Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-22
TANDEM FILTRATION.
And other Daily Amussments at
LoHg Branch.
Routine Of Everyday Existence by the Sea
Various Pastimss and Designations
Aristocracy in Long Branch Village
Bellies of the Branch.

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Various Pastimes and Designations
Aristocracy in Long Branch Village
Bellies Of the Branch.
LONG BRANCH, July 20.-At last the
Summer seems TO have arranged it,
sffairs,an from q chaos Of trunks and
confusion, flying furniture and fashion
abb edebris Long Branch has settled into
comparative order and life runs smooth
IL, The dOwagers have met in brOcad-
sd caucus and fixed TO 3 nicely the
social or financial status of everybody,
immediate or prospective; the mag
mates have aseertained who makes the
incest beverage, who drives the fastest
trotter, who is most dangerous behind
jack full, or is aptest to get the odd,
and what lies are best to use in smooth
ing cOnubial wrinkles caused by late
hours and hiccoughs; Flora McFlim-
sew has unpaeked her miracles of fleece
and color, and is making q kaleido-
scope of herself four timei daily without
Duplicating the changes; doye-eyed
Juliet has learned her Romeo's name,
and her keen-eyed mamma has definite
ly decided his income eligibility; humble
less Maids and Tritons have discovered
new ways of playing at rough-and-
tumble with Neptune; the beli-boyS
know to wonderful eNactness what
every man will assay, and now work
him for all he is worth without waste
of time, wisp, or muscle; the eottagers
lave arranged regular routines ofenter-
tainment, RICHLY cireumscrioed their
several cliques, and set the pendulum of
gossip in steady and vigorous swing;
many Faust is casting about for a
Marguerite, with never devil to assist {:
the Thermometer is to lazy too be.fickle;
even the wind seems disposed to the
dolce far niente-in short, the machin-
ery of sea-sid revel is fairly in motion,
with all its glitter and energy and swift
ness of bewildering change, oiled, pol
ished, and guided by the arch engineer
of all things worldly-Mammon.
The belle of two seasons finds tandem
Irritation the most exciting and pleas
ant, The great difficulty Of this lies in
letting neither gallant charger OF her
| team know that he is in double harness,
/ and the skill displayed in so adjusting
| the blir kerS that the leader can only
| see ahead, and the wheeler only look
| behind, i'm some cases scars above art
and approaches genius. Of course,
sometimes a tricky leader, suspicious
because of having been there before,
will break away or balk, and OCCASION
| ally too spirited wheeler will kick
| over the traces, but the chance of this
happening only adds to the interest and
| heightens the charm. FOur-in- hand
| driving is no longer much in vogue
! with the scientific flirt, except at the
| opening Of the season or by way Of try
| ing the mettle Of new acquisitions, for
| it requires only GOODNESS and strength.
and does not call forth the tact and
nice Judgment needed in tandem. The
bad usually drives singl e, handling the
fairy ribbons with more or less skill,
according to her natural qualifications
and abilities, but always with a half
distrllst of her powers, and sense Of
danger. The veteran rings the changes
on all styles, goes at it with rush, and
is deep in q second before the first affair
is even concluded.
1t Is interesting TO note the inductive
effect of Long Branch proper on Long
Branch Village. Every little dwelling
in the latter puts On frills and gorgeous
paint, and tries to look as Queen Anne
like as possible. The chimneys are red,
the posts green, the lattice blue, the
eornices pink, the door brown, the
blinds scarlet, the fence drab, and the
dog yellow. Then the furniture scatter.
ed about is vivid with color, the pots
are gorgeous, the hammocks radiant
and the girls as dazzling and fluffy and
flirtatious as can be. During the Win
ter the whole Yillageis homogeneous in
caste, but no sooner does the tide Of
Summer fashion set toward its neigh
Dor by the sea than noses begin to tilt
heavenwards, and cliques show their
circles thick and fast as pool in q
shower; some people don't know other
people except over the back fence, and
even the cats wont associate as freely as
before, but move in naughty and eX-
elusive cOteries, limited to certain
wood-sheds and roofs, and fluff theil
tails up to awful dimensions at the in
trUsion of any other cat not properly
introduced to their set. The dogs are
Just as ariStocratic in their bearing and
associates, and even the chickens make
social distinctions, and, from the proud
est rooster to the ruggedest and most
disreputable broiler, put on airs with
newly arrived country fowl, and
wouldn't be seen scratching in com.
pany with q hen not clearly of the old
Shanghai, Brahma, Cochin, or bantam
families for anything.
The programme of exercises here 1:
as precise as at Peekskill or camp-meet.
ing. Breakfast at 8, surf at IL, lunch.
con at 1880, nap at l, promenade al
$50, drive at 4, dinner at Z, hop at $50
Irritation at any time from $50 A. NJ. ia
1880, and draw-poker whenever YOU
please. If you are eottager, you have
lawn-tennis in the morning and after
moons and 3 reception at all hours. II
you are at hotel you can either
plunge into whirl of dissipation or b
solitary. Every evening at the Ocean
Hotel and West End there is informal
dancing; every Saturday night full
dress hop. The frequency of change in
toilet is prodigious. You have hardly,
in your awful masculine ignorance
made up your mind in the mornine
whether your gold headed angehis ar.
rayed IN tulle or bobbinet before she
disappears, and in few moments YOU
are daZzled by the silken change come
over her. Scarcely have you caught
your breath before she vanishes again
toeome as a miricle of cachemire anC
elder and lace, throned upon a rustic
rocker, with one dainty foot and ankl.
! dangling in delicious abandon. Amor
she sweeps toward you in queenly dig
nifty of State attired, jeweled and broid
cred and thick with ornament, and il
yet another brief hour she is Maud Mul
Ter IN village simplicity and shortenet
skirt with no other decoration than /,
knot Of flowers on her breast, and witt
the most wicked and destructive of hat.
tilted down over her nose and all bu
hiding the eyes which work such de