The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-11-03

y worth OF the preparation for QUINN,
. after hard days baking. 1 know
whereof | speak, have tried then
Doth. The next trouble is the wash
ing; We American women are gen
orally active and Industrious. but w,
are not cast.iron or India rubber. an,
; II there is one thing more thai
another that will wear out a woman
BODY and soul, keep her from beino
cheerful, happy housekeeper it i,
. the washing and ironing for a famil,
IN a climate like this. And righi
mere you can help us; your paper i;
an institution and power in the land
won't you advertise, beg and finally
succeed in bringing a Steam Lauudry
TO DeLand, you wilLhave the thanks
OF many a sick and tired wife and
mother, as we'll as the hard workin o
mau who sometimes has his clean
clothes, and often with them a SICK
wl1e and cold supper at night, when
ne would be most willing to paw to
nave the washing done and keep his
wi1e we'll and cheerful. A steam
laundry and Ryder's mangle from
baltimore would do more to settle
the women of Florida than all the
scientific disquisitions in the Citrus
family that were ever written. II
nave spoken OF the labor question.
allow me to say word about social
AFFAIRS and interest and l have done
we live at very magnificent distances
from one another and we women
1olks like to talk little sometimes.
we ike TO get together and find out
aboutthe additional founce to A new
dress, or the latest bend 20 a nal.
metto hat, or the latest fashion for
pies; these little interests are suited
TO the minds Of the weaker vessel
Well, as | said we are too tar anart
to visit at one another's houses often.
here with y9RJ 44ta5es gp1el s. ga ia
$, to suit p1rocassclsslI ~ ~ rFes of Fir
Of Ocala. known as the Hyde Park place
ua and ClGaReAoIs Kit ri Eifi fljtp I
ost much comps sffig} with the good G
will do socially and physically. In Q
his climate, all southerners know, r
he brightest and loveliest hours of 5
southern summer day are betw cen a
i've and ten O'Clock; at that time in +
most Of our Florida homes, women, \
ONE Of them after tired and rest 2
ess night, perhaps with sick hus- s
lands or children, are standing over S
hot cooking stove trying bacon and /,
potatoes for breakfast; this is another h
ource OF WEAKNESS. If man who a
las the means TO set out twenty q
ores of orange grove would set out |,
en,and is willing to pay heavy freight d
N furniture they do not need here t
1t all, and his wife would do without |
ome OF the accessories to house h
keeping at the North which she does o
lot need here, they could economic il
.nough to buy one of these small, o
GENTLE Florida horses, easily kept on e
rab or Guinea grass, for the use of "
heir wives and children and good, h
light, spring wagon, and make good
trong cup Of coffee, cold bread and h
,utter, and some fruit tor an earl T.,
breakfast, open their houses for the Ii
morning air and sunshine and put il
themselves and the children into the |
wagon and meet at the club house O
nd park and have a social chat, see v
,lenty of one another and hear the
ews; turn the children loose in the d
rounds to play. No matter about D
heir clothes; If TOMS jacket is +;
,atched at the elbows and he is n
his face will be brighter +,
md healthier than it he had been h
washed and sandpapered for an hour Q
before hand, and let him run if he G
loes soil his clothes and face; that n
i, the normal condition of healthy Il
hildren. Such child will show \
hat his moti sr has common sense. D
nd no false pride. She had better II
atch her chlldren's clothes than a
heir constitutions and her own by O
yer exertion to keep them nice and
hereby make them miserable. And
applies to our own dressing in the
anne way. 1t is not necessary that il
re should all try, whatever our Il
leans may be, to dress as well or y
etter than others whose means are Il
reater than ours. believe in ii
7oman, who has the money, dressing n