The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-02
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qaainied. and haa for many years enjoyed
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Holland ahe bad like privileges, ~ q less
extent, 10 study the habits " the people,
particularly Of The 0me Perhaps
these opportunities may Justify . dweller
In = southern home II expressing her
opinion Of these homes and the women
who make them the class With which
the Times correspondent seems 80 we'll
acquainted.
Planters In antc.belIum times, (it Is
useless TO speak Of plantation homes since
the war, because they have virtually
ceased TO EXIST, had almost always two
homea, 4 necessity as well as q luxury on
account of the general unhealthinsss in
summer of that part of the country best
adapted for the growth Of rice and cot.
ton. The plantation houses, ~ a rule,
in Georgia, were large and rambling,
without modern Improvements, and with
no pretensIon TO architectural beauty,
and without fine furniture; there was,
however, good, often elegant, table APP.
pointments, and a great deal of old-fash-
Toned plate. A large portion was seen in
the north soon after the war; the remain.
der saved has been sold piece by piece as
necessity compelled. There was also
plenty Of stable room, and every facility
for alarge,hearted hospitality; for in those
days people visited their friends, with
children, servants, and horses; this was
the custom of thu country. The summer
homes were always more or less pretty,
without pretension, and never without
flowers, which all southern women love
well enough to cultivate with their own
hands, and who understand it thoroughly.
many sending annually to various
florists in the north for additions to
their greenhouses instead of sending to
France for fine dresses and bennets. The
summer homes were rarely carpeted, and
the floors, dry rubbed" daily, were so
polished as to require care and habit to
avoid slipping; the extensive galleries
scrupulously secured; the bed-linen
washed in pure spring water, of which
there Is so great an abundance, smelling
sweet of old fashioned lavender, the ia,
vorite perfume of the linen press. Now
these lazy, dirty women,h had, with
the care and management of their two
homes, a great deal TO do, besides; they
bought, cut and arranged all the cloth
ing. for the plantation "hands," taught
their seamstress, trained their cooks-~no
easy chance of a good cook by offering
high wages. These careless mothers had
to teach their daughters before they were
wives. The writer being without these
accomplishments when first
called to manage her own home, having
been educated at the north, was stimu-
.ated to competition by tempting deli
;acleS sent her in a time of sickness.
made by the hands of her kind Il ighbors
friends. These lazy, selfish"
southern women are singularly active
devoted to the sick and suffering.
southern h mes, like English, are per
.%anent, descending from father to son;
hey are loved and lived in, or rather
before the war and poverty wrench
ID them away. The love of flowers is
universal the writer has a friend now
'hree-score and ten, who, at no hour of
he day, Is ever seen without her dainty
little boquet Of heliotrope, scarlet .gera-
llum, and the like, in the bosom of her
iress, glowing amid its deep black, like
hope of heaven from out her deep
orrow this lady is exceptional, not in
Ter tastes, but the left her to in
them, In short, the dweller in a
outhern home for the greater part of
Ter life can testify by knowledge, by
comparison, to the intelligence, active
,enevolence, and industry of southern
Reduced by a sudden over
vhelming blow from attluence to power
y, they perform the mental offices ne
to the comfort of their families
With a cheerful fortitude which should
'cmmand the respect and admiration of
Ill generous minds. This is the testi-
many of one without pre- udice and With
favor, who feels capable of Judging, !
md who also feels impelled to lift up !
Ter voice against the ignorance which !
tigmatizes southern women as 'igno- J
ant" "lazy," and Selfish" living in !
ZONES OF 'squalor, untidiness and power =
y" To the last charge, in many, very q
many instances, they plead guilty. =