Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-26
THE SURF-BATH.
Something About the "Ceaseless Ocean
Roar" and the Health Giving Ozone.


Roar" and the Health Giving Ozone.
Surf.bathing is delusion and 8
fraud. With the temperature of the
water at seventy degrees you gasp and
gargle and feel as if some one was
shooting iciclcs through you. You
finally dip under with yell. and the
yell is changed TO sort of ! !
whooppee ! as pint of the
briny fluid sails down your throat and
proceeds to salt your pork for you.
There ar5 shells to pare down your
heels, and there are heartless crabs
which make it q business to feel for
your toes and hang by you. Founder
ing men kick you in the stomach, and
excited females grab the calves of your
legs in their Wild endcavors to with.
stand the breakers. The idea Is not to
swim, but to let the rollers tumble you
about until your ears fill with sand,
your stomach with water and your eyes
can no longer do duty. You come out
feeling clammy. You may use. half y
dozen towels. but the clammy feeling
remains and abides by you for good
halliday. 1t is as il some one had
taken pork rind out of an ice.chest
and kindly creased you from head to
foot.
There are certain proprieties to be
observed in promiscuous bathing. In
case fat woman steps into hole and
disappears from sight her relatives and
acquaintance are given the first chance
to save her. II none is present you
can 90 ahead and do your best. A
roller may tumble two or three females
head over heels against you and each
one of them may give you kick and a
claw and help herself up by means of
your legs, but any observations on your
part will be out of order. If, in claw
ing around on the bottom in search OF
recreation, you encounter foot and
hang on to it until you upset some
water nymph, no apology is necessary.
ANY remarks about tide, state of water,
crabs, sharks, clam shells and life.
saving boat are out of order unless you
have been formally introduced.
Few Of the females who come under
the head of ladies are seen in bathing
suit; the great majority are young girls
and nurses, with now and then de-
signing old maid. The others are con
tent to sit on the sand and criticse
There are men who bathe twice PEE
> day, and there are men who wouldn
90 in to save human life.
: A good deal has been written abou
the "ceaSeless roar of the surf" IT.
big thing for couple Of days ant
nights. but after that you'll begin t.
wonder why people who come her
! expressly for that didn't stay home an,
t hire some one to turn a coffee mill. Tn
! old thing keeps hammering away fo
seven days and nights of the week
with no other purpose in view than t.
I make . noise, and by and by every
: body votes it bore. An ocean will
=, the best interests of the public athear
4 would keep still at least half the time
: The average person puts in abou
o ten minutes watching the "white
$ named waves" roll in. After that h
wants some other performance. On
/ wave is very much like another, a
$ being cut from the same piece of clotl
Il Each one has a white name; each on
n rolls in just so far, and breaks just q
g the one before it did
IS don't know about the ozone.
IS have been looking for it for the la
Is three weeks, but whether l have foun
Ie it or not can't he certain. One da
IS when fog, so thick that you cou
m chop it with an axe and so cold that I
IS ice was needed at the hotel, drove
g from the dark-green sea and lasted 4
9, half day, fifty of us had tOothach
70 legache, backache, neuralgia an
y chllls. guess that was coming pret'
H. close to it, l know the mosquitoC
0, don't eat up the ozone. They can
50 be hungry after eating up the guest
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