The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-23
THE SALT SEA SHORE.
A Day Among the Beauties
And Breakers.
BATHING SUIT SUGGESTIONS.
A Base Reflection on the Music of the
ScOts-NOtes in General and
= Some in Particular

All uDOd4O. 1AOSe were the WORDS
that caused general hustle on the ex-
cursion cars on the Utah & Nevada
Railway on Thursday last as soon we
glided out of the station towards the
giant inland attraction of the West
the Great Salt Lake. What wonder
full sight greets the eye after an hours
delightful ride! A sea, an ocean 1900
feet above fea level surrounded ty
mountains, and in the midst of the
transcontlnental route from the Allan
tic to the Pacific. The Saratoga of the
Slope, the Long Branch OF the Rockies,
the peerless pleasure resort OF the Salt
Lakers OF the present, and the Brighton
of the bye and bye, for tourists round
the world. This is what we gaze upon
as we roll down by the beach, and watch
the waves as they lap the shores OF our
saline sea.
AT GARFIELD.
We find good lighthouses. and ac-
commodations for entering into the life
giving waters, and it doesn't take much
effort on your part, to have the said
waters enter into you. When they do,
there is species OF agitation selzes you,
a strong inclination to catch on to
everything, especially everything that
resembles liquid of different kind, and
most anything moist is an improvement
on what you have swallowed Even
"Valleytan whisky" has charms in COM
parison, or even cronk beer.
Hundreds of people and most of
hnl Tn tsfnnVD
take a bath in Salt Lake every
evening. You may ask, How
does the lake purify itself?" Well.
Two hundred and fifty square
miles of deep water, is pretty good
sized pond to dabble around in. And
then you must take into consideration
the intensely saline character of the
water; there must be some self-purih-
cation in that, fancy. 1t nearly
picked me when l was in there.
/ felt that 1 could keep all summer
without ice, when l emerged, shining
with crystalized whiteness. 1t may have
been owing to my superior purity that
l So appeared, but think it was salt,
especially as / washed most of it off in
the bucket of fresh water supplied in
the bath room. Real prints never
wash off.
The daisiest thing out at the Lake is
the average lady's bathing suit. 1t is
unsurpassed by any garment | have
ever seen-at least out of doors-except
the abbreviated, attenuated, bob-bifur-
Gated tenement occupied by the gentle
men on such occasions. When a
man with corners on him resemb-
ling the angles of house
gets the hills and hollows of his. angular
anatomy inside of a thin, but short,
suit o. the tandard size-six inches too
small every way for its occupant-you
may imagine how little like a gentle
manly merchant. banker or physician
the dandy of the lake appears. True,
he looks more like himself on such oc-
casions too, because more OF his real
proprid persona is visible, or nearly so.
Bul he does not appear quite as fascin-
into the symmetrical roundness which
Liberty Park. With arms like whistles
and limbs like flutes-all of his physical
construction built on the churn-dasher
principle-a man doesn't take well in a
suit with no sleeves, a low neck and
only six and half inches of pants to it,
and Just button here and there. Now
the ladies always look well. Nomatter
how much, or how little, they dress
themselves when they are plump and
shapely nobody finds fault. But do
think that fashions ought to be studied,
that will suit the various orders of
shape found even among the fair sex.
A little wadding is wisely used on land,
and well kept in place by methods
known to connoisseurs, renders any
natural imperfection unnotlceable.
Why not indulge in little taste of this
kind in water costumes? Here is fine
field for our artistes in costumery. 1t
would soon be 1.-The rage" to have suit,
able cuts and patterns for the PHYSIQUE,
as well as suitable colors for the COM
plexion. Try it, somebody, and make
money.
On the day in question the Twentieth
Ward went to take their annual bath. AS
most of them staid there all day.
l Judge the members were well
picked. Governor Murray, Marshal
Ireland, Attorney Varian, and they say
some Deputies" &C., joined the
party, and spent the afternoon-and
some cash in the recreations SO amply
supplied by Messrs. Douris and Ander-
son. The bowery swarmed with pretty
girls who glanced and ehatted and
Smurcned, Win the usual miraculous
sweetness of the sex-when young
and good looking, while the grayer ones
talked each other blind about the days
when they were boys and girls. Bishop
Sharp and counselors were present. and
did the admirable among all classes, i'll
their usual fatherly manner. 1t was
great pleasure to see these brethren en-
joying themselves in the midst of so
many, among whom they have presided
for years. and by whom they are uniyer-
sally beloved and respected.
William Dunbar's bagpipes seemed to
sound quite natural in spite of the salt
surroundings; and ! could not notice
that he played any salt airs, or any.
fresh ones either for that matter. For
all airs sound the same to my English
ears, when they issue from a bagpipe.
And they, the airs I mean, are fargo
enough too. for every variation of sound
to be absorbed. should think. This is
the first time in the modern history of
the Lake, that the pipes have been
heard in that vicinity. 1t is said that
cayotes and other denizens of the hills.