Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

the remarks of your pair ef-er-pos-wai-
lopers are intoierabie?"
"Pct-waiiopersf' gaspea the two women
companions of the bulky youth
rsay, Archie" began the latter sticking
his chin forward and gathering himself to-
getaerr In bunch meant 10 inspire feei-
ing Of robustions fear. what q youse tink
y are, hey. to"
Il" p'acidiy interrupted the young man
who'd got out OF the chair Am the Willie
he-pickle-boat who's going TO give you
q little toss on TO the sand so that you can
cooi out. you big bum!' and with the last
word his right shot forward and the bulky
youth went to the planks as If he'd mad
Vertentiy got In the way of one of those
buzz- buggies racing for the Vanderbilt
cup. Then the young man In the dinner
clothes leaned over. took hold OF the bulky
ones clothes like 'longshoreman man
handling a bag of sute. and. with a slight
bit OF pulling and hauling. deliberately
rolled him underneath the iron rail of the
BOARDWALK. The tough young man fell on
the sticky sand. six or seven feet below at
that point with thud. SEEING which the
TWO females with the su.,erfiuous line Of
conversation went right away from tbera
IN hurry and tie young man got hack
Into the chair and resumed his interrupted
ride with his young woman.
he was one OF the other kind OF rolling
chair riders, although no observer of tht,
incident could have truthfully credited hIn,
with possessing peevish disposition.
Regaining the Lime Light.
The young Ioale OF the period has such
fine counterfeit of the blase manner that
1t Is quite remarkable to see one of them
surprised out of himself as IT We're
But we saw one of them thus surprised
the other forenoon, and out on the heav-
ing bosom of the wine-dark sea, at that
He was rakish dog OF twenty-one or
so, and he wore q parti-hued bathing suit
and red sash stretched with an artfui
lnsn
meant to have a horribly devastating eff
fect upon the young women ranged along
the beach
When he finally got into the water-whicf
ne did after having sauntered up and down
the strand for not more than two hours
and half. exhibiting his Hogarthian
curves TO the multitude-he quickly showed
himself to be a good swimmer.
He swan away out beyond the breaker
line, perceiving, as Ii may be guessed that
the eyes of thousands of persons chiefly
women, on the pers We're glued upon him,
and he did a whole lot of those porpoise
things on the pulsating chest OF the ancient
Neptune.
After while. however. his performances
lost interest for the pier-gazers. and he
noticed that they began to look elsewhere.
Clearly, therefore. it was up to him to
do something to reclaim their interest.
What to do to regain the limeight so TO
speak?
OF a sudden. he bethought him of the
funniest thing, cut-up, tease. hoyden and
quiz that he wasl
He swan over underneath one of the long
piers, and clutching one of the piers, he
let out series of bowls for help
Man drowning screamed the thousands
of women on the pier and the young 'uns
set up a screeching. and the band stopped
playing, and There Were all kinds of
Robbery
Hes hanging onto the pier. but he'll be-
washed of by a wave. sure pop!' yelled
the thousands OF folks in bathing and
walking along the verge.
Punched by Life Guards
The two life guards In the surf boat heard
the cut-up's first howl for help and, in
quick time. they pulled over the heavy
rollers and tossed the big red life buoy
close to the pier to which the humorous
young man chung, in case he might sud
denly be washed loose by comber.
Then, at the risk of having their boat
smashed to flinders against the piles by
the big breakers rolling in under the pier,
the pair of life guards, fully deceived,
pulled over to take the still clinging young
funnyist into the boat with them.
When the life guards looked up from
their pulling, however. they found that the
young man who had been bowling for help
only moment before had the fingers Of
one of his hands TO his nose and pointed
their way, just Is funny could be-
really,
''Gwan back. fellers," gayIy remarked
the young man to the life guards. You're
stung. l was only kiddin'."
That so? said the life guard with the
special officer" badge pinned to his red
bathing shirt. We'll, step into the boat.
any way, hey?" and the cut-up did let
go of the pile and climb into the boat.
only kidding, were your" said the iifo
guard with the badge, when the funnyist
was in the boat Great joke. Fine work.
But you're pinched."
''Pinched?" gasped the tease with the
gay red sash across his loins. Who, me2
Who's pinching me2 What for2'
TN pinchiDg you.' replied the life guard,
for being too entertaining In the water
Bud. You may think that were only
working out here TO sort o. give the beach
a tone and decora tie the breaker line with
a splash of red and a tossing boat, but
amt We're getting wages for seeing to
1t, or trying to see to it. that no more folks
are drowned along this patch of beach than
can be helped-not for being faxed by pin
heads that willing to let other people
drown while we're falling for their phony
drowning gags. Several sensible people
might have got in trouble in the water
while we were being made monkeys of by
you. That's one reason why you're pinch
ed Another one is that you're ass
general principles and need pinching on
those same principles
Then the life guards beached the boat
took the gay youth with the red sash be-
tween them, and turned him over to one OF
the boardwalk cops.
He really did look surprised. And he
looked more surprised, the original
ture when he had to pay $50 in the police
court on the following morning the
charge of taking life guards" or suf-
fer the alternative of spending sixty days
at Mays Landing, where there is one of
the neatest rock and shell piles on the
whole Atlantic coast. c. L. c.