Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-05
THE VENUS OF TO-DAY.
Seen by the Seaside In Charming and Re.
wiidering Variety.

wfidertng Variety.
manganese Pier Correspondents Of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
On bright day about noon, the fashionable
bathing hour. you will see an interesting sight
and i'm the height OF the season a thousand peo-
pie. men, women and children, are taking their
dip in the brine or sun bath on the beach.
Then you see the Narragansett bathers in glory.
anc no beach on the coast can present a more
fascinating spectacle.
Here the atrabilarian may come pretty near
the best facilities for the study Of agriology to
the cheering up Of his heart. the endemonist
may behold his doctrines vindicated. and from
the fine men and women in the water to the
beautiful babies on the beach the stirpicul-
turist may cast his eye of commentator. Here
one who believes that the proper study Of man.
kind is man-and woman-msy pass soul sat
isfying moments in his ocular Investigations of
anatomy, ranging from the protuberance of
pinguitude TO the jejuneness OF the jay.
In other words, IL Is a snorting opportunity
Tor physiological, psychical and moral obseryR-
tion. Here you see your dear sister, woman.
as you shall see her at no other time Of the
year. She is not the peutral-tinted. conven-
tlonal winter girl. She is not the Minerva nor
the intellectual female Of the conversations.
| Neither is she the roof-covered, wsll-inelosed,
cusiom-regulated and chsperousd belle Of the
| somber season.
She is Undine and Ariel and Venus and,
greatest Of all. the American summer girl.
! united in a creature that makes the young man
| of the period glad that he is alive. and wonder
what his fathers anu grandfathers found IN the
world worth living for before the days Of surf
bathing and the evolution of the summer girl.
For the summer girl Is certainly an individuality
as distinct as she is charming.
She appears only when the skies are bright.
She comes only with the months of warmth and
llenty--wlep "A Haenar crlmsnn Clous the
FURNISHED bathing suit
From the chrysaiis of the winter woman
energies the butterfly Of the summer girl. The
Juno OF the ball room becomes the Helagia OF
the SURF She disports in the sunshine, and
she disappears when the chill winds 81 the au-
tumn clip her gauZy wing, and the lonesome
waters mourn for her and will not be COM
forted. and the mountain winds sigh over her
absence, and the forest trees whisper together
beneath their snow burdens OF the departed
beauty and radiance, and comfort one another
with hopes Of her temperance.
whether she is ephemeral or rejuvenescent is
not determined, or, at least not generally
agreed upon. Whether she blooms for one
brief and beautiful season and tuen disappears
forever, or whether she is like the flowers that
bloom In the spring from buds that have made
love to each other all the winter near the SHOWS
or spsrkles out into the sunshine like the brook
that keeps a summer mind snow-hid in JAM
uary" is a matter of disagreement
s"t NV eenei shs pioseone
uut ior single season, some putting II at Sax
teen and some at seventeen years of age, and
TWISTS uoia tnat she blooms Win each succeed
ing year on up to twenty-five, or even more
VIII, VIII l.ue oepreSiauon Oh attracuvene or
u'i eon,S aoeih.ni"'eu anu unworthy young
man or other appropriates her. or neuralgia
and rheumatism knock her out of the list OF
surf bathers and mountain climbers and moon
light strolers.
.nal may oe. IL s well to make the
hr;et y. n.l Mni,o sne Is mere hessangs
naaIaetaa =. S"Ae .neir nisht champagne,
80, -. =; .ne siass, becomes ,spid; ice
iaeias ih.o ulsn water. Inc Old coupiet
80, Ino sa1hcr the ro-epnds While ye
,bay o-. .,,h;.s W., gay eood thinss WINE
80, - =. .of aitnougn eiooion Is
sstanoa A"ii as s"'isiae'ory Us SUD
II Is upon this principle that the young man
OF the period seems to be acting, If one may
| !uuse from casual observations at Narragan-
| se'-generaliy solourn on the beach, half
hour al the Casino mop at night or an after hop
| ana saunter along Cupids Walk. where in
the SHADY hooks and corners the young men
| and maldens, divided of into pairs, are like
| souvenir spoons
| Ihere Is an idea that the bathing suits make
some disheartening disclosures Of feminine
\ lack OF symmetry, and We hear much Of the
| young iauies VINO are SO beautiful and well pro-
| portioned In their show dress becoming In
| pathing dress and water contact gawks and
| guys This Is not true to any great extent.
Ihe statement does injustice to the American
| gni-not more TO her Inquire than her tact
She is too smart for anything OF that kind. II
sne mas anguiarlties she know how to conceal
them as well In water as In land clothes, and il
she has points OF comeiiness she knows how TO
| make the fact evident TO their enhancement,
even II ne; charms are confined, AS in the case
OF hilbert ana suiiivans heroine, to very at
racuse lett shoulder blade.
IL is innocent and natural for woman to
make modest DISPLAY OF her charms. She does
| IL al nome, upon the street. In the ball room.
| Ana she can 90 IL Just as well upon the beach
as anywhere else, for there are just many
men there TO thrill with admiration and women
| to I'LL with envy, and these are her two objects
My unframed observation leads me To note
that there are two kinds OF girls who do not
go into the water The first does not do SO
because she knows better. The second does
not because she knows better. But the reasons
are not the same Onthe contrary. the reverse
Inc hrst one does not go in because she
h Knows II would oe case OF shocking dis
uiusion that no sartorisa or hlstrionic arts or
recourses could soften. 80, wise in her day,
she keeps 10 her terra hrma dummery and re-
mains on the peach.
Inc other girl also remains on the beach.
lake that one over there, for instance, who
mas scarlet hrygian cap on her dark hair,
iow-cut waist and bare arms, a dark blue silk
| Dathing suit, showing her perfect form. a
scahty skirt ana the ruines OF her trousers Just
| reaching the knee. She vets her toes in the
water, gives the little feminine sQueal at the