Show SWIMMING ING IN SALT LAKE ey enough lo 10 float but to night end up Tl ther alis Is if clr iab during ft to salt lake Laks I 1 lel enjoyed joy ed a swim on a bummer summer afternoon making the trip from rom to town to lake point the coney island of the region on an excursion train in company alt with a number of Mor mormon mons the little railroad runs through a diversified tract tracts in which garden farm rocky uplift and mud plain are oddly jumbled the plain being spotted with tufts of pale and bristling sage sags brush that grows on the rocky mountain country where nothing alne elne el sewill will there Is a bathing pavilion at lake point with fresh water tanks in which to rinse ones sell self alter after the bath but I 1 elected to try a swim without spectators so walking southward along the shore for a milo mile or so I 1 found a place where the r rounded rocks that formed the semblance on of a beach were not too numerous it was a trifle difficult to keep a steady footing in the water and at hn t I 1 attributed u lint ed this to inequalities on the bottom but on getting where ft it was deeper I 1 found t that hat my legs had a disposition to cometo come to the top and it was apparent that the difficulty of wading across arose from the buoyancy that the body has in so dense a medium as this brine when I 1 had waded out so far that the water came up to my neck I 1 scaled a boulder bowlder and dived As it Is my custom to open my eyes under water I 1 did so as soon as I 1 was fairly immersed in an instant it see seemed medus aa if vitriol had b been ee n poured into them springing to an upright position as soon as 03 possible I 1 tried to get the salt out of them but the more I 1 rubbed ther the more it seemed to ket get in nature removed the emart after a while by pouring through the tear ducts enough of a milder solution of salt to clear the irritated cornea corne of the fluid and I 1 took pains not to let the the water into my eyes again agni u after that the bath was more enjoyable if only as a new experience peri ence there was a singular and unaccustomed se sense use of light nem and it was not difficult to float high out of water either in a reclining clinin gora or a sitting posture yet a bather who is not a swimmer will fire vre aa as badly here as anywhere for the head being heavier than the lower extremities has a tendency to sink unless one has the skill kill to keep it above the surface to a swimmer there Is no espe especial clit danger unless he lie la is choked by the brine or blinded and confused by it to float inquires iv require quires a less exertion than la in the sea a slight t motion of the band hand being sufficient to keep the body balanced evenly for one depends less for bis his buoyancy on breathing than in ocean water on striking out to swim I 1 was surprised at a splashing noise behind me and aYs discovered covered that it wag was made by roy my own feet for I 1 was so high out of water that they went into the air at every stroke this lightness at one end of the body tends ax as I 1 have said to depress the other but to one who Is used to swimming this is a trifle on emerging from the lake I 1 found that every inch of my skin was sparkling with salt crystals and though I 1 rubbed and scraped they were not so easily to be got rid of these crystals were sharp enough to create discomfort and to suggest an undue intimacy with thistles es my hair was full tt cf the them anil and they even wit drw to my clothing so that a vigorous shaking k of raiment and a fresh water bath were in order on reaching my hotel when I 1 told the people in town of my swim and the manner of it I 1 was laughed at and informed that it was not the cor tb thing ug to swim except at a bathing pavilion where one has fresh water to shower bower away the salt that sticks to him Gold goldthwaite geographical magazine |