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Show Girls of The 'Old Town l.illtdi- Tin- Pyramid: Wo ii III o i i ; of you old timers like to go buck to tin; days of your early manhood and read the names of Home oft I he i i i;.-) with whom you onie bad the pleasure of associating, of dancing and perhaps of courting? If ho, thi n take the time lo read this brief communication: and we will paraphra.se slightly the second line of the nuotalion, and havo it read as follows: "Backward, turn backward, oh Mine in your flight, make nie a "A Young man" again just for one nl.ght." These girls, whom I shall name later on in this letier. helped to make the social life of lit. Plenxint when it was In ii3 Infancy; dressed 1n its swacUMng dollies of sa'e brush streels and one room In.g cab'ns, dugouts, dug-outs, with now and then a small a-dobe a-dobe house sandwitehed in between '.hose log house man-dons. Then, too, let u3 reme.nber that these girls of whom I v.r't.o were! rot clothed in silk hose. jTeorgette cepo an 1 iiirh heel shoes or di 1 they parade the streets w '!h bobbed hair and rouged lip.:, an! skirts reaching scarcely below the kneee. but notwithstanding the lack t.ieso modern day luxuries ai'' necessities, ne-cessities, they were the -bells of the ballroom and the props of these early day rooiety affairs of gaietv and joyful pleasure. They were the rosy cheeked, sun- i.-.uiitii guis who Helped father rn the farm, h-tiling hay and stacking wheat, while some of them went out lo shear sheep in the season thereof. They were the sweet, delightsome! merry-hearted girls of the long ar,o They were the girls that make your heart leap for joy, and your pe.ans of piaise ring out as you think of them to -rlny. Many of these "fairy queens" havo left the old home town, never to return. re-turn. Others of them are sleeping the last ion.5 sleep of eternal rest out in the silent city of the dead. As I remember these girls, as memory mem-ory car'dea ne back over a Ions si retch of years. whee Ioval hearts Fnd sunny smiles made merry in tlu-r.avs tlu-r.avs of long ago, I ara remined rui the most of them married the vo,n-nen vo,n-nen of their choice, and made h-i : l otnes, some in the old home tovv wlule others moved to places cli,' ' tm from the old "nest". : And in this letter to your pane - I ! want to pay ly triDU(e of rMpm . to these loyal girls, whose hearts werp ,?CirA n .-.A t 1 ana wno-ip gaid "K "tar was loyalty and deroto, they have made their way "own the long, l0ng trail throi,,,;h Mars that have silently passed awaV So. with the above as a Preface saull prxicee.i to name them in -, -Phabeticul order, as I recall ir names after a long lapse of yei-s Sljme of 'u older ones of Alt Pleas' -in may discover that I have - r gotten some of them, and I sha- l,e -lighted if some one with a becfr memory than I. win take the tronMe to supply the paper wUh t of those I have inadvertantly omitted a.d forgotten. Here they are Caroline Allen. Melissa Allen' v,, t'.a Allen, Sap.,, , 7.,M ,,, ' .... 1 'M A,len. Stena - ..ce.sa.n. M;U-lda Anderson. SopvJ Anderson. Coroline Anderson. Annie -person. Xo;:l " J-eh. Ha mi-, AI:rej. K.z'i vV'r'-!- Annie nran0n. r:,::n:,i,n- Ev 'on r, Annie Brt her eon. P,a,uha Rrothevson. .Vn' B-wick. Alice Harton. M irv ;Tr ,u.. Amanda Pe.roa, ,!. Kate Becksted ' m" . , M-:V;:!'1 Clemeasen. XephenJ Reason. Annie Coates, vLtl C.nristensen, Jane Coates, Lizzie Coates, Emma Coatee, Mary Chris-t'-.nsen, Hanna Chri3tensen. Sarah F.. Candland, Mary K. Candland, Elizabeth Eliza-beth Candland, Minnie Candland, Abbie Candland, Ellen Candland, Eliza Christcnsen, Zet Clark, Olive Mark, Mary Ann Clark, Philinda Clark, Emma Clark. Christena Chris-lensen. Chris-lensen. .'dary Davidson, Belle Davidson, ' Jirah Davidson, Lucinda Davidson. Mary Dalley Elsie Dalley, Patience Ii.tlley, Hilda Dehlin, Blenda Dehlin, Vigusta Dehlin, Eda Dehlin, .luliette ny, Alice Day, Lura Day, Dora Day : illy Day, Ann Dallin, Cam 11a Erlcksen, Elizabeth Erlcl--;'ii, St.ena Everson, Eliza Everson, Iaria Eve.r?nn, Christena Ericksen :inie Ericksen. Maria F.chser, Llzz'e Feohser, -a.rah Feehser, Emma Frandsen, An- Frandsen, Hannah Frandsen Mary Fredricksen, Eliza Fredrickse l 'arluie Fredricksen, Rose Farnworc.'i irah Ann Fowles, Hanna Fountain, frena Fountain, Mary CMedhill, -.tona fJottfredseni, Gunnell Gunderson. ."ivira Gracco. Edith Ivie. Lula Ivle, May Iv.e. Su;anah Ivie, Mary Ivle, Lyde Ivie, 'iulle Ivie. He rnrna llafen, Trena Hafen, Roz-.i'.a Roz-.i'.a Hafon, Rikke Hemmert, en.a llemmert, Hannah Harbroe, Annie llirbioe, Emma Harbroe, Zit ' I 'i'ft hinson, Josephine Hansen, Julia Hansen, Dena Hansen. ''i try Ann Hansen, Sarah Jorgensen, Lena Jorgensen ''ai'y Jorgensen, Jennie Jonjensen. Caroline Johansen, Cecelia Johan'sen, Sina Johansen, Mlna Johansen, Annie Jensen, MaHa Jensen, Josephine fensen, Celiu Jensen, Caroline Jensen -'tena Jensen, Agnes Jensen Hilda 'ensen, Edith Jensen, Hannah Jen-en, Jen-en, Elteebe-.h Johnson, Maria John-cn, John-cn, Marie Jacobjen. Martena .Taeo.h- son, Carlena Jacob3en, Mary Jessen, Maria Jessen Serena Jacohsen, Annie lacob.ien, Edie Jensen, (who was call's-! tiio Queen of Copenhagen.) Annie Knudsn. F,:nma JiTif Lake. Annie Lake Caroline Laroen, Pauline Larter, l-ibbie I.arter. M'na Morrison, Tina Morrison ena Monsr.n. Rp7in !W fill 3(1,1 QYlln'r, I "onson, Annie Mon-.-on, D-'antha '.iorasen, Annie Meiling, Louise B I "frulspn, n i- Madsen. H'lda Mad-'en, Mad-'en, Mary Madsen, Sina Mads-.n '""a Madsen Celest'al Mc Arthur, ';,,,ftt y' 'rihvr. I.-iri Mc Ar'hnr. J ''nn'ce Me Arthur, Je-nrahna Meyr'ok. 'enn'-s Meyrick, Josephine Marisen. nannr.h Mudsen, Stena." Madsen. Maria Ma-'-en, Chr'ntena Mattiaon, vlary .Arcke'son, Matilda Miekle.s-n ' Susanah McCIenahan, Thea Mon-sen, ijouina JMadsen. Chastie Ni'elson, Benta Nielson, Aniietta Nielson, (Augusta Niel-son, Mary Nielson. Eda Niehan Josephine Nielson, HuJda Nielson, Marie Niel on, Hannah Nielson, Ingabor.g Niel on, Mina Nielson, Hidiva Nielsor: nna Niehw. Mary Nielson, Cyntb a Vielson, Annie Nielson, Lydia Norman, Nor-man, c.us-iie Norman, Selma Norma., '.'i.astie Nielson. -lane Ol.'lrim. Emmeline Oldham mma nr :u. Caroline Orgill, Ha viaii O'sen, Andrea Oman, Eliza and Sarah Oldham. Belle Porter, Annie Po-rter, Ja:-e Porter. Post Porter, Maggie Peel mile Peel, Deseret Pape, Yaniie l:ol.on, Annie Poulson, Libbie Pae, tietcie Paulsen. Xico'ine Rolfson, Maria Rolfsoa laris Rolfson, Sophia RoUson. Anr SU7.u Reynolds, Sarah Eliza Raynold-C;ii2ab-,th npynolds. Charlotte Rey--oids, Annie Reynolds, Caroline ;a';mussen, Mary Rowe, Candac-'owe. Candac-'owe. Jennette Rowe, Mary Rosen-o-g. Sophia Rasmussen, Annie Ras- - mus.en Phoebe Reynolds, Clara Rey. , nolus, Einora Reynoids Annie Rolf I 3011. .- Miranda ;eely, Lucinda Seely, Em-mohne Em-mohne Seety, Emily Seely, Martha faker, Sten. Simpson, Mary Sinip-'on, Sinip-'on, Carolina Simpson, Hannah Simp-;on, Simp-;on, Millie Simpson, Charlotte Storm- L ' L'2zie S,aker- BIia Jane Staker JoSephine Staker, Mary Staker, Mzr-Uia Mzr-Uia Staker, Civalene Smith, Matilda &nth, Mary Stohl, THda Stohl, Ella S-tovilie, EKie Syndergaard Mary Tidwell, Jane Tidwell. Maria -dwell, Emmeline Tidwell, Selen. Ilia-man. Lizetta Tnaltnan, Alice ;ha',man, Stena Thompson', Grada Thompson, Rebecca Tucker, AIiCe lacker, Stena Tyboe. '-sa waVinterS' Sarah Wilcox- Clar-';Sa Clar-';Sa V CX- Mary WlIcox, Belle Wil- ?'ink,er' LUCy Wheelock. Viud ih" ' E,'m,'na 'hpelock, Viud Wheelook. Rose Wheeler, Ann aneE'r Walk J new.lker. Rose Walker. Marv S;:;? - YounR" I!erha Young n,, rib! "0W "la"e the atrem '0 'rn C rf 0f youo Id iS8ubmitted 10 ijouofold tin,, days, to the grand- atheia and grandmothers of today, vho were the boys and girls of yesterday. yester-day. .Mt. Pleasant today, has, per--taps, as fine a lot of girls as were here mothers before them. These iris are the off spring of -genuii,6 :oneer stock, and partake mo-ie or of the sterling traits of their -:oneer faihers and mothers. They are blessed with more of the! Mnforts and luxuries of life than ' ere rho'-r moihers, and thank God if- TI,e ca!'co dress and co-tton 'Me, or even wool, are no longer the tyles of the .girls of yesterday. To 'ay they have luxuries and convenances conven-ances of home life ,that they little reamed of having when they were I towing up. If any of you old-timers who are I '--ir away from The home of you- f "hild-hood, and ever get the home- r oining fei-er, temember The Far Away Lands are 1 fair, but Oh, c Wait not too -long for the homing i l-est no one be waiting, to welcom A you back, ; When, weary. you turn from roaming." And now I leave you to pursue the oven tenor of your way. as you have '"'-r done in t&e Pant. That you ma, 'ave no guess coming as to the identity iden-tity of the writer, I unblushingly sisn my name as of yore. Chronicler AM AS A AIDRICH j Editor's Note:-H J (Amasa has had great pleasure in ! Siting little stories about the "old i rimers" at various intervals for the I pyramid, and then signed it The ' Chronicler." It pleased him so much that he ha, finally decided to I nave his na-me .given in full.) t! . B |