Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-08-15
A VISIT TO THE SEASH0RE.

fine thing for any one to do who Is
hunting for pleasure and health.
And when folks go from quiet little
towns like Shepherdstown they ought
to go straight to Atlantic City, where
there is more life and excitement and
more interesting things to be seen
than at most of the other resorts
put together-and at the same time
just as good opportunities for the
quieter sort Of enjoyment.
Shepherdstown sent quite delega-
ton last week to Atlantic City. Some
went for health and quiet enjoyment
-ourself, for instance-and others
for jolly good time and frolic gen.
orally, iike-but we will mention no
names: You can get there either by
the b. & o. and Reading Railroads,
or bv the c.. V. and Pennsylvania.
It's very easy to get there. But, oh {!
it's hard to get away. TO any one
who loves the ocean and the seashore
life, it's the hardest place to get away
from we ever saw. There are plenty
of trains in and out of the place, but
one kind of an attraction or another
keeps you right there.
There are hundreds of hotels and
cottages in Atlantic City-how many
we do not know. AT this season they
are all full, the number OF visitors
last week being placed at 2OO,OOO
The Shepherdstown party were
quartered at the Chenille and Upton,
two adjoining cottages, and at the
Avalon. Each accommodates from
fifty to a hundred guests. AT the
Chenille there were seventy-tive per-
sons, and it was jolly and attractive
set of people-mostly. Whether 1t is
natural or not, nearly everyone at
the seashore is in good humor.
Those of an ordinarily taciturn dis
position seem to unbend and grow
pleasant. Those who are naturally
lively and entertaining just fairly
bubble over with enthusiastic hilari-
ty. That's the way Steve cambridge
did. If he can keep the West Virgin
ia Legislature in as good humor as
he did the folks at the Chenille
there'll be no limit to the measures
he can get through. He captured
the place-horse, foot and dragons,
nor did the captives try to get away.
At Atlantic City the bathers begin
to congregate about half-past III
O'Clock. There is rush for bath
houses and bathing suits, and by IL
o'clock the people almost crowd the
water out Of the ocean. Just think
of $4,000 persons in bathing at one
time. All along the beach, for
about two miles, they are buffeting
the waves, though very often the
waves buffet them.
There are great many different
ways of bathing in the iocean. The
charming girls with the loveliest hair
you ever saw, perfectly enhancing
bathing costumes and gotten up
most attractively in every respect,
are the chief figures at bathing time,
but they don't go in the water. Oh,
no That silky hair must not get wet,
those stylish garments must have no
fold disarranged in some cases it
would be fatal to have a drop OF
water on those beautiful compilations,
where the colors are not warranted
to be fast. They look pretty-that is
their mission. Then there is the
bather who goes in bathing for moth
ing but the genuine love of it. He
goes in with a jump and plunges into
the big waves with vigor and heart
mess that shows he enjoys it. He
swims and he dives and he plunges
and he floats, and says the ocean is
good enough for him. There are any
number of ladies, too, who enjoy the
surf. If they can swim at all, they
are sure to do it most gracefully. If
they do not swim they have some
stalwart young man who takes care
of them, and sees that the breakers
do not hit them at the wrong time,
who floats them over the pillows, and
between the waves says sweet things
to them. The tinid bathers are the
most entertaining. The first step in
the water gives them cold chill, and
the very first big breaker that strikes
them makes them think the world
has come to an end. When person
gets flustered in the surf he is in
bad way. Just as he is getting the
salt water out of his eyes and ears
and nose and mouth big wave is
very apt to come along and knock
him down and roll him over and tan
gle him up into double-bow knot.
He goes ashore then to recuperate
and screw up his courage for the
next trial. Sometimes you'll see a
score Of persons looking and laughing
at some poor unfortunate. Silently
but swiftly mighty wave will roll
in and overwhelm the unthinking jes-
tiers, and next thing forty legs, forty
arms and twenty heads will be in the
worst sort of a tangle-and the laugh
is with the other fellow. When the
surf is high it's grand sport to those
who like the water, but it's terror
to the timid. You can see children
there two years old, and you can see
men and women of eighty. There
are slim patterns, and stout. The
really fat bather is the funniest sight
on the beach, and he don't care il he
is. There are surprising number Of
bowlegged girls surprising, proba-
bly,, because no one ever thinks of