It Is A Sight That Repays One To Watch, When Dozens Of These
Chains - Some Long, Some Short - Are Paddling About On The Blue Water
That Is Often Without A Ripple.
It is impossible to drown, for sink in
it you cannot, but to get the brine in one's nose and throat is
dangerous, as it easily causes strangulation, particularly if the
person is at all nervous.
We wear little bits of cotton in our ears to
prevent the water from getting in, for the crust of salt it would
leave might cause intense pain.
Bathing in water so salt makes one both hungry and sleepy, therefore
it is considered quite the correct thing to eat hot popcorn, and
snooze on the return trip. We get the popcorn at the pavilion, put up
in attractive little bags, and it is always crisp and delicious. Just
imagine a long open car full of people, each man, woman, and child
greedily munching the tender corn! By the time one bag full has been
eaten, heads begin to wobble, and soon there is a "Land of Nod" - real
nod, too. Some days, when the air is particularly soft and balmy,
everyone in the car will be oblivious of his whereabouts. Not one stop
is made from the lake to the city.
Faye and I were at the lake almost a week - Garfield Beach the bathing
place is called - -so I could make a few water-color drawings early in
the morning, when the tints on the water are so pearly and exquisitely
delicate. During the day the lake is usually a wonderful blue - deep
and brilliant - and the colors at sunset are past description. The sun
disappears back of the Oquirah Mountains in a world of glorious yellow
and orange, and as twilight comes on, the mountains take on violet and
purple shades that become deeper and deeper, until night covers all
from sight.
There was not a vacant room at Garfield Beach, so they gave us two
large rooms at Black Rock - almost one mile away, but on the car line.
The rooms were in a low, long building, that might easily be mistaken
for soldiers' barracks, and which had broad verandas with low roofs
all along both sides. That queer building had been built by Brigham
Young for his seven wives! It consisted of seven apartments of two
rooms each, a sitting room and sleeping room; all the sitting rooms
were on one side, opening out upon the one veranda, and the bedrooms
were on the other side and opened out upon the other veranda. These
apartments did not connect in any way, except by the two porches. Not
far from that building was another that had once been the dining room
and kitchen of the seven wives. These mormon women must be simply
idiotic, or have their tempers under good control!
It was all most interesting and a remarkable experience to have lived
in one of Brigham Young's very own houses.
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