Evening star., 1899-07-01
THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES

tn6 VIII FHMtliHn fAIES
During my week down at the sea-
Shore" said the man with the peeled nose.
Il observed most Of the usual types. Sea-
shore types are perennial and changeless.
OF course I saw the fat lady who appears
at the hotel breakfast table with Sleep
swollen eyes and any number OF big dia-
mond rings on her fingers, to say nothing
OF diamond sunbursts, earrings and so on.
In fact. I saw three or four of her. Queer,
how hard 1t seems for some people to un-
derstand that breakfast and a multiplicity
Of diamonds don't gee at all.
We'll. as usual, too, saw the big. strap
ping, JunoesQue women being wheeled
around in the invalid chairs by more or less
putty-headed men. while the small. delicate,
sickly-lookiEg women seemed rarely to
avail themselves Of the hand-wheeled We
hicles. 1t always strikes me that there Is
something essentially wrong about bux-
om perfectly well and healthy woman who
will permit herself to be pushed around in
an invalid chair at the seaside. l had the
peculiar satisfaction Of seeing a whole ho-
telful OF young women fall into dismal
error with respect to young man who
was guest of the same house. They
unanimously figured him to be a young
man of ribbon department, or some such
sort, and he looked 1t to T. The young
women barely noticed him. 1t did not leak
out until the afternoon that he moved into
the hotel next door-giving 'dullness as his
reason for abandoning his original hostel
ry-that he was the only son of a Colorado
millionaire. with money to burn in his own
right. The young women in the other hotel
took him up instantly and donned their
incest frocks for him and spoke enthusiast
tically among themselves of the character
in his face.
.'The pretty demure deep-eyed young
woman whose husband-not in evidence
lrr&
ed her scandalously, was there, too. 1 al
ways see her. She was, usual, the calm
recipient of the gallantries and attentions
OF most Of the young men at her hotel,
and she did not appear to be entirely popu-
lar with the young unmarried women-not
SO unnatural, considering.
THE fidgetty, eagle-eyed mother of the
four daughters, all of them dressed approx
imately alike, was there with her brood
this year, too. AS in other years, she re-
CARDS the efforts Of all other mothers
whomsoever to dress their daughters styl-
ishly and becomingly as the merest hope
each of her daughters one after the other,
giving a performance upon the piano forte
in the hotel parlor after dinner.
THE middle-aged, fabbyfeatured man
the false frizzes as dear and 'dar-
ling and baby and 'ducky' at the
public breakfast table was at the hotel
where l put up, Of course. I've met up
for the past twelve years. The young wo-
man with the pale blue eyes who plays
The Georgia Camp Meeting'-last year it
was Pack Yo' Clo'es an Coon the hotel
piano from morning until night, only rest
ing for meals, got in her fine work, as
usual. So did the fool young man who
thinks he has a basso voice, and who sings
about the ship that went down to his own
blacksmith accompaniment on the piano
every night.
THE r-mache-headed young woman
of admirable figure (of which she isn't
aware, of course) who rides up and down
the beach in her bathing suit bicycle
to the imminent peril of the bathers, is
quite a feature this year-more than
last. She permits her hair to fly to the
winds, allie same Boadicea and she at
tracts all the attention she is looking for
1.-THE young women whose skins tan al
most black were envying, as usual, the
girls who just turn lobster red and vice
versa The strong. chesty youth who goes
out beyond the breaker line with cigarette
in his mouth, and who few minutes later
is ignominiously dragged onto the beach by
a couple of life guards, looked just about as
sheepish after his experience as he usually
does.
1.-THE pulp-headed man who takes his lit
tie baby girl in his arms out into the surf
over his head, thereby. filling her up to the
bursting point with salt water and throw
ing her into an hysterical panic, there
again. in all of his grinning asininity. So
was the humorous youth whose whole fun
in life consists in holding the heads of
bathing young women under the water.
"The black waiter who used to attend
your table in a Washington cafe and who
expects dollar per meal out of you for
that reason has his customary job. The
fat-witted young man who takes a whole
bcatload of girls out for a sail on the
bosom Of the deep and doesn't discover that
the sailing of boat is new one on him
until after he has almost dumped the whole
outfit Is back again this year in numbers
The very young and attractive aunt who
Is 'chaperoning' her two beautiful nieces Is
winning the immediate admiration of the
widowers and settled men this year. as
always. I noticed, too the same old groups
of cottagers sitting on their front steps in
naughty, frosty magnifcence and sizing up
all the 'hotelers' through QuizZing glasses,
as If they were new and strange, If vulgar,
bipeds lately down from Mars. AS usual
/ observed that the very prettest girl in
the place didn't spread herself at all in
the matter of changing her costume three
or four times a day. but went around in
pretty $1.9S shirt waists and fresh looking
pique skirts morning and evening, and had
most Of the impressionable youths on the
verge of suicide, at that.
THE 1885 with which I started for the
seashore disappeared pretty quickly" con-
cluded the man with the peeled nose, but
look at the things l saw