The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-09-01
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AN EDITORIAL OUTING.

AN EDITORIAL OUTING.
The National Editorial Convention at
Asbury Park-Bathing in the Sea
How Life is Enjoyed on the Beach.
NOS.
The life Of Asbury Park is on the beach
and, as by magnet, one is drawn to the
sands. On the ocean front, for mile or
more. runs board walk from 90 to 50
feet wide. The board walk is the grand
promenade by day. and especially by
night. There come male and female to
mate. saunter. talk; us lovers lane.
and good eve notes the tell-tale glances.
Orderly, decorous. beautiful. All the
ladies in fine toilets at night, thou
sands of them bare healed, taking the
breeze, looking for their flames, and
usually finding them; now walking, sur
ging in thousands, or lettering to hear
the band play in pavilion on the long
two-decked pier; Sunday night an cs-
pecial gala, tho bands playing sacred
and secular airs, embroldering their
notes on the background OF surf thunder.
! Often beach sacred concert, the pavil-
ion full Of worshipers; steps leading
down to platform six feet above the
broad beach, and 10000 people singing
to the accompaniment Of the ocean or
gan. This tide of life. moved by love,
romance, devotion, vanity even, is very
beautiful to watch. One sits on bench
by the hour, listening to the sea, to the
band, and watching this ever-shirting
tide. restless as the sea itself. indeed very
kin to che sea, and IS pleases with the
kaleidoscope families sauntering to-
gether, lovers arm in arm, beautiful
women. lovely children, romplng dogs,
handsome swalns. sailor costumes, rich
dresses, wonderful hair, surging, surg
ing, snrging from sunset till IL o'clock
under the arc lights. One never tires of
it, for it is ever new, like the last wave
dashing into millions of green atoms on
the sand. Yet the thoughtful eye
grows mournful and dim with the
thought that all this gay crowd are
walking to open graves where they will
lie so still; in 100 years not one left to
saunter and breathe vital air aud bend
a bright eye on all this lovliness of sea
and sky and shore.
But if you leave an immense crowd on
the beach at night you find one fully as
. great by day. Everybody is there al all
seasonable hours, standing or walking,
or sitting, or spraying in the sand. FOR
sand is dirt washed clean. It soils not,
, nor stains muslin nor silk. One shake
: OF the garments and the crystals are off.
The kids are there by hundreds upon
hundreds, and what playground, that
long stretch of sand! A wee girl would
run bare-legged into the lace foam, arms
full OF skirts, drawers rolled up as far as
they'd 20, shoeless. sockless, chasing the
! retluent wave, but when she grew care
less an audacious wave would rush up
and swash brine and a hat full Of sand
into the seat Of her little panties Great
fun, too, to see ladY's stocking fall
down and fill with sand. 1t just anchor.
ed her. Some shops seemed to sell notl:.
ing but. !,:.tla tin pals and shovvls for
children, and they'd dig holes ay the
hour and fill them with water. The kids
make vast earthworks, and on the Fourth
stuck them full OF crackers, and lombard
ed all dav, and until fireworks were let
off in the evening.
The childred take pleasure in chasing
a feet sand crab. 1t buries itself in wet
, sand two or three inches deep quicker
thnn one can wink. Runs and takes a
header, and, presto! non est. They resur-
, rect him to see him dive again.
Ladies make a pillow or bolster of
sand, and lie down under parasol and
read novels and chew gum. No end of
love-making on the beach. What are
, the wild waves saying9 Why, "Lovey
/ dewey" and all that.
And the batllers. Was there ever a
sight like it! Room for 10000 at once
on the Asbury Park beach, it is said. Go
to Long Branch some forenoon and pos.
sibly score Will be seen In the sea,
Drive down to Asbury Park at II a. M.
and the bathers numberd by the hundreds
for this is the fayorite hour-a few
hours after eating-and the tide is
ebbing. In the afternoon the tide begins
to set in and the surf is too rough, except
for powerful swimmers and those used
to the sea. Something strange about
this surf along the New Jersey coast to a
fresh water duck. Along the Great
Lakes with the wind off shore the water
Is like mirror. On the sea coast will
the same conditions Of wind, a mighty
surf may be rolling in. It's the tidal
currents. 1t is these treachprous, hidden
currents that cause many fresh water
swimmer to lose his head and require
assistance to gain the shore.
Senator Bradley, the founder of Asbury
Park, still owns the ocean front. All
along are rows of bath houses, hundreds
OF them. lie has the rental. You buy a
ticket for Zoe, give it to Il clerk who
hands out Il blue suit and two rough
towels and key to n room bearing num-
Der and section; at the next desk you
seal up in Il big envelope your purse,
watch. false teeth, etc, and the girl gives
you u little brass check strung on rub
Der hook that you hang on your neck
after changing. Enter the closet, shut
to the door. peel off your clothes; pegs to
hang them on; two wee seats, a bucket
Of scft water under them, i'll which you
rinse of the salt water and sand; you
become statueslue, and slipinto tlanncls;
all in one piece, for men; breeclles and
frOck in one; breeches' legs end at the