The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-12-10
ARP IN THE SURF.
he CHAPERONES THE LADIES TO
THE ISLAND
Where They Don Bathing Suits, and After
Watching Them Awhile Bin Concludes
to Try a Few Breakers

all ana l. ulu until lney CAME oul VI SiS
undressing house, transformed ana trans
mogrifled into water nymphs, and then
dident know anybody, not even my own
lifelong wife. / stood off at a respectful
distance and ruminated. As they toyed
and struggled with successive waves ana
screamed and shouted with hilarious glee
even the older ones renewed their youth
like the eagles and bid defiance to rolling
years and rolling pillows Suddenly the
dream of my youth came over me ana
wandered away down beyond the curve or
the beach and all alone in my primeval
glory L laved and bathed in the green
waters of the gulf of Mexico. 1t carried
me back to the rude and crude frolcS Of
my boyhood when the springboard and the
mill pond were my delight. Half century
has passed since / saw that mill pond, but
it is there yet, and the water is still fall
ing over the dam and singing the same old
song
MEN may come and men may go,
But | go on forever.
The sea, the gulf, the lakes and rivers anu
brooks the only living. moving Things
in all nature that suffer no Change from
the iron hand of time. Such as they were
at creations dawn they are now. but
| am not as brave as / used to be, and so
| kept within easy reach of long pro-
iecting root that reached out some twenty
feet in the water. and rose and 'eu win
the waves / was afraid of the undertow
breakers came. on. il was glorious But
al Measures must have end and IN due
time the ten and / were invested an thoae
usual garments of which we had been ~
vested. and after picking up a lew shelis
lanarted These coasts hOmeward DOuI4d.
me ladies' sang Life on the ocean," and
.Co Tell Aunt Sallie," and who
T-illnd Cock Robin" and other watery
cbnruses. when suddenly a hat with gay
ribbons flying took notion to san away
into the vessels wake, ana we thouSht II
was gone for good. but the pleasant Swed-
ish boatman smiled and said: Il ma heem
again." and 80 he had TO round u ana star
bc9rd and Iarboard ard ship ahoy and do
other nautical things to get it. IT was a
hs my afternoon and the five little children
were the harpiest Of the lot. Mothers come
here for frdil and sicky chlldreA-IheA
come for their wives and wives for their
husbands Every family has an invalid. l
saw a sweet little girl of three years asleep
upon n shawl that was spread upon the
sandy beach. She came sick ana paie ana
with a consumptve cough, but belleVe
will get well l saw young lady VINO mas
nearly lost her hearing from loEg-contlnued
grip, and she is improving every day anu
is as merry as a lark. | met a man from
Cincinnati today and n comes to spend an
other winter because his asthma was ST
relieved while here last winter. The winter
residents have all returned and brought
more with them. People are getting more
md more like the birds. wild ducks ana
geese and hooking birds and robins and
Wild pigcons-all migrate to escape the
rigors of d winter climate and why should
rot mankind especially those who are az
ncted with some disease that six months
of winter aFgrdVateS? What is wanted by
the public are cheaper rates for winter
tourists. The railroads ought to give round
rip rates for nearly one fare and they
would make money by it. The tourist ought
to have as much favor as the excursionist.
The small discount the railroads make is
no encouragement to travel The fare from
Atlanta to Sanford is Sl3.70 and it is $25 for
a round trip ticket. 1t should not be more
sI;tn SO. anu / am sure .ne travet woui'
be doubled. But what is wanted on tn
gulf coast Is more accommodations for win
ter visitors. Clear Water will soon have q
nice new hotel and it will be filed, but
there are many people who want cottage
privileges and would rent them if they We're
here Every mail brings inquiries, Can |
rent cottaEc?" NO not now. Every one
is occupied. DR.. Blount, Of Macon, and his
son and his sons wife rented one last win
ter and remained all summer. and say they
never spent u pledsanter summer anywhere.
The old doctor has been all over the world
and sojourned in many countries. and de-
clares he has a last found resting place
that suits him all the year round. Bat il a
man had a thousand dollars 10 spare he
could buy a let as elevated as the buf and
only one block away and build him cot
ts sc and have two or three hundred dollars
left. These baCi; lots are generally 15x160
and on the san> elevation with the bluff
and can De had at prices ranging from
500 to 800. The bluff lots that over
look the bay are getting scarce and com
ni1nd from so to $l2 front
loot. Six of them have been sold since l
came here and four of them improved with
handsome residences.
The little town is looking no. There are
two good schools with competent teachers.
More boats have been built for pleasure,
and some of the wealthy residents own
naphtha launches The rent OF n good oar-
boat is about 81 a month but this is gen
orally shared by at least four persons. \
Chinese laundry has just been opened. Ne
Sroes are scarce and they charge high for
their labor. The white country people are
very friendly and kind. They bring milk and
eggs and chickens and fish and oysters and
peas and beans and cucumbers and toma-
toes and other vegetables TO your door every
day. Winter gardens take the place of
summer gardens in Georgia and it will not
be long before the market will be supplied
with strawberries. So many persons write
to know what they can get to do here while
seeking health and paying board. Nothing
that l know of unless they improvise some
thing. genius might work up something
but the town is too small 90 encourage ar
tiSanS or professors. A book agent would
perish. A minstrel show would hardly pay
expenses. A blind tiger couldn't earn the
water he puts in his whisky. The place is
a winter residence and sanitarium-that
is all. There are three stores with very
good stocks, and several boarding houses
and people come and go. Some stay a
week and some only day. Three Georgia
drummers called on me yesterday, and one
of them from Atlanta saw the air plants
in the trees, and innocently inquired did We
put those pineapples shrubs up in the trees
for ornament. l had to tell him about the
Ohio lady who admired the piney woods
below Macon and asked me why the trees
We're trimmed so high. But everything mere
is strange, very strange to those who have
never been in the tropics. A Virginia lady,
who is with us, said last night as she view
cd the moonlight or the bay: "Oh, ii seems
Just like / am in a fairyland." Then | told
her about Tom Ochiltree, who said to the
northern lady at Galveston, "Oh, madam,
YOU should have seen our moon before the
war" BILL AK.
Never a faint of adulteration is found in
DR.. Prices Baking Powder. The very es-
sence of purity.