The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-06

Now that tint is going out,
So l think
For the girls are Wild about
Helen pink.
Over divers tInts girls rave
1t is seen,
But we always seem to have
Hetty Green.
OF all the ideal summer places sur
rounding the city, for being easy Of ac-
cess and at the same time affording 4
most wonderful view,' Il glorious ride
through cooling canyon breezes and n
safe retrent from all the cares OF toll
and daily annoyances. Emigration may
be said to be the most perfect a party
of congenial souls went up there the
other evening ostensibly to see the
wonders Of the place and also to en-"
JOY the unlimited hospitality and good
cheer provided by the Young family,
whose guests they were. The ride up,
when all the glories OF the western
world were displayed before them, was
enough compensation, but it was not
all by any means, Under the newly
constructed and as yet uncompleted
roof of the big round pavilion long
table had been spread and laden with
all the good things that the inner man
could desire. And here, with good com
pany and all that ministered to the in
dividUal members thereof an hour was
spent Walks up the cool, shady gllches
nearby where ferns and wild flowers run
riot, followed, and just as the moon
was making for the west the start home
was made. If the ride up the canyon
was enjoyed, the ride down in the
moonlight over ~erfect roadbed of
fourteen miles, was even more so. With
glowing camp fires on every hand, or
white tents cleaning through the
trees, or groups of merry campers
greeting the car as ii passed, the place
was like an animated panorama OF
wonderful beauty.
Perhaps ambitious mothers with
plans for the marrying of their lovely
daughters, or at least for the social
success OF their daughters. will have to
take to the customs of the Flathead
Indian tribe for the suppression Of in
tellect. Some one seems TO have re-
Gently discovered (what women have
known forever that men have no use
Tor girls who are smart. Now comes
the sad tale Of girl who in her school
days wrote book Of fairly good verse.
The fact has leaked out and so fright.
ened is she that it will interfere with
her popularity that she lodged any at
tempt TO speak of any literary sub
Jects. Meu-at any rate the men of
her set-are afraid to talk anything
but commonplaces as they think she |
would not be interested in what in
terests and amuses other girls. All !
this sounds, of course, like a Joke, but |
1t is much more of a truth than one
would think at first glance. 1t has |
lolg been a recognized fact that girls
with social ambitions or whose parents
have social ambitions for them cannot
afford 70 go to college. as a reputation
for having even made q stage at
higher education might blight all their
the marvellous growth of finishing
schools and the like, no doubt.
1t would seem to be rather late. both
in the season and in the whole history
of bathing snits-to make comment on
the suits worn by men, but California
has at last risen IN her might and en-
tered a protest against the suits the
men are wearing This will be a won
derful setback for the folk who have
for years formed most of their summer
Jokes about women S bathing suits,
which at least in the west have always
except that class will welcome the new
rules which require that men IS bathing
suits shall be visible to the naked eye
The action seems to have originated in
Santa Monica, where for years suits for
men have shrunk to a mere trlhe not
worth mentioning, Now as if to make
large reparation the city council of
Santa Monica has decreed that men
shall wear skirts to their suits reaching
at least four inches from the knee
though the good city fathers have been
oh of 70 6afI |
er above or below the knee Doubtless
the decision was reached after q thor
ough and exhaustive study Of the sub
iect and course in sea bathing and
particularly in lying on the sands. The
fact that the city council has nothing
10 say of the women s suits shows what
has long been an established fact-that
they are quite presentable compared
with the others.
The correct sort of entertainment
this summer. especially for the young
er set, is tennis tea. Now tennis
lea is not by any means new. but ten