALE SWIMMERS VIEWS.
Did he drown az sea 7" ventured to say.
"No, drowned of drink, though he had 4 weak
ness for it before. He mnst have been silly fall
in love with me instead of with swimming
Here l also turned over on my back and saw the
clouds slowly, thoughtfully moving overhead. and
we both ceased to make any eXertion and ioated
there, talking, half mile from shore, like two
people in boat. The presty Miss talked in that
large assuring voice with real and eloquenco
which made the ocean safe romance.
"There is plenty of everything but selfreance."
she said, and that nobody can get without daring
for it. The body requires education more than the
head. Any well-bred woman who can swim ont
here far at sea, can hold her own with her husband
after she gets HIM. Husbands leave their wives be-
cause their wives will 90 along with them.
Man Is an exercising animals after business his
world Is and ought to be the open air. But his
wife never learned to walk and what little she
once walked she Will not do year after marriage.
Not single physical exercise does an American
woman acquire after marriage. Conseducntly,D
SAID the pretty Miss, with the most natural frank
hess, woman of active body can, if she wants to-
lead away those bereaved husbands Johnny" re-
marked the lady, executing dive which was like
ducks going down for weed, teach your daugh-
ters to walk, to ride and to swim Then they can
see just where their husbands GO"
There's no fear about me now.' said / this
peculiar conversation too healthy tor apprehen-
SION"
We will go toward the beach" she said " for
we shall be tired before get there. Do YOU know
why husbands do not court their wives more Be-
cause their wives sit down on them. Show me n
wife who walks around the Park with her husband
and talks frankly with him. like any other man.
aud I'll show you couple still courtng Swim
ming is wOmans greatest luxury if she only knew
It, bat she is not dressed III style either walk or
swim. She sits down at home, talking dress, and
accusing him of neglect, while it is the highhceed
shoe and the tight stays and sclhshncss of ease
which Is coming between them. He Is selfish too
but he cannot give up his nature for what she is
worshlppng It, 10 up yonder 10 the hotel of even
1ngs and what are they talking about2 Dress ap-
pearances and spending money | hear it over and
over every night, and don't wonder the husbands
are playing poker OF pool, or propping up the bar.
rev OF the ladies touch the piano; those who can
sing do not do it. Because can swim ont here be-
yond the ropes they perhaps think am queer. Now
know some of these same neglccting husbands be
cause they have swan with me, and in every case
their wives could kindie them to glowing love again
Ii they were not SO helpless. 1t is arOr that begcts
the ardent glance. One husbnd told me yesterday
that he took his wife to Europe and all she walked
TO look at was the shop windows"
What do you think about the bathing robcs-or
rather the short skirts I"
"Absoiutcly sensible. Why should woman
bare her arm which she does not need to do never
occupying It, and sew up her feet at the swimming
hour when she wants them to kick with ? You take
these fifty women on the beach and watch them as
they are coStnmed. Candor, equality and uncon-
scious play and health surround the girls in stock
ings. Woman wants less dress every way and more
nature She had better dress like the pages at court
means to invite attention to her foot by those
heels, but she free bathing dress for an
honest reason.
BROKER's TALK
The Nail-st brokers and their principals the
operators" have always made an interesting fea-
ture OF Long Branch society. Sitting in group of
these gentry few nights ago, they ran over their
stories and one, smallish man of strong features
and rather stern expression, said: 1t is oueer
what little things bring men into wholly new rela-
tlons OF life. L was sutlcr during the war or
rather kept suffers supplies and when | gave M
that business at Washington CITY wondered what
should get at next. | had some horses to disooso
of. which had served my purposes and concluded 10
drive them over to Baltimore to find a market for
them. As l was going up Pennsylvana-ave to
take the Baltimore Turnpike, a friend hailed me
fnd said Come in here minute! | have lust
organized coal company and want YOU to take
100 shares of it. will guarantee YOU not TO mako
any loss and will promise that you can make some
thing All right said l. So | enrolled my name
anu gave my check. That day met an old friend
and made him a bet that the stock in thc coal
company would not touch certain point my object