Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20
MYSTERIES OF TIE SURF.
A Southern Editors Experience and
Reflections and sensations.
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Surf bathing is a revelation | went in
yesterday with lovely and modest woman
from the North, with whom had but a
short acquaintance, although ! had seen a
good deal of her. AS we stood awaiting the
coming of u huge wave, she Clutched my
arm, and posing herself on one foot bend
ed the other leg and pulled her stockings
over her knec-trying vainly to make 1t
cover a strip OF white. She thought moth.
ing OF thiS-neither did l. In an instant
the wave was on u.s. and we were riding the
swell as happy as pair OF ducks:
That evening this lady went sailing with
the same party that had been 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 was crimsoned with shame and NORTH
cation.
Now, why this difference? 1t was ex:
actly the same limb that had been exposed
to the knee all morning without any
thought of confusion. As came into the
hotel corridor yesterday young lady
screamed:
"shut the door! Quick, There's some
body coming!
She had put on her bathing suit for a
trial trip in her mothers room, and was
Mortified that man should see her in that
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on the beach, the waves purling over us at
every throb of the sea, and 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 il the dressing on the beach and the
Inconsistencies with which the most
modest OF girls stand the exposure conse.
quent upon 1t, is remarkable, the conduct
of a crowd in bathing is still more SO.
That is the miracle of social life, j
think. The girls clad in this prank
ingly pretty dress-the passing pressure
of the waves outlining the cerYes OF the
body-with the warm flesh glowing and
throbbing beneath the single garment-the
Girls thus attired run hand in hand in the
water with their sweethearts, and romp and
frolic, and are ducked and hauled out by
the feet, or are clasped around the waist, or
catch the fellows about the neck as big
wave comes-and yet there is not the slight.
est prurient suggestion, and no hint OF
eallantry. | don't believe a scandal was
ever born in the surf. | cannot conceive a
sentimental attitude amid the rolling
breakers.
am compelled to confess that month
at the seaside does not confirm the general
idea of female symmetry that all gallant
men are supposed to entertain. 1t Is the
rarest thing to find a girl with straight
limbs, graceful carriage, firm flesh full
chest and unrestrained attitudes and poses:
In majority of cases they are wabbly and
uncertain; with stoop in the shoulders,
minciug step, toes turned in (the number
of pigeon toed girls developed here is posi-.
lively alarming) and general debility OF
gait and dabbiness OF attitude.
noted at one OF the resorts several days
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the beach. She was tall and slender, but
divinely formed. Her pretty hesd was
poised like q queens upon swan-like
neck that swelled into snowy bust and
shoulders. A bathing shirt loosely tied
about the neck and without sleeves, gave
perfect play TO her superb body. Black
silk stockings. and feet that left perfectly
outlined footprints set regularly IN the
sand at about thirty degrees divergence.
There was something royal in the uncon-
scieus grace and beauty OF this woman as
she walked into the water the cynoSure oil
a hundred eyes. Utterly dwarfing her
escort, she seemed disregardful OF his pres
ence, and when the foam was clustering
about her knees, raised her cleaning arms
above her head, and went like q Hash into
the body of an incoming breaker
Just think Of this schedule for an Aug
ust day. A tumble in the waves in the
morning, a shower bath in the spray,
ride on the pillows, aswinl ont to the buoy
| tossing pretty giris about ia the salt water
| o header or two under the surface for q nm
isher. A walk to the bath house with al
INDISPENSABLE glow pervading the who,'
body and tingling every nerve. A leisursi!
toilet with the salt spray drying on tn
| flesh and making ID acrid and cool Acros
| 10 the bar for little apollonrsa AM
claret. Up stairs to bed slante4 acros
| a window, through the balf-closea shutter
| of which CO mes crisp salt breeae, dryin
the hair and naming the glo& out OF th
body. There, with half-shat eyes, to mus
on the mercy and good1ess OF the lord
until al the senses h.s<c yielded 70 the d.