Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-10-02
SEA BATHING INLAND.
Remarkable Properties Of the Great
salt Lake.

talk of the finest sea bathing on
earth a thousand miles from the
ocean; but truth is no less truth
because it appears absurd. The
sea bathing in Great Salt Lake
infinitely surpasses anything of
the kind on either the Atlantic or
Pacific coast. The water contains
mSuy times more salt, and much
more soda, sulphur, magnesia,
chlorine, bromine and potassium
than any ocean water or the globe.
1t is powerful in medicinal viz.
tues, curing or benehting many
forms of rheumatism, rheumatic
govt, dyspepsia, nervous dis
orders, and cutaneous diseases;
and it acts like magic on the hair
of those unfortunates whose tend
encies are to bald headedness.It is
a prompt and potent tonic and in
vigorant of body and mind, and
then there is no end of fun in
getting acquainted with its pecu-
liarities.
A first bath in it is always as
good as circus, the bather being
his or her own amusing trick
mule. The specific gravity is but
a trife less than that of the Holy
Land Dead Sea, the actual figures,
with distilled water as unity, being,
for the ocean 1.027, for Salt Lake
1.107, and for the Dead Sea 1.116.
The human body will not and can.
not sink in it. You can walk out
in it where it is fifty feet deep, and
your body will stick up out of it
like a fishing cork from the
shoulders upward. You can sit
down in it perfectly secure where
it is fathoms deep. Men lie on
top Of it with their arms crossed
under their heads and smoke
cigars. Its buoyancy is indescrib-
able and unimaginable. Any one
can float upon it at the first trial;
there is nothing to do but lie
down gently upon it-and float.
But swimming is an entirely
different matter. The moment
you begin to paddle your own
canoe lively and-to the lockers
on - mirth. provoking exercises
ensue. When you stick your
hands under to make a stroke,
your feet decline to stay any
where but on top; and when, af-
ter an exciting tussle with your
refractory pedal extremities, you
again get them beneath the sur
face, your hands fly out with the
splash and splitter Of half
dozen futter wheels. LIZ, on &C.
count of your brains being
heavier than your heels, you
chance to turn u somersault and
your head goes under, your heels
will pop up like pair of frisky
didapper ducks. You cannot
keep more than one end OF your.
self under water at once, but you
soon learn to wrestle with its
novelties, and then it becomes "a
thing of beauty and joy any
summer day. The water is de-
lightful tot he skin, every sensation
is exhilarating, and one cannot help
feeling in it like a gilded cork
adrift in a jewel trimmed bowl of
champagne punch. In the sense
of luxurious ease with which it
envelopes the bather it is unrivall-
ed on earth. The only approx
nation to it is in the phosphores-
cent water of the Mosquito coast.
The water does not freeze until
the thermometric mercury tum-
bles down to eighteen degrees
above zero, or fourteen degrees
below the ordinary freezing point.
1t is as clear as crystal, with
bottom of snow white sand, and
small objects can be distinctly
seen at depth of twenty feet.
There is not a fish or any other
living thing in all the $500 or
5000 square miles of beautiful
and mysterious waters, except the
yearly increasing swarms of sum-
mer bathers. Not a shark or
stingaree to scare the timid swim
mer or fioater, not crab or a
crawfish to nip the toe of the
nervous wader, not minnow or
frog, tadpole or a pollywog-
nothing that lives, moves, swims,
crawls, or wriggles. 1t is the
ideal sea. bathing place of the