The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-19
TIE EVENING yTOR r
seashore Experiences.

SedshOre Experiences
The girl with the sunburned nose
was unpacking her trunk.
There isn't single. solitary thing
own that's fit to wear!" she an
ncunced, bitterly, as she wadded a
limp organdie dress into a ball and
threw it across the room.
But just think-you were month
at the SeaShorcH demonstrated the
young woman who still owned a COM
The girl who was sunburned growled
polite but unmistakable growl and
began to say things.
.seashore." she echoed. "You can
take your seashore and-and cut it UP
/ into A B c blocks for all me! Some
| time the girls of this fair land are go
| ing to rise and mob all these artists
and storytellers who fill the maya
zines and summer novels with alluring
dreams about ocean abreezes.
suppose you have seen cover
designs, haven't you, of 1.-the young
woman at the tiller of a con1ic-opera
sail boat, with an adoring youth do
| ing nothing apparently but gaze madly
at her and letting the sail flap danger
ously at its own sweet will !? Or may
be she was standing on a. rocky head
| land, her clear eyes gazing calmly in
to the sun, the breeze carefully drap-
ing her skirts in Venus de Milo fash
ion and kindly permitting her hair
me tell you, it's all a deIusioni
Il yearned to look like the perennial
sailboat lady, myself, and when the
handsomest man at the shore took me
Tout in his boat 1 had the idea that I
was going to make the hit of my Ifei
There is nothing on earth so clammy
and sticky as sea air unless it is mucil-
age. In five minutes my pompadour
was fiat as a pancake and struggling
into my eyes. My fresh, trim, tailored
shirt waist chung to me in a discour-
aged, 39-cent way And, oh, how the
lovely ocean breezes blew! They blew
my face to a putty color and my eyes
| to cinders-all red and screwed shut
and took away my breath!
Did the man sit artistically draped
against the sail and admire me? He
did not. Occasionally he would s1aou'
out as he fumbled at a new bunch OF
ropes, Isn't this great? or some idiocy
like that. He actually seemed to enjoy
it. He objected vigorously to my steer
ing the boat into sandbar, but my
eyes were full of sailed hair and how
could I see?
when we landed did not linger t.
gaze into his eyes and tell him I'd never
enjoyed anything so much before in al
. my life-I just fled for shelter in thu
despairing hone that he'd forget NOR,
quickly how awful I looked If 1 go
, out of his sight without delay
1T must have been disappointment
to you," observed the girl whose com
1T was. Those magazines covers
, had always received trustingly up t
that time. 1t was worse when / trie
; the rocky headland pose. He was sue
) nice man, too! BY good rights. as
: stood there triumphantly facing tina
everlasting wind like a young goddess
in the best style of the summer move
he should have taken my hand in III
, strong clasp and murmured deepl!
'Genevieve-it is fatei I love you!' Q
something like that. He didn't take hi
cue at all.
I'm the first place the surf was pound
ing SO that he had to roar to be heard
| In the next place, just as he was howl
: baked beans for supper, my skirt;
which were whipping madly, instead c
acting as do the girls skirts in the sum
} mer story, wrapped around his knees
gyrations by tumbling down the rock
to the sand. He tumbled out of my lif
{ right there, too, for after that he los
: inter est in me. / suppose no man coul
ruin a beautiful suit of white flannel
as he did without mental reaction {
; some sort, so I didn't blame him.
But the ocean bathing" put in he
friend, anxiously. Wasn't that recon
: pense for all the rest2"
II The sunburned girl dived head frs
I into her trunk to conceal the dept
of her anguish. eff l ever lay m
: hands on the people who draw pic
lures OF InOSe STdc0Iul IdlrleS WI
5 come out of the water looking lik
fashion plates, with golden curls cius
: tering about their fair young face:
I'll make them pay for their sins!
2 she said, wrathfully. And I actual
" read one story in which the her
2 fell in love with a girl at resort VIII
s was half her time in the water an
always swan around with her I'm
e bound hair floating free on tn
E. waves! She must have been a nict
. enhancing, soppy, spcngy young crea
I turel
Z eff there was anything in the lin
L of seashore belle that was better cal
culated to draw expressions of pit
from a stone wall than myself whe
lid come out of the ocean foam /
want to be spared seeing it, An
: girl who can look like a conbinatio
: of mermaid and stage beauty whe
a water drips from satuarate solutio
+ of bathing suit and when her head
done up tightly in a rubber turbar
/. leaving her face like a full moo
4 Islightly overdone, deserves recogni
a ton from the Humane society,"!
'Wen I declarel'' mourned the gil
v with the complexion. tThen Their
d seems to be nothing good about tn
: seashore!
e yes, there ISL contradicted tn
sunburned girl dragging out som
e more limp finery. TITS mighty goo
e to get away from it and be where tn
; air is respectfully dried outT-Chica
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