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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ses,rough-riders, dudes, geishas, fencing girls,hoboes, milk-maids, and many, manyprinces of the time of Louis XIV. At nine oclock Arthur waved hisbaton, the band reluctantly laid aside theircigars and cigarettes and the first waltzwas on. It was not much of a waltz, be-cause the floor had become rather crowdedand many of those who had come to lookon constantly pushed their way throughthe mass of dancing couples. Many car-ried umbrellas and more smoked bad cigars.There was a good sale of-confetti at fivecents a bag, and one man started to dis-tribute colored ribbons of paper, but hesoon had to stop, in order to escape theonslaught of the merry-makers. The wom-en did not seem to care to make individ-ual hits and as a result there were usuallyfour trained nurses or six lady-fencers al-ways wandering around together. If a mandared speak to a girl masker who threwconfetti in his face, his salutation, howevergenial and harmless, was regarded as aninsult and the girl flew to her mother or a
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Queen Titania and Prince Charming of Asbury Park 699 gentleman friend for protection. The flir-tation, or, as the official program of theAsbury Park Carnival described it, theamatory fires of man and maiden, waswholly lacking, and as I understand it,flirtation, mild or otherwise, is the essenceof the true carnival. It was only a very small part of the crowdthat could find breathing space in the Ar-cade or at the various hotel ball-rooms, andtherefore it overflowed on the board-walkand literally packed that thoroughfare forat least a quarter of a mile. It pushed andwriggled itself along the all too narrowconfines of the promenade, blew tin horns,waved flags, twirled rattles, laughed andsang uproariously. It was a dark night,and the crowd, although of necessity sober,seemed to lack the friendly spirit of carni-val time. It must have taken me at leasthalf an hour to be carried as an uncon-trolled atom for about one hundred feetalong the board-walk. At my side therewas a young woman dress

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