The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-17
HRTESIAN WATER AND CIRCUS
"U. l.. See" Finds Both These Attrac-
lions at NartinSyille.

Correspondence of the Journal.
l have a suggestion to make, If those
most interested can give free silver rest
long enough to consider 1t. Having been
furnishing myself nearly a week in drink
ing that horrible stuff known as Martins
vile artesan water, and allowing myself
to be punished by the man who souses you
into tub of the same, heated to about
ninety, and rubs you as if he intended to
make sparks fly, l am in condition to
suggest a method of utilizing our city
water while we are waiting for those sand
filters which promise to deprive it of its ma
tive properties. You see, In its normal
state it is not quite up TO the Martinsville
standard, but evidently tending in that di-
reetion. My suggestion is not. however, al
together original 1 am largely indebted
for the profound suggestion to a bevy OF
Indianapolis ladies who are temporary
guests at this new, clean and commodious
sanitarium. With the abandon lot or
women can easily drop into after supper
on broad veranda with the thermometer
yet near ninety. they began to discuss the
water uuestion-how to drink 1t. and what
comes of drinking it and bathing In 1t.
when one suggested that 1t might easily be
duplicated at home by a judicious mixture
of our home hydrant water with water
used in boiling ancient eggs There seemed
to be at first little difference OF opinion
as 70 the proper age OF the eggs; anu
whether they should be boiled with the
shell on or off. but no unanimous conclu-
sion was reached. Who ever knew dozen
women to be unanimous on any SuoJect,
unless IL was something perfectly lovely,
as a sunset always is when seen from the
hill on which the Sanitarium Is located TO
the ordinary sunset there happened Just
then to be added just enough heecy clouds
in the horizon to make a gorgeous erect.
and the disagreement on the egg question
was soon lost in the unanimous al, ana ZEN en-
lyv But am not willing TO dispose OF the
main question in that summary manner l
insist that our city chemist, VINO IS SO good
at analyzing shall try his hand at synthe-
sizing and see il he cannot make quite as
vile a compound out of our city water, with
a few additional ingredients, presumably
This is a high day for Martinsvile. Rob-
inSon's big show and circus are here, and
there are representatives from Hendricks.
Putnam. Owen, Monroe Brown, Johnson
and Morgan counties TO visit them. Many
came more than twenty miles, reaching
town a little after ordinary breakfast time,
SO as to be sure to take in the street pa
rade. and they will not reach home till long
after dark. and will have to milk the cows
later on or let them go unmilked till morn
ing They came in all sorts of convey
ances, from the fine family carriage to the
primitive one-horse cart the ordinary farm
dressed as city folks. but most of them,
though clean and evidently in their best at
tire represent the days or general muster
in the long ago. a cynic might easily
criticise the economy of spending 81 to 81
on the show. and side show when there is
such manifest need for even ordinary cloth
ing not to mention healthful food. but such
a days outing from the humdrum of life
among the hills of these counties is worth
more to them than dozen frocks or any
kind OF store clothes the same amount of
money could buy. 1t greatly enlargeS the
horizon of their lives, and they will long
remember the elephant and the monkeys
and what they did. but they will longer re-
member the clown and what he said, and
they will be better In body and mind for
the side-spitting laugh he caused. There
is no use of talking, Robinson and the like
of him are public benefactors. moral edu-
Gators. and their exhibitions are vast inn
provement or the general musterS of fifty
years ago. then the only occasion for uni
versal turnout. One feature of these shows
Is to be forever commemorative wives and
children are there to see and hear all that
is going on. / have no patience with the
goody-goody people who mathematics all
such shows and frown upon those who at
tend them. Some may not be benefited by
attending them. but most people are. To
my mind they are vastly preferable to the
Ia seball, with its dangerous possibilities.
True, they carry away vast sum of money
but that only proves that all this hue
and cry about hard times is lie, for there
was not one In a thousand Of the denizens
of these hills that remained away for want
enough-the only difficulty is to find a
profitable investment. u. l.. SEE.
Martinsville. Ind, July 16.