The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-14
BETTY IS BACK FROM THE
 SEASHORE AND BURNT, OH, MY!
She Nut Brown MadEvey Person She Meets Has Some suggestion to Make to How the Coat of Tan Might Be Removed-Finally She Has Just Decided to Leave it
 Alone Which Every Sensible Woman Knows is +&e the Only Thing to do
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

I a beautiful skin suggested. Tt is cooling and will take the fever away | Then lettuce poltices were suggested and by this time the poor little creature was almost distracted, and while thd | freckles on her face responded somewhal | to the many treatments, the ones on heI arms fairly grinned through the awful connections she was using. Why don't you let your face and arms alone,' Betty's small brother asked ond day. You look better than you ever did in all your life. Why, you're as sweel now as a Maple Sugar Sundae."
 T guess I'll have to-" said she. "Pvd stood all that's humanly possible for ond girl to stand, and now I'm just to WAITE 1 Which
 Everybody knows is the only sensibl} thing to do in case of that kind. l Mercy! If you could near Betty tell about the queer looking bathing suita she saw while she was away! She declares that they were enough td make even the oldest Sea Dog gasp l She vows that all the daughters of thd Hickory Limb'' were there, and a whold lot of them didn't go near the water either.
 You couldn't blame them,' Betty wal telling me, 'because their bathing suita were built strictly for the dry land low ers.'
 Doesn't it seem queer that some womer can't forget, for even one moment dur, ing the day, how they look? | They can't plunge right in and ento! themselves without the bogey clothes set ting on their shoulders.
 There are lots of them these days wfld delight in coming out of their daily plungd l in costumes, actual "costumes," whicl are as far removed from the practica. bathing suit as the Cook Lady's ginghan apron is from Milady's breakfast cap.
 Betty gives wonderful accounts of this type of feminine beauty that she noticed particularly at Atlantic City-the greates seashore resort of them all. 1 There was one lady who delighted he beyond words.
 "She appeared on the beach one day ii a black satin bathing suit" Betty rel lated, 'and with it she wore black satii cape that covered her almost entirely. Il was embroidered in the most gorgeoul Dragon Fies and Water Lilies in natural colors, and the Capuchin hood was line' with pale blue satin. The cape was takel by the lady's Maid as she stepped int the surf, and was there waiting for hel i when she came back. I
 "The sight of such art" I suggested | WOulu certalnly ulScOuTdBe any req Mermaid. don't you think?"
 "Of course don't frown down on in novation," was the answer, but 1t doe seem to me that all that sort of thinl takes away the pleasure of surf bathing do think the cape ideal a good one however, because a woman does loo hideous when she comes out of the water and many of the capes I saw were mad of crash, in the old fashioned Dolma I style. They are practical, as we'll al not bad to look at, and I got in the swim so to speak, and bought one, just as 500 as could find one"
 Surf bathing, let me tell you, has be come an art at least in the dress line, said Betty in conclusion. "and in spite O the fair Lillian Russell's objections to tn brevity of the skirts and her appeal t have the class of bathers elected fror Atlantic City, they still remain with skirt shorter than ever. In fact
 "'The rift in the lute,
 And the rift in the Flute,
 Can't compare with the rift
 In the swift bathing suit.! !"