The herald., 1894-08-20
DOWN BY THE SAD SEA WAVES.
Sunday Afternoon at a Seaside
Resort.
The Fat Girl Lost Her Stockings In
the Sea.
The Man who Could Swim Fooled the
Folks at First, but Every
body Had n Happy
Time.

A little episode on the beach at Ter.
minal Island yesterday, reminded one OF
the etory of the two bathsrs at sOouey
Island-or aome other seaport town.
The story goes that the man nearest
shore, who had come into water last,
gassd out across the crests of the break
ers and epied his friend, the doctor
whom he didn't even know WAS down at
the beach. tresding water at great
rate and putting like porpoiss.
''How deep is it out there, Doc?"
''JusG up to your ears, and your toes
won't stick in the bottom unless they're
sharper'n mine. You had better stay
out %
And he did stay out, and in the course
of time he got a bill for $40 for one con-
suitation at sea. Thsae doctors are
awful.
Well, yesterday afternoon, at Ter
minal leland. the edge of the ocean
where it strikes the island was just full
of fol1a. Heads bobbed up and down
on tho tops OF tine waveH like pond 'lilies
used 10 ride the waves in the mill pond
bRck home when the boys used to throw
big eones at the frogs.
On the ehore stood She lean man who
looked in his bathing euit for all the
worH 4 Just like ''bsfore taking" while
hia friend, the fat man, who would do
fret rate for latter taking elk 'bottlHs,"
was jway out beyond the crowd OF heads.
"fJow deep ia it.out there, father r.
'NOh, not very de-og, og-gugle, Rusle,
gvEi Phew-dammit, come out and see
tof your-gugle, gugle. gug !"
THE sea wAs very Choppy yestoxday
afternoon and the waves are no respect-
srs OF fat persons and they were flling
latter taking six bottle'e" mouth with
THE saltest salt water the ocean ever
I produced.
A great many people would Yather
baIhe at the beach on Terminal island
or at Catalina than at any OF the other
beaches because there are no breakers.
II takes strong swimmer to tackle the
surf at Santa Monica or Long Beach
some times, and while great deal Of
fun can be had diving through the
great walls OF water that come tumbling
up on the surface of old ocsan, and
topple over into creamy foam whom the
water ia not so deep. still it must be .
good swimmer who masters many OF the
breakers far out.
At Terminal island the shore shelves
out gradually, and there are no break
ers, Between ewellg come q few little
choppy wavee, and if you swim You can
get out beyond them and float on Q
placid surface.
Yesterday great many ladies SWAN
out to the raft aud dove off, and really,
il you know how to dive. and can do it
gracefully, it's the most fun of all, while
on the other hand, if you can't dive and
are bound to try, you're moro liable than
not to accomplish what the boys used to
call "belly Hopper" which will be no
fun at all for you and dead ioada Of fun
for the spectators on the beach.
The spectators on the beach managed
to get some of the fun yesterday after
noon, and there was q great crowd of
spectators on the beach. teo.
In the first place the man who can
swim like duck waded around near
shore and pretended be was afraid OF the
water, of course. Then he finally went
out little deeper and screamed every
time swell came in and got people
nervous and then he went out about up
to his neck and big wave came and no
yelled and went under with his arms
tears on his face.
The women turned pale and the men
yelled "help" aud stood still. II the
man had wanted to drown he could have
done it, but that wasn't his lay; he
wanted to be smart.
He stayed under an swfnl while; then
he bobbed up, way out beyond the raft,
and stood out to sea, swimming like Q
feather.
"Oh, if I could get mv hands on that
fellow, wouldn't ] shake him good, the
scoundrel," said the large woman On
the porch OF the bathing house. who
had lost ell the color in her hitherto
rubieund countenanee.
"If be thinks he can fool people like
that he'll find out his mistake some
day." And with that she called the
children and took them into the car and
waited an hour for the train to start.
The crowd had been so intensely Ia
terested in the feats of tho ewimnnsrs
that nobody had noticed the event Of
the day.
The fat girls stockings had both come
down.
She atood on the shore minus both of
them. A large wave washed one UP ON
the beach and the other foated out b
sea on the unQSrtow.
"Oh my gracious She's coming right
up through the crowd with her stockings
both gone."
And ss ahe said that thin lady with
wart on her nose and elasse6 and curlu
and a rather hollow cheat end--weil.
you'd take her for an old maid-got up
and went back to the train aleo.
But everybody who went to Terminal
-n1n A~w u -
hugely. 1t wss cool down there; the
water was just right; the people were
happy and out for q good time, and
had it.
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