Evening journal., 1892-08-23
DOWN AT The SEASIDE.
An Example Of Longevity by
"Grand Old Ocean"
MOUNTAIN MILK AND HOTEL PIE

Some of the Popular outing Costumes
and How They are Woman Observing
Traveller who Did Not Drink too
Deeply Of Such Pleasures.
NEW YORK, Aug. %. 1901 am not
accustomed to the boarding house Of the
popular American watering place l am
still able to look upon it as luxury that
1 know very well ! am not able to
afford much of rs a complete novelty.
It is one Of the pleasures Of life which l
have not drained to the dregs; have de-
cided that do not want TO drain it TO
the dregs. To drink half way down is
sufficient for me.
suppose that every rose has its &C
companying thorn-every one says So
but IL always seems to me that IL would
be truer saying If it implied that some
times collection of thorns is
accompanied by a rose, sometimes not.
There was more than one thorn in the
boarding house / stayed at. tho the
placid lady help who stripped my bed
and left il and untitled my water Jug
seemed TO consider that they were so
many trifes not worth mentioning
The attainable bedroom of the seashore
boarding house is always high up, and
generally has stairs that lead unexpec-
teddy and irrelevantly into it, so that If
you get out of bed in the dark
you are precipitated down them
into darkness that really can
be felt underneath. It abounds in win
dows there were eight TO the one room
1 occupied. The windows certainly let
| in lots of fresh air and also lots of fresh,
thirsty young mosquitoes, with a good
working light This octagonal room
contained nothing like hooks or even
nails so clothes had TO repose peacefully
on the floor. A water-bottle and jug
were considered superfiuous Injuries,
and the looking glass was an effective
sermon on vanity.
Undisguised surprise was visible on
he landlady's face when | asked for a
bath room. The sturdy and thick
skinned animal, known as the Boarding
House Chicken, hourished here in great
profusion, and there We're no specimens
tasted during my stay that the gods had
loved. Conversation was impossible
when one Of the engrossing animals was
on the board. The digninty of labor was
illustrated then, and that passage Of
scripture which says IF a man do not
work neither shall he eat, " was forcibly
proved.
At the mountain boarding house milk
is a speciality Three kinds were dis.
played on the table, ice cream milk,
drinking milk and tea milk. Their
names prove no guide to their quality.
They all tasted like tea milk do not know
If the mountain boarding house Keeps
three degrees of COW, but l ascertained
that it contained among its staff of
assistants one hen kept on purpose to
keep the house supplied with new laid
eggs.
have lived so far a simple and un.
sophisticated life, so that when | first
entered the seashore boarding house the
particular kind of pie that gains its
name thereby was only a word TO me an
an undiscovered field. It is more than
that now. Il is a real tangible thing,
hard and solid; IL is more like a stone
quarry than a field noticed that when
the waitress asked the boarders non
chalantly which they would take, 'pie OF
rice pudding, as though she didn't care,
(she was little too Indifferent
remember, to have been thor
oughly naturaD the boarders all
answered with feverish and what
seemed unnecessary haste rice pud
ding" and / wondered at such a unani
nous choice. l know now was the
only one who said pie, with he exception
of the wiry and ravenous man who said
Both, under his breath but with an
air of untried determination that mark,
the hero. / have heard since that the
wiry man was a consumptive patient
and had been pronounced by the doctors
ha a..
end his days He was utterly reckless
1t seems wicked to tempt Providence in
the way he did
The parlor of my boarding house was 9
kindergarten school, the piazza registry
Office. The appearance and expression of
clergyman and his wife at the table KEEP
everyone from asking for beer. If thai
couple could be used as originals to pro
duce thousands of duplicates from there
would be no need of prohibition anywher
in the United States. That clerical cou
pie could be distributed about instead
Only it would be a bad thing for DR.
Kelley.
The Vatican pleat has been pro
nounced to be quite unsuitable to walk
ing costumes; so probably we shall see
no more on coats and clOaks The "whee
shoulder, that is the high standing
frill around the upper part of the arm
hole, promises to be as popular as the uni
versal SASH Large Viennese collars ar
the correct thing to wear with the popu
lar full velvet elbow sleeve.
The lovely "Gainsboro" is likely to b
again worn with general approval Thi
will perhaps help to abolish the uprigh
plumes that have so aggressively hel,
their own in millinery for so long.