Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-04
PLEASURE SEEKING.

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| The outing season has opened. and
| people are seeking the public resorts.
| Children are clamoring for money with
which 10 overload little stomachs with
| all sorts OF sticky and injurious
| messes Sunday schools are planning
| excursions People of means are look
| ing to the canyon retreats for a brief
stay In the mountains. In all these
affairs. excepting the kind last men
| toned, the probability IL that the av-
erage pleasure seeker win, in the end.
| discover the truth so well expressed by
Burns:
| "But pleasures are like peoples spread
| You sieze the flower. its bloom Is shed;
| or like the snow falls on the river
| A moment bright, then lost forever;
| or like the railbow's lovely form.
| That nit ere you can point their place;
| or like the mainbow's lovely form,
| Evanishing amid the storm"
1t II instructive to observe the use
| and the abuse of the public pleasure
resorts made by tho majority OF those
| who frequent them.
There is the unique pleasure resort
Saltair. on the Lake, the wonderful, the
beautiful. the health giving inland
sea. one OF the most interesting and in
| structivo of the phenomena OF earth;
| yet It seems 20 be visited eagerly In
| order TO enjoy shooting the chutes. or
bowling over ten pins. or for ride on
tho merry go round, rather than for
the pure and high class enjoyment
which the waters themselves and their
unique surroundings furnish. To battle,
To sail, to walk on the shore. TO lie
upon the sandy beach, TO contemplate
tho gorgeous and varied sunset TO
breathe deeply the freshening breeze,
20 watch the play OF light and color
over the whlte-capped waves, or 20
mark the changes OF the heecy clouds
in the sky above-that Is 10 say. 10
enjoy the lake itself-how different and
how superior is such enjoyment com
pared with the frivolites that may be
had almost anywhere else
When we go 10 the lake. why not get
what the lake affords? II IL Is hand
organ music. tddled ywlnks, and ice
cream sodas that we are seeking. they
can be had almost anywhere. But the
lake itself In all its beauty can be
seen only at that one place and en-
joyed only when we go thither And
what a commentary II Is upon ones
finer sense OF discrimination and his
perception OF relative values II he
closes his eyes TO the insstent wonders
OF the dead sea in order merely 10 look
at picture shows: or II he opens his
ears TO the mouotonous dronlng OF
mechanical toy music while the winds
and waves are singing a chorus divine
to those who can near IT,
Worse still Is the taste that cares
only for food and iced drinks and neg
lects TO tone the body with a plunge In
the sparkling brine, and worst Of all is
the tendency to make OF 50 fine and 80
pure an opportunity for high intel
lcctual and physical enjoyment de-
bauch 81 eating and drinking, or OF
unseemiy conduct
So too, Of "A visit to Liberty Park
or to Wandamcre What could be finer
than 20 walk among the trees and
flowers there. to roll upon the grassy
swards and to listen To the rolicking
calls Of the meadowlark. tho twitter
az the housefnch and the choery songs
OF the oiioo ana robin?
In most OF these groves that rare and
radiant creature the oriole Is now oc-
casonally seen. and oftcner heard.
giving his soft. thrilling and meio-
dious whistle from some tall tree.
Says VIM, ID. Howells.
Il know his name. I know his note
That No with rapture takes my soul.
Like flame the gold beneath his throat.
His glossy cape is black as coal"
And n we should but I'M our ov.s
and listen. we might see among th,.
blossoms ~ the orchard this WINGED
flame Of spring" as Lowell names the
oriole. or hear the music which springs
from the gay and Joyous heart. whose
happy lot is TO soar and sway above
the life by mortals led"
or. II may he. that tho wonderful
hanging nest. built In the trees not
far from the habitations of mon by the
Industrious and skilfui architecture 81
the female oriole. may be observed II
is hung from a limb Tor greater safety
from foes. near the end Of a swinging
branch, where tho baby birds may be
rocked in this wind swung cradle while |
the parents literally clean the trees ~
the larvae Of leaf-rollers and tent build |
erS--the most destructive OF orchard |
moths. besides every other form ~ |
caterpillar that destroys the fruit trees