SEASIDE VISITORS.

Waikato Times, 22 February 1873, Page 2

SEASIDE VISITORS.

— m A notice vble feature in the visitors at tho seaside is thcW good-tempered faces. They hate left their sour speeches and petty caws at home, and have come into the sun with a similar feeling to that with which a butterfly fresh broken from its chrysalis moves among the flowers and blossoms. They feel as if old tilings had passed away, and all had become new. Why should they not, if they remember to pay their bill at the hotel 9 Human beings, like the crabs m the rocks, require a change of shell and "law. I .suppose that eierv seven years we are, physically, entirely changed being* to what we were before, not having— anatomists tell us— a particle of tho same matter which we had in our bodies at the beginning of the seventh year. Our moral nature 13 n.ore rapid in changing itself It throws its old self ofl as quickly as a lobster throws off its claws put alive into a pan of boiling water. Even a new drep or new style oJ hair-loopiwg w ill make a woman feol herself a totally <JM ferent beinw to what she was before ; and this metamorphosis extends to" all classes. Servant girlism, in the Sunday bonnet, whilst hanging on the arm of its young man conceives itself to be a Lilliput lady. And how diflerent a clergyman feels when ascending the Highlands in a shootingcoat'towhat ho does when he has his surplice on, pronouncing the benodiction, or baptising a refractory bab} Eren the cheap-trippers to the Spa become a little conscious of a higher nature when the strains of good music enter into their ears ; but I believe, after all, they prefer Punch and Judy. The effects of music on the beach are very various I see that it makes lovers draw closer to ono another, audl pat on an abandoned look, as if their present feelings would novel- change 5 and I see little children giving, under 1M sweet influences, fresh tokens of affection to their dolls ; a*| old men stretch their legs in front of the benches, witM si"h that Wo-is-running bo fast out of them; and yound men tako an oxtra strain and pull at their cigars. But tluj ckvatcd fee-hng soon passes away ; and in a quarter 0 ar hour -barring tho infants with their dolls— most ot then will bo drlxiUinq porter in tlie rofresKment-rOOITI But WI ought to be thankful for anything in this naughty work which makes us feelgood, even for a little whilo ; and musu has— as I hear a cheap-tripper say—" an elevating etlcct. A'gcntleman to my right hand looks as if it had made Inn pray, for his eyes and forohcad are heavenwards, and his hpi a»e"trembling. There are a good number of gentlemen u white cravat* listening to tho music. I hope it will sweeter their sermons when-thoy gotbaok to their personages. <jC' nerally speaking there is too much cayenne in them 1 sup pose they think what is good for the crowd I can tel them by the snobbish way in which they take their hats on to girls staying at tho same hotel with them, and tho "lentin*, hfiif sneaning look, with which they puff the smoke ou of thoir Onmaldi pipes. It is Sunday to-morrow, andj hope tho whole lot of them— clergymen, young ladies, gentlemen, and gents, lovors, mobs, and puppies— will go and hear the good clergyman who preaches at the parish churcAj — Once A Week. 1