The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29
Editorial

Ano Bi1AAANu hhsN 'AN 49, - 49,
newspapers Of decollette bathing gowns
and exposed limbs and busts on the
part Of beach ladies would be comical
sometimes II they were not so entirely
false 10 the facts. The sketches seem 10
be made on the theory Of obscene
pictures that are peddled in the tender
lOin districts Of large cities, 10 chow just
~ much Of the busts and limbs Of the
ladies who go into the surf as possible.
The public who read these papers in the
interior and never get 10 the beaches
imagine from the newspaper pictures
that lot Of women running on the (
sands and sporting in the breakers /
would be wonderful revelation. The
fret thing that disappoints them-those
who 20 10 see the displays that the
newspapers and humorous papers ad-
vertise--is that the ladies do not appear
on the seashore bareiooted and bare
legged. They all wear hose and hose
without holes In them, at all the beaches
this writer has ever visited, and anyone
looking for the displays Of nudeness and
indecedent exposures by women on the
American seashore-at least on the
Pacific coast-will not be gratided 10
any demoraliEing extent. Neither are
there any women or maidens languish.
ing about with skirts above their knees
or with low. necked bath chemise. These
displays are all in the newspapers for
the simple reason that old Neptune ia
probably the most moral old fellow in
all his influences that we have any
record Of. In fact, let the most love-
sick couple put on q bathing suit and 90
into the surf and before the water has
curIed up around their knees they are
thinking OF something besides yum
cumming 10 each other or yammering
any spoony-talk whatever. by the time
the fret wave OF suFi has hit
them below the belt they are
great deal more interested
In watching the next breaker
coming than In each other.
IL he has hold OF her she
will feel more like piece OF big rubber
hose thss has been kept In the ice.box
than the warm baby he imagined she
would be In his wis waking dreams.
Both men and women are made honester
and better by sea'bathing and the lib
idinous pictures In the newspapers are
the only bad thing In connection with
life at the seasbore. II would be a
moral gain II every man. woman and
child could get into the surf, OF into the
river in bathing suit once In awhile,
Just 10 SEQ what they look like with
their clothes off. They would realizs
that Rs God made them they are ~
different from what they appear As q
lot Of birds are with their feathers of,
The peacock and eagle are looking
after they are picked than any old hen
II she Is the least bit fat, and there il
many belle or dude of the drawing
room that looks like fifteen cents In :
bathing suit when they come dripping
out Of the brine, where no padding ID
allowable and clothes do not make th'
man or women, where the social shamI
are stripped of and people have tC
stand ON their merit each as an In.
diyidual AZ turned off by the hand o.
the creator. There are no shams pos
sible In the surf, and II matches had 4
be made in the falt water or right aftei
coming out there would be lever deoep
tions pTactioed ON cash other by mer
and women la the name Of marriage.
On land there are more One hgure'
among the ladies but In the embrace oI
the rude and boisterous waves the
llnes oi beauty disappear 10 great OK
tent and men are more beautiful Ia
figure and physical outline. In fact in
battling costumes there is hardly = mar
but looks better and hardly woman
bat looks worse.