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Identifier: americanadventure00stre (find matches)
Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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em to be divided intotwo distinct schools of thought on the subject of tanning.While none of them compete with the radicals of theBrowning Club, one may nevertheless observe that, inevening dress, many young ladies reveal upon theirnecks, shoulders, and arms, stenciled outlines of theupper margins of their bathing suits. Ladies of theopposing school, upon the contrary, guard the whitenessof their skins as jealously as the men of the BrowningClub guard their blackness. Rather than be touchedwith tan, many ladies of the latter group deny them-selves the pleasures of the surf. The parasols beneathwhich they arrive upon the sands are not lowered untilthey are safely seated beneath the green and blue stripedcanvas tops of their beach chairs, and it may be ob-served that even then they are additionally fortifiedagainst the light, by wide black hats and thick dark veilsdraped to mask their faces up to the eyes; haremveils, they call them—the name, however, signifyingnothing polygamous. 580
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V- VV (>j 1 2. (1- «► s- \ I!ocktail hour at The Breakers PASSIONATE PALM BEACH A pleasant diversion at the beginning of the bathinghour occurs when some mere one-horse miUionaire froma Middle-Western town appears on the beach with hisfamily. He is newly arrived and is under the fond de-lusion that he is as good as anybody else and that hismoney is as good as any other persons money. Seeingthe inviting rows of beach chairs, he and his familyplump into several of them. They are hardly settled,however, when the man who attends to the beach chairscomes and asks them to get out, saying that the chairsare reserved. The other thinks the man is lying like a head waiter,and demands to know for whom the chairs are re-served. In reply the beach-chair man mentions, with suitabledeference, the name of Mrs. Hopkinson SkipkinsonJumpkinson-Jones. Well, cries the Middle-Westerner, Mrs. Jonesis nt here yet, is she? She cant use the chairs now, canshe, if she is nt here? Even without this evidenc

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