The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-18
BATHING AT ~TROUyILLE.
The Costumes Extravagant and
Eccentric-Brilliant Scenes.

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To give an idea of the IRE that is
bestowed upon a bathing dress at
Trouville, let me describe u among
many that l saw. The wearer came
out of her bathing machine wrapped
in a cloak of Turkey red silk. Her
hat was of white straw, with Turkey
red ribbons and flowers, Her sandals
were white, laced with red tapes that
crossed above her ankles, and were
then tied in a bow. The silk cloak
shone in the sun. It did not even
partially reveal her figure; in fact the
women in these cloaks looked at a
distance like Bedouins. As this lady's
feet touched the water she raised her
arms and spread them, and the gossa-
mer cloak fell into the hands OF the
bathing attendant Then she stood
revealed to the %concourse of on look
ers, clad as IL for a spectacle on the
stage. She wore q loose blouse OF
Turkey red flannel, short tight red
breeches and red stockings. Her
blouse was opened in front by two
great lapels, between which was a
white shirt with red stripes across 1t.
Behind, it had a great broad sailor
collar, white and banded with red.
The extravagances and eccentrici-
ties of the costumes on that beach
we're wonderful, and altogether they
helped to form as brilliant and gay a
scene as one could well imagine. Some
OF the cloaks were striped, some were
green, some yellow. Sometimes n
suits worn beneath them matched the
cloaks, yet often they did not. But
while the skirts were often short, h
arms were often sleeveless, and / even
saw two or three shirts that were
somewhat decollete; there were no
costumes worn in the water that JUS
titled the pictures commonly seen in
the Partisan illustrated papers. l
doubt whether many OF the costumes
at Trouville would startle the bathers
at Narragansett Pier, except that
they were much more costly and ar
tistic than the bath robes worn at the
Pier. Julian Ralph IN HalpeT's
Weekly.
Work Lying Down.
A great deal of wolnen's necessary
home work can be done resting on a
lounge, with sliding support for the
shoulders. Hose can be darned, mend
ing done, fruit pared, not to say vege-
tables; sewing and baby tending. 1t
would sound fabulous to tell things
women almost bedridden have done
when a step was impossible. l only
say this to show overweight women
that rest for the muscles which take
the worst strain is not impossible in
hard conditions.
Lying down, with dress loose, take
deep breaths as may be without firing
ones self. If out of doors, in easy
posture, the disposition to deep
breathing will come Of itself. 1t is
natures method, set free from re-
straints, of drawing to herself new
vital force, of equalizing circulation
and relieving displaced and congested
viscera.-Shfrley Dare.
The Dog Could Not Catch 1t.
For a dog he was handsome, and as
ne sat last evening lazily blinking one
eye as some depraved flies waltzed
over his shaggy head, he was indeed a
thing of beauty and a JOY forever.
He was a pointer. The scene was in
a MALL StIGtt dIt anu cidtiOudIH HIOEt.
The sweet young lady who wheedles
your loose change out of your pocket
book to pay for sundry stationary and
sends it to parts unknown had just
deposited some pennies into the ball
operated by the cash railway. She
touched the something that
says "whiz," and away went
the ball containing the money.
D-.4 4lono - sako,1411 -L.1ux.u
in the shape OF that pointer. He
dashed after that ball as it flew along
the wire with q speed that vas worthy
Of a better cause. Past young misses
who were buying scented note paper
to write to Charlie, past staid people
who were investingi in graver subjects.
The ball came over the wire again,
but the pointer eagerly a along the
floor with it. The dog was mystified.
He couldn't understand it, and ex-
pressed his feelings by short yelps.
Again the ball flew, and again the
pointer flew after the game At
last the cash balls were taken down
and the pointer was invited to inves-
tigate. He gave one sniff, and a more
disappointed dog you never saw. He
had been made game of.-SprinQfeld
Union.
A New Employment for Women.
In this enlightened age, when
woman is seeking employment in
most Of the formerly open
only to men, she seems to have over
looked almost entirely the field of life
insurance. In science, politics and
social reform, in all its numerous de-
partments, she is to be found plod-
ding bravely along side by side with
the opposite sex, earning not only her
own daily bread, but perchance that
of an invalid father and mother as
well, while her voice is not as yet
heard above a whisper in the line of
SopenRau D.