The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-09-22
THE MYSTERIES or THE SURF.
A Southern Visitors Experiences and Re-
6ections.
daaefa Constiiuti n.


Atlanta Consfitni N.
Surf-bathing Is q revelation! l went In
yesterday with . lovely and modest lady
from the North, with whom I had but .
short acquaintance, although had seen =
good deal Of her. As We stood awaiting the
ceming Of huge wave, she clutched my
arm, and posing on one foot, Blended the leg
and pulled her stocking over her knee-try-
Ing vainly to make II cover strip of white.
She thought nothing Of this; neither did 1.
In an instant the wave was on Us, and we
were riding the swell - happy - . pair Of
ducks. n
That evening this lady wen: sailing with
the same party that went bathing with her
In the morning. As she stepped over the
side OF the boat she exposed about four
inches Of her pretty silk stockings, and her
face rs crimsoned with shame aud NORTH
cation. g..
Now. why this difference 1t was ex-
actly the same limb that had been exposed
10 the knee all the morning, without ally
thought Of confusion.
As came Into the hotel corridor yester-
day young lady screamed: ...
sShut the door! Quick! There's snme-
body coming: ...
She had put on her bathing suit for trial
trip In her mothers room, and was horriied
that man should see her in that fix. A
qslf hour later she ani were lying on the
beach, the waves purltng over us at every
threb of the asa, aud she, with her shapely
figure Bonded, was writing her name in the
sand with her toes, while her merry laugh,
rang above the roar Of the waves.
But ifthe dressing on the beach and the
inconsistencies with which the most modest
Of girls stand the exposure consequent upon.
It Is remarkable, the conduct Of crowd In.
bathing is still more so. That Is the mira.
Gle of social life, think. The girls clad In
thi, prankingly pretty. dress-.he passing
pressure Of the waves outlining the curves
Of the body-with the warm flesh glowing
and throbbing beneath the single garment
the girls thus sttired run hand In hand in
the water with their sweethearts, and romp
aud fro!ic, aud are ducked and hauled out
by the feet, or are clssped around the waist.
wave cones-and yet there Is not the slight.
est prurient suggestion, and mo- hint Of gal
lantry. don't believe y scandal was ever
born In the surf. I cannot conceive Of y
sentimental attitude amid the rolling break.
eB.
/ am compelled to confess that = month
at the seaside does not confirm the general
idea Of feminine symmetry that oil gallant
men are supposed to entertain. 1t is the
rarest thing to find . girl with straight
limbs, graceful carriage; full chest, aud un.
restrained attitudes and poses. In the
majority Of cases they are wabbly anc un.
certain; with stoop in the shoulders, q
mincing step, toes turned In (the number Of
pigeon-toed girls developed Is positively
alarming) and general debility Of gait and
Habbiness of attitude.
noted al one Of the resorts several days
ago the handsamest woman | ever saw Oh
the beach. She was tall and slender but
divinely formed. Her pretty head was
poised like quesn's upon swan like mech
that swelled into snnwy bust aud shoulders
A bathing shirt, loosely tied about the neck
| and without sleeves, gave perfect play 10 heI
superb body. Black silk stockings and feet
that left perfectly outlined footprints, set
regularly In the sanl al about thirty degrees
divergence. There was so,iisthing royal in
the unconscious grace and b-auty Of this
woman n she walked into the water the
cynosure Of hundred eyes. Utterly dwarf.
Ing her escort, sh- seemed disr-gardful ii
his presrpcr, and when the foam was clns.
tering about her knees, isisrd her cleaning
arms above her head. and went like q fash
into the brdy of the incoming breaker.
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