Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06
which they vend. A chalk line Is drawn on the
board walk at the point where Ocean Grove
joins Asbury Park, and the youngsters must
toe the scratch
FAvoRIrE ENTERTAINMENT.

joins Asbury Park, and the youngsters must
toe the scratch.
fAvoRIrE ENTERTAINMENT.
favorite entertainment with the less godly
summer residents of Asbury Park is going to
see the shadow pictures. These are 10 be OBJ
served after dark from outside the tents at
Ocean Grove. They are said to be very anus
Ing sometimes. A great deal that is Of interest
Is to be learned by a study OF life in the tents
The latter are wonderfully comfortable little
dwellings. and the number of occupants
crowded into many of them is amazing. In
one OF them last season twenty persons were
accommodated. the proprietor having n large
family OF her own, but finding room for several
boarders. The "tenters." a. thew call them
serves, vie with each other in respect to the
neatness and tasteful adornment of their quar-
tiers. tent of the finest sort consists of a two
room wooden cottage, IL by Is feet, with tent
IA by IL feet in front. and for such a one
the rent is 800 for the season. furnished
throughout. The writer was permitted to
examine examine one OF these curious houses in
Bethesda block on Pilgrim Pathway. 1t
contained four reasonably spacious living
and sleeping rooms. the tent paSt being divided
into two by curtains. At the front was a small
porch. over which there was an awning. The
entrance opened upon parlor. rather tiny but
big enough to contain both an upright piano
and an organ. Behind the curtained partition
we're two double beds, between which the pas-
sageway led. There were two more double
beds i'll the next room and back of that was a
coy dining room with convenient cupboards.
shed added at the rear served as the kitchen,
and the accompanying utensils included pots
and pans hung upon the latticed walls. In
each block Is pump to supply fresh water.
HOUSEKEEPING IN TENTS.
In short the arrangements are admirably
adapted for housekeeping on an economical
scale, and it is not surprising that good many
people who take no interest in heart culture.
and who never even go to church. occupy tents
at Ocean Grove during the summer II is not
true, as has been alleged. that every person who
resides there is compelled to attend divine serv-
ice every day. Most OF the "tenters." however
are enthusiastically devotional. They belong
to the class which finds other form of ex-
citement so entertaining and stimulating as
that which is to be obtained at camp meeting
1t is with them in truth, q species of dissipa-
ton of religious character. There are con-
slant changes in the performance at the Audi
forum. which is noninally and by advertise
ment open to any Christian organization. Al
the same time the fact is that Catholics are
absolutely shut out and the Episcopalians are
not wanted. while Unitarians would not be toi-
Grated. Methodism rules. The eloquence OF
Bishop Phillips Brooks of Boston would pro-
duce no favorable impression on audiences here
which are held spellbound by the emotional
oratory of Talmadge Moody. There lies
precisely the distinction: these worshippers
want preaching that appeals to the emotions
and not to the intellect
Rum and tobacco being interdicted as well as
gambling. diversions based upon the mutual at
traction of the sexes are exceptionally popular
at Ocean Grove. 1t is even asserted by the I'M
godly that the young men and girls who in
blithesome throngs attend the ''voung peo-
pies meetings at the Auditorium daily do so
chiefly for purposes of Irritation. However
this may be in fact it is true that an elderly
woman got up in an experience meeting" here
the other day and said:
II IN asked to tell my experience in religion.
WAL. my experience is that can't hold on 70
my darters at all. They f:rtin' all day
long. and spoonin' under umbrellas with pious
young men from New York on the beach, and
can't get EN- to so much say their prayers. -