Frontier hospitality delivered refinement that far exceeded the crude shelter housing it.

Evidence

The room, though it serves them and their two children for kitchen, parlor, and bed room, is the pattern of brightness, cleanliness, and comfort. At supper there were canned raspberries, rolls, butter, tea, venison, and fried rabbit, and at seven I went to bed in a carpeted log room, with a thick feather bed on a mattress, sheets, ruffled pillow slips, and a pile of warm white blankets! I slept for eleven hours. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 180

Categorization

• CANDY: Ruffled pillow slips and feathered beds behind a log cabin door — a tweetable collision of roughness and daintiness.