noon
Fronting this unkempt shore is a line of barrack-like hotels , with a few cottages of the cheap sort . At the end of this row of hotels is a fine granite Casino , spacious , solid , with wide verandas , and a tennis-court -- such a building as even Newport might envy . Then come more hotels , a cluster of cheap shops , and a long line of bath-houses facing a lovely curving beach . Bathing is the fashion at the Pier , and everybody goes to the beach at noon . The spectators occupy chairs on the platform in front of the bath-houses , or sit under tents erected on the smooth sand . At high noon the scene is very lively , and even picturesque , for the ladies here dress for bathing with an intention of pleasing . It is generally supposed that the angels in heaven are not edified by this promiscuous bathing , and by the spectacle of a crowd of women tossing about in the surf , but an impartial angel would admit that many of the costumes here are becoming , and that the effect of the red and yellow caps , making a color line in the flashing rollers , is charming .