Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-23
CApE MAY BEl1Es.


poverty and beauties like the poor--ye
have them always with you. It is q long
stretch from rs years ago till now, but
Cape May has bridget the chasm with an
increasing succession Of beauty. The
bellies Of the olden time might not recogn-
ize their successors Of the present, but
the latter are the direct descendants of
the former, and as honestly deserve as
did the famous old beauties the right
handed down from summer to summer
without break, OF defending against all
eomers Cape Mays claim of supremacy
as the resort of lovely women.
Everybody goes to zee the trains come
IN II Cape May, and the effect of the
aggregation upon the casual traveller
nlighting from the cars not with his eyes
full Of cinders and his clothes full of dust
10 III years gone by is very demoralizing.
The shock OF cold surf bath is nothing
to IL, II is beauty, beauty all around,
but nnry beauty for him. After few
tfips 70 the cape the ensual stranger
generally can stand the strain of arrival
with moie eqnanimity, He finds that all
the beauty is not inspecting him, after
all, and generally, il he's amy sort of
man, he manages to hive drop of beauty
NIL for himself in the ocean of it that
surges around the station.
Whether il is that Cape May air de-
yelops beauty, or that the beauty of the
country has taken upon itself TO develop
Cape May, nobody knows, but certain il
is that the worshiper of the ugly can
find no sanctuary for its incense offering
al the cape. Beauty, attired in clinging
white flannel, walks along the beach
under big red suushades; beauty, in
bewiiching black, with red ribbons and
straw bonnets, goes shopping around the
town; beauty, in costumes above the
whist chiefly of lace-black lace some.
times-drives up and down Beach avenue
in fancy dogcarts; beauty, in dreams OF
dresses, throngs the hotel ball rooms two
or three nights every week, watching the
dancing and occasionally, very occasion,
ally dancing itself.
Beauty also bathes. So do men and
everybody else at Cape Nav. Bathing Al
Cape May is as delicious as eating good
dinner anywhere else. The beach Is as
broad as the preachers estimate of the
road Bob Ingersoll is travelling as level
as the head Of the office holder who is OIL
both sides of the fence about the time
the administration changes, and so firm
and easy and warm that living on il and
watching the sky and the waves is like
going to paradise by the parlor-car route.
The surf at Cape NAV is like the surf
at no other place in the world-worse
luck for the other places. Plunpine in il
is the perfection of seaside endowment. II
Inns ali of the bracing stimulus of the salt
without the disaereeable chill. Its long.
even swell makes swimming as easy AS IN
a Lakeland the breakers break inst epoupb
to give a pleAsant tingle. like the sparkIe
in soda water. So safe is the Cane MAY
snrf that the little children stand in Il
waist deep. and play ring around "A.
rosvp and nCon,.nbagAr y ,Sitbont III,
necessity of having old folks watch them.
Custom makes from II TO fine balbinp
hours nj the cnne and durino that time
fine scene ON the beach il one Of rare life
and beauty yeritable vanity fair wifi
the nauehtiuess left ont Not everybody
bathes every div. and the hundreds who
are ..not Soin9 in 10 dnvn dressed in
their enyest. walk mn md down and
watch the hundreds who arc in m,
good clothes on Tho haorb ou5 tbo ,,o,-at,
IN the water make n leligbtfni cnmi,inc'
zion.
In years mast Game NAV bos ;ustlv n,
uniustlv. horne the renutotion Of hsinf
somewhat in advance ~ the ,co Il, Fne
matter Of batbing snits Cor tIo isJ;as '-- 4
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Know, IT, l mean whether, that is, if
rs true, that the ladies' skirts are shortc
than usual tins season..
little, neatly slippered foot stole froI
under the red-hraided edge of n skirt.
slender hand, tipping long white arm
pulled the skirt until il almost covered
red-stockinged knee. The teeth gleame
again, almost wickedly do you ca
that short n and before the rnSh man II