Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-08-05
WOMAN At THE SEASIDE.
Sensible Suggestions and
Lively LucubrationS by our
Newport Correspondent,

to be), is not worthy Of mention in
a newspaper. What she does see
and hear will interest the men, and
may even the ladies, a good deal
more than any of your 6ry, slow
aud pokey men correspondents, who
usually rehash what they hear
around hotels, or garnish over stale
travelling mems jokes. Our Iparty
at once avoided the hotels, as our ex
perience on the Atlantic was that
hey usually contain the loudest
elements that visit the seaside. l
shall try and write the JOURNAL
some practical letters not entirely
devoid of feminine interest.
AS To BAGGAGE AND DRESSES.
Ladies, avoid bringing white oI
costly dresses. Plenty Of loos'
warm flannel gowns, rs rich In colul
IS you please, so as not to offend
good taste, aud you are all right. Ii
YOU will bring white, once going out
lught to convince you that old
,cean has something to say in tn,
natter and you will come home with
YOUR dress thoroughly limp and
lampened by his spray. kich,
ostly dresses you will never bring
but once. They will not be fit t.
BRING a second time.
One trunk will do for an ordinary
amily, unless they want to put on
style, when they must put on more
,runks. Do not check valises, grip
md shawlstraps, but take them in
the car with you. Each one of your
checks will cost you for transfer and
baggage wagon, 25 to 80 cents each.
These expenses run up your bill OF
costs so that summer-resorting be-
,omes q terrible drain on ones bank
,ccount, Personal baggage always
goes free with your fare, but of course
IL you ask others 10 look after ii they
will expect pay for doing so. Pay
for what you get, but don't expect
orher people to be put to trouble and
io it for nothing.
A SCREAM AS WE PASSED THROUGH
THE FIRST TUNNEL
lrew the attention of the entire car.
Of course there is giggling and
lilarity every time the train plunges
INTO one of those black bogs of
darkness, but this hystericky yell of
femininity was a startling perform
luce which betokened serious cause
for excitement, and no mistake. 1t
was the genuine thing. a young
Portland banker had been wander
ing up and down the car, and his
close proximity to a double seatful
# Salem girls, rs the train took a
header into the dim recesses of the
mountain, may have had some con.
nection with the origin of the scream,
which was blood curdliug in its
realism. The peanut boy was soon
called in by the Portland banker,
who laughingly told him TO supply
the ladies with some soda-water or
whatever he had. The peanuts was
not slow and unloaded pretty much
his whole stock in trade at the feet
# the girls from the Capital City.
1t cost the man of gold n five-dollar
piece. The sequel of the incident
remains to be told. AS our train
switched around the sharp curves
and steep mountain grades one of
the girls became deathly sea.sicl.
She sat on the outside and faced to
the rear of the ear. Her face had
been stepped in bushes ever since
the little episode in the tunnel, and
now was the palest thing in the ear.
Whether there was any connection
between her dizzy condition and the
tribute levied to pay for that lemon
Ide is more than | can conjecture.
CAMPING IN A COTTAGE
we find much more satisfactory than
tentlng or hotel life. \ tent camp
Is apt To wear women all out with
additional work and worry and no
proper r, st or recuperatiou. II may
he all well enough for the men, but
even they tire of tent quicker than
Of cottage. There is nothing Of
that about tent which the Eng
glish prize 50 high!y-privacy.
Everybody is into everyhody's af-
fairs, agreeable as well as disagree
able, aud unless your people are an
lwfully congenial crowd, there is
TOO much contiguity. Even a pair
of lovers would tire Of tent life.
THE PRECOCIoUS wIDowER
is encamped right near to us lie is
! homely, kind old gentleman and
ieluded with the idea that u second
siege of matrimony might have
greater sweets In store than the first.
His wife is only dead n month and
the dir, ON her grave has barely got
well settled, to-day, nothing of a
crop of grass growing on it. In the
party is u sQuare-shouldered maiden
lady with her hair cut short, and no
doubt she proved the magnet that
attached Mr. Fpshcrepe To the
party. She cuts her hair short aud
Is the boss ~ the camp, In these
lcean camping outfits everybody
sleeps Pell-mell in one tent, ~ blan.
ket or sheet serving as a partition
walt Yesterday rs u party OF us ladies
wee walking past the new neigh