The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-25
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Aswe enjoy alhsss snush il vha. We
anticipAte as In what We realize, so are we
spared great deal Of sufsring by not
knowing,whati IS befeeS0s. BE-
= when the lEditors Of the EsyHAPh1sE
left home de sfrst day Of August with
visions Of rest Of freedom from care, and
Of the pleasant fhing s. to be crowded into
a fortnight.s vacation, no one could have
foretold how joy was TO be turned into
sadness, and reiaxaao6 into the EXTREMIST
tension Of anxiety and endurance.
That i'll omen, q telegram, fastening
them to. a-sick houss had passed them ON
the HH, and no ishsdow df the coming
cloud smarred thei Altogether delightfal
Journey. The summer vacation of two
families returning to the Lakeside retreat,
which year ago brought happiness and
health, has been, thus far, not according
to their own disposing every day day
of anxiety, every night a night of watch
ing, the physician becoming also the pa
tient, and the lights above and below stairs
burning all the time until day. - .''
The extreme heatSof the first and second
weeks of August was unfavorable to pre-
serving the best of sanitary conditions
among a crowded population. Change of
water has also seemed to affect the health
of nearly every visitor, however brief the
stay !; and there his 6sen IN sunusual de
mand for medical treatment, so that ply
sicians who came to practice have had a
rich harvest of fees, though very little
sleep Within day have seen three
womeh carried tp,the boat too i'll to walk
the little distance there. twill always
seem like a dreadful nightmare, the mem
ory of the past fortnight. People who
have not been loft amer an exodus, have
no conception of the length a day and
night may assume under circumstances of
peculiar loneliness 4r,.,, aCT
After the sharp conflict with Immediate
danger, and the peace and thankfulness for
partial release from intense suffering,
there comes to the invalid q stage of con-
valescence more trying than any other (;
when the enfeebled body and the ex-
hausted nerves have little recuperative
force, and every sense has multiplied
sources of torture. Light, sound, the
presence of others, and the ordinary activ-
ities of life, all intrude painfully upon
the sick chamber, and the depression of
the vital forces, when thus over-fatigued,
becomes ever afterward a terror to those
who have experienced it To ensure the
necessary solitude and quiet, our invalid
was transferred to cottage from whose
deserted walls the summer visitors have
all taken their flight, and here, alone with
him, overlooking the blue water and
famed by the breezes that are 10 bring
expectant health, we wait for it, and watch
for the. smoke of passing ships, and for
the white gleam of a sail, as II there was
companionship IN sthem. Sometimes at
night, when the rain is falling, and only
here and there aglimmer of light indicates
human hahitation where a week ago
thousands were sheltered, it seems as if
there was left only the restless, complain
ing lake, shutting US off from the unquiet
world, and a new sense of security in and
realization of the goodness of the infinite
God. . beHI <eeL - q
Rev Mn winter preached Sunday morn
ing in the Auditorium to congregation of
perhaps two or three hundred. There was
also. Sunday school and evening service.
The electric light apparatus and the
bells have been taken away, every out
going boat diminishes the population, and
if the children did not bear good pro
portion among those who remain the ST.
lence Of thelong days would be oppressive.
The lille sboysswetth their sailor suits pump
ing for each other to drink at the wells,
turn the faucets and set streams flowing
from the pipes; play soldier, and all want
TO be captains and colonies; risk miniature
ships upon the wave, and grow serious to
see with what remorseless haste they are
torn into shreds and battered into un.
shapeliness upon the rocks. Two young
girls, emulating the Style of . destitute
I woman who has white Esquimaux dog
attached to her by a string, are trying tc
teach their active silver-collared terriers to
march demurely by their sides, tethered in
like manner. Some others are having
great diversions with horses and side
saddles, taking first lessons in equestrian
practice.
The milk sold in the encampment and
at the market has so much ice in it that
eventually it becomes vrry abundant as
well as very cool, and driving out on the
Port Clinton road one morning, for the
double purpose of rest from the sick-room
and to secure pure article from the dairy
we passed beyond the stony feature of this
peninsula to the deeper soil, highly cult
! waited and delightful farming districts to
wards the west. Along this ridge ART
4 charmingviews of the bay. The pale blu,
and silver of the bayou harmonizes witt
] the fresh light tint of the sedge gras:
threading the waters where boatmen an6
amateur rowers are dipping their cars
impressed into the service of ladies covet
! ing the lilies that grow there. Black-eyed
Barbara Bloom, mistress of cuisine in oul
late household, a dapper Teuton whose
small heel comes down with an emphasi.
of about one hundred and fifty pounds, il
always ready for row; and arrayed il
the freshest of fiuted muslins, her after
tea diversion of row or a sail to one o
the islands or trip to the city is of nC
more account than the ordinary evening
out of our home domestics. 1t is not We
so late In the season that one may no
every day come across old acquaintance.
as one goes out in the park or takes stroll
by the shore. The widow and daughtel
and son of Rev. Thomas Barkdull, de
ceased, are still at their cottage, one of th'
prettiest on the grounds, notable for it
vine-coyered rock enclosure, the graceful
drapery Of window and piazza, and tn,