Daily camera., 1897-09-24
FOND OF WADING.
Attractions of Country Streams
for City Girls
The Cool and Inviting Water II
Something That They Cannot
ReBist-GlortOup
Sport.

''What would you rather do or go
wading?" asked would-be funny man
of the sunburned girl in sailor hat
when she returned from three weeks
stay in the country.
what do you know about wading?"
retorted the brown-cheeked maiden,
detiantly.
81 have four sisters" the man an
nounced, with somewhat triumphant
air, $50 you might as well 'fess up. How
many times did you paddle your bare
feet in the water-every day or every
other day?"
"Wel," the girl acknowledged, re-
luctantly, 1--WE did wade a good deal.
We didn't go in every day, though, be-
cause three days it rained and two
days we were driving all day, and then
we went bathing several days. guess
we did wade the other days"
The man laughed. 81 never knew
girls to go to the country that they
didn't make for the nearest run or
creek the first thing and then 60 back
the next day and the day after and
the day after that"
"Oh, but we didn't intend to 60 in
every day. We didn't think about it
at all, you know, but every time we
would go out for walk we would sort
of accidentally end it in one of those
big groves with a pretty little run rip
pling down over the stones, and it
always looked so cool and inviting that
we simply couldn't resist the tempta-
ton to go in. You know how it is your
SELF
mo, can't say that do. But what
did you do about towels? Do you al
ways carry one for emergencies? I al
ways supposed that girls could not look
at water without towel" and the man
shrugged his shoulders contemptuous-
".
"Towels!" said the girl, scornfully.
What did we want With towels? When
we were through wading we looked
around until we found, a big stone and
then we sat on it in the SUM- Besides,
we had adhandllerchiefs."
"And WASH t it fun?"
Fun? l should say so. The stones
were pretty hard to walk on, you know,
and sometimes they hurt like every
thing. Why, would you believe it.
cut my foot once til it bled. And then
we always had to watch for crabs. and
lizards, and leeches. and pollywogs, and
thistles. and snakes, and things. And
sometimes the stones were slippery,
and it was awful hard to keep ones
balance. And one day the water was so
cold it actually made our feet ache.
And it was horrible nuisance to have
to hold up two handfuls of skirts and
carry ones shoes and stockings (for
we always went exploring when we
waded) and then to have no free hand
to balance with or brush aside the trees
and bushes. And I got all my petit
coats wet and drabbled and muddy.
But. oh, it was fun!" and the tanned
face beamed and the bright eyes spar
kled at the recollection.
The man sat down and laughed.
With such list of difficulties to over
come he could not see where the fun
came in.
But the girl knew. The difficulties
ard inconveniences were but the haz-
ards that made the sport more exciting.
The delicious GOODNESS Of the mountain
stream was something to dream about.
even if 1T did make one squeam bit
on first contact The caressir- touch
of the water as it flowed about ones
ankles. the excitement OF climbing the
miniature rapids and waterfalls. the
fearful sensation of penetrating some
deep ard treacherous pool of unknown
depth. the careful search for smooth,
fiat stones under the dancing water,
the suddc1, friehts when strange dark
things dashed across the path. the de-
licious softness of the occasional bars
of sand or mud, the slipperiness of clay
or moss-covered rocks. the fine glow
when shoes and stockings were re-
placed-all were glorious.
No wonder the city girl cannot I'M
derstard how the country girl can keep
out of it. To the city-bred maiden the
water is the most attractive thing about
the country. and she declares she would
go wading in the winter if she had half
chance.-Pittsburgh Press.