The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-14

world there's just one satisfactory
place to stop, and that is on dry land
guess there are plenty of folks who
feel about as 7 do. not TO dwell on
famous historic characters like Noah
and Jonah, as well as Moses, who
showed his people that the true way
to cross dangerous sea was on dry
ground.
The oceans well enough to look at.
provided you're feeling we'll when you
inspect it. but if you're feeling as if
you'd rather die than not, it may be
blue as indigo and just as sparkling as
soda water without your caring one
single straw
Sarah Stone was delighted to have
me there to visit, because she said she
should enjoy my first impressions of
the sea 50 much. Well, 1 don't think
she did enjoy them as much as she
expected though I guess she enjoyed
them a good sight more than / did.
Sarah stone said TO me, ''Almira, is
1t possible you've lived TO be-weH,
never mind how Old-and haven't set
foot in a SailbOat2"
And I felt kind of mortified to think
was sort OF curiosity, who had
lived on so many years without enjoy
ing the ordinary advantages.
Sarah declared that sailing was one
Of the most perfect sensations a hu-
man being could experience, and that
to skim along lightly across the bay
with the blue water ripping around
the boat wa. lust as good as flying.
She said, M -er, it was pitiful TO
think of all -- Un I'd lost in years
gone by, which lever could be quite
made up to me.
At , O'Clock upon a nice afternoon I
stepped into a sailing boat for the first
time, and ] was just as pleased as
Punch to think Of all the pleasure
that was in store for me
There were about d dozen young folks
on board, and everybody was in high
spirits, and off we SKINNED as gay and
happy as could be
Who'd be on land if they could be
out on the water" Sarah Stone said.
and agreed with her, not knowing
any better just thea.
/ heard somebody saying that we
We're going TO sail around the outer
Light and when my cousin Sarah
pointed out a big lighthouse and asked
me how I'd like to go and see it. 1
said / thought it would be most de-
lightful, poor ignorant mortal that L
was.
don't know when I've felt so talk
ative and lively as I did when we first
sailed off in that boat. I said 1
thought that sailing was finer than
anything L had ever imagined, and
that I'd rather see q lighthouse than
anything I knew of.
Oh. how a persons point of view can
change in short space of time! And
how things that we think fine at
O'Clock can be just hateful to US at
quarter of g. So much for being poor,
weak critters.
Well first that sail boat skinned
along as smooth as satin. and I said
to myself, 4 guess this way of trav-
cling is all that it's cracked up to be-"
then she began to dip 2 little up and
~ nj. =
motion" I said, feeling quite quiet and
contented, but not so much ike talk
ing Then we began to roll a little
from side to side as well as dipping
up and down, and I said to myself,
give me simplicity OF motion, either
the dipping or the rolling is all right
by itself, though / could suggest pleas
anter methods Of recreation, but Just
excuse me from the combination. it's
too hard work adjusting my eqUiiib-
rum
I've never thought there was much
comfort in steam cars. eIectrics or any
thing that moves on wheels, but I de-
clare the meanest thing on rollers is
certainly ahead Of any sail boat.
You may be Jared and shaken in
the steam cars or the electricS, but
nevertheless you're travelling on a
level. and you're not tipped way up on
one side or sunk down on the other as
you are in a sail boat, and which is
the unpleasantest position is very hard
to tell, for on the up" side you're
clinging to the seat to keep from slid
ing of, and on the down side you're
sitting almost in the water and mo-
meatarily expecting to be submergee.
Then just as you get settled in your
place somebody screams out heads
and down you have to duck unless you
want to have your neck instantly
broken, and then a great big pole
comes whizzing aver and if it doesn't
hit you, you feel you've had a mercifui
escape.
Well. as we sailed further away from
land that boat dipped more and more
and each time that It dipped it rolled
from side TO side IS well. and every
time that it went sliding down over a
great big wave I felt just as I do when
/ am in an elevator that's starting to
go down. a most unpleasant feeling
looked at Cousin Sarah, but she
seemed to be having such a good time
that I hated to tell her / wasn't more
than half enjoying myself.
Then great. huge waves began To
splash all over US. until ] felt as cold
and shivery as if I'd been dipped bodily
into the ocean. while all the others
seemed delighted to get a wetting. AMI
kept exclaiming, "Oh, this is nneH
Il don't think It S much fun TO have
salt water running down your back,
I was Just going 10 remark, when
swash. a great big wave struck on the
edge Of that old boat. and drenched me
and filed my mouth fun of salt water,
and I could only choke and splutter,
while all the young folks laughed Is If
it was q zeal good joke.
Now. this is more ike sailing, two
or three cried out gleefully. as we be
gan 10 rock and tip more violently
among a lot Of angry looking waves.
Then it's not much Ike flying.
sarah stone 7 naurmureds feebly, Wip-
ing the salt Off my lips.
~Oh. you don't mind q little motion.
Cousin Alnira,n she called to me, while