The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-12
ANDTHEY FEEL BLUE.
The BloodS Who We're Left at
the Leap Year Ball.
THEi LADIES AT THE PHOENIX.
Improvised Wet Nurses and the City Council
The One Way to Tackle the Great
Water Problem.

The ladies' choice leap year ball set
down very heavily on number of young
society gentlemen. Their claims to popu
larity with the fair sex have greatly depre-
ciated in their own estimation since the cold
neglect they experienced in failing to Sc
cure bid to the Fancy Dress" ball.
These young scons of the first families, |
as well as number of gentlemen whose |
lineage may not be so readily traced to the |
paternal tree very many generations back, |
are considerably put out at being so ruth |
lessly dropped by the ladies upon whom |
they lavished theatre tickets and dancing |
privileges il abundance; and they will oc- |
cupy the balance of the season in neglect |
ing those fair maidens upon whom they
expended so much attention during the
early part of the social season.
A number of the young ladies were pru-
dent enough to invite "batch' of their
admirers and thus keep on the string well
ordered supply of gallantry for their con-
venience on future occasions.
One lady captured the fort and was the
best commissioned fair warrior on the
scene. While it may not be the proper
thing for young lady to appear at pub
lie ball armed to the teeth this one was GER
tainly heavily armed when carrying three
strapping fine officers under her wing.
And here it may be intimated that
Madame Rumor has been outrageously
shocked when reading the elaborate descrip-
tons of the dresses worn at our balls by
the frequent recurrence therein of ladies
of af1uence appearing in street garb. How
these "short dressed" people can feel COM
Portable bobbing around among the trains
of the princess gowns is not at all concelv-
able, as to the casual observer they appear
TO fill the places of maids, or attendants on
the long trained queens. And how the
decollette can be induced into matronly
dresses devoid of train without looking
tawdry perpleXes even more the conserva
tives of the old school of fashion mongers.
But the liberty for doing shocking things
in the great and newly trammeled west
should not be controverted, as there is an
estrangement of distance that makes US
law unto ourselves. Good form is slapped
in the face and ruthlessly pitched down
stairs.
Mr.. Wilson, of Wilson & Newcombe, tells
queer incident which happened the other
day. a big Italian came into the studio
After a thorough canvass of the schedule
he agreed that the So portrait suited him
best After hesitating moment he asked:
'Would it be any more for two!n
Mr.. Wilson assured him that it would
not.
81 will take it with the lady, he said
stepping into the dressing room to fix his
hair. In q few moments he made his ap
pearance and seeing no lady about de-
Tnanded:
''Where's the ladyi'
THAT is for you to say" said Mr.. Wilson
and added with some disgust. Il am not in
the habit of furnishing the woman for the
pictures"
In relating this Mr. Wilson said he had
seen many displays of gall, even to the Dor
rowing of his best coat by an entire
stranger to have picture taken, but this
one beat the record.
''Why are the morning mails always
late!'' | asked the postmaster.
Because it is a pm. SERVICE replied
Mr. Benton.
The Lost Cord-When niger is in the
wood pile.
''There were at least twenty five young
ladies at the Phoenix dance that were posi-
lively beautiful" said a young lady who
measures the physician CudIElS VI utr SIS
tiers with a nicely that makes homely flesh
creep. She added Il do not know that
ever saw so many handsome young ladies
at single gathering. Their compilations,
heads and necks were simply perfect and if
] was to advertise Salt Lake at the Worlds
fair it would be by a car load of its pref
test women, and they would turn the heads
of all r1en who admire pretty women this
way. 1 do not believe that the city of Chi
cago can turn out twenty-five as beautiful
girls as l saw at the Phoenix party. 1t was
actually pitiable TO see these girls, who
would have created a sensation in any city
in the country paradlng their charms 10 9
lot of sticks who danced them about with
out approaching their high privilege
There was warmth of beauty there tina
would have filed the eye Of a New Yorl
man and tempted him to spend his sum
mers at Salt Lake.
When the Pilgrim Fathers selected tht
present site for great city they set thei
stakes here because of the three grea
canons filed with the freshest, clearest
purest snoI-fed water that can flow from
the nourishing breasts of chaste-whit
mountains. These mothers of irrigation
with their established storehouses o
packed snow which come tumbling dow
the mountain cafons during the heat o
summer are the conservation of nature
physical supply to meet the demands Of
great city.
The prodigality of these stores of waite
in heaped up abundance is largely dis
counted by the parsimony of the men VIII
instead of meeting nature half way con
vert themselves into "improvised we
nurses and go to prodding in the bottom
with hollow pieces Of iron with view
getting a little moisture out Of the groun
TO feed the Inhabitants of this city from th
neck of a sucking bottle.
The men who have been paying on
money for tickling the dirt in patch c
ground southeast Of Liberty park with
face have not only been fooling their tim
away but the money of the taxpayer be
sides.
This is again very small business, thong
not hurtful, nor can it be set down as
waste as it does bring the water out wher
it can be seen. However, il the water ws
let alone all that is held in the hills at tn
high altitude would find its way into IL
thread of the stream before the year
over. In the spring Of the year it is cas-
to tap spring in any part of the moul
tains as they are nothing but great sponge
filled with the clarified elixir.
The water question will be very simp
one as soon as a mau with big purpose
his heart and a head to grapple with sha
come along TO master it.
The wishy washy policy of tickling II
earth like Moses of old will not do in the.
big times.