Middletown transcript., 1881-09-23
SALT LAKE CITY.

l have just returned from short
visit to Salt Lake City, having spent
few days looking into the Mormon
question and in surprising the landlord
of Salt Lake hotel with my robust
mania for food.
Salt Lake City is a very pretty place
in summer, with it's beautiful trees and
clear streams of water flowing down on
each side of the streets. The mulberry
tree is quite common, and silk worm
culture is being encouraged to consid-
cradle degree.
l ate several mulberries while there,
not so much because 1 liked them, but
because it is the proper thing to do;
and if you don't eat them once in
while you are looked upon as tender
foot and eyed with unpleasant curl
osity.
One day 1 ate a large mulberry in an
abstracted kind of a way, which turned
out to be silk worm. 1t has ripper,
richer, nut t-browner flavor than the berry
has, but is colder and more fuzzy.
Salt Lake is noted for its beautiful
climate and polygamy. A man with
only one wife there feels lonely and ne
elected. The Endowment House is
the place where the damage is done.
1t is little warehouse where you can
get matrimony at eastern prices with
freight added.
1 had seen a good many proselyte
Mormon women before went to Zion,
because they all pass through Laramie
on their way to Utah. They are
brought from the wilds and Jungles of
Europe, Irope and Orope in cages.
Most of them have ship fever and every
thing else they can lay their hands on.
Perhaps may be getting fastidious,
but am going to worry along with
only one wife, think, and try to drag
out miserable existance without be-
coming the slave of a consuming ambi-
tion to leave mass meeting of red
nosed widows when l die.
The new crop of Mormon girls are,
some of them, pretty husky, but they
are not handsome, and the wide waste
of Mother-in-Law is horrible to con-
template.
If l were to say what think of pol
ygamy in my own candid and untutored
western way, the chances are that The
Argo would be delayed in its trans
mission through the mails.
The Great Salt Lake is a very fine
deposite of brine. A great many peo-
pie go there in the summer, and it is
getting to be quite resort.
1 didn't have any bathing suit, so 1
went around point where could be
alone and went in. The water feels
pleasant to the skin and very grateful
until you get it on the place where
there is no skin. Then it isn't SO
grateful. If you have any raw places
on you the pleasure of the bath will be
marred.
I had heard that person could float
on the surface of Salt Lake as he would
on the bosom of woven wire mattress
and not wave of trouble roll across
his peaceful breast.
So I tried it.
My feet are very small and delicate.
That is the first thing that anybody
notices about me. The next thing
that attracts the attention is the intel
lectual dome like mental watermelon
that surmounts the structure.
That is why my floating on the un-
rtffled surface of Salt Lake was an
epoch in my life which would like to
forget. In the first moment of surprise
l opened my mouth and casually swal-
lowed most of the lake.
l find that the taste of Great Salt
Lake is not pleasant. Ithasa Mormon
bead on it and a flavor Of old age that
l can still taste as l write. When 1
go there again l will use the lake for
external application only.-BiH Nye IN
Quincy Modern ArgO.