Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30
ExUBERANcE OF ATHLETES
Getting the Young 'un Used to the
Water.
SKYLARKING YOUTH AND MAID
Mired Hippo In Shallow Water
Giving the Dry Bath eag-Thin
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cream-colored Silk.
Special Correspondents. Of m. star.

ATLANTIC CITY. June o. 1906
The same old types of sea bathers are go
ing into the brine every day. and q few
new ones
The scuf1ing young fellers who shed sand
all over you while they engage In horseplay
a couple OF inches from the spot you have
blocked out to take sun bath are on hand
OF course. They've got the whole Atlantic
strand. from Labrador to Palm Beach. on
which to try each other out at catch-as-
catch:can wrestling. but no; they are just
naturally bound to have 1t as close to your
little spot as they can possibly get without
stepping rudely on your ear. and there are
moments when. In the exuberance of their
delight they don't mind doing that. When
one of them manages. by the employment
OF knack or the exercise of great strength,
to hurl his wrestling partner. an inert and
crushing lump, right on top OF you. the en-
joyment OF the bunch of scufling young
feliers seems to be considerably aug
mented. When they're not wrestling,
accompanying their wrestling with loud.
hoarse cries out of their threats, Ike
flock OF overweight sea gulls, they're
racing up and down the verge. SO adjusting
their course that they have to jump over
your reclining figure. In doing, which. of
course they drop enough sand In your
eyes to give your orbs bloodshot and
dissipated appearance fer couple of
days. When these little pastimes wear out
on them, they start a game Of leap frog,
and 1T invariably happens that you're In
the line OF progression, SO that you've got
to move elsewhere or be landed upon by
large and unfeeling feet.
Vindictive Sea Nettle.
The scuffiing young fellers also play
ketch with rubber ball out In the water.
When. In the progress of this little game,
one OF them hits you a dazzling crack in
the eye with the rubber ball. causing you
to believe that large and vindictive
nettle has marked you for his own, the
acute delight Of the scuffling young fell
lers Is not to be described in mere words.
But the scuff1ing young sea-bathing fell
Ter probably always was and always Will
be- He Is not to be tagged or downed. He
Is an institution, like so many of the other
isurf-bathing types.
Angular Male Parent
The raw-boned, grinning angular male
parent of two-year-old baby who takes
the Historically shrieking young 'un into
the foaming pillows with him has made an
early start this year, as usual. Dozens OF
specimens of his kind are to be seen along
the strand every day. The bowls Of the
tortured young one only elicit loud, rau-
cous laughter from the fond parent For
some 3reason.or other he imagines that he's
the hit Of the beach, and the louder the
Kid bellows the more pointedly does the
imbecile male parent glance around for
the spontaneous applause of the bathers
and beach loungers. When, with the bawl-
Ing young one a-straddie of his shoulders,
he wades out to a point where a huge
combing wave, just about to break, fills the
mind Of the scared child with apprehen-
sive agony, the grinning parent appears to be
just about having the fun of his life. When
the wave passes, and. in passing. deposits
about pint and a half of salt water in the
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crying mouth, the father OF the suffering
tyke Is 30 over5oyed that he just has to
hold his sides to contain his laughter.
He imagines that because all OF the
batherS In his neighborhood are looking at
him they are filled with admiration over his
fine sense of the ridiculous, and this causes
him to go through the performance a num-
Der of times. till the young one is so nearly
drowned that 1t can't even continue to
yell. When the baby becomes pallid. blue
Tipped and languid with utter fear and
WEAKNESS, the funny father sometimes
takes In out on to the beach and gives 1t
little rest. Then he Is pretty likely to go
through the whole program with the baby
again a few minutes later. 1t is doped out
by students of this sort of thing that the
funny parents idea in subjecting his Of
spring to torture of this character is TO
get the young I'm used to the water and
make him like It." However there are
thousands of grown men, unable to swim
and all hating all sorts of open bathing
distaste for the water and the fact that
they've never mastered the useful art of
swimming to the gIeeful enthusiasm OF
their daddies IN trying to teach EN- when
they were hardly out of long clothes.
The Usual Beach Che-ild.
The dear little beach play ing che-id who
empties toy shovelful of wet. .seavy sand
into your eyes as you lie stretched out, try
ing to get your coat of tan. Is on the
strand, too, as usual. The sweet little
thing just toddlies along to where you re-
cline. pours the sand into your mouth and
eyes, dances around delightedly, saying
something like 'Da Da" or 'Gluggy" or
'Ubbsy'' or '.Wugg," and then you're sup
posed to sit UP and smile pleasantly while
you shake the sand out of your facial crew
Ice and interstices. The mother. who
sits q little distance away in her bath
ing suit, then calls out to the infant:
Come. sweetie, 90 mustn't bozzer the big
man., whereupon the young 'un exhibits
its perfect sense of obedience by whacking
you playfully over the nose with the
shovel, and then It's up to you to smile
agreeably again, so as TO please the
mother, and act in general as If nothing
In life delighted you more than to be
you get UP and walk a long, long dis
lance down the strand and away from
there, going slowly, however so as not
to hurt the feelings of the mother and
you were just about to make move
anyhow.
Engaging Smiles on Tap.
The rudy. rugged, red-haired young
butchers apprentice who considers II hum
orous, when you are standing out In the
water, thinking vaguely of money and :.
things, to dive and then come up under
meath you, thereby causing you to believe
that you've been especially picked out
as good thing by man-eatlng shark
he's here too, as usual. You are sup
posed to stake this one, too, to your most
engaging smile when you come to the
surface again and shake the water out
of your eyes.
It's your cue to smile amiably, again
when. your way into the water,
couple OF roilicking youths. whose occupa-
ton, up in Philadelphia. is that OF moving
pianos. scoop water all over you Just to
get you used to the feel of 1t. You may have
a certain prediction for going into the
sea by gradual stages. as being better
suited to your system. but these skylarking |
youths don't know nothing about no pre- |
elections. and splashed you are. good and |
plenty. 1t must be said for them how
ever that they are wholly impartial in |
their spiashing OF folks. They dash sud |
den hand-scooped streams into the faces