| Show i c e I COME OFF YOUR PERCH I A Boston Correspondent Has it In for Salt Lake Bloods The following written by a correspondent correspon-dent of the Boston Transcript is pretty hard on the young Salt Lake bloods who recently inaugurated the style of a smooth upper lip The theatre is a large well proportioned propor-tioned building with four galleries rather dingy but mucn better than any theatre in eastern towns of the size oi Salt Lake City The audience was largely composed of women Groups of four or six of these were attended by one man and many of them came quite without escort They were dressed if without taste still without with-out vulgarity and among the younger ones I saw several very pretty girlish face some of which would have been more attractive if an improvement on natures colors had not been attempted The appearance of tne men was infinitely in-finitely repulsive Coarse and heavy faces they had for the most part with a stupid animal expression I had almost written brutish Hard faces too without with-out mobility or kindliness They wear the beard full with the upper lip shaven If the mouth is the telltale feature of the face as is often said it is as well possibly that the majority of mankind wear it covered for the tale these Mormon mouths told was not a pleasant one to read Many nationalities were to be traced in the assemblypalefaced Swedes and ruddy Welsh folk the sandy Scotchman was not wanting nor yet the swarthy Chinese Chi-nese but best among them all to see was the delicate face of a Gentile a young officer from the fort near by sitting alone amidst a group of Saints who regarded him with anything but amiable glances It |
