Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-30
Down BY THE SEASIDE
Decorous Censorship Over
Wearing Apparel Of Visitors.
STRIKING FEATURES
ECCENTRICITIES OF MANY PA
IRONS OF THE SURF BATH.
Actresses Who Disport in the Waves
and Pose on the Beach
Atlantic City Life.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Atlantic City Lie.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
ATLANTIC CITY. July 20. 1904.
Up the coast, at Asbury Park and some
other surf-laved points where conservatism
is a jewel that is kept polished. the authori-
ties are endeavoring this year to exercise
a sort of decorous censorship over the bath
ing apparel of the visitors and cottagers.
Young men, gymnasium-swelleda ana enam-
ored of their muscular conformation. are
not allowed to appear on the Asbury Park
beach in those extremely. not to say lhoe-
Gently, frank affairs known as the sleeve
less bathing suits. which are indeed very
much on the vertical G-string plan Inc
young fellows who have bathing SUITS Oh
their own. however, wear hardly anything
else but the sleeveless bathing togs at this
beach cosmopolis. There are no skirtless
bathing suits for women rented cut at the
public bathing suit establishments in At
lantic City, but at the more private parts
Of the long strand. down Chelsea way. the
skirtless bathing suit snugly draping pretty
women Of the naughty cottager species. Is
occasionally seen.
The Atlantic City ruling powers have al
ready announced that the skirtless bathing
woman will not be allowed on the main
beach. But that is as far as their censor
ship of the bathing apparel goes. They have
nOt-as have the Asbury Park powers-for-
hidden the translucent white bathing suit on
women. Consequently. many women. thus
fixed out for the water. are to be seen on
the strand. and, after they have taken their
Initial plunge. some Of them present most
extraordinary picture. of which few OF
Them however. appear to be in the least
conscious. The white bathing suits for wo-
men look many more times more startling.
though. when they are in actual surf serv-
ice. suitable covering of sea-weed were
far more protecting and infinitely less Sug-
geStive.
Two Little Girls in Green.
Many more than the usual number Of wo-
men who go in for the "cynosure of all
eyes" effects are using the Atlantic City
bathing beach this year. First among these
are the Two Little Girls in Green. That is
what they have been called by the board
walkers and the sand-fiappers since they
made their first appearance on the edge Of
the surf more than six weeks ago But
they are far from being little. They are
stra piping. handsome. f1ne-limbed young wo-
men. They are twins. and dark
Their bathing dresses, like the girls them
selves, are exactly alike They are of Nile
green mohair. The skirts exceedingly
short. The twins go stockingless. and wear
sandals, the ribbons OF which are of the
many times and are tied in sizeable knots
at the knees.
The raven hair of the two girls is uncon-
fined and hangs below their waists. Their
arms are bare to the shoulder and on each
arm they wear heavy bands. about an inch
wire of dull gold. and below these, on their
left arms. slender circlets of gold terminal
ing in serpents' heads with emerald eyes
They are as striking a pair OF young
women as have cavorted near these waters
for many years. Trustworthy witnesses
aver that the twins have been seen to
moisten their sandals in all OF four inches
on water. but the ordinary of beach
strollers declare that the twins haven't
been within twenty feet of the seas verge
since they first made their appearance here
The two girls possess an immense amount
of poise. and they don't appear to be in
the least bothered by the attention and
comment they Invariably arouse when they
show up on the sands. They often enjoy
themselves by playing catch with
large green medicine ball" They spend
most Of their bathing time In parading up
and down the strand with their arms about
each others waist. While they don't ap-
pear to mind being stared at, they are
averse to being snapshotted by the hordes
of camera tiends infesting the beach like
sand flies. and they keep a wary eye out
for the kodakers. When they perceive that
they're within range Of a lens they quickly
take to their heels, and none Of the lens
gunners has yet succeeded in catching them.
The Vaudeville Actress,
There is a noted vaudeville actress who
monopolizes a lot Of attention when she
appears on the beach arrayed for bathing
Like the girl in the old song. she never
goes near the water, but that sort of alb
stention Is so common among the pretty
women down here who have striking bath
ing suits that 1t doesn't attract notice any
more.
The vaudeville actress, who has the ma
tured physical spendor Of thirty-five and a
young ana handsome face. arrays herself
In bathing suit of the whitest and sheer
est mohatr, bound with red silk braid Her
stockings are of red silk. She wears high
heeled red leather slippers. a red silk kerchief
confines her singularly black hair and her
arms are bare This actress rides. man
wise. FOR an hour or so on her bathing
mornings. a big white horse up and down
the beach. She just walks the horse up and
down. keeping at a proper distance from
the folks seated on the sand, and she looks
sereneiy unconscious OF the stares that are
leveled at her up and down the line When
she has had enough Of this jogging she
turns the horse over to a man servant who
Is In waiting under the boardwalk, and
then she mounts the steps, crosses the
boardwalk, steps into waiting coupe and
is driven off to her cottage. She hasn't
even moistened the soles of her French
heeled bathing" slippers up to date
A couple of pretty blonde girls sisters
get themselves up in bathing dresses of
vivid yellow silk. with yellow silk stockings,
sandal ribbons. huge yellow bows in their
hair and all the rest of it. The only touch
OF any other color in their makeup Is the
brilliant green sash which they wear about
their waists. Irishmen on the boardwalk
and on the beach. while expressing their
admiration Of the physical conformation Of
the young women. view with an aslant
gaze the mating Of the yellow and the green
These sisters drive on the beach at the
bathing hour every day in a double-seateq
trap OF bright yellow hue, and pulled by
a pair of small white donkeys rugged out In
russell harness. to which many little tink.
ling bells are attached. Both OF the don.
keys wear straw hats. trimmed with green
ribbon OF the same tint as the young wo-
mems bathing dresses. The girls conduc,
themselves with great propriety. although
when they first arrived on the beach in
their trap they sent the donkeys along at a
noketty-split clip. which caused them to be
warned against fast driving on the strand
They. too. seem to regard the sea water as
something merely to be looked at for. they
have not dampened their bathing apparel
in the surf up to the hour of this writing
A Quintet of Actresses.
A quintet of actresses who have a cot
tne xha halls