The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-01

others to know it too. They have healthy
disregard of suaburn and colds IN the
head, and they wear the n2ttiest and pref
best of suits, all made with 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 a cookie shell of
boat and go padding about until they
find themselves just where they wish to be;
and then there is a confusion Of screams,
mingled with striped stockings and pretty
bare arms, and the whole four are in the
water waiting to be rescued, and they
always are, and then their profound graft
tude TO their gallant rescuers Is always the
opening of very pretty romance, and YOU
twill thereafter see as many couples as
there were girls incoming around the
sands, in the sunshine or IN the cleaning,
with their little tanned hands closely
rlasped 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-and the end?
An, the end. 1t ends with the season. 1t
Is not expected 70 last longer Romance is
TO last the season out, and no longer. IL
lasts from June TO September, and is sweet
and pleasant, but it Is something that is
10 he taken" Just as one takes mountain
hir or sea bathing.
If there is a better forcing place for the
render plant of a summers romance don't
know where il could he found. The girls
are all so pretty, they know so well 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 impunity, and ii is right be-
cause they do IL. Then the quiet little
corners On the rocks! Why, they are worn
smooth by the romantic couples who, sea-
son after season, sit there hand in hand
listening TO the soft iilsvos of the waves,
and the faint strains of music, and each
bther's honeyed words.
Sometimes these little rOmances have a
BAD ending, as for instance when hard
hearted husband comes on the scene aud
INSISTS that he only has the right to sit 90
Ehe sand under an umbrella with the angel,
or keep a 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, a wife viii object to her hus-
bands taking so much pains 10 talk in
lonely spots TO some other lady; but gener-
ally speaking such cases are rare, for II Is \
generally understood affair all around that
Everybody is 10 get all the pleasure ne 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 20 go through all the prehmi-
nary stages Of romance with some one
else, why, they take the romance OF it as
they Go the bathing, and it is usually all
right.
IG has always seemed queer TO me that a
slan who has a pretty and thoroughly nice
jttie wife Of his own, should as soon As
she is out CT sight tip his hat over on one
side Of his head and suddenly forget that
he is married, and only remember that be
Tore and beside him is a pretty girl on
whom he Is bound % try ms powers OF