Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-04
A ROMANCE OF THE SEA,
with AN Axiom That An Young Ladies'
should Heed.

Shouid Heed.
Long Branch.
1t was blowing great guns. A June
wind whipped the sea into spume and
sent it flying into the bathing-ho
and bank in riffs of spray. Fashion
shlvercd in overcoats and iurs on the
csplanadc. The farmers back on the
sand runcs said they had never seen
anything like it. The hay burnt up
before it matured; the corn stood only
eight inches in the cornticd, and the
peas hadn't had warmth enough to
make their pods.
1t was so frigid at the West end that
fashion escaped having its blood chill
ed only by not having any blood. The
wild waves did nothing all day but hiss
at the people on the shore, and one
amateur vocalist who tried to sing,
BREAK, break. break" sent all the
ban k cashiers bowling from the hotel
parlor
''Dicu me pardonne," said Mrs. Can
opus, who prays and swears in French.
"Dut it is cold here!" and she puts her
Japanese parasol up to keep oil the
temperature. Not Irritation to warm
o'' '"''"' a. e"u oho biSu W scoIe
laiiure on hcr 1orehead with the tip
OF me parasoi' but the wind had blown
all the Paris white oil.
Very bleak was the esplanade. The
equipages inat came out at clock
had rugs piled up in them and the
horses taiIs were blown out straight to
leeward. The Grosvcnor Platts had II
children party last night at the hotel
anu lhey smut 'ne windows anu played
pa"hs rouhu Dlalihg WOOD iIre.
came ao"n mere TO get the dust
an" ashes VI tue winter Dlown out OF
me. 90 i ieah up against the ocean
p'ast cohnuihSiy anu LOOK AT the pa
genntrv OF inc sea ana the roth OF
fashion. ~
Inc belle OF the place is little Dora
~" "na.'"' Ia., % ~" P'IUapy ,elnehlper
. ''oi" 'Pi'nSs;
WHIT ,s,i snt ah1 m .'elie . ue Lussan walked
IVY W,an an .uo au'.n.,on .n ~ Is
Jn.s .n',o 10, 'u'ns . aso tnat sa" ncr
u.ssl"s t.1 sa"u uoMn the,e ,, Oh ,ne
uo"'n WIN "Vouen Pa'ue; one
u"s ano ,".o" uo"u ne. pau anu SNOW
ILL., H. ' Nh, Wv" a nso o. 't.auu, Wv. tI win noi
i., ,ha,,,ah mto h,,. "S y" A'' ''''"'"u' anu
W., "', nananmo, .. :. :. .,u,, >,
o, ,1iS "s' nouSo ,,i,' ,;, ~ oeins onhu'
Ino I,,, 'a n;. ~ - ,iioI ,h -. "ssnS sanu
i H., :, 'p W '"' H''''' W "oin""'
"ni, ,r, ~, "
,oaa n' t.n'so .'" Tna n" nv. sno WA. III
'onS ,t SIS 'ansioi iiia''on
s'Gne G,, h"' .ahcn p,ace III one niSht'
n' u'o'"l'on Vi ~ohiah Is not SCI
tuCt'-l 10 lluSlC. one CdDcIS
u IN up W 1omo srea' elno.loh; I
"uu ."on a"uuo"'y u"iaoes hoi S'inooo
anu pu's ~ away ioio'ei.
80" nv 'n' COY W W" ''o
neAe 'noi n'ns M"en you a''e,nPl 70
chuch her uhucr the chih. laruoh
mt, we were aclua'hteu. out that was
.os,.'as. - no' s;i,',m 1u'soha! 'o'ioa'
iaol WIN such ia'h'liar''''
She has the stamp OF maturity on her
mouth.
If you call attention to- her shovel
and pa'I or to her doli, lying neglectea
on the shore, she hits her eyebrows ana
remarks: .Some poor little dear OF
Yesterday has left it there"
These little Columbines of society
make such rapid changes that we poor,
slow-mnturing men are nut to our met
tn to follow them.
Between II and 90 woman plays
her whole drama of life. After that
she sits in the audience and looks on.
Dora Cranston is Cranston no long
er. suppose you know that. II you
know anything about it. She married
railroad iron. and some of it has gone
into her heart. was looking at her
last night rs she stood in the moon
light on the piazza. and had y fancy
that the two parallel lines on her pret-
ty forehead mbled u narrow-guage
track.
Aud all this in three years.
Certainly and more. 1t is the Long
Branch romance. 1t comes with the
June skies regularly.
If you ferret out IA real romance by
the sea YOU will generally find that it
goes the wrong way.
can not help recalling Mrs. Cano-
pus' remark:
on, transport dun cnur glace!
Dora'sis iroI,n,
"Wheres your poet! ASKED the
moment got cohhdehtiai oPPortu-
nifty.
81 buried him IN the sand win my
paddle long ago. she replica win
laugh.
She spoke OF two years as long ago.
'Lets = 90 uo"h anu u'S MN ou'
with our memory l SAID. "Ihe
moon Is shining ana the wihd mas gone
down. -,
Anything that ism tiresome' she
cried, land the past Is aWtully lunny