Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-15
THE MONTEREY SEASIDE.

I'LL MUM 1hkkY ShA-OlDG.
PACIFIC GROVE RETREAT-How THEY
KILL TIME THERE.
Bathing Lectures - Restful Laziness - A
Romantic Drive-Backward
a Century.
Correspondence OF the REoosDUsIos.i
MONTEREY pacific GROVE, |
July II, 1882.
said to be butterfly sort of existence.
AS come and go among the avenues Of
trees and lines of tents, alone oftentimes,
feel that in the midst OF so much quiet and
nature l am perforce most sedate butter.
fly. l meet two other butterflies in calico
sacques and black skirts carrying sulphur
water in Rebecca teapot-water obtained
from mineral spring which smells as bad
and tastes as bad as mineral springs usu-
ally do-and chance on another insect of
the same winged species in Mother Hub
bard polonaise, who has returned to first
principles in regard to pantries, and with
some odd sort of continuance pullies a
piece Of porter house steak up tree.
Happening, also, upon kitchen made OF
an old shawl and all out doors, discover
a woman l know BARGAINING with one of
the fishermen over basket of fish for ten
cents worth OF founders. She puts them
in the frying pan and we gossip while they
sizzle, the fisherman passing on to the
back door of the next old shawl. pre-
sumo we two
LAZY GossIPs
Are butterflies, but l must say we don't
look like it. There is a wonderful spirit
of bonhommie floating about such place
of resort as this. Everybody mods and
chats with everybody, and there comes to
be an odd sort of intimacy between people
that could not possibly be formed in other
circumstances. The intimacy, perhaps,
ceases at parting, with cold Come and
see me, which very likely is never taken
advantage of. Lasting friendships, how
ever, are doubtless also formed. The truth
is, it is like masquerade on the kaleido.
scopic plan, as the participants are ever
changing and grouping, separating, com.
mingling and hobnobing together. Such
an one is not what she seems, siuce here
she is the quietest woman and the plainest
dressed, whereas at home we who have
seen her know her to have Partisan ward.
robe and to be the gayest of the gay. She
masquerades as Nobody. Such another
one is not what she seems. Her clothes
are the newest and best she has, she
| oUTsHINEs EVERYBODY
In the freshness of these, and in the
piquancy of her manner and conversation.
She is made up as Somebody. Then again
| everybody takes literary turn, wearing
! goggles, reading the Seaside Library, u
and receiving and writing letters. One
tent on the grounds is rented with an eye
to business, and let's out novels in pamphlet
form, having evidently fair trade. Then,
of course, as before decided, we are all
butterflies, and to some of US who live in
work.a day world that is an assumed
| character. But if to stagnate in laziness
indeed Breakfast at any hour, lunch
ditto, dinner ditto, beach at 10 to IL, nap
| at ?, lazy and harmless trickles of gossip at
all times, stroll when you like, call or SO
AS YOU CHOOSE,
On time for the arrival of the coach al.
ways. This is the usual programme for a
day. The beach never fails of attraction,
for to lie like jelly fish on the sand in
the sun-that is, if jelly fish can be sup.
posed to carry gloves and parasol besides
a book-is beautiful experience. AS to
bathing, it is also pleasant to be shocked
once in while but it is very shocking,
too To seesthe young woman, too modest
in clothes to show the color of her stock
ing, come out from the bathing house in a
loose necked, armless blouse, and sit down
to visit with her friends of both sexes,
while she attitudinizes with her arms, and
calmly pours handfuls of sand over her legs
bare to the knees, strikes one as surprising.
Equally surprising is it to see the bathing
undress surely it cannot be called dress
in which the gentlemen disport. As
general thing | approve of baths as baths,
! but when one battles for show it is differ.
ent. In the early morning of every day
see gentleman in bathing suit, and
Wrapped loosely round in sheet, scamper-
ing little way off to the beach with his
little girl, similarly dressed, running by his
side In about five minutes they come
scampering back, having taken the plunge,
and thus made ready for the day. These
two certainly battle for the good it does
them-and so, too, probably, do many
others who enter the water at the regular
| our-but
| THE VENUS AND THE APOLLO
Who invite you to know that the Venus
and Apollo are now, ladies and gentlemen,
about to make the grand plunge, are they
who make public sea-bathing seem immod
crate. July 4th was the occasion of mild
advertisement. No hops, if you please, and
no bands playing Strauss waltzes; but
love of country among the trees, patriot
ism filling hearts till they are ready to burst
like bombs, aud restless eagerness fol-
something TO happen. Very mild diver
sion this, you will say, and so it is but
trust me, you will feel better when recover.
ing from the exhilaration of a cup of tea
than you will from the effects of stronger
and more popular fluid. Ex-Governor
Woods delivered an address appropriate to
the day in the grove. 1t gives one an i'm
preston, assure you, to be with an audi.
ence seated silently together under the
trees. When voice breaks the silence,
its own peculiar human quality coming out
like cry from the winds that sift among
the branches, from the rustlings of the leaves
striking softly against each other, from tbs
underdrift of sound from the ocean, and
when that voice is freighted with an idea
borne from the travail of thought, in spite
of yourself you will rise above the level Of
the butterfly to the momentary ambition
of being something more even than you
are. We often speak lightly of what lies
near the heart, and though we laugh at
the buncombe and spread-eagle of the
day, the Fourth of July is
SIGN AND A SYMBOL
Cherished by each one of US in memory Of
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