The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-10
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY
STORIES OF TUMBLEs INTO THE CA
NAL FROM THE TOwPATH.
One Engagement Broken Thereby
Exodus OF People to summer
ResOrts-Lavvn Fetes.

Summer IS the time to perform the para
dox of doing nothing A woman Of any age
will sit In a rocking chair on her porch for
hours at time. II you ask her IL she is
pursuing a train Of thought, she will tell
you that she cannot even tell you of sin
gle subject that has occupied her. She va
cantly observes vehicles passing, possibly
realizes that she knows some of the occu-
pants and bows, but at luncheon, if she is
asked who was in the carriage, she does
not know, or. If she remembers one person,
she will not be able to name the others. A
chance caller, without occupation like her.
self, IS a great relief, and yet she does not
get weary Of sitting out and rocking the
same way in the afternoon or evening of the
next day or any number of days to come.
1t is genuine rest that she is taking, and
yet she probably does not realize it. 1t is
her vacation, and Will do her much more
good than If she should pack her trunks and
go to some resort, however quiet This
woman who remains at home and has these
quiet hours may take her market basket
three mornings in the week and tramp
through the market house securing the
Tor her family. or she may spend each other
morning OF the week sewing. as if she had
comes she relaxes utterly. The real time TO
get the most enjoyment out of the porch
Is breakfast. Wlen
there are little home duties to be performed
or some small work to do, for rest taking
with some people is like stealing fruit with
othersi the stolen rest is the sweetest. The
physicians say that the rocking chair is one
OF the aids to nervousness which affects the
American women; the constant movement
and the necessity of effort to keep the chair
going is a detriment. The woman who
takes her recreation at home would not feel
that she enjoyed it perfectly If she did not
take 1t in rocking chair.
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quent, as told in this group OF stories A
charming young woman who visited this
city not long ago was a guest at the Coun-
try Club with party of friends one day.
The party ranbled down to the wheel path
and walked along in the cool shade. The
visitor had on pretty gown, and as they
walked along she made the remark that if
she did not have her best dress she
would like to fall into the canal, the water
looked so clear and cool. The young man
OF the party was walking with his wheel,
and the visitor wondered if she could ride
II. Whereupon the young man asked her to
try and others OF the party dared her to try.
Nothing daunted, she mounted 1t side-sad-
die fashion and rode away triumphantly
She turned to call to those back of her that
other the wheel did not follow the path but
made wild rush for the water, and in she
went, best dress and all.
Another young lady has broken her en-
gagement. or, rather, young man has
broken his engagement with young lady
because she laughed at him. He invited her
for ride on the wheel path, and in trying
to make a pedal mount he ran into the
canal, head first. She screamed as he went
down, but in moment she saw him emerge
from under the wheel and shake himself
and she knew he was not drowned, so she
began to laugh. She could scarcely control
herself, and scream after scream of laugh
ter filled the place. The young man did not
see anything so very funny in getting soak
Ing wet, in his nice summer suit, and he
could not forgive her or her nerriment, and
so she has sent him back his ring and the
prospective wedding has vanished Now
they are only acquaintance.
Another girl went out riding with a party
soon after she learned to ride the Wheel
and the trip was UP the wheel path She
made several of the little inclines success
fully, and when another was in sight her es-
cort asked her If she thought she could
make 1t. She said she could, but whether
she was tired or nervous she does not know
She made the hill but lost control and ran
into her young man and over he went into
the water. Her friends are trying to make
her tell what 1t was that made her push him
In after he had been SO nice to her all the
way Another young man and a girl went
out to ride and took their cameras along to
secure some of the beautiful views of wood
and water: AS they were coming. home
with all of their films covered with bits of
scenery they caught sight of something
ahead, and in both straining their eyes to
look at ii they forgot to guide their wheels
and both rode into the canal and lost their
cameras and the man lost his hat.