Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-13
SEEN ON THE BEACH

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| 1.-THE show-off girls have already begun
their seashote campaign" said a Washing
ton woman Just returned from Atlantic
| City 1T has been much warmer ON the
| coast than in: the interior since the middle
| Of May. and the bathing season began I'M
| usually early at Atlantic. The women
| who are fond Of attracting attention to
themselves have in consequence already
| started their efforts to get pictures of their
bizarre selves in the newspapers that go
| IN for that sort of illustrating. There Is q
vaudeville actress. for instances polite
sketch artist: as 1 believe they're called
who has so early in the season become one
OF the 'cynosnrea of all eyes. as the seaside
| correspondents express it. This vaudeville
woman. who has the mature physical SPLEEN
| dor of thirty-fye and handsome face. ar
| rays herself for bathing in suit OF the
| Whltest and sheerest silk. bound with GRIM
son silk braid: Her stockings are OF reu
silk. She wears sandals. the cross-ribbons
| OF which are of white silk. Perching on
| her fine suit of jet black hair Is a white
| rubber Tam O'Shanter Her bathing tunic
| is sleeveless. and her arms are superb. Like
| the girl in the old song. she never goes near
| the Water-Or very near 1t. at any rate--Dut
| that sort of abstention is SO common down
| at Atlantic among pretty women with str1k-
| ing bathing suits that it in itself attracts
| no notice any more. Instead Of going into
! the surf. however. this vaudeville woman
| rides. manwise for an hour so every
| bright, sunny morning. up and down the
| beach. a fine saddle horse that she took
| down to Atlantic with her for these strand
| constitutionals. She just walks the horse
| up and down, keeping the animal at
proper distance from the people seated on
the sand. and she looks serenely uncon-
! Sc1ous of the stares that are leveled at her
all up and down the line. When she has
done enough of this jogging she turns
| the horse over to a male servant who is in
|
| she crosses the board walk. steps into her
| private coupe that is also in waiting. and is
| Whirled Off She hasn't even dampened the
soles of her sandals yet. am told.
Then there are couple of pretty blonde
| girls. sisters, who get themselves up in
| bathing dresses of vivid yellow silk, With
| all the rest of it. The only touch Of any
| other color in their makeup is the bright
| green bow which each wears in her f1ossy
! faxen hair. Irishmen on the board walk
| and on the beach,. while expressing their
admiration Of the splendid physical confor-
I nation OF the young women, view with an
| aslant gaze this mating of the green and
l the yellow. These sisters drive ON the
! beach. at the bathing hour every day in
| double-seated trap of a bright yellow hue
and pulled by a pair of small white q m
| keys rugged out in russell harness. to which
many little tinkltng bells are attached Ihe
| girls conduct themselves with great PRO-
| priety, although when they first arrived TN
| the beach in their trap they sent the dom
| keys along at a lckety-split clip which
| caused them to be warned against fast
| driving the sand They. too, seem to re-
I gard the water as something merely to be
i looked at. for they hadn't wetted tnem-
selves in the sea up to the time l came
away.
| Another pair of young women who are
! gaZed at on the beach by thousands every
| time they appear are the Two Little Girls
| in Green That's what they've been called
| by the board walkers and the sand fappers
| ever since they made their appearance on
the strand early this month. But they are
far from being little girls They are strap
| ping, handsomes young women, both OF
| them. They are twins and dark. Their
/ bathing dresses, like the girls themselves,
/ are exactly alike. They are of dark green
/ mohair. The skirts are exceedingly short.
! The twins go stockingless and wear san
dals, the ribbons of which are of the same
| color as their SUITS. cross their legs many
/ times and are tied in stable knots at the
knees Their black hair is unconfined and
| hangs below their waists Their arms are
| bare to the shoulders, and each arm
/ they wear heavy bands, about an inch
wide. of dull gold and below these their
| left arms slender circlets of gold ter
| minating in serpents' heads with emerald
| eyes. They are as striking-looking a pair
| of young women as have cavorted down
| near theSeawaters in a good many years.
| Trustworthy witnesses affirm that the twins
| have been seen to moisten their sandals in
| all Of six inches of water. but the ordi-
| nary run of strallers declare that they
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| verge since they first appeared
| Then there Is Boadicea on a bike
| whose little stunt on her wheel Is watched
| for every morning by a large party of
| loungers- She. Is trick bicyclist at the
| vaudeville houses during the season Shs
! is a tall, slender girl, not much above
| twenty, with about red a head of hair
| as was ever seen out of poster She lets
| this hair stream loose to the sea zephyrs
as she rides up and down the beach on her
| wheel, doing extraordinarily difficult tricks
as she progresses. They call her .Zaza
| Locks along the route, and she receives
| applause at the conclusion of each stunt
| to which she pays attention. To her
I friends she dfsclaims the suggestion thse
| she is seeking nOtoriety, and says that she
| needs the daily practice, even while rest
| ing. to keep herself limbered up
| THE cosmopolitan crowd of bathers in
| the Atlantic City surge will not tolerate
| the bathing girl who puts on lugs,' as
| walks haughtily TO the verge with a maid
| tagging after her. and who when she
| reaches the water suddenly unclasps the
| long robe covering her bathing dress
| losses it to the maid, and then stands in
| an every -a-picture pose before STEP
| ping into the water. Several girls with
| maids and the other accessories tried this
| theatrical little act when the bathing first
| began this year. and they were all more or
| less gently guyed by the lockers on. AS
| matter of fact, don't suppose there is
! place in the country where one has a
| smaller chance to be naughty and get
away with it. as my husband SAYS than
| in Atlantic City, where the crowd is quicker
than In any place / know to openly resent
| and rebuke public snobbishness."