Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-13
sang and DANCED
IN DAWSON CITY.
Miss La More Relates Her Exper-
iences-.-Came Away Because
She Was Tired
Of Beans.
!. Louis Republic.

Oh Deans.
Miss La More does not look like q
person who would love beans for little
or for long, She is distinctively sugges-
tive of large bottles and small birds.
But, then, she does not look like a
person who would get herself cheerfully
into boomers and gum boots and a
sweater and mackinaw skirt-what-
ever that is-and tramp the Chilcoot
Pass to sing and dance in a tent theatre
at Dawson City for six weeks of her fair
young life.
She sat curled into the silk pillows OF
big divan in very rocco apartment
and kicked an idle foot in and out of
furry of white lace ruffies. She wore
a negligee of blue foulard, cut if the
sweet, seductive shape known to the
frank French as 'hop-from-bed,"
with fiurries of white lace all over it.
Her pale, suspicionable hair was wadded
: up into glittering bunch behind, part
Ned demureiy before and curled with care
over each ear. She gazed languidly out
of big, blue, heavy-lidded eyes, and
smiled slowly with small, sulky-sweet
mouth and looked like pink and white
and blue and gold gumdrop which had
never been taken from it's silk-lined
box.
II was singing at the opera house in
Juneau" pursued Miss La More, when
they got up the company to go into
Dawson. There were II of us, with the
manager-eight girls, seven fellows and
a comedian. l thought it would be fun,
you know, and a sort of change. I'm
awfuliy fond of change"
She smiled on me like candy angel
when she said this, and flashed a brace
of big diamonds around on her finger
significantly.
Get your diary, Gussie," said her sis
ter.
Gussie slid out of her sofa pillows and
frou-froued off after the diary.
'They were crazy about her inside"
observed sister, gazing fondly after the
vanishing plumpness. s.r,-.@,...
'Inside-where?"
''Why, Dawson. They wanted to mar
ry her." I'D
"All of them?" "~i'%
''Well, of course said sister, "some
OF them were married already. You get
her to tell you about Swift Water Bill
and the Prince. What was the Princes
I name, Gus?"
Antoine" called Gussie from the next
room. He was violets did not care
for him." she explained, frou-frouing
in again with the diary 1t was costly
little affair in morocco and silver, and
she read exactly two lines of it while
I observed the elaborate loneliness of
the covers.
left Dyea at in the morning.
Walked ten miles to Sheep Camp"
''That's where we slept" she said,
dropping the diary. 81 mean we tried
to sleep-the whole gang in one room
s.bunked on the floor in piece of canvas
strung up to keep out the saloon. But
that was nothing. After that we'd have
been glad of floor. We had just a
tarpaulin stretched on the snow when
we slept at the foot of the summit, and
a canvas r>us and the rain stopping
down and the wind blowing all night
like atrombone.
"Of course, we slept in our clothes,
but we got soaked just the same. The
winds the worst of it, you know. 1t
burns you crisp, and then you peel.
Some of the girls BACKED up the way
the squaws do. They rub on a makeup
of SCOT and some kind of grease and
they say it keeps you from burning, but
it don't. The girls that did it peeled
just the same"
Did you peel?" 1 inquired, looking
at her peachy cheeks and her little,
straight, white nose.
Mercy, yes." replied Miss La More,
"three or four times. / thought I'd
get down to bones after awhile. We
had to camp three weeks on the lake
while our boats were being built, for we
took in lot of stuff with us and that's
where we got the worst of it. OF
course, we didn't have any chance to fix
up, and we were sights when we got to
Dawson. The whole town turned out to
guy the girls. Our clothes were half
rags and our boots gone and we had
on those big cowboy hats, and with
our hair straight back-oh, gee. We
didn't care, though. We gave them
the laugh that night"
"You did not open that night?"
''Not in the theatre" replied Miss La
More, with delicate reserve. at took
some time to get the theatre ready. 1t
was big tent, you know, and our man
ager bought out the man who had it
it was only dance hall before and we
had to wait for the stage to be built.
1t was a great stage-about three by