Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-07-22
Cape MAY Bellies.
Al KNoHASrISG GALAXY OF YOUNG, BHArTI-
HUL, AND GRACEFUL WOMEN.
VENUS IN THE BEwTcHIs0 GUIsE OF THE SEA
AND THE DAINTY GARB OF THE BOARD
WALK, ACCOMPANIED By HER

| cnasm win an increasing succession oil
beauty. The bellies of the oldeu time might
not recognize their successors of the pres
ent, but the latter are the direct descendants
Of the former, and us honestly deserve as
as did the famous old beauties the right
handed down from summer to summer with
out break, of defending against all corners
Cape Mays claim of supremacy as the resort
of lovely women.
Everybody goes to see the trains come in
at Cape May, and the effect of aggregation
upon the casual traveller alghting from the
cars not with his eyes full. of cinders and
his clothes full of dust as in years gone by)
is very demoralizing. The shock of cold
surf bath is nothing to it. 1t is beauty, beau
ty all around, but marry a beauty for him.
After few trips to the Cape the casual
stranger generally can stand the strain OF
arrival with more equsnimity. lie finds
that all the beauty is not inspecting him,
after all, and generally if he's any sort of
man he manages to have drop of beauty
all tor himself in the ocean OF il that surges
around the station.
BEwIrcHISG CAFE MAY BEAUTIES.
Whether it is that Cape May air develops
beauty, or that the beauty of the country
has taken upon itself to develop Cape May,
nobody knows, but certain it is that the
worsbiper of the ugly can find no sanctuary
for his incense offering at the Cape. Beau
ty, attired in clinging white flannel, walks
along the beach under big red sunshsdes
beauty, in betwiching black with red rib
boDs and straw bonnets, goes shopping
around the town; beauty, IN costumes above
the waist chiefly of lace-black Lace some
times-drwes up aud down Beach avenue
IN fancy dog carts beauty in dreams of
dresses, throngs the hotel bathrooms two
or three nights every week, watching the
dancing and occasionally, very occasionally
dancing itself.
Beauty also bathes. So do men and ev-
erybody else at Cape May. Bathing at Cape
is as delicious as eating good dinner any
where else. The beach is as broad as the
preachers estimate of the road Bob Inger-
soil is travelling; as level as the head of the
office holder who Is on both sides of the
fence about the time the Administ ration
changes, and so firm and easy and warm
that lying on it and watching the sky and
the waves is like gong to paradise ry tn e
parlor-csr route.
The surf at Cape May is Ike the surf at
no other place in the world-worse luck for |
the other places. PlungiDg in il Is the per-
fection OF seaside enjoy ment. 1t has all of
the bracing stimulus OF the salt, without the
disagreeable chill. Its long, even swell
makes swimming as easy as in lake, and the
breakers break just enough to give pleas
ant ungle, like the sparkle in soda water. !
SO safe is the Cape May surf that the little
children stand in it waist deep, and play
ssring ound-a-rosy" and "Copenhagen,"
without the necessity of having old folks
watch them.
PICTURESQUE BATHING SCENES.
Custom makes from eleven to one the
bathing hours at the cape, and during that
time the scene on the beach is one of rare
life and beauty-a veritabe vanity fair, with
naughtiness left out.j Not everybody bathes
every day, AID the hundreds who are not
''goipg in to-day" dressed in their gayest,
walk up and down and watch the hundreds
who are in. The good clothes on the beach |
and the gsyety in the water make a delight |
full combination.
lu years past Cape May has. justly or un- !
justly, borne the reputation of being some-
what in adv vance OF the age in the matter |
OF bathing suits for the ladies' careful |
aud conscientious inspection OF The shore |
shows tha; this year, at any rate, there is no
foundation for any such charge against the |
modesty of the Cape May ladies, perhaps |
because they are of style that needs no
adventitious setting off in the way ofexces-
sive abbreviation of attire. A man looking |
for information on this subject to-day watch
ed the rise ard fall of the bathers in the in
wiling pillows. A bit OF wreckage hoated /
ashore near him. II had bilck eyes, dark /, !,
hair streaming to the Walsi, aud too rasy |
tr hang in strings, and plump cheeks softly |
Drowned. A big breaker had tumbled it
somewhat, but il didn't look frightened,
ard the man veDtured to introduce himself |
as meek ana lowly seeker after knowl- |
edge.
"Are-that is, do they wear-I mean
well-sre bathing suits shorter than usual
this year ?"
'wby, don't know; think there have
been enough to go around SO far"
Desperation-nerved, the man tried again.
"Y ou didn't understand | meant to ask,
that is, wanted to know, you know, if, |
mean whether, that is, if it is true, that the |
ladies' skirts sre shorter than usual this sea- !
son."
A little. neatly slippered foot stSie from |
Under the braided edge of skirt A slen-
der hand, tipping long white arm, pulled
the skirt until il almost covered a red stock |
most wickedIy "Do you call that shortr |
and before the rash man recovered from the !
shock light laugh and head Of dark hair
were plunging into the breaker nearest shore |
and something red and alluring flashed a
moment above the water.
Taste in bathing suits at the Cape this
year runs towards / he old quiet blues and !
grays. Dark blue, set eff with narrow red |
braid, and cut ever SO little to iii the figure,
is the favorite. A novelty in sur!caps is
sort of oil cloth sunshadc of bright blue or
red, but for attractiveness the rcd handker-
chief, tastefully knotted into the hair, takes
the palm. A new and very tasteful notion |
is the wearing of collars in the surf-not the |
W hite lace frills around the neck, but real