The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14
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Salt Lake, June 49,
Dearest Hal:-When 1 sent you the
diary leaves last week, I thought the
acme of. dizziness had been reached;
now I see. it was possible to reach one
degree farther. Absolutely the week
has been all, or nearly all--stale, fiat
and Improbable Judge for yourself,
here are the leaves:
Monday-M Midnight.
A night wasted at the theatre; what
as become of the Tony Pastors and
The Howard Atheneums, / wonder?
We don't seem to have eny vaudevilles
left deserving of the name Hopkins
lhow tonight is a travesty or vaude-
llIe, ali but one feature, the midgets;
cute little things, but they produce an
uncanny sensation like objects | have
seen corked up in liquor.
The crowd ran down to the Grand
after it had gotten its fill at the the
atre l followed, not because I wanted
70 see Camille again, but because the
carnival queens were to be put up on.
exhibition. Exhibits A and B / styled
them. 1t seems to me 1 would have
drawn the line at that, had l been in
the girls place; but there's no ac-
counting for tastes. They looked
pretty, and the two lieutenants who
accompanied them seemed undeter-
mined whether to devote themselves
TO their partners or the game OF cards
The proceeds Of the night-what there
Were-wSnt 10 the carnival fund. 1t
was mistake number one to charge a
dollar in half dollar house, and mis-
take number two to expect a play
which had run seven performances and
run itself out to fill the house on the
eighth at the advanced prices. MI
McGarvie did not display his accus-
toned shrewdness in working this up
The carnival is on every ones lips;
what is Mr.. McGarvie getting out of
it. L wonder?
WedneSday-M idnight.
l have vast sympathy for Rhea;
she comes, and comes, and comes, but
never seems to know what it is to play
10 full house. She is pretty, dresses
beautifully, and can wear the abr
grand, as the French say, as becoming
~ as she does her dresses. But. poor
thing. she makes no Improvement in
mastering our English, and so she
grows distinctly tedious It may sound
harsh, but it's so. She does the i'll
fafed Josephine as we'll as anything.
but its all a long drawn moan. in a
key pitched too high.
Midnight
Just back from eight hours at Salt
air. There is genuine enjoyment. a
Thousand or more bloomy girls. lust
let loose from a school. all in white:
a thousand or more beaming bows.
dangling after them, and all mixed up
IN the may dance. Never did the
Blue Danube waltzes take on SO eIo-
cuent and moving witchery as to-
night when the sounds went out in the
0lght over the expanSe of waters AS
Little DoT7it's Maggie says 1T was
just evenly" Never saw Saltair so
thoroughly at its best; up till now it
has simply been deserted this season.
The great pavilion is one of the mar
Nels Of the times. and the patronage it
receives is another
Saturday
A sad blow today. Learned that
two Of my favorites Roberts and Py-
per are TO go off on missions almost
at once. How things change-Roberts
only snort time since, narrowly es-
capped going to congress; Piper, 1t was
announced, was going to Ann Arbor
TO study law. Wonderful must be the
discipline in a church, or wonderful
must be its peoples devotion to it.
When two men like these lay down
their work and their best cherished
plans, and cheeTfully respond to it's
call Tor two or three years of their
time. The going forth into the mis-
slonary field of an orator like Roberts
ano a. singer like Pyper indicates the
opening up Of a, new era in missionary
WORK Ihey Will be the Moody and
Sankey OF Mormondom. 1 fancy. and
/ shall not be surprised to sac tbay1
attract as much attention as those
AOIeu eNangeliSts. MARGE.