Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-04-14
HOME LETTER.

April showers bring May flowers"
and We are daily rejoicing that at last
old Boreas has ceased to blow in our
| faces ms icy breath. The grass is actu'
ally becoming green, and out in the
woods the little flowers are Just max
ing up their minds that they dare to
venture from their wintry conceal
ment. and come forth to breathe the
balmy odors of April.
But the flowers ana the fresh brsezes
and the warm rains, are not what
started 10 write about SO many thing
are crowding along demanding our
attention, and which resolutely refuse
| to be put off with a promise. The &C
cumulatcd dust of the last winter Is
still reposing in the corners; and all
the litter which the wind and the snow
and the mud and the freezing cold pre-
vented our carrying to the compost
heap. is lying around loose in the
back yard. We take pleasure IN having
our "clarin up times" full as much as
Dinah ever did, although weare not ad-
iicted to keeping the rolling-pln under
the bed, Or the nutmeg CRATER in oul
pocket. But | put on my very WORST
est" dress, and my tattered sun-bonnet
made in 1876 and my very Oldest
shp-shoddest shoes, and with MY hands
encased in buck-skin gloves, and armed
with hoe and rake | proceed to ''re'
,rsanlze" the yard all round the house.
1t generally happens that while | am
deepest in the merit Of the cause. that
there comes a shower just for variety
sahe. IL it is not too hard, keep on
through it all, and am rewarded with
the rheumatism and am unable to talk
for week without a sniff or sneeze.
But this is all gone, by the time thu
grass is two inches high, and my house
plants are all out in the border in their
glory of blossoms. Meantime | have
renovated the whole house, with the
assistance OIL my stout Mary Jane Ann;
and have Topped back my curtains with
blue ribbon, adding to their beauty
some nice clusters OF bright autumn
leaves. saved during my rambles in the
woods last year. My curtains are pure
white, edged with lace three inches
wide, on one side and both ends: and
the upper end is shirred so as to leave
standing ruffle about six inches wide.
Across tine shirring are my autumn
caves, close together, with pendant
PRAY of ferns in the center. | have
some very pretty white frames tor my
chromos; made by coating common
pine moulding with two coats of plaster
of-paris and when dry, smoothing with
fine sand paper. l like them white, as
[ train par'or ivy around all my
frames, the rich glossy green of the
leaves, forming a lovely contrast to the
marble whiteness of the frame. My
wall is papered with light brown, no
figure-and instead of the regulation
bordering. | have a strip of checked
gilt paper eight inches wide; also a
strip around each window and door.
My tides and table covers are black.
embroidered with bright yellow. |
Change mywall paper every year or two
as get tired of looking at the same
things year after year and can change
with but little expense. have good
smooth rag carpet on my floor. and lots
of home made ''fixins' all over my
house, but as | have no parlor, Of
course my room is used every dag, just
as 1t should be. Don't have any part
of your house too fine for your own
family, but enjoy 1t yourself as you go
along, and make your friends welcome
to do the same.
A New CONTRIBUTOR.