It is a sad fact that the school which teaches these girls cleanly habits, the practical arts of sewing, and cooking simple but appetizing dishes, has made the girls unwilling to return to their dirty homes and the filthy habits of their parents.
That would be impossible to them.

So they are lured to visit the dance halls in Juneau, where they find admirers of a transient sort, but seldom secure an honest husband.
We called at Skagway, and the lady who was known by us told us there was much stress there placed upon the most formal attention to rigid conventionalities, calls made and returned, cards left and received at just the right time, more than is expected in Boston.

And yet that town was hardly started, and dirt and disorder and chaos reigned supreme.
A company of unlucky miners came home in our steamer; no place for them to sleep but on deck near the doors of our stateroom, and they ate at one of the tables after three other hungry sets had been satisfied.

A few slept on the tables.

All the poultry had been killed and eaten.