Telegram-herald., 1890-08-17

HK TIE SAD SKA WAVES
thar many Of the canaiIle Of Coney
Island have gone % Ocean Grove for
ths summer. Mr. Drooler took a tin
type u me In bathing costume while
waited. / give it hers with the aid OF
Mr. McDougall. Who has 50 kindly
volunteered before this az times 10 set
me right before the public. Very few
people lock real well fn bathing cos
tune, it seems % me, and this picture
w0ald Indicate that | am 10 exception.
Bathing IN a hired chemiloOn with red
braid on 10 does not give me that gentle
sense os thorough ahlution that | felt
when in childhood l dehed the police
and. clothed IN nothing bat conscious rec
titgle aad little bag OF assafcstida
which wore around my neck 20 keep
OF the prairie mango and other plaques
incident to a thorough education, /
plunged Ike a long. buff streak into the
ios0m II 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 % Sir George about it the other
day, and "a he charged up a cOlored
porter with the loss OF towel on his last
trip be heaved a sigh, and looked out
nc window as who should say: "Ah,
what recOmpense have wealth and posi-
ton for the unalloyed joys Of childhood,
and how gladly today as | sit IN the
midst Of my Oriental splendor and costly
magnifcenee a titled foreigner with
glittering order on my breast, but chaos
in my soul. and thoughtfully run my
fingers throu IN my choice but changing
chin whiskers. would giveit all. wealth,
fame, tide and position. for one brief.
balmy. breezy day gathered from the
mellow haze Of the long ago. when |
stood full knee deep IN the lukewarm
pool near my suburban home IN the quiet
dell and allowed the yielding, soothing
mud % squirt up between my dimpled
toes
The West End is not overrun bJ wealth
and style OF russet harnesses or changing
carriage chains. bat it has an atmos-
phors Of light melody and freedom from
restraint which is real nice. I think. l
won cane there during the week by
throwing rings ar it. II was not an in
tsliectaal cane. but cheap. and with \
very small development about the head.
The more I 90 - COney Island and watch
the ways Of Wsss E.nders and cano ven
dcrs the more 1 notice that the gold
beaded canes are so wide across the top
that the rings VIII not bestridc them.
The cane I got has . nice red typewriter
head on 10. made Of cellulOid, and the
stick itself ia Of pure hide bound Wee
hawkcn mslagga. II only coz me eight
cents. but the canes bought and did not
get cost me g So.
Pop corn tins year is favored with
everything as neatly "a soda water and
is less grunmy. as a young lady from
Vassar said 60 me on the boat Gs | was
holding her hand for her n moment while
she was listening % some boat music.
Speaking Of boat music IN New York
bay thus season. think notice a slight
Improvement IN thct 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 90 the leg. and no one has
been raised mp 70 take It's place az write.
Much good may be done &c times. /
think. by well directed hyirophobIa. A
coiorsd quartet who thought they sang
on board the excursion boat which last
year rncircisd staten Island daily now
imagine that they ara singing at South
Beach. For the privileges of waulirg on
that trip Inst year these men had 70
pay che boat n small sum. Toward
autumn their wiver raised it by laundry
Efforts. Nothing was paid In by passe1-
gers except encc. An ill guided man
from Foughkeepsie who Wa deaf and also
absent minded g1~o them five cents On
the isth of July. but he vas observed hy
another passenEer ard the nsxt day the
body - the PuuEhSeepSie man was found
"a ont t1 SEA wi-h an alright stove tied
ar.rnd his neck
Ehese colored gentlemen sre dependent
srlsiv On their voices and their wives for
support If they we're not permitted 60
olaain their livehbcois bv singing they
v~uid have 20 work. ( do not dislike
thses r,1siciars. but their songs, devoid
Of arossthetics. VIII kill buriocSs BY the
rratsi5e. I like eocd coon music anri
WI walk 1uite icrg distance ~ Bear
&. bur when it is 80 rsn< that the rass-
fs<- oTsts-s tnrn over IN their ittle ovs
Ter nels ard moan "a the beat z0es ovel
them think q is tirne ~ CAL bait.
Many sble prophets said thst this vsai
wcuid see a greet falling 0F IN ths AZ
tendance AZ Ccuey leland. hit % not
notice it r vas said that ether new
roscrts wurid cut into Ccney Island
even ss tle snrszed and outraged suri
bal cut into Brighton Beach. hut it +
not apparent. New York nee,is al he
breathing holes theTe ara. and though
- 80 - one aud think that the -ouln.