South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-05-29

I n AAhllCT VI DodIub-
It's a matter of boards to A1isha-
waka-missing board, and while ad-
mirers of attractive bathing suits
and lovers OF bathing think things Of
horror about the city officials, the
whereabouts Of the essential parts OF
the shelter house, used in past years
as a dressing room for the fairer
sex. doesn't worry them. What they
want Is immediate quarters. Service
is the missing word from the IA
vored menu.
Bathing suits may take the place
OF parasOls on the beach. Last Sun
day set new style in MishaTaka.
Bathing suits, or most of them, are
being carried-nOt worn. Mishawa
ka's fairer sex don't believe in
wearing them. And there's a rea-
son.
Youthful vandals-or maybe older
vandals so far as age is concerned
apparently had evil in mind when
boards were removed from choice
positions in the dress
ing room. The openings serve as
unsCreened windows, and permit the
world TO look inf the world
should happen TO be rolling by. Mod
esty has perched itself upon the
shoulders of the dainty misses, and
rather than subject themselves TO
the ever eager eyes of watching
| males-well, bathing suits are being
carried in Mishawaka; they aren't
being worn.
Shall They Wear EN- I'm Street?
While fate's untimely hands have
I marred the pleasures OF many
wouId-be bathers. others who by
chance live within a stones throw
of the beach have little competition
for bathing room. 1t might be look
ed upon as shocking to see fair
maidens walking calmly from their
home TO the beach, attired in bath
! ing costumes-but it isn't. But
| everyone in Mishawaka doesn't live
within a stones throw of the beach.
Yet even those who live so close
have joined their neighbor citizens
in the cry for a woman's dressing
room. And all may keep on crying
-Mishawaka's city officials SEEM
ingly aren't putting out a thing.
Publicity was solicited by many of
the city's younger set-and older
set, TOTO bring the sad state Of
affairs to the eyes of the park Of
ficials. Perhaps it has-a few of
them have been known to read
J South Bends leading newspaper.
I'VE visited the beach last sun
| day expecting TO swim" dainty
| little maid said sarcastically. "onR
to find that several boards of the
shelter house were missing. We
/ found the place about as private as
the polls on election day" This
much was said, though much was
hidden beneath the Redeemed face of
the little Irish rose that might have
! caused the park officials to buy
/ score of electric fans and a carload
of ice to offset the rise in tempera-
/ ture, had by chance the verbal
shower been bestowed upon them.
Park Faces Descrtion.
Blue laws" haven't held much eff
feet upon the little city. But a
Mishawaka Sunday in the future
plans to be as quiet as a machine
shop on a holiday unless the wants
of Mishawaka pleasure seekers are
met. Centuries have passed since the
days of Eve and all the world has
| become more populated. Women
! have a sense of pride and all haven't
! become hardened 10 the intoxication
Of fast life. SO women and bathing
suits probably will find pleasure in
! the waters of nearby lakes, or dis
tant ones, and Merriheld park may
| become quiet, an echo OF a winter
day, all because park officials have
the spring fever. have lost their
pleasure or interest in the few hours
of pleasure that others might enjoy
were the opportunity afforded-or
maybe just because they simply
don't give a rap.
And, too, the money that might fill
the compartments of various cash
drawers in the city - that money
which must be spent and which is
welcomed by all who cry out their
wares, may be found swelling the
Golfers Of transportation lines, no
tells, restaurants, cafes-and what
not of summer resorts.
Necessary repairs could be made
TO the present shelter house at a
very small expense shelter house
that would become stictly private,
and a stumbling stone or an OBJ
stacle in the path OF evil minds.
Complaint is also made against
the disgraceful condition Of the ap-
proaches TO the beach which make it
almost impossible for children TO ap-
proach the edge OF the water with
out having their feet lacerated with
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