The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-28
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ewiston Tr1ouns' 1aA@inB
. 81 says: THE young man
i' y y, whose modest household
W, ~, $500 or $1,000 2 year e
~ s. in and who saves never 2
p'n' recalls the fact that his father {.
10y .s.rtsd 4 much larger family on
" s much and saved something
ll !. : That is partly tr'ie. but
NY s'a' modest young man will recall.
~ ". harder he will get some ex-
v ..;ons that may enlighten his
p ~. writer of this recalls quite
,i N some of the methods By
p1;eb the thing, which makes the
LEWISTON Tribune sad was accom-
ptshed. iii, !. 80
4ne covered by this history. he
80 was a 4 room, log house,
,..,.,ed between logs with mud
s,n,no,, mud, none OF your fancy.
me- and hair concoctions-ceiled
!. IN ouakipg asp poles and shingled
Nth wheat grass. Four slept IN q
u toes mingling. The bedstead
US homemade contrivance that
,ulled out. 1t was used as a sofa
hiring the day. The bed was made
,(cattails, the pillows of old clothes,
urefully preserved for rag carpet
,eaiust the day of elegant luxurles.
Me- covering was home made
suit, The other two children, be-
ing girls, had separate room-a
$40 slope" that leaked The
main room did service as boys bed
room, parlor, sitting room. dining
room on state occasions, and smoke
house. The hog was hung to the
logs which served as rafters. I'm
derneatn was the potato pit, reached
BY prying up a section of the floor.
Once a year ame'eyed tailor
came and sat upon the table and
pat tobacco juice all over the walls,
meanwhile building a suit of blue
leans each, for two of the older
boys, that was sight to see. Once
be undertook to expedite business
BY cutting two suits at one swath.
He did it; but there being two
pieces Of cloth, one gray with a
blue thread running through it at
remote intervals, the other blue
with seldom streak of gray, the
short cut was not altogether a ste
cess, because when he came to fas-
ten the parts together each suit was
half of one colored stuff
and half Of the other; and when
you saw my brother on one side,
you would swear it was I, and
when you saw me on the other side,
you'd swear it was he, and the next
tine you'd be reversed. We got
mixed and tangled in school, and I
was licked instead of my brother,
and when I had measles they sent
him to bed and fed him on sage,
and gave me dose of turkey rhu-
barb for the ives. But the trouble
made by that unhappy misalliance
nd not end with one generation.
"nen the clothes got so the skirt
u Tue breeches would not go down
ar enough to cover our terra Gotta
knee pans, and the jacket was SC
'a' removed from the waist line as
70 cut OF communication, they were
handed down to the next in Inca
ascent, and so, in the course o.
nature with many additions and
they passed on regu
a'Iy to the carpet rag stage of util
=: Inc summer apparel wa S light
''uple and decollete at wrists anc
auk'es' 1t consisted of hickory
'art' blue drilling pants and {
''O'en cap, all homemade. Ono,
u TWO years there was a pair o
'V"nice shoes with steel armor OF
VIC SoIes. In moist weather they
aO'OFOed more water than a stee
Aus' and when dry stiffened like
tSSA saddle. For nine months in
'e't' all went barefooted and devel