The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-09-22
The Parlor Bed Room.
BuriinQt0n Hd,ckeye.

"On sundry OCCASIONS" said the Jester, 81
have been sentenced to pass one night in SOL
itary confinement In the modern chambers Of
horrors known as the spare ROOM" The
passengers all groaned in horrible chorus,
and closing the car windows moved little
nearer TO the stove. "Yes," said the tall,
thin passenger, ''it is on the first floor, next
to the roof, aud the cold, steel-blue starlight
glitters In through the dormer window, and
sometime between the shingles" "And
you can reach out Of bed with your hands,"
said the man on the wood-box, sand scrape
enough frost of the walls to make suow-
ball as big as q turnip." "They won't let
you have light" the sad passenger said
the old man says there is heap of lumber
and trash in the room, and they're afraid
you'll set fire to something" GAS you grope
your rayless way across the room," said the
Jester, "you bump your head against all
manner of things you don't know the names
of bundles, aud punches Of seed things,
and weeds and YARDS hanging up to dry,
slft withered leaves down your back every
tlulC gOu ottlhU OuuSu, 0ho tuio ~
mighty comfortable for you while you sleep.
And about half way across the room to the
bed, you black your eye and knock yourself
down with an ear Of corn, hard as flint and
twenty-five inches long-took the first pre-
MUM at the county fair eight years before,
and the old mans had it hanging from the
rafter ever SINCE" "And if you sit up right
suddenly in the night" said the sad passen-
over the head board" "The sheets are not
so thick as tin plates" said the tall, thin
passenger, "but they're great deal colder"
"And no mstter how long or how short you
are," said the Jester, s'the blankets are al
ways about six or eight inches shorter than
you are. And If you tuck them around your
neck and under your chin, your feet stick
out all night" "And in the house," said
Endymion," ""they eat breakfast In the night,
every time. You hear the old man about two
o'clock in the night shouting at the family to
get up and eat. You think there is fire
somewhere, and you want to run and jump
into 1t, so you make rush for the stairway,
miss your way, walk out Of the dormer win
dow, slide down the snowy roof, and land
down among the cattle" ats all right,
though" said the brakeman, ''for the cattle
toss you right back through the window
again, and you 60 down stairs all right.
When you find the alarm is only for break
fast, you say you believe you'd like to wash
your face aud hands before you'd eat. 'All
right they tell you, you'll find the trough
right by the we'll, over in the twenty acre
piece, down by the timber That's q mile
and half away, and the snow knee deep.
The first man who performs his ablutions
breaks the path for the rest Of the family"
"Yo ou find towel" said the cross passenger,
"about six feet long, leaning up against the
end of the smoke house. You bang II against
the corner of the house few times, to make
some breaks in it, so that you can fold 1t up
and carry 1t under your arm, like piece Of
bark. You start away, but you come back
and say you'd like a piece of soap. 'All
| right They give yon gallon Of soap in
stone jar two feet high. You say you prefer
toilet soap, aud they give you bar three
feet long, aud hard rs an axe.helve." But
here the whistle blew long and loud, and the
passengers hurried away to hotel full OF
solid comfort.