The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-11

One Of the best ana most favorably
known bachelors mot "a hopeless one
either, arises to inquire what is to be
done with the romantic young man this
season at Saltair. Is he TO dispense with
his ideas of beauty enhancing and all
that, or what is left for him? If ne
stands beneath one of those fiercely
flaming arc lights he sees beauty, even
the real kind, fade from before his eyes.
He sees the cheek of youth bianch and
that of middle life wither and even the
enamcled species becomes a thing of
fearful pallur and CHASTITY whitish yell
low.
Now this may Tie hard for the young
man whose only JOY is dancing in the
garish light, but once long ago. when
other folks were young and there We're
uot flaming are lights, and moonlight
might be had for the seeking at its
proper season, and when its season had
Waued darkness could always be found,
there was really no difficulty about
young men retaining their romantic
ideas. The only difficulty was that the
romantic ideas were too, too numerous,
everything appearing i'm rosy light ana
dressed in attractive colors.
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The real question is, aren't the To-
mantle ideas going glimmering. any
way2 When the very prettiest and most
youthful of girls feel that they can't go
anywhere without good deal of make
up. that life isn't worth living without
a set Of puffs, that unless there's some
one 20 see good clothes even in the
mountains and at the country places.
there's no fun In going, aren't the young
men being shown in no gentle way that
romance is a thing of the paste When
a sreCt-faced girl of IS looks without a
tremor from between lashes carefully.
but plainly BACKED. into the eyes of a
youth an ready for romance. it steadies
him somewhat to try to look at the
st-e1iSs of paint and there's not much
danger to his heart when once he is
steadied in this fashion.
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But TO return to the lights. Aren't
they simply impossible? And isn't IL
a cruel thing to think that from a mis-
taken idea of economy a "souIless cor
porati0n' VIII force such lights on a
generous public, when softening lights
of the right sort could be had for the
negotiating Glaring is no name for
chem, for even in her most claring light
Nature is at least true and kindly in
her lights and shadows. But these fear
some things are no respecters Of beau
ty, either natural or assumed.
While the more formal society affairs
nre perhaps. Iesscning i'm number. the
informal, summary events are multiply
ms rapidly. Within the past week
there have been two large and really
elaborate dancing events at the Cob
biGs and the Country club. besides the
regular Saturday night hop. The lake
parties are innumerable. and the many
smaller parties to the canyons near by.
20 the country places or to Lagoon, fill
every day and many of the nights as
well with summer gayety. The festivi-
ties of this kind bid fair TO last all
through the season, and that, too, de-
spite the fact that large proportion OF
the city's smart population will leave
shortly for the mountains near by to
spend part at least Of the heated
period.
..
The long -lO0ked-fOr baseball game he
officers at the post comes off tomorrow,
officers At the post comes off tomorrow.
and the bets are about even on the two
sides. Whether the decision will be for
the battle-scarred veterans OF. the bot
tles-but no, that joke is old and IL
would be too cruel. Anyway, the de-
cision rests with the Hon. Clarence z.
Allen, who win act as umpire in the i'm
portant matter, and it is certain that he
Will be Influenced by neither the one
thing nor the other.
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George W. Barrett, the talented salt
Lake boy who is on the STAFF of Life in
New York, has a very clever drawing
in last weeks issue Of Harper's, called
THE Wright Idea" The drawing
shows an ideal airship high above the
az, nth q.
romantic seat enjoying THE Right
Idea" DOLL BARFT.
Do you kodak? We finish and also
sell the supplies. Salt Lake Photo
Supply Co 142 Main street
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