The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-23
ELIzABETH'S BREEZY REPORT.

11AAfA56Id BREEZY REPORT.
Ellzabeth Visits Americas BY Elinor
pany; New York
This novel is by the same author as
the notorious 'fThree Weeks - She
was In this city last year, and spent
some time looking over thee place. and
also VISITED some of the rushing mining
districts of Nevada. In this book. how
ever, she has not much TO say about
Salt Lake. the following being the sum
OF her writing on this point:
Crossing the Great Salt Lake
was wonderful. 1t seemed like being at
sea on bridge, and l could not help
wondering what II would he like If the
lake were rough. You can't think OF
aa,n;ythhing a,n;lhdg so Intelligent as the way that
seeing far ahead; he planned splendid
avenues. and planted trees. and even
though lots of them still have only mud
roads and little board shanties down
them, they are there all ready for the
time when the splendid houses are built,
and tram cars and electric light every
where; and such green and beautiful rich
desert 1t seemed the promised land.
/ should hate to be a Mormon, wouldn't
you, Mamma? Worse than being Chinee
up with only females. Think Of sharing
man with six other women,
The author deals in light. airy way
with scenes in America and her impress
slons of all that she saw and expert
enced. A good deal of it is fippant,
nonsensical stuff of no possible value,
but that she was favorably impressed
with this western country is evident
from the following description which
she gives of "a mining town dance;
There was Master Of Ceremonies who
ten or twelve couples were allowed to
dance each time. two-steps and Yalses,
and without exception 1t is the finest
dancing have ever scen,-the very poetry
of Motion. Nothing violent or rude, or
like servants ball at home. although
they held their partners a little more
clasped than we do. But in spite OF their
funny holding, or perhaps on account OF
feet, perfect grace aDd rhythm and glide,
which i have never seen At a real BAN.
One could understand it was a. pure de-
light to them, and they felt every note of
the music. They treated Octavia and
me with the courtesy III for queens and
some of them told us delightful things OF
and all with delicious twinkle In the eye.
as much AS to say. we are keeping up
the character of the place 10 please yon.
We did enjoy ourselves. The Senator
says this quality Of perfect respect for
women is universal in the mining camps.
Any nice woman is absolutely safe among
them, l think there ought TO be mining
camps TO teach men manners all over
Europe You will feel | am eXaggerating-
Mamma. and talking a great deal about
this but il is so marked and astoniSh-
ing: all have that perfect case and polse
OF we'll born gentlemen, completely with
out self consciousness. / suppose theE
get drunk sometimes, and probably there
are riotous scenes here, but l can only
tell cou OF what we saw, and that was
people happy. and behaving as decorously
as at court ball
She does not seem to have been so
favorably impressed with the East as
with the West And still ii is cX-
planned that she wants TO be pleasant
and agreeable in the following descrlp-
tion Of dinner at Sherry's, which Is
a good sample of her style:
Everything is so amusing and We have
had delightful evening. 1t is more Ike
Paris than England. because ono. wears
hat al dinner. which | always think looks
SO much better in restaurant. The party
about eighteen, and sat next the
host. American men. as far as ! nave
Vet seen, arc OF quite another sex TO
English or French-T mean YOU feel more
If YOU were out with KIND Aunts OF
Grandmothers or benevolent Cncles than
lust men They don't try 10 make the
least love TO YOU or say things with two
meanings, and they arc perfectly brother
iy and serious, unless they are lelilmg
that is not subtle. 1t is something that
makes YOU laugh the moment YOU hear
it, YOU have not to think a scrap. When
they are not prs ctically English, like the
ones We see in London every season, they
wear such funny clothes-often velvet col
lars on their coats! and the shoulders
padded out so that every man is perfectly
s,rlare. but everything looks eHtraordl-
narily we'll sewn and ironed and every
BODY is clean shaven; and Octovia SAYS it
takes at least two hundred years OF EentN
clean shavcn and in evening dress, 30
perhaps that is why lots Of them have
ibe appearance OF actors
Altogether the book is live. read
able one, and no doubt it viii be much
sought after by those who are ac-
mainted with the authors former
work, and who are curious to see what
she has TO say after her first trip TO
The United States. But they Will be
disappointed. There's nothing Of the
sort IN IT.