The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-12-15
NYE AT coNEY ISLAND.
9iathing Costumes-Nye's Figure Excite
Remarks.

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/ Remarks.
Bathing costumes seem to be similar tb;s
Fear to what they have always been. In
'Ioc lag' you occasionally see pair in odd
hanes IKE baby elephants breath or snoth-
| req shrlmp pink, with embroidered soft
! na'i crabs on them, but they are mostly
| lack
The oldest thing saw in stockings yes
efday, think, was all artificial foot.
The wild Woman Of the Catskills" is still
IN exhibition at the museum. Girls who are
| little inclined to be wild will do well to see
| her. They would never be wild any more.
Then bathed / feel quite proud OF my
suit, because it does not bag at the knees.
This, presume, is because the capacity of
bathing suit for bagging is comparatively
limited, and as mine seems to bag every
where else it cannot find time to bag at the
knees.
Leaving my clothes, my conscientious
'cruples and my teeth in charge OF my valet,
madly waded out to meet my doom. If l
had been going out to meet anybody else but
| ! moist doom would have dressed differently
heard several low, wealthy people say, "Get
onto the gun wiper going out to monkey with
the tide" One glorious looking being, with
her bathing trousers rolled up at the bottom
50 that they could not get wet, said, in tink-
ling voice: "There is man who ought to
have sinker tied to him. He will never
drown, but if land breeze springs up pretty
strong he will drift a long way out to sea-"
After had inhaled all the salt water that
| thought was good for me, retired from
the surf. ! then dressed myself and strolled
along the strand There is no charge for
stroling along the strand. The poorest man
in New York, armed with a large, warty
club to keep off the bunko men, may stroll
llong the strand with perfect safety.
Presently came upon young woman who
was sitting by herself. gazing out to sea and
weeping. At first thought she was crying
because some one had stolen her clothes while
she was in the surf, but l soon saw that l
was wrong.
She had her bathing suit on, and was sob
bling and stabbing large holes in the sand
with her toes.
"Pardon me-" said, with the air of man
of the world. "has your train gone away and
eft you, or have you swallowed one end of a
breaker, as dido"
"Pease do not make game of me, SIR" she
said, at the same time shrinking back. at is
nothing that could in the least interest you.
Go away"
"No," said I, huskily, II cannot go away
until the next boat, and would be tickled al
most to death if l could participate in your
sorrow. l have no card with me, but l am
connected with the press, and it would be
better to give the story to me and let me get
your exact language than to have it garbled
by the other papers, Where do you resides"
II reside at present in New York. she said,
gulping down a sob three sizes too large for
her, "and l am utterly ALONE"
"Well, why don't you girls in New York
who are utterly alone have q reunion this
summer at the Polo grounds! l have not
been in New York very long, but since I've
been there it seems to me that you and the
other utterly lonely girls have taken the
town. What brought you to New York,
may askW
81 came there to obtain employment, ard
it is all so strange and SO harsh and so heart
less there" She then took Off her oilskin
bonnet and wept it almost full.
"What kind of work had you been accus-
toned to!'