Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-17
Suit gake 9eututrat,
SATURDAY. OCTOBER II. 1885
LOOKING AT THE SCENERY.
The Fat Traveller, SchoOlmaster,
Middle-Aged Man, Young Girls
and Lovers.

The effect OF scenery upon different
persons is worth the students attention.
Let him take his seat before some recog-
nized point of Scenery" like that from
the Catskill height and watch the effect
of it upon those who come to look at it.
The fat traveller who arrives perspiring
seems to appreciate the value of it. He
removes his hat and mops his forehead,
and looks about with an expression of de-
light at the vastness of the prospect His
eye roves at once over all the States of
the Union in sight; he seems to weigh
the view in his mind for its size, but he
wastes no time on it. He remarks that
that is the scenery for him, and then
abandons it in search of cooling drink.
Then comes the dominic schoolmaster
in long-skirted broadcloth coat, severe
man, with half dozen of his scholars.
He waved his hand over the whole view
with the air of imparting information to
the young; that is the Hudson river, that
is Connecticut, we are in New York-it is
a gigantic lesson in geography, and the
boys follow him away as soon as they
have learned it.
There again is rather battered-looking
middle-aged man reclining on the edge
of the clif-what does he see? A piano.
rama of his life? Probably not. Few
people are given to musing on their past.
He enjoys the repose of the landscape,
the faint rattle of wagons or the clang of
the railway train coming up from four or
five miles away, the shadow of the inn
mense plain, which is marked off in
irregular plats of meadow, and grain, and
woods, the CLEAN of the rivera mo-
notonous picture full of variety too far
removed to make distinct impression
the sort of view that requires nothing but
a lazy mind.
And those two young girls in muslin,
arms around each others waists-no, not
exactly young, but young for school
marms, too shy for absolute youth
sauntering along the edge of the preci-
pice, expressing genuine rapture over the
prospect. 1t must be confessed that their
figures in silhouette against the sky have
an artistic value. Nobody can tell how
much they really see, but doubtless more
than another couple who have just step
ped out across the platform and stand in
an attitude of observation. Pretty soon,
however, they are looking at each other,
and if they get any view at all of the
landscape, it is as reflected in each others
eyes. There is no landscape in the world
equal to that, if the eyes are pretty-that
is if they reflect we'll.
Are those lovers on wedding tour?
How charming the scenery is to them!
She is sitting down now on rock, pull
ing to pieces wild azalea, with her eyes
downcast, and he, seated on rock at her
feet. is looking up at her. Talk about see
ing four States at once, and hundred
villages, and the Hudson river! This
young gentleman sees the whole world;
and the charming girl who has entangled
him with her long eyelashes knows it as
well as he does. This is an appreciation
of scenery that goes to the heart They
never will forget this view all their lives.
If the young lady is asked to describe it
when she goes home she will not be able
to make half as good description of it
as the fat man, but how much more she
saw and felt! The fat man carried away
with him map, but this girl-Heaven
be kind to her has gone away with
piece of scenery in her heart that all man.
kind desire, and that life would be very
poor without. -CatskW Correspondence.