The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-23
AT EPWORTH HEIGHTS.
DR.. T.. A. Goodwin Discourses Con-
corning Bathing and Fishing.

Correspondence of the indianapolis Journal.
EPWORTH HEIGHTS. LUDINGTON,
Mich, July pa good many years ago L
heard a pathetic appeal by a jealous
preacher to a class of sinners who had
been unmoved by ordinary preaching; he
said that heaven would not be thoroughly
enjoyable by him unless he should meet
some of the sinners in the congregation
who seemed TO be little inclined to travel
heavenward; hence, for his future happi-
ness. he appealed TO them to start. Whether
they did or not / never knew, but l
do know that the delights Of this charm
ing resort would be enhanced if a score or
more who wished me a good time were
here to share them. But as everybody can
not come intend to make the most of
them while they last. Here We are above
the hay-fever belt and out of the torrid
zone, breathing fresh afr and sleeping un-
der blankets, with the waves OF the lake
singing a sweet lullaby all night. Back
from the beach the thermometer has been
toying with the ~nineties, very much as in
indianapolis, but our thermometer has not
ventured above 81 any day this week, and
to-day Saturday it started in at eS and
had reached only 70 at noon. 1 do not have
~ ~ NAA'f ~ NhAN A1fC pN&N
must have something to do with it. Then,
there is the fishing. l have had an expert
ence-two of them. The first day out they
bit-that is. one sood-sized pickerel did, and
l was encouraged to try again, so. taking
my twelve-year-Old granddaughter, we
were on the way to the bOathOGSe with
trolling tackle in hand, when. passing DR..
Quayle's cottage, we met him just coming
from the lake, barefooted and barelegged
TO the knees, with nothing on him TO be
proud of anywhere. carrying the oars OF
Whittier away" was his characteristic
salutation. l explained.
Not a bit of it. Come right along with
me and | Will row you out to the fishing
grounds.
l could not refuse. and in a trice we
were in his boat and he at the oars, ac-
coutered as he was. The lake was rough
"chOppy,' he called it. but he faced the
wind heroically. though going backwards,
as rOWers must, and we were soon in the
Lincoln river, which widens out at the
mouth into what is known as Lincoln lake,
where the fish most do congresate. The
doctor is an expert arSma but for some
unexplained reason the fish would not bite
my hook. but took to the little girls, who
will never forget the sensation she had
when she pulled in her first fish.
This lakeside resort Isl d kind of MethO-
dist Mecca. as Winona is a Presbyterian.
yet here, as there. others find congenial
fellowship. and two or three other denoEi-
nations are represented. All day to-day a
strong western breeze has dashed the
waves nlSn up the Dedcn, the White caps
rolling over one another sublimely. but
they do not keep the more venturesome
bathers ashore. DR.. Quayle has been half
the afternoon in his boat, bobbing I'D and
down with the waves, as tickled as a boy
or eighteen. But my private opinion is the
whole bathing racket is q fraud of the first
water. Men, women and children go
a-bathing every day, just as an invalid
takes quinine. makes a wry face and pro-
nounces it excellent, just because quinine
Is prescribed. one woman, more honest
than the rest. told the truth. Under the
impression that the way to be heroic was
TO take a heroic SOuSe, she sOuSed herOicai-
ly, but when she came to her p~erpendicu-
lar, she calculated some unmistakable
words. | am sure they were not just what
a colored sister calculated some twenty
years ago, whom Elder Broyles had just
immersed In the canal near the Second
straight for the shore and there remained.
You see, the hot water made at Chicago
under a temperature of 100 degrees, all goes
up the Chicago river, this year, en- route
for New Orleans. where IL is not needed,
while here it is needed badly.
With next week begins a series of enter
tainments in the form of lectures, concerts
and the like. from grave to humorous, in
the afternoons and evenings. with golf and
tennis in the %fOrenoons. My voice is still
for fishing. however. l can go to concerts
and lectures at home; as to golf. / never
liked it anyway. but / cannot catch a thir-
ty-pound fish in White river. That is the
kind they catch here AS we went out on
our first fishing we met two big boys car
rying one of that size. just taken, and my
heart is set on his companion.
l.. L. SEE.
Epworth Heights, Ludington, Mich,
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