The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-12-10
LETTERS FROM MEXICO.
Extracts from the Private Correspond
enCe Of Miss Mamie Lloyd.


(We have been kindly furnished with
extracts from private letters to President
Lloyd and wife, of the Highland Female
College, recently received from their
daughter, Miss Mamie Lloyd, who is now
engaged in missionary work in the City Of
Mexico, They will be read with special
interest by the numerous friends of the
writer, as well as by our readers generality
NOVEMBER 4th.-This is beautiful
morning, quite warm in the sunshine, but
chilly elsewhere, My hands are so cold I
can scarcely write. 1 am sitting by the
open front window with my feet in tho
sunshine. The thermometer hanging near
me in the shade says 65 degrees; by hold
ing it in the sunshine a few minutes it runs
up to 80 degrees; I think it generally
stands between 60 and 10 degrees. I sup
pose it must be much colder at home I
shall be anxious to know the result of this
days voting in the States; received the
paper you sent after the other election.
One Of our girls is to be married to-day.
The wedding will take place in the parlor
at Ganta, and Rev. @. Drues wall perform
the ceremony. I am afraid we will have a
scene when Lola leaves our baby Lille, as
she has taken charge of her for six months
The greater number Of our girls are
orphans, whose friends are not strict Cath
olics, and put them here to get rid of them.
Only few pay anything, for the most Of
them we furnish everything. They fare
very we'll, much better than the most of
them would if their friends had them.
They have for supper and breakfast coffee,
bread and Frijoles (beans). For dinner,
meat and vegetables one day, and fruit and
vegetables the next day. They do not
have butter, Irish potatoes or oatmeal, as
these articles are too expensive-butter5 SO
cents per pound, oatmeal and grits each
80 cents, while ham is one dollar pound
a 5aGDUTy in which none of us indulge.
Some of our girls are quite dark with
coarse straight black hair. They seem tC
like my eyes because they are blue
The women 60 bareheaded or wear
shawl or mantle over their heads. They
will 20 out in the broiling hot sun with nj
of these we have great variety in color
size and shape. There is a cathedral mex
door to the orphanage, and you will Sc
fine carriages with handsome spans o
horses in waiting for ladies Of high rank
elegantly dressed, with beautiful rich lac
mantles over the head pinned to the hail
and falling over the neck and shoulders
but never over the face
Ladies' of rank ride, the men walk.
is not proper for ladies to go out alone
Girls never 60 out on errands, you mus
send boy or man. AS we ride in th
mornings we meet great numbers of peopl
coming to the city, who have neithC
washed or cOmbed if we may Judge froi
appearance. And their clothes. Wei
they seem to wear them until they AZ
ready to drop off Rags here are too fl
gone to be of use, so rag-merchants send
the States for supplies have not see
much suffering, but Oh so much filth.
Our house is two stories high, right @
the street, as people here do not have yard
We enter through doors large enough for
wagon to pass through They do not ha1
doOr-knobs or handles, but the front doc
ere always kept fastened by chain aero
them on the inside, so whenever you wa
to come in, you must knock; and the do
will be opened by the porter or some mer
Der of his family. The knocker consists
two pieces of iron, one hanging loose
over the other, and you simply strike the
together When you enter the first roo
to the left is occupied by the porter al
family, the next is the girls sewing ROOF
and the next, porter's kitchen, where yC
will likely find one or more chicke
fastened to the table legs. The walls al
floors are of stone, After passing the
rooms you come to q large open space al
paved with stone, called the patio, farth
back another patio where the horses stal
all day on the stones, sometimes in t
shade, but often in the sunshine. TIL
are only fed once day, as that is the CT
tom here. Cousin Charles horse is
roam, not nearly so large as our "Billy
and Miss LeHuray's little brown pony
- very much smaller. It is very cunnil
and likes to be petted-is very fond Of
lump Of sugar, which it often gets.
The school rooms and our rooms occu
the second floor. In front and back of t
school rooms are four large dormitori
where the girls sleep on single iron bC
st8ads. We have thirty-siX boarders. \
have no hues or places for fire, except
the kitchen and ironing room, where tht
are big brick ranges with holes on top
charcoal, and they cook by placing
things on the red hot Goals They ha
for washing clothes, immense stones b
lowed out on one side, while the other 81
slants down to the bottom just as a wl
board stands in the tub-on that they I
the clothes, and am surprised to find it
well done. We have an abundance Of
kinds Of fruit and vegetables
The City is much nicer than I eXpec
to find it. There are a few nice parks O
drives but its greatest need naturally
plenty Of grass and trees.
The water supply is largely from an
mense spring at Chapultepec, % mi
away. It is pumped up by an engine
conveyed to the City in great large 40
ducts built Of stone, high enough for
riages to pass under them through
arches.
Immense loads are carried by donkl
without either halter or bride. The /
is fastened on with rope and the dri,
man or woman, walks somewhere neal
make them keep the right road, and w
we meet them in riding on horseback,
must keep out Of their way, for tbey
not give the road, and il there should
twenty together, as I have seen, it is n
very easy matter. When they carry q
or hay the donkey is muzzled or his mC
tied so he cannot open it.
There are many places Of interest
which / viii tell you in the near future
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''Mary has q little lamb-its fleece is "
as snow, but 10 wants Days Horse and @
Powder 70 make it strong you know. IN