We build the Club House (a rather long rambling affair) on some ground
which we can get at a nominal figure (as I will explain the value of
Citizens like we will have being located in their midst, and what our
Club will do for the surrounding Land). Now, the great advantage that
my Clubs will have over the present ones in our Beach Cities is that we
will build ours right in the heart of the Town, so the Tired Business
Man can reach it even for Lunch, whereas in other places they have to
go miles to reach a Beach Club. We will have a Uniformed man at the
door to meet the Cars, as nothing impresses the newly rich so much as
Gold Braid.
Our Cafe prices will be high enough so that if a Member takes a friend
any other place he will be considered rather a short Sport. Each member
will have his Private Locker (including a Corkscrew), where he can
change to his bathing Suit. There will be a wide Veranda under awnings
where Members may dine in their Suits, and other Tables which are not
protected from the Rays of the Sun, where the more Hardy Members may
sit and acquire a Tan.
Of course one item of expense in connection with these Clubs which will
require me to expend quite a tidy sum is having Ocean Sand transported
to these Towns and then by Truck to the center of the City.
This sand must be spread very, very thick, as the principal pastime
of the Members and Guests will be to lay right down in it and try and
cover each other entirely up. Oh, it’s a ripping experience that you in
the inland Cities have missed, if you have never tried it.
Mind you, this 500 dollars which I receive per each will not all be
profit as I will be called upon to purchase a Medicine Ball or so.
That is a Beach Sport that only the most Athletic and reckless of our
Membership would dare enter into--tossing this ferocious Ball from
one to the other. I have seen a Game of it last, if there were Female
Spectators, as long as three or four minutes.
Then, for the more skilled, there is Baseball on the Beach which is
played with a Rubber Tennis Ball. I have seen men graduate from that
right into some of our best Tea and Cake Hounds.
We will have beautifully striped Umbrellas placed at intervals over the
Beach for those who become fatigued in parading. When there is a big
crowd and you have to walk by everybody in your Bathing Suit it tires
one more than the uninitiated would think. And we’ll have a Life Guard
(perhaps a Native of Honolulu if we can procure one). At any rate, we
will get the most sunburned one we can, for the less fortunate ones to
compare their Tan with. He will be provided with Smelling Salts, and
other restoratives in case a Wife should unexpectedly discover her own
Husband with some other One Piece Suit Female Companion.
There will be Life Lines across the sands, so the more fore-sighted of
the members can find their way during the afternoon back and forth to
their Lockers.
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