Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11


certain castles do certain kinds Of work.
If they do any other kind of work, they
break their casteS, as they say; hence
we are obliged to have several servants.
Their pay is small, though, taking all
they do into consideration. We have
to keep a carriage and horse; our
church and our work are all so far from
our home we cannot 60 on foot. You
see we are here to do work for the
church in America. We are to do work
among the heather, and if we had to do
all our own work we would never get
time for missionary work. We have a
nice home. Our house has six large
rooms in it, the parlOr, the library, the
dining-room, my bedroom, nursery,
a room for strangers, 1--WE say here; you
would say spare room in America Out
of each bed room there is small room
called the dressing room, and out Of
that the bath room. We take bath
every day here--everybody, children
and and grown people. The bath is the
pleasure of the day. The heat is so in
tense that it rests and refreshes one to
Jump into a tub of cold water and then
dress fresh and clean. Isometimes bathe
twice a day. In the hot weather the
clothes you wear before noon, or from
morning till noon, will never do for the
afternoon and evening. They get so
wet from perspiratiOn. Everybody
wears white six months of the year, both
men and women. 1t takes dresses and
under-clOthes by the dozen, and chill
dren's clothes by the hundred. There
is no room for economy tits "have to"
principle we 90 on here. My parlor is
very pretty, with pictures, organ, good
furniture, lace curtains, books, flowers,
and other nice things; every kind of
lovely flowers bloom here, and if you
remember, was always fond of them,
and here my house is filed with them.
Our house is perfectly new, my hus-
band superintended the building of it
last year. Our yard has just been set
out in grass and shrubbery, and is get
ting pretty now. A large veranda,
IL feet wide, extends around three sides
of the house. ALI houses here have
verandas; they protect them from dust,
storms, rain and extreme heat. I have
nearly 200 pot plants on my veranda;
some are cactus, some violets, some large
lilies, and large spotted and tinted leaf
plants, peculiar to this climate; all are
pretty, and make regular green house.
/ have bought only few Of them; all
have been given or sent to me by kind
friends. Climbing up the veranda
pillars are honey-suckles, roses and very
pretty creeping vines, one pink, one
purple, one blue, etc. In the yard tube
roses, evergreens, and other ornamental
trees.
Lucknow is beautiful city, and the
gardens, or parks, are lovely. 1t is
called the city of roses. We get de-
licious fruits here--pine apples, man
goes, Custard apples, oranges, lemons,
melons, cocoanuts, plantains, and many
kinds you would not know. There are
some kinds of fresh fruit the year round.
Vegetables are almost the same as at
home; there are many peculiar to this
country, also. Vegetation here is lovely
The trees and oriental shrubs, the palm
trees, bamboos and others, are beautiful.
The country is glorious, butO, the peo-
pie; this is the land where the "heathen,
in his blindness, bows down to wood
and stone" This is the land "where
every prospect pleases and only man is
vile" Poverty, ignorance and idolatry;
you can not imagine the wretchedness
of these people. l will not have room
to tell you very much about them. My
husband is the pastor of the native
christian church. We also have Sunday
School of native christians. l have 10
schools in the city for heather girls; l
superintend these schools. This is my
work. There are about 200 girls in all.
Some of these schools are four miles
away, and they are scattered far and
near all over the city. l have teacher
for each school, but | go and see them
every few days, examine them and keep
them going, paying bills, etc. This,
besides studying the language, caring
for my children, looking after my
house, writing, visiting among church
members, and attending services in
church, and attending many other
things, is no little work. My husband
is busy from morning till night. We
very seldom have an evening at home
together; somewhere there is ameeting
or some work going on. see temples
and idols every day. All over the city
all over this land--gods of wood and
stone are worshiped by night and day,
by light of sun, by light of lamps. Day
and night petitions are offered to gods
who hear not; offerings and sacrifices
are placed before gods who see not, and
garlands of fragrant flowers twined
around gods who smell not; why such
a waste3 Only that they who make
them are like unto them. We do all we
can to lead people to Christ. tits hard
work. Idolatry holds them with an iron
chain. Pray for us and pray for these
ignorant people, that they may learn to
worship our God. If you want to hear
more about these people l will tell you
i'm my next letter. Now all can send
in one letter is AZ sheets so you see |
must close. May you do all the good
you can, and pray for us, who are trying
to do all we can. Yours,
MARY SCoTT BADLEY.
Health and Happiness
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