The Washington herald., 1917-07-15
JAIL FAIR BATHERS
At ATLANTIC CITY
Suits Are Too Scant to Meet Re-
quirements at Seashore.
BY JANE HILL.
BY JANE HILL.
Special to The Washington Herald.


Special to The Washington Herald.
Atlantic City, n. j., June 14.-Atlan-
tic City celebrated Bastils Day with
the TTicolors Of France floating from
most of the cottages and hotels, and
the Great Wooden Way draped with
French bunting. Bathing girls wore
French caps, fashioned after the head
gear of Joan of Arc, and all the Or
chestras in the city featured French
music. Whenever the "Aarseilles"
was played. people rose to their feet,
giving the national hymn Of the French
republic as much homage as our own
Star Spangled Banner" July II. so
dear to the heart Of all Frenchmen,
was observed almost as reYerently
down here in this city-by-the-sea as
'July T.
Before long. the entire Boardwalk
will be placed on the bias. The city
authorities reached this decision after
noting the success of the new deck
ing at the foot OF st. James place,
where the boards are laid diaSonally.
Visitors have commented favorably on
the comfort of the new block, where
there are no wide creyices to catch
the heel. and no rounded edges of
boards to give pedestrians board
walk feet"
Boardwalk Is Costly.
Keeping the Boardwalk in repair
is one OF the most costly items in
the city budget. For a long while
the resort considered the employment
of some substitute for the plank way,
as lumber is growing scarCer and
more costly, but the diagonal plank
ing practically solves the problem.
for the "life" of this form of timber
decking lasts twice as long. and be-
sides is so much more comfortable
for walking. So as soon as the hOri-
zontal planks wear out. the Walk
will be converted into a bias pathway,
with the rolling chair trails laid YER
tiCally.
Atlantic City played host to half
dozen conventions this week The Ma
tional Talking Ma chine Jobbers' Asso-
citation met at the Traymore, where
the members estimated the number of
music boxes it will take to supply
Uncle Sans soldiers with entertain
ment, when they come from the
trenches. New records are to be ship
ped each month to the front. and to
the BOYS fighting in a foreign land.
This convention brought to the shore
number of grand opera stars and
concert artists. Including: Nine. Lou
Use Homer. Nine. CALI Curchi, Fritz
Kreisler. Giovanni Martinelli, Mile.
Olive Kline, Giuseppe De Luca, Regi-
maid Warrenrath, Marguerite Dunlap.
Josef A. Pas:crnak.
Send Sweets to Allies.
The National Wholesale Confection-
ers' Association met at the Breakers
and endeavored to decide how to get
enough boxes together for the Christ
mas trade. incidentally this associa-
tion reported large orders of sweet
meats for soldiers OF the allies.
The board of directors of the Ameri-
can Poster Association met at the
shore to discuss the policies of the as
sOciated companies during the coming
year. Two thousand delegates attend
ed the meeting OF the New Jersey
Dental Society, a feature of which was
a three-days' free clinic on the Mil
lion Dollar Pier.
The Sanitary Potters Salesmen's As
sociation met at the Strand during the
week.
The executive committee OF the Ma
derwear Manufacturers met at the St.
Charles Saturday to discuss questions
pertaining to that industry.
Two thousand women are expected
next week to attend the meeting of the
Ladies Catholic Benevolent Associa-
tion.
In order that the purity and pro-
pTiety Of the Strand may be conserved,
policemen in uniform, in addition TO
the life guards and the lady coppers
in Citizens clothes" keep an eagle
eye out for bathing toys that do not
leave enough to the Imagination. Six
daring damsels started to startIe the
Leach with their frisky garb and found
themselves spending several hours in
the city jail as the result of their in
olscretlon. One of the girls wore a
slashed bathing skirt, revealing sew
eral inches OF flesh from the point
where her hosiery ended and her meth
er garments began.
Would Dodge Regulations,
Ihinss were a little lax on the
oeach last summer, when dimpled
knees were all the rage, and so the
autnorlties, at the very beginning of
thls season, made stringent rules
about the decorum of the bathing
girl. Since then 1t has been the de-
sire OF fair femininity to dodge tho
regulations, with sometimes dire re-
suits.
One OF the most unusual OF N.
many sartorial fads this year is the
predominance of hair ears" for
most of the matrons- and maids are
covering their ears with many nuns
Some give the appearance of having
these ears sewed to their hats.
But then. one never can count nm
the idiosyncracies of the summer
girl. Warm weather has hardly ar
rived before velvet and felt hats are
In evidence. Some are adorned with
autumn leaves, while others are built
in the form of torpedo. Black vel
vets predominate, although some are
Of the new lemonade hue. Others
are formed with yards and yards of
grosgrain ribbon with velvet facing,
Barber-Pole Hosiery.
And now along come the girls with
hosiery. as the new striped
snects are named. Hinged stockings
On the bias about clap the climax
Tor weird colored effects.
Nevertheless there is nothing
especially modest about the nav
parasols, as far as colorinr ana
novelty goes. An aquatic looking AZ.