Public Ledger

Good Old Times in Salt Lake City:

[Salt Lake Herald.]

And now, just think of the good old social parties we used to have there in later years, when the late President Young would lead out in the mazy "cotillon," and the "ten," in their pink dresses with no furbelows, their partners the envy of the less successful young gents, who had been outstripped in their endeavors to engage one of the belles to "dance the next set with me." And then—

Brother Calhoon can Scotch reel next time? Knowing that if they could secure the reel they would necessarily have to dance with two of the fair maidens at once. Then there were the little side conversations upon the stage, where the older folks would sit and enjoy themselves as best suited their fancy, "all by ourselves, you know."

In those days you would not see young men admitted and introduced to ladies if they had the smell of liquor on them; yet old and young participated alike and freely in the dance, oftentimes an elderly gentleman with a miss of seven or eight years as partner, and vice versa.