Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
Fitting Their Hired Bathing Costumes
Becomes Big Feature of Day at Beach
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM


A S Isaac Walton. the great fish
~ dealer, once said, There's
"A many poor fish that's unable
4 \ to get into the swim, either
in the marine or social
wsfidssT'
And how true that is come over
me- last week when I and George.
that's my husband. went down to
Whoopsiewhakie Beach with that
Joe Bush of the Hawthorne Club,
and his wife, Mabel, and the ques-
ton of going in bathing come up.
In the first inst. we hadn't in
tended doing any bathing beyond
the usual Sat. night affair on ac-
count so far the Summer had been
so cold that every time we had gone
TO any beach. why instead of taking
off our Summer ones, we had put on
our Winter ones, and our Junior had
give up taking his little pail and
shovel, and dragged along his new
sled
So this day ] am talking about |
and Geo and the two Bushes and
our dear little boys, why we merely
set out for auto ride. it being Sat
urday and we had this original idea
let's take ride there wasn't moth
ing else TO do. SO we got started, see.
We go to. let's go to Whoopsiewhakie
Beach and plunge into the salt water
taffy and get chubby with few old
sea.docs with mustard. and etc.
SO seeing ii was her gasoline we
was riding on. and she was doing
the driving. why we says fine. sure
dear. ana we will also get something
TO eat.
Let's stay and have one of them
Shore Dinners. with deep sea chicken
oysier-plant and apple pie and all
such sea foods. So we was all agreed
on that and off we went.
Well | dunno what happened, the
weather man must of made mis-
take and thought he was in Florida.
for the day turned out TO be q whole
lot warmer then il was when young,
and by the time we got 10 the
Reach we was peeling like q bunch
IF Young onions III steam kettle.
For the luVNa tripe. says George.
amt this weather something awful,
this heat is terrible. And Mabel
saws yeh it's worse then the cold,
I'm as hot as chilli con Carne. And
7 says honest I'm dripping, this
party is all wet.
That Joe Bush who is always full
Of ideas when he's sure he won't hat
70 pay for them says hey George.
got any money with YOU? And be-
fore he thought. Geo. told the truth.
All right, fine. says Joe. what say
we all hire bathing suit and go
for a swim" Well. SAYS Geo. if
we hire a suit. it II take long time
for us all 10 use it. And Joe says,
aw hIev. hire one for each Of lis. il
only costs a few dollars extra, what
Ter we care for expenses. anyways?
WELL naturally Joe didn't care for
W expenses didn't care To have
any. anybody could see that. In fact.
he is generally that Way When out
with friend. But Geo. had laid
himself and pockethook open by not
guarding properly when Joe at
tackled so there was nothing left
for Geo. to do except look AT me
and Mabel hopefully and say we'll
it is Just as the ladies' SAY. whatever
they wish is agreeable to me. And
with them soft words he give me
hard look AS much AS 10 say. now
dearie. if YOU take a swim I'm gon-
ner deduct il from your hoHsekeep-
lng money. listen, YOU are clean
enough the way YOU are.
So | SAYS why Geo. dear. | dunno
as want to go in. kind of hate to
wear a hired suit. | knew a girl friend
once who got a hair-lip wearing one,
and ! know mother once caught
awful cold doing the same, ] think
maybe we better not But that Mabel
Bush spoke up and she says what
nonsense, my dear. the suits here is
perfectly 50 nitary. why YOU could eat
YOUR dinner often one. | know they
cook them suits 90 minutes. or until
Sc /,
don't spoil the fun. let's go in,
Well by that time our two Juniors
had caught onto what was being
talked about, and that Bush child
commenced acting something terrible.
He was yelling ava. | wanner go