Evening star., 1909-04-25
ATLANTIC CITY.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

| Special Correspondence Of The Star.
| ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. April "a. 1909
| The warm days Of this week have seen
the crowd which has hitherto kept pretty
closely to the Boardwalk gradually drift
ing down on to the sunny beaches. and
Atlantic City has quite summery air.
Groups Of relocated children are dig
ging robbers caves in the sand and
making wonderful cranberry pies" in tin
pals. with cross pieces of strips Of pa
per. Along the edge of the surf are
horseback riders. madly racing up and
| down the long stretch Of coast on COW
ponies that will not have a chance to get
| fat this SUMMER
| If you have your own riding dress with
you 1t is great fun. but friend OF mine
| was rather dismayed when she rem ed
one to find she was expected to get out
| Of her clothes and into the divided riding
skirt with no other protection from the
public gaze than the shadow Of the pier.
Nevertheless the horseback riding is on
| The increase in this city. and yesterday
was SO warm that I saw two young ladies
who had discarded hats and their cloth
riding habits for kahki skirts and white
| blouses.
| I have come to the conclusion that the
American woman needs to practice the
| proper way to enter hotel dining room.
/
ners. There is the peacock teeter down
the aisle, necesstated by the narrow
skirt and long, dragging. heavily weighted
train OF my lady of extreme mode One
Of this sort fioated into the dining room room
Of a beach-front hotel with golden lilies
in her hair and pre-Raphaelite languor
| that was killing.
Then there Is the llttle-traveled wife of
the successful moneyed man, who has
STAYED home and saved for him until he
1 hoS fortune
| tates In his big wake at the dining-roon,
door. She alternately trots. skins and
seuttles shamefacedly into her seat. with
elbows positively stiff with fright.
| The third kind of girl Is the sort that
foreign writer's are given to describing as
1.-The American young person" She is
| beautifully dressed and pretty. carries her
chin in the air. and strides down the
aisle with swinging arms. just to show
| that nothing can frighten her.
Here are three cheers from the Dolly
| Warden sort of girl with the little waist
and curves. For not only do the fashion
ions will be revived, but 1 actually saw.
at the Hotel Chelsea, a girl in a pale
rose silk, made with the suggestion of
panniers! For the small girls with curves
it Is to laugh! No more slim bean poles
Of girls with slat-like figures, but dainty
Watteau maidens. who will not need the
pictured shepherds crook tied with blue
ribbons to attach recreant man!
But at present We must endure some
ugly fashions; for instance, the two-inch
long jet earrings that dangle barbarically
against madame's fair neck. Away with
them. they add years to any woman.
While we are being frivolous and talk
ing fashions. have you seen the latest
Inconsistency of gray felt riding hat
with pink chiffon band about It? And
the patent leather hats lined with red
straw? But away with fashion. Let us
60 down to the inlet and watch the
yachts and go aboard IL you feel like
It, The really enjoyable way to spend
the time at Atlantic City is not doing the
peacock teeter In hotel dining rooms,
| but on the water, or in the water. Or.
| If it is too cold yet. take rolling chair
| with the incest girl in the world and
| trundle way down Ventnor way, where
| the ocean washes under the Boardwalk.
and people and things are far away.
| The Marlborough -Blenheim has been
entertaining some distinguished visitors
| this week. The Russian ambassador to
the United States. Baron Rosen. with
/ the first secretary Of the embassy. Prince
Koudachen. has been enjoying the
| spectacle OF the great cosmopolitan re-
| sort. while Lady Hickson and j. A.
| Hickson OF Ottawa, Canada, are only a
| small representation OF the many nota-
| BILE Canadians at the shore this season.
| From New York are District Attorney
Jerome and Judge Davey iof the supreme
court. A ruddy-faced group of golf en-
thusiasts was seen In the dining room
Of the Marlborough-Bl -Blenheim. They were
III. NJ. Adams of Glencove. L. l.; Her
bert Cockshaw Of New York. George P.