Evening journal., 1915-07-15
Girls, SWimmin's Fine! Have You
Had Your Dip in Brandywine Poo? ?
By GENE BROWN.

than 100 girls are forced to dress in
72 bath houses.
In spite of the rubber caps, the girls
find it Impossible to keep their hair
from getting wet The result is that
when they come out of the pool the
! majority of them stand around on the
stone coping surrounding the pool
and brisky and energetically rub their
heads dry; that is, as ury as they
can.
Then comes the fund about the hair
pins, barettes, side comDs. etc, which
are lost by the scores, droves and bat
/ talions Never since Madame Eve
started losing hair pins in the Gar
den of Eden have as many hair pins
been lost. Enough, il is estimated, 50
clean all the pipes of all the broth
ers, fathers and non-brothers in the
world It is a cheerful and happy
go-lucky crowd. however. despite
these small drawbacks and nothing
less than a German bomb would ever
make them other than jolly and good
natured
blondes Add 10 Gaiety.
"Say, Sue, wait for me ! won't be
a minute" yells one blonde sticking
/ her head out OF the bath house door
which almost Immediately bangs to
as she withdraws it.
well, hurry up then" answered a
small piQuant brunette standing by
the entrance door.
Say. Madge. lend me your comb
for minute forgot to bring nine.
yells another from one of the further
most bath houses.
For goodness sake. Mildred come
on. You're worse than molasses in
! February" is the happy remark of
still another one opening one of the
bath house doors and speaking in
emphasis to ? shadowy figure within
who is busy putting finishing touches
to her hair.
And the looking glass; No Brandy
wine swimming pool story would be
complete without special mention of
ithe looking glass. There is only one
looking glass in the whole place and
needless TO say il is very much
icverworked piece of furniture q SUD-
pose looking glasses are rated as
pieces Of furniture, though I am not
quite sure of it) I only know that
that one poor, lone looking glass that
graces one of the walls Of the Bran
! DIVINE swimming pool is treated ey-
actly Ike country people are. by their
city friends in summer. Il is con
stantly besieged. And It apparently
matters not at all that it is cracked
and that It gives the one who looks
therein a weird, gnome-lil;e appear
ance.
Heavens above" said one tall.
striking looking brunette as she
stood before the lone glass the other
night and busted some powder over
her piquant little nose. Il look like
an alligator or almost anything else
but what I am when I look at myself
IN this looking glass I am sure I
can't understand how il is that George
loves me if I always look like this"
"Umph," said another. sweetlv
while she frantically tried to dry her
heavy auburn hair with a turkish tow.
el. Well you know 1--we is blind
so maybe Door George can't see.
Laughter all around.
Well, I'd just like 10 know VIII,
cracked this glass" said another.
q large, placid strawberry and whit
blonde. "she surely must have beel
some locker
Well, thank goodness il was done be
fore I ever started coming to tn,
pool" volunteered a chestnut haired
hazel eyed creature as she deftly re
placed some invisible hairpins.
And so the conversation goes. Il
drifts from little personalities and
sood natured iibes at one another Il
vague accounts of outside affairs
Maude Elizabeth. Elsie. Hazel, Es
ther. Louise, Gertrude, Grace all fire.
quent this swimming pool and Mrs
Charles lockwood in charge of the
pool on the girls DAYS is kept busy
helping them find their things anC
trying to answer a million question:
at once. However she declares sh,
loves her work and all the girls who
frequent the poo seem as fond o
Mrs Lockwood who watches ovei
them in q motherly way.
An effort is being made by a mum
ber Of persons to have certain night.
in the week or month as the case ma,
be for party nights" While the sug
gestion has been made to the Parl
Commission that such be granite,
nothing has as yet been done on tn
matter. During party nights both mel
and women will be admitted to thl
pool One was given last year OF
the last night Of the swimming sea
son and it proved a success. Whethe
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