Several Young Officers Came Down From Fort Assiniboine To
Assist As Ushers, And There Were At The Post Four Girls
From Helena.
An army post is always an attractive place to girls, but it was
apparent from the first that
These girls came for an extra fine time.
I think they found it!
They were all at our cotillon Monday evening, and kept things moving
fast. It was refreshing to have a new element, and a little variety in
partners. We have danced with each other so much that everyone has
become more or less like a machine. Faye led, dancing with Miss
Stokes, for whom the german was given. The figures were very
pretty - some of them new - and the supper was good. To serve
refreshments of any kind at the hall means much work, for everything
has to be prepared at the house - even coffee, must be sent over hot;
and every piece of china and silver needed must be sent over also.
Mrs. Hughes came from Helena on Saturday and remained with me until
yesterday.
You know something of the awful times I have had with servants since
Hulda went away! First came the lady tourist - who did us the honor to
consent to our paying her expenses from St. Paul, and who informed me
upon her arrival that she was not obliged to work out - no indeed - that
her own home was much nicer than our house - that she had come up to
see the country, and so forth.
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