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Show 26 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. ladies, certainly; I will with the greastest of pleasure." When the force of his speech dawned upon him he hastened to apologize, at the same time nervously searching for his handkerchief to mop his perspiring brow. It wa*s long before he heard the last of his after-dinner politeness. I remember hearing him say that the bachelors of '59 used newspapers for window shades, and as soon as one became a Benedict, the papers were replaced by curtains. If that is the rule to-day, Mr. Salomon still has newspaper window shades. "There are stranger things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy," and Fred, may yet retire behind the curtains before his hair is entirely gray-before he comes to dye. Clothes will wear out, and the pantaloons that were made to do in a pinch were marvels to those who had not become accustomed to the ways and means of the far West. "Oft were their breeches with old flour sacks mended, In which more truth than poetry was blended." Buckskin was the fashionable material for all new suits. They were whanged together with leather strings by the miners themselves. Mrs. Crull, then a tailoress, had followed the tide of emigration, with the hope of earning her bread at the trade, found her occupation gone, and turned her shingle to read: t • DAY BOARD. j I MEALS AT ALL HOURS. 1 |
