The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-16

NOW yesterday, salu NhS ANO
scarf girl, "out beyond Elberon l pass
| ed d. steam road roller. 1t was strutting
nm and down like a turkey cock. snorting
ana putting, and the first thought that
came into my head was. Sally will be
sure TO shy But l slowed her down
and petted her and steadied her and We
! cot by safely, hut Il was a narrow O.
cane. Sally was nervous and couldn't
blame her.
and this morning when / had her
| down on the beach and we were riding
under the bathers' life lines. where the
| poles reach away up out Of the water
AT low tide, Sally couldn't believe the
| ropes were high enough for her TO dodge
under. and she went bobbing and ducking
] and twisting I'm and out among the pud-
| dies like a rabbit with fox at his
! heels. Then. before she got over her
tantrum. an excursion crowd came
ashore. and you should have seen her
! Jerk and wriggle as the children scatter
! ed over the beach, and paw the ground
| like a pony. Sally was afraid Of all
| that rabbe'
/ II suppose so much beach riding IS
| had for ones nickel" said the girl all
! i'm white I'm q matter-of-fact tone.
, Eyes" admitted the Roman scarf girl;
'but Sally is as fond Of the water as
| am. She splashed me all over just Few
minutes ago because she would run IN the
edge OF the surf. / suppose she gets hot
and tired But come. you're not gong
| 10 lounge under this tent all day
The girl all in white rose TO her rect
a plump blonde figure, also In bicycle
dress-whte plque skirt much Inlet
| with insertion. sheer white lawn waist
white stockings. and low shoes, white
/ xrafla1 fT lace III
me bird were diving through spray.
! Picking up her wheel. which had fallen
in the sand. she disappeared with the 9th
or among the crowd of those passing
backward.
PRETTY BICYCLING SUIT
The sky was so blue and the air so
clear that the bathers and the beach
promenaders and the bicycle girls made
a brilliant picture thrown upon fore
ground of gittering sand and Hooded hv
golden sunshine There came girl in
blue trundlne her wheel-bue linen skirt
quantity decorated with broad. oddly
SHAPED bands OF white insertion. sheer
blue dimity waist with white guimpe'
little Elton Jacket OF blue linen with
rounded corners and the narrowest pos
sibie edging OF black velvet ribbon,
black velvet belt. flutter Of black at
throat. and black lace straw hat with
black wings.
stacking her wheel against that Of her
escort. she sat down just in the shelter
OF another beach tent. and five minutes
later the summer man with her was
reading aloud from a tiny pocket volume.
il did not need the rhythm of the low.
flowing accents TO tell me-the book was
LUCILLE"
"I hear from Bigorre you are there. I
am told
You are going TO marry Miss Darcy"
OF old. from the days when summer
girls began. the summer man has read
aloud Lucile" The waves OF the ocean.
the depths Of the forest. the crags OF
the mountain have echoed IL. Every
clerk off on a fortnights vacation. every
gilded youth with the entire summer at
his disposal throws a. copy into his lug
gage every girl in the least attractive
possesses at leas, six marked editions
dedicated to the memory of six silvery
toned young gentlemen.
"But why?' 1 asked a man last even
ing
ooh" he said 'fts tradition. and then
you know Lucille is easy reading. But"
be added cts not safe to try 80 exceDt
on q very young girl 4 few days ago
/ was calling on a woman with whom 7
summered down here at the Branch ten
years ago. she's married now. but 7
tried TO ask her II she remembered, and
she laughed and led me to her book
case When ! had looked at the green
bindings and blue bindings and the pa
per covers, / asked, But why did you let
me?'
on she said. 7 couldn't tell you
knew 10 AN by heart. but I did wonder
n YOU actually thought me so green and
unsOphisticated.'
Yet they keep it up and the blue bicy-
Gle girl listened as demurely as If she
hadn't heard it all once at least every
summer since she was fifteen.
They say there is a bicycle girl at
the Branch who rides to the beach in her
bathing costume: ] have not seen her.
The girls whom j do see ride along
the hard sands az low tide i'm the lightest
and brightest of family green
pique, with a white lawn sunbonnet tied
with green ribbon strings; pink and
white checked duck with "a pink jacket
turned over with white and sailor hat
trimmed with a pink scarf and a long
long quill. or white duck with vivid
yellow waist and black hat and waist
belt and black low shoes and stockings
Sometimes in and ont among the 5athers
and the hosts of more quietly dressed
people. there flashes a girl I'm bright scar
let duck with touches OF black. or a Wis
ion I'm startlingly gay cerise OF the red
that Is called automobile.
or sometimes q group Of bicycle girls
stack their wheels and begin 70 run races
I'm their short skirts, and If a man is with
them-and II the girls are pretty there
may be two or three men-the girls steal
a start Of at least a yard and come out
winners with great glory.
saw jumping match this morning a
girl i'm blue and white dotted pique
against a young man and "A middle-aged
And all three slipped in the sand. and the
girls running jump was just equal to the
mems standing jump whereat she claim
ed the rewards Of athlcticism.
But there are girls who do not ride
bicycles. though sometimes IL seems 9th
crwise. and their parasols are eye-blind-
INK for brilliance OF color. and their trail
ing diaphanous skirts sweep harmless
~ the smooth. clean, white ocean floor.
4 pretty costume out yesterday had
a narrow undersSirt of a dun blue sat
inv linen embroidered with ecru spots.
and partially covered by narrow cut
mnic Of ccru linen with scalloncd edges
switched with blue. The bodice. a very
short coat I'm blue linen. fastened at the
left with turquoise buttons and was
everywhere scalloDed to match the skirt |
The sleeves We're exceptionally pretty. |
showing a wide band on the outside of the |
arm from shoulder TO wrist OF the blue |
linen, while the rest of the sleeve Of |
ecru material was scalloped and stitch
ed where II fell upon the blue.
With this dress was worn a little tur-