The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-09-06
Additional s9aShore Reverles.

Life 10y the seashore is not as
pEesaic as one might be led to think.
Something is continually astir Child.
en- are here Today Francis lets her
little brother Dave fail from her arms
over the balcony of the pavilion. The
sand of the beach is only ten feet
away, and little Dave makes the aes
cent headforemost and bowling. But
the special providence which seems
to take care of fools. babies and
drunken men prevents Dave from
doing more than punching hole in
the sand with his head Tomorrow
there is cry over at 8 cottage, and
the news comes in that certain
baby has eaten the heads of 20
matches. Hot water, mustard, salt
aud water aud faxseed tea are all
duly administered. and the baby lives
tnre ugh it all Sometimes, in the
afternoon, wnen we are trying to get
nap, and dozen kids set up g
romp along the passages, one is in
clined TO wish that they could get
hold of something chat would reduce
them TO temporary silence. A WON.
an once made complaint to an old
bachelor aud said she could not con
troll her children. The benedict had
suffered from the noise so when the
mother exclaimed, .'What shall do
with these noisy children ?' the
grim. .yisaged bachelor queried.
MADAM, did you ever try revolver
on them ?n When / build seashore
hotel, it is my purpose to set up a
gattling gun at each end OF the pass
age way.
We are ali dropping into seashore
habits down here The bath and
bracing air are great generators OF
appetite. This fact We accept, and
prepare for the resultant issues. The
rule 10 to eat-eat fish, crabs, shrimps
-eat beef-eat chicken-eat any
thing that is set before you, and ask
no questions. Then, after eating,
rush to your room and prepare-nos
to debut to live-by taking on a
load of Kodol. Pepto- Mapgau
or Granular Soda. Having swal-
lowed your dose. you feel
sure of life until the next meal
The ancient adage that the dancer
must pay for the music is
fixed law here. The same law pre-
7ails at home, but some refuse to
recognize it. In tine Bible this same
law is written in otaer words. viz.
"Whatsoever man soweth, that
shall he also reap" The field OF
appetite is large one where there is
much sowing and reaping-a sowing
in Joy and reaping in tears
.sAH the world" so to speak, was
here yesterday Two excursion
trains, with 10 or IL coaches. came
down in the porning. and emptied
themselves ON the beach. Most of
the tourists were rauk ruralisss, and
some of them had never seen the
ocean. One of them sneeripgly said,
aWhy, the ocean aint sech a big
thing, sitter ALL" l guess he thought
he had seen it ali Too often the
Judgment we form is based upon
ignorance. This holds true, not only
with reference to the ocean, but with
reference also to things on the land
We see but part and then misjudge
the whole.
Oae of the tourists took seat at
our dinner table She was woman,
and bore a babe asleep upon her
bosom. Her features were stolid
and heavy. Our listle party of three
were eating dinner, and our food was
spread around Us in individual
dishes y The ruralist did not take
in the situation She had been ac-
customed to eat al table where the
eaters had all things in common.
Not knowing chat any dinner was to
be brooght ior her. she thought it a
wise plan to avail herself of what
was on hand ; so she reached out her
fork, and pIucked fish from Billy
Yates supply, and then reached
again and plugged fork into Sister
Browns chicken. By the time she
was well into these, the waiter
brought her dinner but she did uot
seem 10 realize that she had been
guilty of any breach of etiquette, nor
did she offer to return the goods she
had appropriated. We had to get
the waiter to make tie loss good by
bringing in more fish and chicken.
1t was q curious sight to see that
woman eat 6sh with one hsnd, with
out knife or fork, while the baby
slept on her bosom, held with the
other had. But she did it, and when
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