Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1879 — By the Sad Salt Seas. [ARTICLE]

By the Sad Salt Seas.

Pretty little girls wading and paddling in the surf, make an attractive spectacle.* But when a pretty young lady of twenty summers or thereabouts, and wearing a iauuty Gainsborough hat. undertakes the same pastime, the scene is a novel dne. Such a young lady, on a part of Manhatten Beach, which was secluded for the moment, thought it would be nice toi, join the children, and pulling off her shoes and stockings; ventured in. It was evidently a most difficult task to adjust 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 Jb ad gathered. The smile on the young ladv’s face changed to a tragic fr<T n, 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 econ-, omy of civilization.—[Coney Island Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

In general, there is no one with . whom life drags so disagreeably as with him who tries to inake it shorter.