The Worthington advance., 1900-10-12


the old ocean and have no limit to the
look; just look, and look, and 1ook,
not till you were tired Of looking, y {
till you were perfectly satisfied with
looking. And then TO- lie there =
night and be lulled to sleep by IT y
roar of the breakers; splendid music
to sleep by; splendid reve.lle to wake
up by. It just rested me to sit and
listen to the waves and think there
was something that could keep in mo.
ton all the time and yet never st
tired. Why is it that one can sit and
watch the waves aud seemingly never
tire of iti Perhaps it is because no
two waves are exactly alike. Y
One item of the program every
day to take dip in the international
bath-tub, in other words to go bath
ing in the ocean. Those bathing suits
that we wore. Oh, my! It is we'll that
you are few thousand miles away so
that you cannot see my blushes.
When I first donned my bathing suit,
l had to look twice to be sure that l
had anything on; and when I started
from the tent door, l instinctiyely
glanced around to see if there were
any women in sight. On. the princi-
pie that somes things are for use and
not for beauty, those bathing sujts
ought to be most intensely practical.
Lam sorry for yon people who h1ye
never had anything larger than Lake
Okabena to splash around in. You
can have. but little idea of what It
means to wsdeout as far az you please
and think .thatthepe are three Of miE sc
thousand miles of water headed right
towards you; and when one of the big
waves rolled in and breaks over your
head, your first feeling almost is that
the whole three or four thousand
miles of water has got thereat once.
But you would have laughed to see
the preachers wife dance 1t wat
the music of the waves, of course, but
it was lively jig all the same. Hold
lag on to the rope she would feel
under obligation to jump every time
wave came in, no matter if the wave
wasn't above her knees. But when a
good lusty breaker five or six feet
high came rolling in, the jump would
be in dead earnest, and ministerial
dignity was entirely lost sight of.
She had evidently read in the Bible
that "there was time to dance" and
when the big waves struck her she
fully believed that that time had come
and must be improved Immediately.
But how readily the youngsters will
accommodate themselves to new con-
dit'ons. Although Paul hardly knew
the first principles of swimming, We
had not been at the ocean a week be.
fore he would push away out beyond all
the rest of US, and when the big waves
came in he would jump over them, OF
dash into them or plunge under them,
and it didn't seem to make any differ.
ence to him which.
When we started down for the sea.
shore We said to each other, how shall
We put in the time for a whole month
with nothing to do, But the day came
for us to pack up and leave, we could
not see where the time had gone; ii
had passed so quickly that it truly
seemed more Ikea dream than a
reality.
Our trip on 1.-THE rolling Deep was
f.om Los Angeles to San Francisco,
abont'a forty hour ride, We did not
encounter weather severe enough "a
test our 'tsea-worthiness" very
thoroughly; and yet when we reached
San Francisco almost all of the pas.
sepgers could have told pretty nearly
the exact spot in their coFporositiee
where their stomachs were located
BY supper time Of the first day
the steamer . had begun te
play the part Of rocking chair e
some extent; and when I went
to the table and was looking for 8
seat, all at once . ladywith her hande
clasped over particular spot, and an
1ndia.famine- sufferer look on her face
and q woe-begone tone in her voice
turned and said, "Any one can have
this chair who wants yqt.i4t;; +; dMqpG M want
BIT fer ii downright comfortable, on.
pyable travelling. give me. the steam,
i g every time, with il copl hreez il.
freedom from duat, its rolling waves
its refreshing slumber as you az