The news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1882-1891, 1882-07-20

Columbia wife and two children without
a penny. His first wife has invited the
Columbia wife to come to her at Burling-
ton, but has received no reply to her
kindly message.
For the past two years Tustin has been
in the employ of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, and strange to relate has
been quite steady in his attention to work:
Ocean Grove.
Tent life, although much lessened, still
prevails and rival smartness issee in their
appointment. Never were there more
wondrously gotten up pillow-shams and
tides than the parted curtains reveal,
japanese decorations. decalcomanie pic
lures and doubly-dyed paper sunfowers
plaster the interiors. The tents hug the
Tabernacle and keep within the sound of
the preachers voice. In way this tent
life-without wishing to be irreverent-
is prolonged religious lark. 1t allows
for certain abandon both in dress and
action; it is a shirt-sleeved sort of life.
An unctuous deacon was on the beach,
last Friday evening accompanied by half
dozen females of his house, where they
checked the untiring promenaders with
their sports. This consisted of dragging
the weaker females singly and holding
them within reach of the waves until they
got their feet wet, while the remnant be-
labored his back, and the air was rent BY
Threats strengthened BY the salt air.
This playful wrestling often left the
feminine division prone on the beach, an
indiscriminate medley of costumes and
boots, which got itself together in time
with the utmost good humor. And when
breathless and wearied, he walked up and
down, his arm wound round one and
another of the party-his wife, sister or
aunt, in all probability.
The Saturday night train brings here,
as everywhere, loads of men. The even
ing walk on the beach that evening is in
consequence unprecedentedly gay, and
the halt in the pavilions unwontedly
brilliant. The beach then by no means
illustrates the characteristic feature of
life at Ocean Grove. The passing crowds
are then much more like any other de-
corus, contented aud somewhat common
place throng, and the moral influence of
the place, like well-trained police, clears
the beach by 1890. On Sunday morning
however, it presents singular appear
ance. The older people have filled the
Tabernacle; the children, too young to
resist, have laid down their pals and
shoveIs and with shining faces and red
noses have been led thitherward. But
the younger people old enough to assert
themselves, are not at church. At reg
ular intervals the sand has been thrown
up, leaving gentle hollows in the beach
and making sort of an intrenchment. In
such intrenchments is spread couple of
handkerchiefs; on the summit a parasol
stands like fag-mast. Although the
sun is in the east, the parasol inclines to
the west and landward, and beyond its
discreet protection is seen from the beach
two pairs of feet of assorted sizes, while
possibly futters out sideways a bit of
drapery. These sand mounds and their
decorations are 80 regular and numerous
that the casual promenader unenticed
to meeting, can only stop in the blazing
morning sun and examine these peculiar
ties and the habits of their occupants, who
are usually found with clasped hands or
engaged in tender quarrels. There is
probably no other place along the beach
where such Notifications of sand at such
time are to be found. Even beyond the
pavilion which marks the entrance TO
Asbury Park they cease. Although the
two places in many respects share the
same traits, the young people in the park
are flirting in the shade on the piazzas or
singing hymns at the piano. But such is
the atmosphere of Ocean Grove, and the
limitations which hedge the inhabiiant
in some directions find their compensa-
| ton in others.
1t would be giving an incorrect idea of
this place and its neighbor Asbury Park
to permit the inference that they were
peopled only by people whose religious
natures require this sort OF freshening up
during the summer. The very restraints
of these places make them very desirable
for the worlds people who may have
tired nerves, overstrung frames and need
the toning up of this bracing though mild
sea air.
Monument dwelling.
At II o'clock on Saturday morning,
July LIST, little company assembled in
the new cemetery near Farmingdale, for
the purpose of unwilling monument
which had been erected to the memory