Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1879 — By the Sad, Salt Sea. [ARTICLE]

By the Sad, Salt Sea.

Pretty little girls wading and paddling in the surf make an attractive spectacle. But when a pretty young lady of 20 summers or thereabouts, and wearing a jaunty Gainesborough hut, undertakes the same pastime, the scene is a novel one. Such a young lady, on a part of Manhattan beach which was secJuded for the moment, thought it would be nice to join the little children, and, pulling off her shoes and stockings, ventured in. It was evidently a, most difficult task to ad jus" her dress to the rising and lowering tide, for she gave her whole mind to it, and succeeded very poorly. Everybody passing that way paused, and the young men took seats, determined to fight it out on that line if it took all summer. In fifteen minutes a crowd of nearly 200 persons, mostly men, had gathered. The smile on the young lady’s face changed to a tragic frown, and a mother’s sharp cry hastened her withdrawal to the background, where, screened by a close phalanx of female friends, she restored shoes and stockings to their proper place in the ecohomy of civilization. — Cony Inland Cor. New York Tribune.