Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-04-25
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
A SEASIDE SUMMER.
BY MARION MANvILLE.

upon my nat.
Il beg your pardon, sir, you are
standing upon my frock.'
1.-TWO pairs of eyes, one blue, one
brown, glared at each other for an in
slant with something very like wrath in
each of them. But the momentary
scrutiny dispelled all evidence of that
The gentleman saw before him 8
piquant face, full of spirit, it is true, and
just now with a brilliant carmine In the
cheeks. The lady was charmingly at
tired in costume he recognized to be a
CONNECTION of Worth's, or the triumph
of some less renowned modiste.
The lady saw pair of very handsome
eyes above a decidedly strong mouth,
adorned by dropping mustache.
81 beg your pardon I" exclaimed the
gentleman in conrrite tones, and having
by this time recovered his soft hat he
bowed himself off the hem of her gown.
The lady acknowledged the apology
by bow and a blush, the former in
tending to absolve him from past of
lenses, and the latter unintentionally
making him long to repeat the sin for
such another glimpse of downcast eyes
and flood of exquisite color over the fair
face.
This little byplay occurred in the am
phitheater at Manhattan Beach. Gill
more's Band was playing a dreamy So
nata of Beethoven, and from the hotel
balconies, or the elevated seats of the
amphitheater, the ocean could be seen
basking in the afternoon sun like some
tawny lioness, who lazily sheathes and
unsheathes her claws in truly feline con-
tentment. Most of the fashionables,
particularly of the eentler sex, were yet
at their afternoon siestas. A few, more
courageous, had performed their toilettes
with the aid of maids who were sup
posed to be made of different clay and
therefore impervious to weather in any
form, hot or cold. All such had be-
taken themselves to that spot of una
dulterated aristocracy, where the ears
of the just and unjust alike might listen
to Gilmore and his myrmidons for the
trit1ing compensation OFFS cents,
A man in a balloon, hailing from
some other planet, would have been at
a loss to classify the various conceits in
the form of edifices which cropped up
In the sands here and there, as if some
eXtravagant freak of nature had set this
strip of beach aside for the qualification
of her especial eccentricities. From the
standpoint of a balloon the music-stand
would have resembled nothing so much
as monster fog-horn, turned toward
the hotel, and likely to blow CORE
spondingly large hole through the CEN
ter of it any moment the steam was
tnrned on. Half mile further down
there was another of similar size but
less ornate surroundings. and in this the
Seventh Regiment Band played Men
delssohn to trump the Beethoven at
Manhattan. And still another halfmile
down the beach, like the third hump
upon the back of a gigantic dromedary
the poor beast might as we'll have
three as two, since no man knows what
plant looked pensively off at sea while
people entered at his toe and crawled
like colony of ants up to the pagoda
which he patiently carried.
And this is the elephant whose trunk
is evermore assailed by the odor of
fried sausage which you may buy for the
paltry consideration Of a few cents;
when you come to consider how many
foreign objects you get for the single
price of a sausage, it is indeed
paltry-but said elephant, being
wooden, has we trust lesser develop
ment of the olfactory nerves than we,
since he must patiently endure, while
we can flee from the ghost Of the fried.
Moreover, you may obtain, Immediately
you are out of the cars, the latest inven-
ton for the adjustment of necktie in
many knots and various STYLES, that
ever perplexed the mind of man not
a born mechanic. This has been pre-
served to posterity by being patented.
If you are a shreWd hand at bargain,
and worry the dealer long enough, he
will give YOU an eighth Of a yard of sky
blue satin full of red suns which are I'M
-dergoing yellow eclipse, and which
he intended to throw in all the time,
and has only waited to make the gift of
greater value by being quite despaired
of. With this you may begin the world,
the beach, and the new necktie patent.
Alongside this accommodating gentle
man are more accommodating gentle
men whose mission it is to supply the
world with what the world most needs
in the way of simple and ornate jewel
ry, which the public is so ravenously
greedy for that they, the dealers, have
hard lines to supply the demand. This
jewelry has the advantage, aside from
appearing to cost more than it actually
does, which is of. itself great induce
ment to the purchaser, of being really
such bargain that you will be able to
endure the accidental loss of it by
burglary or carelessness with a good
grace and not without hope. which is by
no means the least of the conside rations
to be observed in the purchase of arti
cles of adornment And besides this
weighty endorsement these articles are
especially intended as souvenirs of the
place without which the average traveller
would be quite unable to recall COney
Island, even if he saw it upon the map.
Coney Island is $50 handy from the
city, and there are SO many things to be
obtained there for the trifing sum Of 5
cents-that insignificant pewter looking
nickel which has heretofore only rep
resented a street car fare or a Sunday
school contribution to your darkened
intellect, that you are quite worn out
with amazement. You may ride upon
anything from a giraffe to an unclassi-
fed sea-mOnster, which bears what you
might call popular resemblance to the
mermaid or norman of the coast, in the
merry-go-round, You may sail in won
derfully-gilded craft poised above a