The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-23

OtneiS 20 KnO" IL loo lNeN nave nealCHy
disregard of suuburn and colds in the
head, and they wear the nattiest and pret-
tiest of suits, all made with a view of tempt
ing old Neptune out of the bottom of the
sea, to say nothing of the would be Nep-
tunes on the shore.
There is one close circle of young ladies
in Newport who are most accomplished
swimmers, but they try to keep that pro-
found secret and they hire cookie shell of
boat and 20 padding about until they
find themselves just where they wish to be;
and then there is confusion OF screams,
mingled with striped stockings and pretty
bare arms, and the whole fOdr are in the
water waiting to he rescued, and they
always are, and then their profound graft
tude TO their gallant resCuerS Is always the
opening of a very pretty romance, and you
will Thereafter see us many couples as
there were girls incoming around the
sands, in the sunshine or in the glOaming,
with their little tanned hands closely
clasped in bigger and browner ones. In
the evenings later the saver and the saved
waltz together or wander lovingly about
the grounds or on the beach-aud the endp
All, the end. 1t ends with the season. 1t
Is not expected to last longer. Romance is
TO last the season out, and no longer. 1t
lasts from June to September, and is sweet
and pleasant, but it is something that is
to be "talien," just as one takes mountain
air or sea bathing.
If there Is a better forcing place for the
tender plant Of q summers romance don't
know where it could be found. The girls
are ali 50 pretty, they know SO we'll how to
make the most Of their beauty, they are so
far above the general run Of people in the
scale of society that they can do almost
anything with inpunity, and il is right be-
cause they do it. Then the quiet little
corners on the rocksl Why, they are worn
smooth by the romantic couples who, sea-
son after season, sit there hand in hand
listening TO the soft flisvos Of the waves,
and the faint strains Of music, and each
others honeyed words.
Sometimes these little romances have n
sad ending, as for instance when a hard
hearted husband comes on the scene and
insists that he only has the right to sit on
the sand under an umbrella with the angel,
or keep manly arm around her waist
when In the beating surf, or hold her pretty
little hand while sitting on the rocks in
the cleaning
Again, n wife will object to her hus-
bands taking so much pains to talk in
lonely spots to some other lady; but gener-
ally speaking such cases are rare, for it is a
generally understood affair all around that
everybody is to get all the pleasure he or
she can out Of the summer at Newport,
and as old married couples can't be expect
ed to get much fun out of sitting on the
sand and hugging each other, and it is
rather nice to go through all the prelimi-
nary stages Of romance with some one
else, why, they take the romance Of it as
they do the bathing, and it is usually all
right.
1t has always seemed queer to me that q
man who has a pretty and thoroughly nice
little wife of his own, should as soon 40
she is out Of sight tip his hat over on one
side of his head and suddenly forget that
he Is married, and only remember that be-
| fore and beside him Is n pretty girl on
! whom ho Is bound to try his powers Of
fascination. Well, let him, at the seashore
at least, for the chances are that the couple
sitting 50 coZlly behind the next rock are
his wife and another fellow.
There are sad things sometimes that come
from these pleasant summer romances.
One young wife, married TO an old man,
met younger one, and somehow they did
not know how to stop their pleasant COM
2enionship short of the danger line, and
when the time came TO go their different
ways-well, their hearts didn5 exactly
break or either of them die, but both left
sad and unhappy. The man may forget in
his busy life, but the woman sits day after
day turning her wedding ring around and
around on her finger and looking out of
the window into the busy city street, seeing
nothing but the shining water of Newport
and listening to voice that she will never
hear amin.