The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04

she was thoroughly stepped In the conser-
vatlsm Of quiet country community she
had made up her mind that when she came
to the city her personal preiudices on the
moral or aesthetic side should not prevent
her from opening her eyes and seeing what
was going on in the world, as the world is
illustrated in New York
| The old lady said to her niece, whom she
was to visit during her metropolitan So
iourn: Jennie, want you to let me see
all the things L never see upin Briggs Juno
| ton. | wanter kinder look around and sea
how people live and what they do down
J here, you know, and l want you to take me
| to places and get me around, so that | can
kinder size up things when l get back"
Jennie assumed the responsibility implied
by this request. After trotting the old lady
about the city during the day she took her
on the first evening to hear talk by Bob
| 1ngersoll.
The old lady heard Ingersoll's theological
analysis without finching. Other people
warmed up and applauded and others drew
into their shell a-scowling. But the visitor
from Briggs junction did not commit her
self She simply ''said nothing and sawed
woods
Jennie was little surprised not to hear
comment of some deprecatory kind. But
nothing was said, the old lady retiring for
the night in state of obvious mental ac-
tiyity.
On the next evening niece Jennie took
her aunt to hear a dress reform lecture bv
Jeanness Miller. 1t would be difficult to
say which seemed the more radical to the
rural conservative, Ingersolls attack on ec
clesiasticism or Mrs. Miller's ripping up of
old dress ideas. But aunty said never a
word during or after the lecture.
That night Jennie saw the old lady safely
bestowed in her bed. She had kissed her
MO tTr
room in something of that luminous silence
which had prevailed on the previous even
ing, when the venerable occupant of the
bed, heaving deep and troubled sigh
gasped:
''Ahl Jennie, what is the world a-cominr
to- No hell and no shimmiesl''
THE BATHERs' LAST DIP.
The remarkable number of warm davs
during September nowhere produced q
more curious result than in the prolonged
activities at Coney island.
Coney island had been considering itself
ill treated by the weather. July and August
were entirely too cool for trade. Very
warm days were the exception, and everv-
body at Coney island who is interested in
crowds and who is not down thsre2-be-
came positively morose by the time Sen
TENDER l arrived.
But September, instead of the few SPAS
modlc not days early In the month which
New Workers. learn to look for, has kept up
peculiarly summary temperature. None
of the weather experts, public or private
has any record Of such September 1t is
beyond all orthodox precedent Up TO
within few days of the end of the month
the sultriness continued. These conditions
greatly disconnected people who had bur
ried home from the mountains, but thew
have delighted Coney island people, who
were, as you might say, standing with the
closing shutters in their hands, paused in
establishment, put away the shutters.
brushed up things again, and have actually
been doing so much more business during
September than anybody had any right to
expect that they are quite Modified in their
retrospective glance at the actual summer
season.
Crowds have continued to besiege the
New York boats. Ice cream has been tast-
ing seasonable even on the breezy pier. The