The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-09-04
BA THING IN Salt LAKE.

1t may seem preposterious to talk
of the finest sea bathing on earth
thousand miles from the ocean, but
truth is no less truth because 1t appears
absurd. The sea bathing in Great Salt
Lake infinitely SURPRISES anything of
the kind on either the Atlantic or Pa
citie coast. The water contains many
times more salt and much more soda,
sulphur, magnesia, chlorine, bromine
and potassium than any ocean water
on the globe. 1t is powerful in
medicinal virtues, curing or benetiting
many forms Of rheumatism, rheumatic
govt, dyspepsia, nervous disorders,
and cutaEeous diseases, and it acts
like magic on the hair of those I'M
fortunates whose tendencies are to
baldheahedness. 1t is prompt and
potent tonic and invigorant of the
body and mind, and then there is no
end of fun in getting acquainted with
It's peculiarities.
A first bath in it is always as good
as circus, the bather being his or her
own trick mule. The specific gravity
is but tritle less than that of the
Holy Land Dead Sea, the actual
figures with distilled water as unity
being for the ocean, 1.O57; for Salt
Lake, 1.107, and for the Dead Sea,
1.116. The human body will not and
Cannot sink. You Can walk out in it
where it is fifty feet deep and your
body will stick up out of it like
fishing cork from the shoulders up
ward. You can sit down in it perfect
ly secure where it is tathoms deep.
Men lie on top of it with their arms
CT used under their heads and smok~
cigars. Its buyancy is indescribable
and unimaginable. Any one eau float
upon it at the first trial there is roth
ing to do but to lie down gentl upon
it-and float. But swimming is an
entirely different matter. The moment
you begin to "paddle your own canoe,
lively and-to the lookers-on -mirtn-
provoking exercises ensue.
" hen you stick your hands under
to make stroke, your feet decline to
stay anywhere but on top; and when,
after an exciting tussle with your re-
fractory pedal extremities, you again
get them beneath the surface, your
hands flv out with the splash and sput-
ter of half dozen futter wheels If,
on account of your brains being heavier
than your heels. you chance to turn
a 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 yoursel!
under the water at once, but you soon
learn how to wrestle with It's novelties
and then it becomes "a thing of beauty
and a joy for any summer day.
The water is delightful to the skin,
every sensational is exhilaratIng, and
one cannot help feeling in it like a
gilded cork adrift in a jewel-rimmed
bowl of champagne punch. In the
sense Of luxurious ease with which it
envelops the bather it is unrivalled on
earth. The only approximation to it
is in the phosphorescent waters of the
Mosquito Indian coast. The water
does not freeze until the mercury
'umLles down to eighteen degrees
above zero. or fourteen degrees below
the ordinary freezing point. 1t is as
clear as crystal, with a bottom of
snow-white sand, and small objects
can be distinctly seen at depth of
twenty feet. There is not 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 summer bathers.
Not shark or stlngaree to scare the
timid swimmer or tioater, not a crab
or crawfish to nip the toe of the
nervous wader, not a minnow or a
frog, tad pole or a poolywog-noth-
ing that lives, moves, swims, or wiggles
1t is the ideal sea-bathing place of the
world.