Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-30

body. run out of the water. grab their
respective skirts from the black maid. hop
and then make for their bathing house
They are all pretty. well and amply formed
women. and their little act has come TO be
one of the expected and waited-for fea-
lures of the Kaleidoscope bathing hour.
The dictum of the authorities against the
skirtless bathing suit doesn't apply to them.
for the reason that they are not beach
paraders. The rule against the skirtleSs
bathing dress was framed up for the pur-
pure of forestalling women of the strand
strollirg class who have an aversion for the
taste of sea water
Then there is Boadicea on a bicycle.
whose little stunt on her wheel is also
watched for every morning by some thou
sands of persons She is a trick bicycilst
at the vaudeville houses during the season.
but she is resting down here. so that her
daily free beach show isn't subject to cur
tailment or cutting out by any OF the
board walk theatrical managers.
She Is tall. slender girl. not much above
twenty. with sculptured arms and legs and
about as red head of hair as was ever
seen out of a poster. She let's this hair
stream loose to the sea zephys as she rides
up and down the beach on her wheel. doing
extraordinarily difficult tricks she pro-
crosses
''Zaza Locks and Her Stunts.
They call her "Zaza Locks along the
route, and she gets applause at the conclu-.
pays not the least attention. To her friends
she disclaims the suggestion that she Is
looking for notoriety. and says that she
qures the daily pracce in her business to
keep herself limbered up.
The somewhat democratic crowd Of bath
ers down here don't stand for the bath
ing girl who puts on Jugs as they call 1T
the girl. that is to say, who walks
haughtily to the verge with the maid tag
ging after her. and who. when she reaches
the water suddenly unhooks the long robe
covering her bathing suit. losses it to the
maid and then stands In one of those every
move-a- picture poses. lot of girls with
maids and the other accessories have tried
this eatrtcal little performance down
here. but they were all more or less gently
guyed The word must have gone around
that the Atlantic City bathers view the
naughty. long robed girl with the maid on
the beach as more or less ridiculous. for
none OF them has essayed that limeiight
business for several weeks. The crowds
down here will enjoy looking at all sorts OF
groteSque bathing make-upS on the men,
and the most ultra that's what they call
them-bathing costumes on the women. but
when any OF the girls and boys endeavor to
execute lackadaiscal performances on
them they resort to unanimous and very
efectual "stringing' to express their way
OF viewing such conduct.
A pretty Philadelphia woman was trun-
died up and down the beach in a wheel
barrow the other morning. The man who
furnished the propelling power is a noted
clubman and amateur athlete of New York
an ordinary contraptiOn of its sort, bor-
rowed from one Of the hotels lawn gard
emerson pile of soft cushions. She was.
OF course. in bathing dress. Her robust
legs, fitted out in bright blue silk stockings
with big blue satin bows at the knees dan
gled over the dashboard of the homely We
hicle.
Squatty Policemen.
The squat boardwalk policeman-all the
Atlantic City cops seem to be of the sawed
Off variety-who approached the New York
er and intimated to him that the perform
ance was bit too-er-the policeman strug-
gled to find the right word-was in momen-
tary danger of getting a thrashing at the
Drawny hands of the decidedly well-dined
New Yorker, although he only acting
In accordance with the orders of one of his
superiors on the boardwalk friend OF
the New York man arrived opportunely and
whispered few things to him. whereupon
he trundled his handsome wheelbarrow pas
senger into the sea and there dumped her
to her obvious amusement not to say her
hilarious delight The two padded about
in the water for bit and watched the
wheelbarrOw float out to sea and then they
left the beach They were guyed by all
hands on the sand as they made off
A lot OF the young men and women APP
pear on the beach wearing tiny japanese
rickasha straw hats over the overlapping
kind more Familiarity known as the Fill
Pine lid" by the soldiers returning from the
Philippines. The rickasha hats are toys
sold as souvenirs of Japan on the board
walk They are about two inches in dame
ter from rim to rim and their concal peaks
are about an inch and half high They
look very absurd on top of the young folks
heads and the wearers Of them intensity the
absurdity by bowling and scrapng to one
another and doffing the diminutive rickasha
hats.
not a few Japanese women, engaged In
business on the boardwalk down here. and
they all go In bathing together al spot on
the beach up near Chelsea. The Jap wo-
men wear for bathing kimonas that are not
unlike the ones they wear on the terra firma
of their native land. Atlantic City is pro-
Jap place, and the bathing Japs get big
hand from the boardwalkers every time
they appear. c. L. c..