The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-20
WATERING PLACES.
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hour by day and night that everything could be enjoyed in tfe English rather than the American type of weather. On the south coast, yet no heat that even approached the sweltering condi- tions of a hot day at Long Branch or Marthas Vinyard Eighty in the shade exceptionally high, never any thing but cool nights, and never in the daytime any temperature that was op- pressive or which any visitor from America would think other than de-
 lightfully all right,
 One is impressed even at the seaside with the devotion of the English to sports and amusments. Daily as the tide receded, leaving its unusual length | of almost level sand, would the boys go out and pitch wickets for little at tempt at the national game. Every
 English boy loves cricket, and every
 English old man who began life aL, a
 boy still loves this game iri his old age, In match the other day between neighboring corporations one of the players was eightytWo. There are
 many who say that the South African
 war would have been ended long ere
 this only for the tendency of English officers to sacrifice war to sport More than once the Boers have surprised them in the indulgence of this national weakness with the most serious con-
 sequences. They were not caught mapping" they were caught playing cricket. But it's glorious game for those who have plenty of leisure, as these holiday-loving Englishmen seem always to have. Between cricket and
 baseball the difference in time Is the difference between two or three hours and two or three days, and-isn't that,
 when you come to think of it, about the difference in quickness and adaptability between the two nations which seve- rally have made cricket and baseball their national games But I advise my
 readers not to put this question in just this form to any Englishman
 Of Indoor amusements these English
 watering places afford more than would be possible, more than could obtain paying support, in climate like our | own. The roof garden is a form of the
 American invasion which hasn't yet materialized. In London the amuse-
 ment halls are no better ventilated in
 summer than in winter, and it's the
 same even at the watering places. The
 pier pavilion is only fancy name for
 a room about as close as they make them, and the entertainment 1t offers is
 more endurable than it would be in l city only because between acts you can go outside and get the sea breezes.
 But two theaters open every night and with their reproductions of popular ] London plays drawing a good patron
 age, is rather unusual, one would think, and I thought 1t decidedly unusual that l a place no larger than this should one | evening have yielded it's quota of. pat
 rons to two theaters, and should then l have had left the thousand or more
 who attended beautiful outdoor pro- duction of the Midsummer Nights Dream"
 But the real, ever-continuing amuse-
 ment of this English watering place Is
 to be found on what is called the Pa
 rade, smooth concrete walk, about 40
 feet in width slightly elevated and
 bordering on the sea. The English are
 still great walkers A Cambridge don 1 thought nothing of doing his ten miles l in the morning. Tn thlS LeaI ne uSudiiy
 footed 1t from our quieter resort to pig,
 bustling, beautiful Brighton; some
 times, too he would walk all the way
 back, making his ordinary ten the rare
 English treat of a twenty-mile jaunt.
 The climate makes walking delight.
 The average Englishman's notion of a
 good time is to have good walk, and
 this used to be true of English woman,
 but in these days the fashions in dress
 are a decided handicap on feminine pc destrianism. The tendency here isn't
 at all toward short skirts and plain street dress but the opposite. Trailing
 skirts which must be held up if they
 are not to serve as street sweepers;
 soft, clinging materials which serve ad-
 mirable to reveal the form but do not