, 1890-08-17

RE mango and other plauges incident to
a thorough cd ucatiou, i plunged like a
long, buff steak into the bosom OF the mill
pond.
'0h. them was glorious days" as Sir
George Pullman says in his Night
Thoughts. "How lean and meagre is the
salary we get today compared with the
joy that came witt freedom and health
and fried mush and gentle sleep" | was
speaking to Sir George about it the other
day, and as he charged up a colored por-
ter with the loss of a towel on his last
trip, he heaved n sigh, and looked out ut
the window rs who should say: "Ah,
what ~recompense have wealth and posi-
ton for the unalloyed joys OF childhood,
and how gladly today as L sit in the
midst Of my Oriental splendor and costly
magnificence a titled foreigner with &
glittering order on my breast. but chaos
in my soul. and t%houghtfully run my
fingers through my choice but changing
chin whiskers, would | give 1t all, wealth.
fame, title and position; for one brief.
balmy. breezy day gathered from the
mellow haze of the long ago, when l
stood full knee deep In the lukewarm
pool near nv suburban home in the quiet
dell and allowed the yielding, soothing
mud TO squirt up between my dimpled
toes.
The West End is not overrun by wealth
and style or russell harnesses or changing
carriage chains, but it has an atmosphere
of light melody and freedom from re-
straint which is real nice, L think. l won
a cane there during the week by throwing
rings at it. 1t was not an intellectual
cane, but cheap and with a very small de.
velopment about the head. The more !
go to Coney Island and watch the ways of
West Enders and cane vendors the more l
notice that the gold headed canes are so
wide across the top that the rings will
not bestride them. The cane | got has a
nice red typewriter head on it made OF
hide bound Weehawken Malaga. IL
only cost me eight cents, but the canes |
bought and did not get cost me So IS.
Pop corn this yea is favored with
everything as neatly as soda water and is
less gummy, as n young lady from Vassar
said to mt on the boat as L was holding
her hand for a ONE while she was
listening to some boat music. Speaking
of boat music in New York bay this
season. i think / notice a slight improve
ment IN that regard, several OF the bands
having been shot by maddened passen-
gers and their places not yet supplied BY
others. One entire boat band was bitten
by a mad dog in June; also in the calf of
the leg, and no one has been raised up to
take Its place as l write. Much good may
be done at times, L think, by well di-
rected hydrophobia. A colored quartet
who thought they sang on board the ex-
cursion board which last year encircled
Staten Island now IMAGINE they are sing
ing at South Beach. For the privilege of
wailing on that trip last year these men
had to pay the boat a small sun. Toward
autumn their wives raised it by laundry
effort Nothing was paid in by passen-
gers except once. An ill-guided man
from Poughkeepsie who was deaf and
also abseut-minded gave them five cents
on the 18th of July. but he was observed
by another passenger, and the next day
the body Of the Poughkeepsie man was
found far out to sea with an air-tight
stove tied around his neck.
These colored gentlemen are dependent
solely on their voices and their wives for
support If they were not permitted to
obtain their livelihoods by singing they
would have to work / do not dislike
these musicians, but their songs, devoid
of anesttetics, will kill burdocks by the
roadside. L like good coon music and
will walk quite n good distance to hear
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oysters turn over in their little oyster beds
and moan as the boat goes over them |
think it is time to call a halt.
Many able prophets said that this year
would see a great falling off in the at
tendance at Coney Island, but | do not
notice it. 1t was said that other new
resorts would cut into Coney Island
even as the enraged and outraged surf
had cut into Brighton Beach; but it is
not apparent New York needs all the
breathing holes there are. and though
you go to one and think that the muir
tude cannot be duplicated you End that
it.can over and over again at hundreds of
other places, seward and inland.
Good food can be had at Coney Island
at a moderate price, many articles com
pairing favorably as to quality and tariff
with those in the city. Devilish crabs
and lionixed potatoes especially are to be
had in great profusion and at reasonable
rates to all
Nj. Anton Seidl Is holding his ~recitals
at Brighton Beach, and amidst the roar
Of the surf the sweet music Of the orphe-
Glide and eermicide may be heard. On
the day ! attesded Dir. Seidl vas in real
good form. He does not play himself.
but merely does the ornamental beckon-