Evening star., 1925-08-02
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

s Lenin, the Russian leader
" WHO made conservatives out
"a of such a lot of we Americans,
A a once said at Coney Island,
There are, as good fish in the
sea as ever came out of IL and more
mermaids on the beach than ever go
into
is, as l was saying to George, that's
my husband, only the other evening.
after we come home from an outing
with u.sS |..A Bush OF the Hawthorne
Club and his ~,tc and their Jr.
1t was during one ol >hem hot spells
that Mabel Bush called me up in the
morning and she says gay dear what
say we all go swimming tomorrow,
she says, it'll be Sunday and we can
take our husbands. sons. and bathing
suits and go down to the beach. And
I says fine, wherein we go? And she
says how about Winerschnitzels Ca
sino, where they have them good hot
dogs?
And l says that's a idea. then we
won't have to take any lunch, but are
you sure Joe will go? And she says
if there amt any Sunday dinner in
the house which there won't be, you
betcher life he'll go. So l says fine,
dear, and hung up.
Well, being admittedly a female
woman, the first thing l thought Of
was what'll l wear? l was consider
ing not alone street clothes, but bath
ing ones as well. and so I went and
give d look at our suits to see was
they in shape to go on our shapes, be-
cause this would be our first dip of
the season.
Well, Georges suit was in pretty
good condition. OF course the model
was old, it was made in two parts,
with trunks that was a wardrobe in
themselves. Some bathing suits have
a shrinking disposition and the more
you wear them, the more they go
back on you. But this one of Georges
was the other way around. It had
grown with age, until several people
could easy have worn it at the same
time. 4
Then of course the color wasn't so
good any more. 1t was kind of a
light black with dark white bands
running quietly around the bottom of
the pants. Also our family moths had
tried 1t as a entree, but give up after
q few bites Maybe it was too salty
for them. But it could be worn, in
fact it was considerably worn already.
] felt that Geo. might as we'll make
out with it-make out like he pre-
ferred it to a new one.
When l come to examine Juniors
suit, it passed. Its marks averaged
about eighty but most of them would
come out with a little gasoline, and 1
figured WELL what's the use buying
him a new one, he will only get it
destroyed playing in the water, If this
one fits him he may as well use 1t up.
60 put one foot on the pants. and
pulled it with both hands until I
had a eight, instead of seven yr. size,
and then 1 got out my own last years
suit and it was sight!
OF course the silk was perfectly
sound, in fact you could still hear 1t
rustic. l look it over for holes, but
the only ones 1 could find was for the
arms and legs. But the style was
something terrible. Anybody could
tell at a glance it was a last seasons
model, and besides, all my friends had
seen it simply hundreds of times.
again on any conditions or beaches,
especially when I remembered what
Mabel Bush had done at other outings.
For a sample, there was the time
the four of us, / and Geo. she and
Joe, stayed over night at Kamp Korn
Kob up in the Lumpi Mountains and
the next day, when the boys come
peSh lIOIn lly llSIllllS Will
full catch, they being simply covered
with black flies. well anyways, when
they come back the day and their
tempers both was hot, and so we
thought we would go crashing
through the underbrush in the wild
wood to d nice river that ran swiftly
past the Kanhp for fear somebody
would try and make it stop there.
Well. this being a rustic trip, the
four of us had agreed old clothes
was the only thing, and l and Geo.
had taken this agreement literally.
So when lit come to bathing suits, why
; wore rough and ready rig I made
myself out of a few door mats which
I found laying around the house. The
welcome" had wore off them, but
otherwise they was too good to throw
out, so I run them up into bathing
suit which was plenty good enough
for that outing.
But with Mabel, things was quite
TO the other hand. She come down
dressed in a French model green chif-