Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — FISH FRY PARTIES: [ARTICLE]

FISH FRY PARTIES:

How Cincinnatians Amuse Themselves at Night. Any warm, starllghtod night, writes a correspondent from Cincinnati, if you row up the Ohio rivor In a Hklff, or if you walk through tho willow forests that line the broad, white sand beach for six miles, or by steamboat or by sailboat, you will see all the way, sometimes out on the gleaming sunds, again half hid in the willows, a tent and always In front tho red (lames of a driftwood lire. Music and laughter fill the air. Out on the river a fleot of skiffs, John boats, occasionally a sail or a canoe, swarm about. Tho men In them fish with hook and line, with net and seine, and triumphant shouts announce the capture of a fish. At the fire points aro the ladies and the children of the party. A colored man Is there, too, with shining pans and in the roar is an improvised table. Somewhere near 10 o’clock the fishermen began to come In. The colored man cleans the scaly game and odors of frying fish fill the air. Then coinos singing. For miles music and good stories and laughter accompany the fish fry supper.