Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-07
BEACH OR BOARDWALK
Sights That Defy All Human
Guess or Reason.
KNOWS KIND OF HIT TO MAKE
Up-to-Date Millinery Of Maid by the
Sea.
PARADE ON SHORE AND PIERS
How the Latest Trick Is Worked by
the Doing Best They
Can Bunch.
KNOWS KIND OF HIT TO MAKE
PARADE ON SHORE AND PIERS
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondents of The Star.
| ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. July 9, 1906.
/ Girls. get your hair dried while you wait.
1t costs only two Bits
| This churnmy sign confronts the women
| emerging from the wine-dark sea, all a-drip,
| at a number Of points along the board
| walk. A good many OF them cheerfuliy sur
| render the two bits |. e., quarter, 10
have the hair-drying job done by meehan-
ical device. The girl with the sea-wet hair
| is pumped into chair in tiny room. into
/! which swift currents OF hot air are pump
| ed-as IL the average Atlantic City girl
| doesn't get enough of that particular brand
/ Of ether without having to pay for 1t. AS
II enters the small room the hot air In
grabbed UP by number Of revolving cleo
| trio fans which play upon the moist. hair
with great force. the while an animated
young woman with all OF the beach gossip
at her tongues end twiddles and Sits the
hair through her fingers to separate the
strands. The hair is dried in about Ave
minutes IL the woman owning 1t waits"
that long. but she generally develops. about
| half an hour later. smiling cold in the
] head that is quite likely to keep her nose
| In a state of chronic and unpoetic redness
| for a good month, If not longer. Hot air,
| after all. is only good for EN- in the doses
| and in the manner usually prescribed. and
| the kind that is good for them doesn't aid
| much In drying their hair after their sea
| baths.
| Wise Summer Girls.
| The real foxy summer girl doesn't patron
| lie the mechanical method of hair-drying.
| She knows the kind OF hit to be made.
especially if her hair is long and inviting
in hue and of a slightly natural waviness,
| by sitting on her little knoll of sand. toss
| ing her locks like a sea sprite or an oceani-
| dae weaving the little stubborn punches
| through her weil-manicured flngers-she
| sees to it that they are welt-manicurcd for
| this purpose-and pretending that she does
| not know there Is a mortal living soul
| paying her SO much as the tribute of
! corner-of-the-eye glance. Other deeply wise
| summer girls plant themselves IN winde"
| of their hotel room, preferably S- aSndow
looking on the court. to allow the vagrom
breezes to toy with their tumbling tresscs
| during the drying operation, thus driving
| sedate and demure young male persons sta
| toned in other rooms on the court to
| state Of chaste curiosity bordering On fren-
| zy-for this kind of a girl rarely shows any
| thing but the back Of her head. and all
hands are given q chance to guess as to
| what her features look like. Bets OF con-
| siderable proportions have been known 10
| be made as to whether one of these hair
| drying girls, on turning around at the finish
/ of the hair-drying stunt. would reveal her-
| self the possessor OF straight or an up
| turned nose, and wagers not to be sneezed
| at have been laid by gazers from other
| windows as to whether she had any frecklss
| on her nose that would be plainly visible
across the breadth Of a sixty-feot court
| At any rate. the girl who dries her nalr
| the old way has got more than snaoe on
the one who resorts TO the mechanical Aie.n-
| cd even leaving aside any consideration
| of the cold in the head to which the latter
| Ia almost bound to succumb-and even the
prettiest Atlantic City girl, or the prettiest
lotNA tc NOT "a
| " to be improved either In looks or dispo-
sition by the kind of cold In the head that
| rets in its work on folks living close to
| the
Rainbow-Colored Wells.
The girls on the boardwalk are doing all
sorts of things with those hair-holding wells
this year. Some Of them are not content
| with one or even two OF these wispy al
| fairs-they wear three and even four OF
them. And the colors are not any brighter
| than those of the rainbow. for they are just
| the rainbow colors themselves. They bunch
| these thanksgiving wells around their locks
any old and every which way-tie the ends
of them in little knots under an ear or
something to one side of the chin, or at
| the nape of the neck; but the effect Is
| In any case equally destructive OF the COM
posture and peace of mind of the adoring
young chaps walking with the wearers OF
| the Joseph's coat wells. Quite often sud
| den gust OF vino Will uUtOOHtH oiie Va iHS
| wells and lift it in the air like kite
| streamer, and the spectacle of agile young
| men pursuing these swirlng wells for their
women folks Is one of the ordinary nightly
manifestations on the board parade 1t Is
| observed that when a young fellow does
rescue one of the flying wells he hrmly
| declines to surrender 1t to the girl, out
sticks 1t into his pocket as trophy. This
urismastic veil habit Is undeniably chic.
Not only that 1t must make for a tremen-
dous saving in hats Come to think OF IL,
we observed Washington milliner of prom
inence looking quite discomposed and sour,
SO to speak on the boardwalk the other
evening Maybe her feelings were being
wrought upon because so few OF the ire
mendous number of women on the plank pa
rade were wearing hats. In fact, we heard
her mutter something about something be-
ing perfectly ridiculous" and 1t must have
been that The fact remains that most of
the feminine folk only wear their strolling
hats on the boardwalk during the hours
when the sun Is streaming down, and go
hatless. but gauze-veiled In all the hues of
Kaleidoscope, at night. In truth, the
heads of some of them look like those heaps
of yarthued salt water taffy piled up all
along the boardwalk, and we consider this
very ingenious and very handsome COM
parison, fair alike to the taffy and to the
veil-wearing girls.
Swish Sticks or Fans.
Recognizing the hopelessness of trying to
write anything about Atlantic City without
always and ever recurring to the girls, we
invite attention to the fact that large num-
bers of them carrying swish sticks
those abbreviated canes. generally silver
headed that the real gay boys have been
toting around within them during the past
few months. The girls who have mastered
this swish-stick business can do just about
as much with one OF sthem as the old
fashioned girl could do with fan One of
its purposes seems to be to tap the young
man slight tap on the cheek when he
evinces disposition to become sentiment
tai. The girl who 'unconsciousty'' pos
sesses fine dinple or two has wholly
involuntary way. when she Is seated at a
band concert on a pier, for example, of
holding the swish stick so that the ferrule
thereof points to the dimple, just like the
hand OF a clock marking the hour We
even saw young woman employing the
ferrule of her swish stick as tool where
with to extract the cherry at the bottom
of her glass of-ye-es. It probably was lem
enade. making due allowance for the some
what dark appearance of the water down
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