Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — The Old Surf Bath. [ARTICLE]

The Old Surf Bath.

It is not bo many yean age when surf bathing <rf a very primitive ktad prevailed at the eastern end es Ixm* Island and, for aught I know, *t other points. Every RktoiW mornta*. «» afternoon, as the tfiftr Wffled, throughout the Summer Mfr farm wagons trundled down- to the beaeh aad were swung around abreast of theJine of breakers. Old flshhouses served the purpose of modern bathing pavtlfofca, and the sea eostumea were thcee ot last year’s village street. A long rope was drawn from under UMttanta Md hitched to the wheelr sturdy ex-whaler or IMP 1 idW fidjiNr la red flannel shirt tffid oNF tiMMbW at the ankles slipped hla walat through the loop at the end es this prisaftlve life line and, wading out, kept it M taunt as circumstances permitted, while the women and children bugt to It and reveled and wallowed and shrieked, rejoicing in their "Saturday tub."