The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-28

houses on wheels, so that there is no ex-
posture, but here =" A sweep of his hand.
taking in the whole scene on the beach, was
MS nnlsh OF the sentence. A hundred or
more men and women. clad as for the ring,
were postured on the beach, as truly for ex-
hlbitlon as though they had not been nom
c~ha!antly chatting, and as many more were
irollcklng IN the water, turning somersaults
into the incoming breakers. SWIM
ming and floating, playing tricks on each
other and in various ways making the most
remarkable entertainment ever given with
out money and without price. But in this,
as in most sports, the best efforts of anna.
ments.
Two actresses made their appearance in
gsro that the most daring of the other
women could not even contemplate without
expressing scorn-or was some of it envy?
Mary PRESCOTT came first, wearing two pairs
OF sIocKlngs-one the exact color OF her
pared arms, and over them some red socks,
SO that the impression given at a glance was
that her limbs were bare. Then she in turn
was outdone by Etelka Berry in no skirts at
all, but encased skin-tight in a bodice, trunks
and hose of knitted stuff. She lay for an
hour fiat on the sand, but long before the end
OF that time was the focus of hundreds of
staring eyes. Although admiration might
have been detected in some of their gazing,
the were wholly unfavorable. The
women were especially severe in their re-
marks, and so loud that Berry could not
have failed to hear some of their condemna-
ton.
Il declare" exclaimed a voice lust back of
me, Il am ashamed to look at her. don't
think she ought to be allowed here"
L turned to see the speaker and was aston
ished, for she was a girl attired quite as SPAR
ingly, except that a skirt barely covered her
hips. She was the center of a group of fell
lows, ~palpably the object of their curious
visual attention and not in the least dis
turbed by her position or condition. And
she was the highly respectable and accom-
plished daughter of a Philadelphia FIRST
family"
New York Hour.
Much latitude has been acquired in the last
Jew years in ladies' bathing costumes. Young
girls whose delicacy would be visibly a%ffront-
ed at any open ~allusion to ankles and legs,
display both with the utmost composure
on the crowded beach, in their bathing
dresses. Arms bare to the shoulder are no
uncommon spectacle. A foreign actress APP
pears at Long Branch in a tight-6tting Jersey
of dark blue flannel, partially low in the
neck and devoid of sleeves. Tights of the
same material meet at the knee with cardinal
colored hose. An eccentric conical-shaped
straw hat, fastened over the ears, completes
the costume, which seems more adapted to
the trapeze than to any other position in
49, tRo "a VIC bAaDCLCs nOMCNtI lHS
wearer OF this light and airy dress pirouettes
about in the sand, now extending herself at
full length on her back and pillowing her
head on her bare, unprotected arms, and
again, frog-like, drawing her legs beneath
her and burying herself in the sand under the
shelter OF a red plush parasol. Won at last,
however, by Neptune's advances, she filings
aside the red plush parssol and plunges
madly into the retreating blue waves, and all
that is visible for the ensuing moment is a
glimpse of a red leg and the bobbing up and
down of a conical straw hat. In past DAYS,
when life was less complicated and when la
dies who bathed, conscious of their unbecom-
ing and unsightly costumes, rushed rapidly
into the sea, trusting to defy recognition by
their -superhuman alertness, and when the
bath was at an end sought the shelter of their
clearinghouse with equal speed, the present
system of holding a levee on the sand In such
circumstances was quite unknown. Now
both sexes-men reduced to the simple garb
of all acrobat, bare-armed and bare-legged-
form a circle around the Maids who come
dripping from the sea, and all, inspired by
the simplicity of thier condition, Join in re-
freshing conversation and childish by-play.
At Newport, Narraganset Pier, and soma
other ultra-fashionable resorts, policemen are
stationed along the beaches to prevent men
from bathing in costumes which easily shock
even the matrons that frequent those places.
From what we hear, it would be a move in
the interest of good morals if the police
would occasionally send some OF the female
bathers back to get on a little more drapery.