The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-17

BY THE SAD SEA WAVES
that many Of the canaille of Coney
Island have gone TO Ocean Grove for
the summer. Mr. Drooler took tin
type Of me in bathing costume while [
waited: l give it here with the aid Of
Mr.. McDougan, who has SO kindly
volunteered before this at times to set
me right before the public. Very few
people look real well in a bathing cos
tune, it seems to me, and this picture
would indicate that | am no exception.
Bathing in a hired chemiloon with red
braid on it does not give Inc that gentle
sense Of thorough ablution that | felt
when in childhood | deied the police
and, clothed III nothing but conscious rec
titude and a little bag Of assaf9tida
which | wore around my neck to keep
off the prairie mango and other plaques
incident to a thorough education, |
plunged like long, buff streak into the
bosom of the mill pond.
"Oh, them was glorious days." as Sir
George Pullman says in his Night
Thoughts. How lean and meager is the
salary we get today compared with the
Joy that came With freedom and health
and fried mush and gentle sleep" | was
speaking to Sir George about it the other
day, and as he charged up cOlored
porter with the loss of towel on his last
trip he heaved sigh, and looked out
at window as who should say: "Ah,
what reconpease have wealth and posi-
ton for The unalloyed joys of childhood,
ana how gladly today as l sit i'll the
midst Of my Oriental splendor and costly
1nagnihcence q titled foreigner with a
glittering order on nay breast, but chaos
In my soul, and thoughtfully run my
fingers thru gh my choice but changing
chin whiskers. would l giyeit all, wealth,
fame title and position, for one brief,
balmr, b-Srazv day gachered from the
mellow haze of the long ago, when l
stood full knee deep in the lukewarm
pool near my suburban home II the quiet
dell and allowed the yieldin.,. aooohing
mud to squirt up be-5een my dlmpled
toes"
The West End isr2. czczEEm by wealth
and style or russell harnesses or changing
carriage chains. bU$ i kas ga atmos-
pliers al light melody and freedom from
restraint which * r>al nice, | think. l
Won a cane there during the week by
throwing rings at It. il was not an in
tellectual cane. bot cheap, and with a
very small development about the head.
The mere l 90 to E96ley Isiand and watch
the ways of West ER0ers and cane ven
deIS the more / notice that the gold
headed canes aFe SO wide acToSS the top
that the rings viii not bestride them.
The cane got his a nice red typewriter
head on it, made Of cellUloid, and the
stick itself is Of pure hide bound Wee
hawken nalagga. II only cost me eight
cents, hut the canes bought and did not
get cost me $285.
Pop corn this year is favored with
everything as neatly IS soda water and
Is less guInIRy, as young lady from
Vassar said to me on the boat as l was
holding her hand for her moment while
she was listening to some boat music.
Speaking of boat music in New York
bay this season, think notice a slight
improvement in that regard, several OF
the bands having been shot by maddened
passengers and their places not yet sup
Piled by others. One entire boat band
was bitten by mad dog in June; also
in the calf of the leg, and no one has
boen raised up to take its place as write.
Much good may be done at times,
think, by well directed hyGrophob1a. A
Il
on board the excursion boat which last
year encircled Staten Island daily now
imagine that they are singing at South
Beach. For the privilege Of wauling on
that trip last year these men had &c
paw the boat a small sum. Toward
autumn their wives raised II by laundry
efforts. Nothing was paid In by passen-
gers except once. An i'll grided man
from Poughkeepsie who was deaf and also
absent minded gave them five cents or
the 18th of July, but he was observed by
another passenger and the next day th'
body of the PoughkeepSie man was tounc
far out TO sea with an alright stove ueC
around his neck.
These celored gentlemen are dependent
solely on their voices and their wives tol
support. If they were not permitted K
obtain their hvehheOas by singing they
would have to work. l do not dislike
these musicians, but their songs, devoid
of anasthetics. viii Kill hurdocks by the
roadside. l like good coon music and
viii walk quite s. long distance TO heal
it, but when it is s. r-nk that the rest
less oysters r8rn over IN their little oys
ter beds and tn0an as the boat goes owe
them think It is time 10 call halt.
Many able prophets said that this yea
would see great falling of in the at
tendance at Coney Island but do no
notice it. 1t was said that other new
resorts would cut into Coney Islanc
even as the enraged and outraged sur