The New York herald., 1922-08-07

(imported), a blue silk 0mported) cap
to match. blue beach shoes also i'm
ported and a scarlet bathrobe, i'm
ported from Paris only a week ago.
The Prince will not wear a stitch that
isn't imported. In fact. the Prince is
q recent importation himself. He was
accompanied by Mile. Destorte, late
Countess Ct Rossieny. il you will take
her card for 1t. The Countess wore
precisely what the Prince wore. neither
more nor less OF it, and butterfly had
been painted at the nape of irr neck.
"Hit Him, Papas"
But to get going again, the reader is
assured that except where the most
reliable sources OF information failed
a trifie. everything related herein. may
be accepted as the truth. The reporter
began by being almost run over by a
yellow and blue motor car He was
on his way to the beach. It was i'm
possible to tell whether the car was
blue with yellow stripes or yellow with
blue stripes. At any rate the stripes
ran vertically. There were six per-
sons in the car. all in bathing suits
that exactly matched the car
Probably nobility. They had the bored
air OF folks who have seen too much.
In the front seat beside papa, who was
driving. sat mamma, who suggested gross
tonnage and looked. in her vertical
stripes of blue and yellow. like a camou-
nAked globe. Papa didn't even shift
his cigar az the reporter lodged. The
car wtat hurtling by. From the rear
seat. where the happers sat, came the
lanSuid question:
Hit him. papa
The beach was crowded. To begin
with this seems to be the only public
bathing beach not demoralized by rules.
far as observation and inquiry divulged
no more. That one rule Is that you
must muzzle your dog II you take him
on the beach. Whether the rule was made
to protect the dog or the bathers was
not known by any Of the police.
Just why anybody should go to At
lantic City with Long Beach only an
hour away is q mighty problem--unless
Of COURSE. bathing Is desired. The girls
and their living female ancestors all
wear one piece swimming suits. They
used to wear the Annette Kellermann
suit: that is. the one piece affair with
fringe of skirt belted around the waist.
But they discarded them ever since one
~ 81. IL ~ olx -
drowned in one OF them.
How do you expect anybody to swim
weighted down with all that wet cloth ??
she asked. ripping or the skirt.
And nobody has taken a chance in a
Keliermann since. Now they wear moth.
ing but one piece affairs and. to make
doubly safe. they stay out OF the water
I asked Herman Hornblower. the Platy-
pus Boy, why 50 many of the girls never
entered the water.
That one" for instance. asked. "the
one In the crimson suit. with the white
satin cap and the white silk shoes
Why don't she go in?"
IF you were shaped like that" de.
manded Herman. would you 60 in?"
rrAnk Has . Reason.
Despite the fact that bathing isn't a.
popular as 1t Is at Atlantic City there II
an active and snappy beach patrol. The
head OF this patrol is an actor who
started life in Philadelphia as an under
taker. This actor canAot swim. wher
he applied for the job OF head Of the
beach patrol the Mayor said:
"But, Frank. you can't SWIM"
Makes no difference" replied Frank
II hafta be chief of the beach patrol
Besides Gen. Pershing was never gasse6
either, but they made him our General
and, anyway, hafta be chief of the
beach patrol"
"The CHIEF OF the beach patrol must
be a swimmer. according to tho rule:
and---''
Makes no difference: hafta be--bt
chief OF the beach patrol. that's all
Makes no difference. I hafta."
We'll. why do you hafta?''
II hafta whisper II to you
The applicant whispered.
mo. Frank. that won't do. We dom,
care what you told that girl. That was
your own lookout. You shouldn't tell
girls stuff you can't make good on
Sorry, Frank, but"
"Ail right" said Frank. "all right
II can't be CHIEF of the beach patrol
I'll take my chorus away from Long
Beach,"
So they made Frank chief of the beach
patrol.
The Reach Proper.
1t seems that there are two sets or
the beach proper. There are. OF course
the conventional folk Of the bungalow
colony down along the eastern end OF
the beach. Then there is the Lido Coll
Club set. And there Is an exclusive set
known up the beach as "the Greeks.
Many OF the Greeks have no bathing
suits. They are simple souls and their
problems will be dealt with In a simple
manner a little further along.
The Trouville set Ia about 90 per cent
OF the thsater. There are theater own
ers and theatcr cleaners I'm this set.
They don't VICAR clothes; they affect
costumes. Beach by the Lee Lash
studios and costumes by Hewing to the
Line. That's the impression the new
conner gets.
Darling trills a hefty soubrctte
with a couple of orange plumes in her
egg beaten hair and her overstuffed
self encased In a purple and white swim
ming suit. where on earth have you
Of the Limbs Of Frankie Baiiey?"
"Oh. dean, no." replies the lady in the
green costume that Bill Sunday de-
scribed Al insufficient to pad crutch.
wad shotgun or make breechcs for a
humming bird. "Oh. deah. no. car
ried them troupers as far as Pittsburgh
and then give up the struggle and
kept on In vaudeville. NO use trying to