Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-02
THE SEA SHORE TAN.
What Can Be Accomplished in Face
Painting by Old Sol.
Well Know Eachother Better When The Tan
Is Rolled Away"

II see by the paper" said a gentle
man to the Journal scribe. the other
day, that the summer Is about over
and the great army of pleasure seek
ers who have been basking in tho SIM
| light by the sad sea waves are turning
their faces homeward and the van
guard has already arrived.
Il guess my neighbor who has been
! EOrging himself on short Holsters and
CLAIMS down river for the past two
| months is in the vanguard. as he arriy-
ed bag and baggage. Monday night.
| The eXpressman dumped him and his
brood with their goods and chatteis on
: his front door step and he is sight.
When he went away he was the
| only Adonis we had in our section He
| was as pretty as red circus wagon
and looked like painted faced boy
But two months at the sea shore with
Il DelmOnicO diet of CLAIMS three times
j day and a few gentle Zephyrs from
off the briny deep has done him and
: his brood what none of the old mas
tiers could do in lifetime. Even his
clothes seem to have that blest- be- the
tie that binds look to them and they
OF oats in bushel bag.
But his face is where Old Sol has
put in fine work and frescoed him Il
| beautiful mahogany brown. a sort Of a
burnt sienna color with Italian sunset
trimmings. shading into Vermil:on, and
it looks like a big Indian pudding with
two raiSins in it for eyes and shines
like 4 brand new tin milk pan and diff
fuses its rays Of light over the neigh
loihood for miles. Why my rooster saw
that face and croWed all night long
thought il was the sun-and refused to
so to roost. If | had that physiognomy
as Il part and parcel of my personal
property | should consider | had a
I<londilic gold mine. and when the 18th
of February came along ! would let l.
out to a valentine factory for pattern.
And when you come to the nose.
that's a study. sort Of a brown study
as il were and looks like n horn Of
plenty with a crepe paper cover in
varicgated shades and shines like an
incandescent light. And long before
YOU see the owner YOU can feel that he
il approaching by the halo or circle Of
ruby light that the reelection from that
that he has to cover his face with
backing 50 as to sleep nights. And
even then the neighbors want to know
VINO is sick at his house as they see he
keeps a light burning in his chamber
all night.
The whole tribe look as if they were
chocolate coated. And when the street
band anchored in front of his palatial
residence the other night and played
There is a New Coon in Town he felt
shat he Was not altogether neglected
in this cold world.
His wife says that she realizes that
beauty is only skin deep and unless he
sheds his coat pretty soon she proposes
to skin him or send him to the laun-
drv to be blcached. but as to being
yok.d IN to a maroon gentleman all
her DAYS she don't propose to stand it.
But he SAYS the woman that lives in
glass houses must not have bricks Tor
his wife went down to the dry goods
store the other day and asked for
nair Of flesh colored hose and the clerk
promptly threw out a pair of black
ones.
SO il is about six Of one and half
dozen Of the other and if the good peo-
plc IN to church next Sunday morning
Sc. a swell looking pair Of colored peo-
pie that look like cakewalkers coming
into church they win, know who they
arc without the choir singing I'VE
Shall Know Each Other Better When
tho Tan is Rolled Away"