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Show BALL AT SALT LAKE CITY. 155 CHAPTER XXIY. Grand Ball at Salt Lake City-Etiquette-Culinary Preparations-Cost of Entertainment- Author opens the Ball with one of the Wives of the Governor-Beautiful Women-Waltzing and Polkas Prohibited-Mrs. Wheelock-The " Three Grace's"- Extraordinary Cotillion-Mormon Wedding-Spiritual Wives-Favorable Impression of the Public Social Life of the Mormons. BALL AT SALT LAKE CITY. TOWARDS the end of April, 1854, about ten days previous to the departure of Governor Brigham Young, on his annual visit to the. southern settlement of Utah, tickets of invitation to a grand ball, were issued in his name. I had the honor to receive one of them. If the etiquette of dress, which is a necessary preliminary to the " entre" of her Majesty's drawing-room, had been insisted on in the vestibule of Gov. Young's ballroom, the relation of the following incidents would never have emanated from my pen. When I arrived at the great city of the Mormons, I was clad in the tattered garments that I had worn for six months, on the journey across the Rocky Mountains. In vain I applied to every store in Salt Lake City for suitable clothes ; a pair of black pants or a broadcloth coat was not to be purchased. I, however, succeeded in having a pair of stout cassimere pants made for my intended journey to California; and a gentleman by the name of Addoms, a merchant from Cedar street, N. Y. |