Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-09
Bathing in salt Lake.

A correspondent of the Chicago Journal
details his bathing experience in Salt Lake
rs follows:
/ came near going away, like nineteen
tourists out of twenty who visit these parts,
without taking a swim in Great Salt Lake.
IL had done SO, you might have set me
down poor traveller indeed, for the day S
experience has been quite as interesting
and instructive, its sensations as novel,
and its incidents as striking, as have been
afforded by any other three days of my So
journ. A dive of twenty miles in the cool
of the morning brought me and my COM
panion to the best bathing place in the
lake. We had refreshed on the way with a
nice country breakfast Mt Bishop Kessler's
(think of breakfasting with n bishop and
paying him filthy lucre for it'd and were
in prime condition for dash in the surg
ing surf. There were no houses within
gunshot, and the apathy which prevails at
the city concerning all sorts of healthy
sport had its compensations in this case, for
it allowed us full opportunity for indulging
in "bluff bathing "Lnature's own sort,
which the watering places have suppressed
hitherto, but now, ashamed of their con-
ventionalities at last, allowing to "come in
again. But Salt Lake cares naught for
watering place regulations, and we were
soon, IN psuis ndturP, neck deep in the
salty waves, kicking and splashing, sum-
'mersaulting and cavorting, as happy as
clams Tor schoolboys) in high water
Neck deepl 1t an arbitrary expression,
and may mean five feet or twenty-five, for
one cannot go beyond that depth, unless
handicapped The dense fluid buoys him
Up, so that, after reaching the depth of his
shoulders, he may walk as he pleases, he
can't touch bottom, and his head refuses to
keep down as persistently as an apple on
Hallowmas Fen, or a Chicago scalper under
the Bankrupt act. Buoyancy will
never know the meaning of the word until
You go to Salt Lake and battle You feel
as if you had discovered a new element,
superior for the time to earth, air or water.
You feel like cutting up all manner of an
tics. You strike out to swim IN the usual
way, and your back parts rear up like the
roof of the Tabernacle; anon your feet are
kicking in the air, and you flop to save your
head from an expected ducking lying on
your back, you may float like porpoise;
then you try some new evolution aud shou,
your establishment and hilarity at the result.
'IIallo how do you feel now? 2" / ask my
fellow bather.
go, Duoyish, ii the reply. i.tah
The sensation is akin To that described in
slang AZ .'salubrions,' though it has none
of the muddled quality of the tippler's
salnbriousness. You merely feel little
delicious uncertainty ga to whether You are
Chicago Traveller or a big air bladder;
and you delight yourself with the reflection
that, after all. there is often not much diff
ference between the two. The tempera-
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hilerating, rather than weakening. Byand
by you get surfeited with novelty and go
ashore. Then you get your first reminder
Of the exceeding sadness of the water
first except some little gulps ON first plung-
ing in, which most likely taught you to
keep your mouth shut TO all further influx
from the element around you.-
Under the driving influence of the
sun, if you should stand in his rays for mo-
ment, you will soon be encrrsted with a
white mass Of pure salt sort Of yeneered
Lots wife. A friend told me that la once
solved the Sambo problem by fetching an
African brother out and giving him bath
in this water. The fellow was soon euam-
ele1 white enough. But that was in tho
days when magnitude was drawback: tile
aibescent process would be unnecessary
nowadays, But We did not test this pscu-
liarity of the lake bathing Less than the
usual application of towels served 10 make
us dry and glowing. and we realized no
no prickling sensation such as some yisi-
tors here have described, nor did we feel
any need, of fresh water rinsing. On the
whole, it was ono of the best things imag-
Unable in the way of bath. may mention,
also, that our Bishop takes a daily bath in
these waters for his ancient broken leg;
with good effect as he thinks.