The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-06
NO. 27
Compared with the Atlantic Ocean

Compared with the Atlantic Ocea1
the Salt Lake of Utah produces anoth
er surprise. You talk of ths
salt sea that washes your coast
from Maine to Florida and Tie
cooling breezes that sweep across
| it in Summer. If you should cone
out to Salt Lake City we would give
you a genuine surprise. Your waite,
contains only 35 per cent of solids and
only 2.6 per cent. OF salt. Your salty
breezes have only tinge of salt in
them. When the wind blows in TIE
right direction across the full length
of Salt Lake it is so laden with salt
that 1t viii leave a crust or coating OF
salt on the face and clothes that gives
Il ghostiy appearance to you. In the
sumner time people go down to the
lake and take salt baths without going
into the water. They simply dress
in their bathing suits and rest on the
beach. With the windows open at
night, when the wind is blowing of
the lake, peopie wake up with de-
cIded salty coating.
"Our Summer resorts on the lake
are as attractive as any you have along
the coast. Everybody goes to the
lake in the summer to take bath.
This is delightful and novel sensation,
/ You dive under, but it Is impossible
| to go down fer. The water reslsts
your efforts, SO that you soon come to
the surface, where you float about like
corks. We don't have suicides from
browning. They couldn't do it very
we'll If they tried. They might hold
tier heads under water by sheer force
o. will, but il they jumped into the
water they would only float about u1-
Ill somebody picked them up. Eas-
tern people wFso boast OF being good
swimmers come to Salt Like and
make & laughing stock OF themselves.
1t is better than circus to see one
60 into the lake for the first time.
II he atten1 PTS to sit down III shallow
water lie never reaches the bottom
but slides along in the most 1nearthly
fashion. II you dive you come up
with your eyes smarting from the
effect oi Tia salt. For few minutes
you wcnder il the burning OF the eyes
will ever coase, and ycu imagine that
,5ou are going Blind. The on.J way
to relieve this smarting is to suck tie
fingers q few minutes to wash OFF The
salt, ard then rub the eyes with the
cleansol fingers. When you get
throuph arG can see again, you Will
find that al! the other bathers are
laughing heartily at your pradlcam
Then ii You attempt to float it will
take some time to learn how to bal
anca yourself You are more apt t.
stand on your head than on your feet
in the water, Tor the simple reason
that Tie upper part of your body is
heavier than the lower. Your skill
as diver and swimmer In other bod
les 0. water counts for little. You
must hcgin and learn all over again.
"l'he Lake bas receded from the city
prop about twenty miles, and the
trains run down to Its edge all through
the sun. mer months. Tie excursion
is as po;.ui:,c as your Coney Island
trip, ans! considering the size of the
city the crowds are greater. One of
the finest bathing pavillions in the
world has been erected on the lake
at cost ot halt million dollars. 1t
Is called Salt Air, and 1t is appro pirate
ly named, for the air around it at
times is so thick with salt that veget-
ables and meats you eat don't need
any salting. You take enough salt
into the mouth with each guIp to
season your food. OF course everybody
who goes down to the lake takes a
bath because everybody can swim.
The water is a great tonic and invig-
orator, and after a swim OF an hour
you feel like different person. You
can't take cold in such salt water, and
50 children are left in halt a day.
There is also no danger of the chill
dren's drowning, Tor if they walk in
oyer .heir depth they will only fioat
and shutter around until sons s}Osl
comes to the rescue.
NATURALLY there isn't any fishing
there, and that's one point you have
ahead OF us here on the coast. Fish
sAap!y cant live in the dead sea-not
.rab, m,nnow, lrog OR tadpole. The
Ike is absolutely devoid OF al life
Except the bathers Now, to some
this may seem great pity that in
beautiful lake nearly 5000 square miles
in size there is nothing to be caught
with hook and line, seine or spear
There are no shells op the bottom to
cut the feet, because shelliah never
existed IN the lake and never can. So