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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1890)
wfist fiioiik atatoary wltbout bluiblng, looking cofteriooa, or afi.rg t tpmk modeety, U Dot to bt truated. 80, If all mlnde and all e;re wrrt urt, women tolght eaMy wear low -cot and tUt. lre gowna; bet all know that they are not, and 1 ra a4 ondmtend how babmda and filhera, who art ! aae tJ.i mural lejra glide, onfrotted upon, tf.rwjh !1 gr,U of eairty, from tht hlgheet to the liweei.raa a'loW their Whee tr 4 daughtera to uncover Innoretit bmxne to the gaia if ejr that hava forfotten-lf the; tm rrally keea-whal Inrum and reverent admiration are Ike. It baa rwvntly ln nil (hit it U ill HfU tor women of the hlgheet eurirty la wear dfMxlpt gowne, becauee they art Wo to it, aa to U orjW; but, until the eyee and mlnda of t'l mankind art bora, or edo rated op, to the Mint b'gh, port, tngral plate, the butUnda of the great mlIJ! rlaaa muet b-el a q-ilet, otid atia tta In their wlvrV tnodeet dreaaet thai hmUnda d the "hlgheet" never know. " When I thick of Oregon," lo.lnf1j ald a lady the itl er evening, who baa trivrted alt over America and l uruj. " think mtof Portland, nor o( the nlw ojle ! have met who if re prou 1 to U Oregonlana, but 0 an oli firmer and lie w ife whom I onct met at an hotel in Comlhe. The old lady tJ I me that they bad 'crueaed the Ja!ne' thirty yeare befure, la a long train of emigrant wag-na draan by patient oien. Tly had eetllrd down on Monition clalmi' op In the ' W'lmwUe' va!ly, and now, ix the Ant time In alt thuew year, wrre on thrlr way to Portland to 'a the elghla.' " "They were," ojntintwvl tU lady, at.ll laughing J'j and merrily, " the qtxtreet old rootle I ever aw, utterly lgnei.l and nneophlatlrated. with Uk wr.tten a I over lm; they were like a pair of lovere, and the old gentleman m to gillant-" "My dear," Intermixed her huaband ff, "waa that a aolt in tht wrung dirertlun?" hha fauaed, with ber warm itill rted; hr ejre uM her buihand'a gently, aa thih bo bal aeakenl a w thought, and, fur a few momenta at lal, a liU' tiVixw U' 0Mi the whole gay arty. I'rfhi-e xe U ui were Ihlnktrg of that long, doaty, winding wafrfi train; of lU dangrr, the wr arlneee, tht alt kneea, the Indian trvuMe, lU deathe, wt, b cmt have been amxnpanlmenta if that Vxig mrtj ; U tU bl and bardahlp, the oVj-ir and luffrringe, of nukg a mi bona in a new country. 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