The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-05-15

t4eAAC VI SDOuScs AlN etuJb-ci puAAc4
warm water over me incessantly, not
dashing it, nor letting it trinkle, but
just emptying the beautifully chased
silver ever over me with the gent
lest motions, till it seemed ike a
caress. Then soapcf bitter almonds
/ was rubbed on my face, and another
kind was rubbed in my hair, all done
in that earessing way that made it
noSitiTe ecstaeY; then more per
famed y-eter till I felt drowning in
sea Of all deiil-hts, in which conld
distinguish perfumes, flowers, sweet
singing voices, aud forms OF heaven
" beauty. Time and the outer
world were lost in this delightful
trance. and 1 desired nothing, moth
ing else in the world to make me
content forever.
LIVING sTATUARY.
To lie on the marble and dreamily
watch the glorious white Of the liV-
ing statutes, with the long black
hair and the rich, dark eyes; to see
the soft, undulating motions Of those
swimming in the warm, delicious
water; to look at the lovely forms
stretched at full length on the divans
and on the edge Of the fountain; and
others laughing, sporting, singing,
mingling with afectionate glanees
and wrestling in the water OF upon
the marble floor, dripping from every
limb the perf1med water that glist-
ened on their bodies, and the trick
ling ofthe fountains, and the rosy,
subdued light that stole in through
the jealously guarded windows, were
enough to send one Of an imagina-
tiOn like mine of into the realms of
fancy, and make one believe it the
promised land, and cause the whole
soul to be satisfied with the enchant-
ing picture, which needed no imagi-
nation to embellish. For after all
what is the heaven we have been
taught to believe in but 3 place
where all is light and perfume and
love and beauty; where every. sense
shall be satisfied, aud every desire
filed with q pure and exquisite full
ness2 It's trne that in this heaven
of mine there were not any men, but
I did not miss them in my supreme
content, nor, / think, did any Of the
women who were lying about clasp
ed lovingly in each others arms, or
laughing and sporting in the water,
and think now, az j have before,
I had just as lief have my paradise
one where no man could come,
Just as 1 arrived at this very sen
sible conclusion my attendant
aroused me from my dreams of per-
feet peace by pointing to the foun-
tain and signifying that 1 was also
to get in. My four friends then
made their appearance with the ser
wants and our luncheon, and nobody
can tell Of the eomical look Of Us
five sitting around the baskets eat
inc. and without any clothes on.
l have seen so many sights in my
! life, but we women around those
baskets, with chicken legs in our
hands, and glasses of wine and other
things, were too perfectly ludicrous
for anything, and / laughed TIL 1
couldn't eat. If ! had only nap
kin to cover my face I think 1
should have laid down and died on
the spot.
PLAYFUL SPIRITS.
All my dreams of a luxurious,
sleepy, sensuous paradise, filed with
undulating figures of transcendant
beauty, were gone, and I was fully
| possessed of the demon Of mirth,
and 1 provoked the others into my
| own state Of mind-a capacity which
| has never deserted me at any time
or place, or without any person, in
my life-and we were soon the mad
| dest of the crowd in the perfumed
waters. / would be afraid to tell all
the freaks we performed and antics
and pranks We cut. Although it
did not in the least startle the na-
tives, it might some who have mag
ined me to be the model Of perfee-
ton and department.
But then you must remember that
Mrs. Grundy does not live in Con-
| stautinOple, and she has no one to
tell tales out Of school except my
own self, and 1 never tell more than
suits me. 1t was two full hours be-
| fore our wild sport ended, and we
| slid out of the water and sat talking
in little knots of four or five, while
the attendants were driving our hair,
and separating it till it stood out in
a light puff all around our heads.
Not tangle was left in it, and no
comb or brush was used. Then we
were laid on the same marble divans,
though with 4 thick bathing towel
this time under us, while the attend
ants punched and pulled, and rubbed
all our Joints, and cracked ali our
| knuekles and elbows and shoulders,
till thought / should be always
even more unsteady than ever.
They don't give you the leastchance
to make protest to this sort Of thing.
They roll you and rub you, up and
down and round and round, till you
only want 3 chance to get your
hands free to ''punch their heads"
VIXEN all at once, painting and per-
! spring, they grin at you and say
pekley, which means "all right. -
/ OkiUe Harper.
Little by Little.
If you are gaining little by little,
every day, be content. Are your ex-
| penses less than your income, so that,
though it be little by little you
are yet constantly accumulating,
aud growing richer and richer every
day? Be content; so far IS concerns
/ mOhpv Won are dOinp we'll