The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1886-07-23

Cr'hins-Tho Crabs and tho POrpOisos.
Especial Cora nondcncc.
NEW YORK, July 2O-There are things be-
sides toilets Mt the seaside don't know any
thing more wcarisome than extensive ward.
robes, particularly in summer. prefer in
dividnals to clothes any time While watch
ing the bathcrs In the surf the other day I
could not but notice that there, as elsewhere,
the clothes prescribed for woman were an i'm
pedimcnt to her. They made her bath both
uncomfortable and perilous. Why must she
be skirted when she battles any more than
man! Is her form any less decorous than hise
Has not the Creator given her more beauty
of outline! She needs all her strength and
the freedom of her body any time, but par
ticularly in the water. What man would
venture into the surf arrayed in an ulster or
dressing gown closely buttoned' If accident
forced him in he would expect to be drowned.
The only office of skirt in bathing suit,
besides being a concession to custom, is to
weigh woman down and make her look
ugly. 1t catches pounds of sand; it soalSs up
water like drouth-dried soil: it gets in her
way; it flies over her head when she is tum-
bled forward by wave and helps to prevent
her from regaining her feet before another
and | am wondering what high moral pur-
pose is served in compelling her to wear it.
This world is far astray in many things, but
in nothing does it reach such wicked heights
of folly as in womans dress; aye, even her
bathing dress. In speaking of it l have no
hope of making any impression on time
hardened custom. l merely mention it to
ease my mind.
1,, ~, Ill
awhile one finds one after its own kind and
not constructed entirely on the established
PLAN | ran down to Brelle, N. j., the other
day, having heard that it was place where
you had both the sea and the country-a rare
and radiant combination. And such found
it, Green fields are all about it to the south,
west and north, and Oh the east the sea- The
click of the reaper, the kline in pasture, the
scent of new mown hay, and picturesque
orchard close to the waysde give it the true
flavor of the country, while the sea, the sea,
1.-THE deep heaving sea" hath its own endless
joys ever at hand Where is Brielle, didn't
know myself until recently, because it is only
four years old, and as yet not much of
horn-blowing infant. 1t lies twelve miles be-
low Long Branch, between Manasquan and
Point Pleasant, both Of which are in sight.
1t isn't a village. 1t Is resort, pure, simple,
and sweet, with none of the unpleasant
adjuncts of a place where other things beside
recreation are going on. Its history is similar
to that of larger and older places An asso-
citation, seeing the beauty of the location, and
having faith in its future development,
bought the ground and erected the lovely
hotel Carteret, with it's great broad veran-
dahs, wide halls, and big, airy sleeping rooms
They also built several pretty cottages, which
are furnished. and ready to be stepped into
inspected one belonging to Mrs Fuller, wife
of DR.. Fuller, ex-lieutenant governor of Utah,
now proprietor Of the Health Food company,
in this city. 1t had good sized, we'll lighted
rooms, famed night and day with sea breezes
Who couldn't find summer glorious in such a
cottage by the seal Many who live per-
in the country might take useful
hints from the furnishing of these summer
dwellings,. They have light wood floors,
"shellacked," and an art square in the center.
The furniture is light hardwood, the wood
work is light wood; the walls are in cream
color, rough finish, soft and pretty to the eye.
The windows have ornamental colored glass
above them. Shades and no curtains are the
rule. The whole effect is sweet and sunshiny.
Nothing stufy or oppressive in the way Of
furniture is tolerated. The light and air can
be let in at will, and 1t would be mercy to
if they had as easy access to all
houses. never could understand why so
many ladies cover up their windows and
make their homes like caverns
What charming thing it would be for
party of congenial friends-say two, or even
three, small families-to rent one of these
pretty cottages and summer together in
healthful fashion, untrammeled by
too much wardrobe! There is the hotel Car
teret. at whose table they could eat and have
exquisite fare food beautifully cooked and
daintily served and be waited on by neatly
dressed, good looking and thoroughly trained
English girls l thought of the wearied peo-
pie of the stage who come back to New York
and dump down in dull rooms, for which they
pay us much money as would rent cottage
by the sea. What do these cottages rent fort
Three hundred or $3.50 for the season, which
is from May l until October, if the tenant
desires to stay that long l thought, too, of
the teachers, the writers, the artists, the hun
lreds Of refined women, to whom a summer
in such place would be boon. thought
Of them and sighed.
From Brielle one can see two villages,
Point Pleasant on the south and NJ ,nasquan
-"'Squan" the country folk call ton the
lorth Two rivers also help to make its land
'cape picturesque, the Manasquan and the
thinner Glass-rivers by courtesy, for they
ire really arms of the sea or sheets of salt
water separated from their mother ocean by
| ridge of sand and bit of swamp They
make lovely beating territory, and produce
10 end of crabs.
They have a good substitute for warirobes
It this hotel, and one that might be adopted
" housekeepers quite frequently A smooth
,oard about a foot and half wide is stood up
NJ end a yard and a half from one corner. A
helf is placed at the bottom, and sloping
'oard on top. The top board is full of ward
ODE hooks OH the inside. Across this i'm
'rovised clothes closet curtain is run OH a
wire rod, and lo even a fashionable belle
ould hang away goodly stock of gowns and
cep them free from dust Many a house
eeper who longs for an extra wardrobe and
annot afford to buy one could construct such
one as this with her own hands and find it
God. l am convinced that simplicity in
as in everything else, is the true
ray. | hate to see a woman owned by her
slave to it, would rather own
he furniture, and l want no more of that
han can decently get on with.
All along the Jersey shore one finds groups
children who belong somewhere about,
ut spend all their daylight time by the sea.