Evening star., 1909-04-11

and the ensuing cold In the head was
something scan'fous. but what's the use
enough ho-tungs from Pittshurg and
Wheeling and such places IL we can't fol-
low their gay little customs?
Don't even carry our hats In our hands.
you know. Leave them at the hotel. It's
the kink. and that ends 1t. The hatless
menfolks are now wind-browned TO the
color Of highly seasoned briar pipes, but
! that's part OF the answer. That's one of
Don't i have to wait tin the susnmsr time
to get all burnt up, you soc but beat all
hands to 1t by getting the walnut hue
But But i. looks awfully foolish. all the
same. especially when the wind is from
the southeast and the air has got lynx
like bite to every square inch OF atmos-
phere. "They say" that you can't get
sSd when y9urs pnt s
of those old; imbecile ''They says; and
the perfectly cutsst little way to get hron-
chitis. laryngitis. pleurisy. pneumonia
to voluntary or Involuntary exposure il
to believe that punctured They say" and
thereby to neglect taking the same pre-
cautions against exposure that you take
when you're at home.
THE Atlantic City council pulled fine
an ordinance that will effectually tie the
| can to the beach and Boardwalk snap
shootists. The fellows who try to aim
lenses at folks without the folks per-
mission henceforth are going to get
little taste OF Mays Landing for theirs.
and a whole raft OF people who In
previous years have been the victims Of
these professional and amateur lens-
>nSn o,va ha
against the pests.
The professionals. OF course, were the
worst. a good many Of them worked
for manufacturers Of picture post cards.
They'd mooch ana prowl along the beach
| at the height Of the bathing season.
furtively watching for an opportunity 70
catch some bathing woman of her guard
lin q negligent. thoughtless pose. that
| is to say. that would reveal more hosiery
| than Is considered exactly right and
smugfui. as It wair. They'd pull the
| shutter on such a wholly unaware wom-
an. and the next thing she'd know she'd
find that her highly tinctured portrait In
bathing dress. with sone fool or ribald
| legend printed underneath 1t, was being
/ peddled on the Boardwalk at the post
| card Mosques at nickel or dime per
throw. All OF her friends sooner or later
i
her in her very rakish and entirely un-
meant posture In bathing dress. and
thered be no possible way for q woman
thus vtctimized to convince anybody she
knew that she hadn't deliberately and
willingly posed for the post card picture.
In ninety-nine cases out OF q hundred
the manufacturers Of the post cards OF
this sort could rely upon the victimized
woman or her people restraining from
seeking to prosecute them for this sort
Of business. because the publicity in
voived In such proceedings would neces-
sarily be bound to make the matter
worse instead OF better.
| Then. too, the post card snapshootists
couples who. screened by an umbrella or
sand dune or something. would be breath
| ing their vows (or whatever 1t Is that
they breathe) to- the accompaniment Of
em I'm their interesting confectionery
postures, and few days later these
couples would be startled to come upon
their languishing portraits on the ornate
ly daubed post cards.
There have been stories, some OF them
pretty we'll vouched for. too. to the ef-
feet that for the past few summers down
here there has been q class Of biackmail-
ing snapshootists who worked the lens
thing for the lining. of their pockets.
These skulkers would get snapshots Of
beach-lounsing couples who, for one rea-
son or another. weren't morally entitled
to be fooling around the beach together,
and then they'd hash the negatives or
strike-offs of the negatives upon the
concerned couples and the man In the
case would often come through for the
stroyed.
All of this mean sort of thing Is to be
done away with under the new anti.
snapshootists ordinance. which has been
signed by the mayor and already is IN
operation. Cameras are to be barred al
together from Boardwalk and beach, and
there's to be- no exception to the rule. The
tchap who Is trying to get an atmos-
just the same as the snapshooter who is
attempting TO grab out picture Of an
indiscreet beach-lounging couple. Peo-
pie are not to be snapshot while riding