The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1901-10-03

: i Woman and Home Circle. =
Women In Dawson.

Women i'm Dawson.
There Is no place In the world
where life IL more interesting than
in Dawson City, according 10 wo.
man who has just returned from
that far-away community. The
town j. now a center Of civilization,
with telegraphic communication
with the rest Of the world and
system Of transportation which has
reduced the journey that occupied
FIVE months three years ago to
matter Of three weeks: but IL IL still
a city Of log cabins, and life in it
continues to Possess some romance
and novelty. Skagway and White
HOrse hopeles9es modern aud COM
monplace towns, with frame houses
and the most approved convenience,
but not 40 Dawson. There are
few frame houses In the business
section, but the original log cabins
with moss filling the crevices still
serve a. homes. Lumber still costs
800 a thousand feet in Dawson and
bricks are 10 cents apiece, so that
building l. not matter TO be under
taken lightly.
Log cabins and the Dawson winter
suggests anything but comfort to
the uninstructed, but the Dawson
ties become attached to their cabins
and live In them with great content,
many having been transformed in
To most interesting aud artistic little
dwellings. Most Of them have
been built with only one room, and
"real bedroom" Is a rarity, but a
bedroom can easily be curtained off,
and ~ the families, when there are
any families, are all small, two
rooms answer tolerably well. Little
additions, to he used a. Kitchens, are
also being added. The walls OF
most of the cabins, where there Is a
woman among the occupants, have
been papered, though 1t is extreme
ly difficult to make the paper stay
on, and the dark blankets, which
every one used for carpets in the
early days, have been replaced by
rugs and "art Squares" with matt
ing around the edges.
Dawson is built on mountain
which rises straight up from The
edge Of the Klondike river, and tn,
houses are built high up the slope
IA the land at the foot is too expen
sive for anything but business pur
poses. They are thus most pictures
qeully situated, and with their littl,
gardens around them---where lettuce
radishes, peas, beans and other vege
tables are grown in the short, no
summer-they are often most at
tractive little abodes.
The chief difficulty in the way o
comfortable living in Dawson is no
peculiar to that city. 1t is the lacl
of servants. Those troublesome AZ
sistants charge from S75 to 800
month in Dawson, and it costs So
more to board them, which is prett.
expensive even for the Yukon. /
few "Japs" have been imported re
Gently for domestic service, an
have proved so satisfactory that a
effort will be made to secure Others
Food in Dawson is perhaps, les
ID satisfactory than shelter. 1t cor
sists principally of canned stuffs an
eggs are 81 dozen. People woul
fare even worse if it were not fC
the cariboo and moose, which pre-
vide fresh meat in abundance 6
comparatively small cost. The files
of the cariboo is said to be delicious
white and delicate as chicken. Pee
pie dress in the city much as the
no anywhere else in extremely col
weather, the extraordinary costume
one sometimes sees in pictures bein
rarely seen. Sledging with dogs
one of the favorite amusement
People never have Eat home" day
The distances are so great and til
cold in winter so intense that CUES
must be received whenever the
find it convenient to come.-Ricl
mond Times.