Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-05-20

| could only be reached through grea
drifts of suow-quite impracticable TO
coach.
"The captain made q sledRe out o
an old bed, big enough to hold two, ant
with the don they drove to that neigh
boring farmhouse and brought hone
that night enough food of its kind
meal, bacon and potatoes-to last thu
family for the week, bnt the first triI
of the don had exhausted their chick
ems. All the horses save one had beer
carried to the neighbor to take care Of
My father the third day got better al
did the driver, through the careful
nursing of my mother. Then the pas
senpers, their troubles being over. had
a right merry time of it. On the fifth
day party arrived. sent out by the
anxious stage proprietors, to discover
what had been the fate of the coach and
the passengers. Instead of finding O
famished and starving set of people
they found q merry party enjoying
of course brought good stock of pro
visions. My mother, father has often
told me, determined to have parting
banquet of the grandest character, and
having cooked the whole dinper foi
some fourteen people, appeared herself
at table in the best dress she had in her
trousseau. She was a beautiful WON
an, as you may see from her miniature
painted by Durand, which shall show
you. Father has often told me that it
was the happiest of dinners, and that
mother sang to them in her own sweet
voice some simple ballads of the day,
and that right then and there solemn
friendship was sworn among them all,
the driver included. 1t was fully a
week from the time they were showed
in before they started again on their
journey. I only bring this forward rs
sample how useful hardness and q
knowledge of cooking is. 1 can't tell
you about the rest of the party, but the
don kept up his acquaintance with my
father and mother for many years.
Some six months afterward my father
received from Havana a thousand
cigars of that famous kind which only
former generation smoked. AS to my
mother she had very beautiful brace
let sent her, for our don was no less q
person than the son of the lieutenant
governor of Cuba. He went back to
Spain afterward, headed three or four
revolutions there, and died some thirty
years ago. My dear madam, excuse all
this description of what took place at
the beginning of this century in Vir-
ginia wayside tavern; but do you really
think that any one of those nice young
girls, who have been acting thata cha
rade in such pleasant way, with a lit
tie soupcon of the Bernhardt manner,
would be very useful if they were
placed in such straits as have been
telling you about? just as likely,
when they get married, it is their hus-
bands who will have to take care of
them, not they their husbands. There
is too much fummery about the girls of
to-day: they are too elaborate; and
mind lyon, the shipwrecks caused by
fortune are rather more frequent in
1881, I think, than they were in my
younger time.
"If 1 had ever met lady the old
gentleman looked sentimental here,
then paused.
-'''' With ell Tho necessary accomplish
ments 2" the listener added.
well that is about it," said the old
gentleman. Il should not have been
relegated among the old fogies, who
talk in a senile way about what are the
insignificant "reminiscences of the past"
and the old gentleman bowed and left.
can't see," said the graceful girl,
:" how that old gentleman can interest
you-fatiguipg creature! Mamma says
in her very young days. though, that
he was thought a great deal of. Think
he has outlived his time. He breaches
so. Always comparing the women of
to-day with women who lived in the
year one. Dare say they were not a bit
handsomer. cleverer, or more accomp-
lished than are those of to-day. Sur
vival of the fttest-that's what my
dressmaker ssys-and it's so. No, my
brother is not here. Quite ill, loss of
appetite, and won't eat morsel: not a
soul in the house can suit his tastes, so
fastidious and capricious. Doctor says
it may be serious, am sure we have the
best chef in New York. How should /
or mamma know how to make messes
for him? G'odbye. am in for the
german. "-lNew York Times.