. Book of the Royal blue . deny that its sights and itsparades have more genuine wild excite-ment about them than feeding pigeons,and that its curiosities—human, animal andmineral—are even greater wonders than theeqmne boasts of St. Marks. And cer-tainly the Atlantic is much bigger thanthe Adriatic. The European city is a regular Italianwife, living in meek submission to herwedded spouse, about as rapid in her habitsas an oyster in July, and depending onpast grandeur to supply present pride,while our seaside queen is a typical youngAmerican wife, gay and giddy, saucy andindependent, by no mean
. Book of the Royal blue . deny that its sights and itsparades have more genuine wild excite-ment about them than feeding pigeons,and that its curiosities—human, animal andmineral—are even greater wonders than theeqmne boasts of St. Marks. And cer-tainly the Atlantic is much bigger thanthe Adriatic. The European city is a regular Italianwife, living in meek submission to herwedded spouse, about as rapid in her habitsas an oyster in July, and depending onpast grandeur to supply present pride,while our seaside queen is a typical youngAmerican wife, gay and giddy, saucy andindependent, by no means preferring pasttriumphs to present exhilarations, and de-termined to have first, last and always aperennial and variegated good time, sub-limely ignoring any other authority thanher own sweet will. It is true that someyears ago her hoary wedded lord and mas-ter rose in his wrath, clutched her in hisarms, poured the flood of his angry wavesupon her and simply cut her of? from all ATLANTIC CITY, BRIDE OF THE TWO OF THE GREAT PLEASURE PIERS AT ATLANTIC CITY. communication with the outside , of course, in this day of constitu-tional rights, her forced seclusion wasshort-lived, nor did it teach her a lessoneven, for today she is as gay and giddy asever, and Old Ocean, like many anotherAmerican husband, has retired from theunequal conflict with the disagreeable con-viction that he simply made a grey andmelancholy waste of his energies in at-tempting to discipline her. The man who said there is a place andtime for everything, should come to Atlan-tic City and take a solitan, stroll uponthe boardwalk—one only would suffice tokncck his theories higher than the proverb-ial kite. All sorts and conditions of peoplein all sorts and conditions of attire, fromthe lady in evening dress, wending herway to a hop, to the humble McGintywho cannot dress in his best suit of he hasnt any, meet, mix and minglein a way to bring tears of joy to the eyesof an a
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