| Show 1 7 X w feet I 1 M aw 4 f 19 o 0 at winana lake have not iced that upward of fifty mineral springs there form drinking fountains on the more than 2 acres of the assembly grounds at each fountain Is provided a tin cup A year pr more ao it was discovered that the frequent disappearance of the cups from the springs caused much care and trouble people would carry oft off the cups filled with water and would for got get to them every expedient was tried to put a stop to this tice the cups were chained to the rocks but they were detached and car ried off much to the annoyance of thirsty individuals who afterward looked about in vain for the vessel the trouble found ita its way to dr dickey the genius who runs the place lie ile got a chisel and a bit a quarter of an inch wide set a cup on a block and cut a silt slit in the bottom of it then he took the cup to a spring left it there and sat down on a neighboring bench to watch developments presently a cottager came along stopped at the spring to take a drink filled the cup and started to walk off with it in less time athali it takes to tell it he discovered that the water was escaping and had coursed down his trousers legs and dimmed the lus ter ot of his shoes then he threw the cup back to its place and ind tried another 1 spring with a like result inside of half an hour all the cupa cups at the different springs had holes in their bottoms now no one has any further use for a cup than to drink from it and then to place the vessel where it belongs the education of winona people into ohp use of the leaky cups caused as much effort as do some of cf the many other things that ara ar taught on the grounds if some drinkers did not say things that would not look well in print their countenances betokened what they thought the posture that some of them assume to prevent the water from dripping on their raiment would furnish rare studies in atti tudes audes they incline forward to awful angle and they look as it if they wished they possessed necks as long as a gi raff e s fhe the women are obliged to hitch back their skirts and the men set their polished shoes as far to the rear that they must hold on to some friendly object to keep from pitching forward into the spring these however are the experiences of drinkers only during the first few days they spend at winona lake soon they learn how to take the winona drink without allowing the water to trickle over them it its s just as easy as falling off a log says dr dickey he ile places his forefinger over the hole in the bottom and standing erect quaffs the coo cooling ling draught at his ease case |
