. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. enant of the garment disporting himself on the floor, at the same timecontinually making faces to remind him that his time was up. Their by-play andgood humor furnished quite a di\ersion and anmsed us ver\- much During this summer the American ladies led a lazy life of ease. We hadplenty of books, including novels. We were all joung, health)- and happy, andwere content with each others society. We read, joked and laughed away thetime and in those days there were no envyings and no backbiting. . Nowthat merchants were establishing themselves on Comme
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. enant of the garment disporting himself on the floor, at the same timecontinually making faces to remind him that his time was up. Their by-play andgood humor furnished quite a di\ersion and anmsed us ver\- much During this summer the American ladies led a lazy life of ease. We hadplenty of books, including novels. We were all joung, health)- and happy, andwere content with each others society. We read, joked and laughed away thetime and in those days there were no envyings and no backbiting. . Nowthat merchants were establishing themselves on Commerce street, bathing at ourplace had become rather ])ublic, so we ladies got permission of old SefioraTreviiio to erect a bath house on her premises, some distance north on Soledadstreet, afterwards the homestead of the Jaques family. Thither we went in acrowd every afternoon at about four oclock, taking the children and their niirseswith us and a dainty lunch prepared by one of us in turn to eat after the bath. * Theu the Parish SKETCHES or WESTERN LIFE. MKMOIRS Ol MRS. M. A. MAVlvRICK. 105 An eccentric character of those days was a Doctor Weidemaim,—his memoryis worth keeping green as showing that the present cosmo]iolitan characteristicsot San Antonio are congenital, so to speak. ... He was a Russian scholarand naturalist, and an exceUenl physician and surgeon ; a highly cultivated manand .spoke many languages, and he had been a great traveler. He lived on tiieold Chavez place on Acequia street. I remember that on the night ol the Indianfight of March 19th, 1840, I visited Mrs. Higginbotham, as I have before I was there Dr. Weidemaim came up to her grated front window andplaced a severed Indian head upon the sill. The good Doctor bowed courteously,and saying: With your permission. Madam, disappeared. Presently hereturned with another bloody head, when he explained to us that he had exam-ined all the dead Indians and had selected these hea
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