The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30

cue for him to reach over; and he man
aged to want to borrow a handker-
chief, which was his cue for reaching
back and-well, they were very nice
about it, but it wasn't the place for
anything but an extra thin slice of
air.
Saltair is fifteen miles from the city.
The railroad crosses the River Jordan
and strikes across the salt marshes
which, by the way, furnish the queru-
lOuS before referred to with the why
fore the city and the lake are not side
by side, or end on end: and the occu-
pants of the trains with the material
for a good sneeze. The railroad jumps
onto a pier at the lakes edge, and you
are dumped down on a platform in
front of a pavilion; pagoda at the top,
Moorish dome and the Mormon thing
that looks like a turtles back in be-
tween. and COney Island below. When
you clear the architecture out of your
mind, your ear contributes TO the
charge of assault with a familiar whirr
of roller coaster and feminine shrek,
of megaphone and calliope. Or do they
call them calliopes when they are an
chored in the middle of merry-go-
round? When / was boy a caIIiope
had to be drawn by real African re
bras; count them-fOur-tO be a real
calliope, but maybe ines have
changed.
Young and Old Aboard.
Anybody that could pass a merry-go-
round never was a boy, anyhow. There
We're several old boys as we'll as young
ones aboard the sea-going giraffes and
the spOtty horses. And most of them
had peanuts. And popcorn, the pink
kind, the whites no good and nickel
in his jack-knife pocket to buy pinker
lemonade with afterward, But it's
not nearly so good without the sawdust
and the tent | wonder how early it is
that the youth of mankind begins TO
learn that everything in life that they
want is indigestibIe or too expensive?
II certainly isn't when he gets his
first pair of long trousers beyond the
Circus age. l don't mean the first pair
of long pants, the blue Cnes with the
thin purple stripes that your mother
bought you at the corner store. that
you got grass stains on the knees of
the first day. l mean The Trousers. Do
you remember how you felt when he
asked one hip pocket or two? Well. l
just guess. And I bet you don't remem-
Der where you went the first night you
wore them? They came home about g.
and about 6:15 with your hair neatly
slicked and your shoes brushed at the
back you went over to see Her. You
wanted to be admired and walk out
past the cemetery. And do you know
where you landed? You coughed up 10
cents and you landed in the Rolling
Rink. Sol Walters Rolling Rink across
from the First Presbyterian church.
Now. wouldn't a rink with a floor
polished all over. an Establishment
with a Band. and with a charge of %
cents and called the Princess Rink, jar
you? l wished they wouldn't be so
nice about it, that somebody would fall
down occasionally. and thu. they didn't
wear such darned gOs1 clothes /
wonder where old man Walters is, and
if he's got that hole in the corner
patched yet, and if he ever heard of
Salt Lake City? If he hasn't, you bet
he'd say he had.
Furnishing the Plot.
Great Scott! I've lost the Bride and
Groom. An unreconstructed Jap, who
doesn't know that we are a superior
race has a concession at Saltair The
concession, or right to do the populace.
consists of a booth backed with shelves
On the shelves are tea cups made in
Canton, o., small flags handmade by
the Geishas of Baxter street, and vases
from the corner of the Motomachi and
Suffer street. Yokohama, California,
and other trifles. To them they have