Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-03-27 | Page 4 | This is Really Too Shocking

this Is Really Too Shocking. A Frenchman of "gay Faree," is shocked just think of it! at the free abandon of American women wo-men in the maiy waltz or the rollicking two-step, j He finds them no better than their French sisters, and, indeed, would have us believe that the comparison com-parison rather favors the chic French maidens. "The decollete of Paris is famous," writes William ; Gollier.in Le Illustration, "but it doesn't parallel the light array of American ladies at the seashore, nor the cool attitude of the latter when they witness wit-ness athletic feats of men in very abbreviated costumes. cos-tumes. There is neither more nor less modesty in America than in France," continues this Farisian critic, "only the Americans are shocked at what does not shock the French, and the French are upset up-set by something which would not make an American Ameri-can 'turn a hair.' " Just think of this, ye modest, merry maidens of Salt Lake, who float buoyantly on the feathery bosom bo-som of the great sodium chloride lake, breathing the j exhilarating ozone that blows gently down from the mountains, and after the briny dip and the welcome shower that follows, pirouette in the arms of your sweethearts in the roomy, airy pavilion of Saltair! A Frenchman is actually shocked at you. What do you think of that Frenchman?