The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-07
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

Warm huff for you,'' sang out jim
Shields, as he came outside to try to get
little breeze.
To the crowd of his colleagues, wool
men, University boys, ETC., this was the
cause OF an immediate attack, but not
! one of them was armed
| Inc idea of any sane man springing such
question on desperate crowd, but prob
ABLY ne knew what he was about, for just
before leaving the rotunda, of Gus Holmes
| hotel he was seen talking to Jack Rock
! ledge-so he was probably insured in case
of accident.
do you know" he said, 1.-The only way
to enjoy life on a day like this is to don
pair Of silken paJamas, sink ON divan
and amid the aroma Of the soothing hop
guzzle long lemonades through a couple Of
straws.''
When summer gets around broke
/ in another, L always wish for the garden
Of Eden, where brief authority is the
principle article of clothing
Whats the matter with roof gard
en?" asked Willie Burke, where ones
lingerie flaps and futters in the evening
breeze, and where the Anheiuser flows as
| the milk and honey on the Biblical hill
sides"
There's one thing I envy on a day like
this, and that's the mercury It's the only
thing that keeps cool, higher, higher,
higher it goes, and while it enjoys itself
on its lofty level, sWeltering humanity
below curses and casts appealing glances
toward Saltair or the weather flag
81 once heard Of a man." said DR..
Worthing-ton, who constructed a pair of
wings and flew over a strip of water
dragging his feet in the brine in order to
/ keep cool. 1 wonder if 1 couldn't work
| that here?"
"Of course not. That was in a cooler
pacN han this. Why, your wings woulo
be like the wax ones of Icarus, and the
sun 49, Qua melt them as he did those,
wouldn't he Benner?'
That's right" said Benner, and con-
tinued. II was up in the weather bureau
this morning and every man had a pair
of twesers. The instruments were SO hot
that they couldn't touch them with the
bare hands, and they had to keep the
windows closed so that the wind Wouldn
curl the maps and make them crisp"
Here the speaker wiped his brow with
his mawler and sprinkled the sidewalk
from the ends of his fingers.
4 was near the Mexican border for a
short time one summer, and that's what
makes me so thin now. Why, actually
the Salamanders didn't have a ghost of
show, and the bare feet Of the natives
used to sizzle as they walked around on
the burning sand. | learned down there
that the reason a Mexican dog was hair
less was because old Sol had singed it all
off,
"Westervelt, that's pretty good for you,'
went on Adie Ellis, hut old sage brushed
Nevada can beat them all when 1t comes
to being nice and warm There's one
place there a few miles from carson
called The Frying Pan and all we,
have to do would be to place the trout on
the rocks for two or three minutes and
they would be cooked TO the queens
TASTE
Come, now" said Shields; .the hottest
place ] was ever in outside of Turkish
bath was
"Whack. whackr came the short,
quick blows of a mallet, interrupting the
silver tongued Jim.
What was that?"
"The opening of a jolly little key
Gee whiz! it's hot!'' exclaimed every
one at once, and then they all went for
a stroll, returning shortly looking very
Mr. Corridor would not stay to hear
what they had to say, but one sentence
overlook him as he headed up the street.
He might have been mistaken, but it
sounded like "Ah, that saved my life!
Wasn't it lucky he had the price?'