GERMANS AT THE SEASIDE

Evening Star, Issue 20019, 9 November 1928, Page 3

GERMANS AT THE SEASIDE

ALL m OH SANDS DOING NOTHING

EVERYONE IN BATHING DRESS,

I; was yery pleased (says a correspondent of the ‘ Daily Mail’) wlien I discovered from, a picture of the beach at Margate on the back page of the ‘Daily Mail 1 that you still wear clothes at "the seaside in England ; and. look nice, just as you used to do. It is so long since I went'to a popular watering place iu England that,for all I knew, you might be running about, Margate in bath dress,’and lolling into the Brighton shops in - pyjamas, like the people who are holiday' making on the Gorman coast. You would understand what I mean better if you could look at the families sprawling on the sands of Swjneirmnde or ’.Nqrdeney. Iteok'' at ‘ one of .them. Mother, an ample-matrop, is in a navy blue" bathing suit. F a tk?r.;'with,'a figure like a barrej, jias let down.the top of his bathing suit and,is lying ip t]ie sand to browij/ The. small children are running about with nothing on at, 'all, and. the older ,ones grei,n,.;batbing suits or shorts. .. ‘ '. The;first thing which the family did when it settled down.in some Villa Siogfrid Or Villa Erha on hoarding terpis was to slake’ out- a claim on the sands. A big seat with 'high' back and sides and a roof is hired for The season, and a spac©; before! it" jb fortified- with a : rampart of sand.. ,

Within the..ring of 'fortifications no stranger ‘ will dare to come,' and there Papa-.and Hutti and’dlip' children can just do nothing all the;'clay but brown themselves in the- sun;-,. • ’

Thp process of dressing in the .morning is reduced to getting into' bathing things,' and even in smart hotels people. come down to breakfast with nothing else 'on except a bath gown. _ From the Villa Siegfrid, where' the family hae had its first 'breakfast, ofv thin ,coffee with cold milk and rolls, ; and; perhaps slices of cold sausage, to thp sands; aiid soon it is-time for ;second'breakfast of more rolls and more Cold'sausage, which Mutti hag byonght in -ar string bag- ' Between one--and two'.the- family retires to ■ the Villa Siegfrid for dinner. There is* a thick meat" soup, or perhaps a cold , fruit' soup, and then lumps, of meat, always covered - with, the sarpe thick., brown liquid. ’ “ They give one. eporraous helpings,’’ said --I'a. German to me as, tjie , highest recommendation of a restaurant, i If the family has .ta|<en lodgings without, hoard, a spy, must bo sept-round to study thebills of- fare’ posted outsidp'tfio' restaurants, so an’ to, discbyer ;Whefp 'tlie-most,-succulent -meal, .can bo obtained. Roast; jjoyk' .usually, I wins.... ■ ' Back; *to the ; sands., after, dinner to, doze -iji; the sun ,'arid and. batheAnd .when' tho : .tsviljgl]t 'comes 'it 'is ,time to gpvhome for. supper, fand, the older peoplevrnust dress'|ci go: to a cafe or a dancs. * .. 1 - . Tha' Crerraan’s choice of a seaside re : ,. sort us governed not, merely by pecuniary, but also by . political, and racial" considerations.' A' staunch Republican,; will -hardly care' to: go to Barnsin on the Baltic, because’.its chief patrons, are', Nationalists and Monarchists., ' - •