St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-05-31

his wife were as kind as could be: but
everything was so new and SO different
from what [ was accustomed to that |
couldn't enjoy it as do now. Why,
Mary actually does all her own work;
hasn't even kitchen girl; and the
house is so small. But now / like it
here, and do you know. May, that I
have begun to take lessons in house.
keeping? l felt as if l ought not to
make additional trouble for Mary with
out helping her in some way. Jim
laughed at me at first and asked Mary
if she liked to train ncaD help, but now he
praises me and says / know
almost enough to keep house
of my own. The idea! We don't
have much in the way of amusement
aside from what we make for ourselves;
but everybody is sociable and we have
some very pleasant times. We have a
good deal of company, and there is
some one to dinner almost every Sun
day. There is one gentleman who
comes quite often to see Jim on busi-
ness Che works in the mine of which
Jim is Superintendent and who is one
of the most agreeable persons l ever
met. He would pass for a gentleman
anywhere; but l would hardly have be-
come acquainted with him in the East,
for he is only workman in a mine.
Out here, however, everybody works,
so one meets with all classes of society
and chooses ones friends accordingly.
But about this friend of Jim's: Hell a
perfect Apollo, aud has the loveliest
eyes l ever saw: and his voice is
heavenly a clear and well-trained
tenor. Sometimes he remains all the
evening. and after he and Jim get
through their talk we have little con-
cert; you know Jim and Mary are fine
singers, and we make passable quar-
tette. He was here recently one after
noon and Jim asked him to stay to tea.
l was so angry. for Mary had gene out
and there was absolutely nothing to eat
in the house. l had to make biscuits
and everything. I could see by the
twinklipg of Jim's eye that he enjoyed
my dismay, and that he caused it pur-
posely. However, managed tolerably.
and was glad enough that | had proiited
by Mary's teaching don't know how
much longer l shall stay; probably
until October. Now, NAV, write me
one of your good, long letters, and tell
me all about your summers campaign,
Your loving FAN.
MISS MABEL GORDON TO MISS FANNIE
HOWARD.
CAPE MAY, August q, 1S8l.--My
Darling Fan: What a naughty girl you
were to treat me so shabbily--not to
write line for two months! am sure
that wouidn have treated you SO had
I gone to that horrid town in your
place. How can you bear to stay there?
] know I should just die if had>to re-
main there a week; it must be dull as
a cemetery. l believe that gentleman
with the ..heavenly' voice must pos
sess some attraction for you or you
could not think of staying until Octo-
ber. You didn't even tell me the name
of your ssweet singer" who is he?
Why in the world do you want to learn
to cook and do housework when one
can always get servants for such work ?
| should suifocate in ten minutes if l
had to go into Kitchen this hot weather,
and there must be some great induce
ment to draw you into one.a Has
Apollo been preaching the beauties of
domestic life and SO on?
The carriage has just come and l
must get ready for drive. If you
were here would talk you blind, if not
deaf, for l have lots to tell you. Do
come home before long. October is so
far off in the dim future that fear if
YOU wait until then before returning we
shall have forgotten each other. Af-
fectionately yours, MAY.
H. B. CHAPMAN TO ROBERT CLARK.
WIDEAwAKE. Colo, Sept. 20, 1881
DEAR BOB: Since wrote you last-a
year ago, wasn't it, old boy?-I intend
ed to take q run back to the old place
this summer, but my plans were
changed by desire to watch horti-
cultural alexperiment- remember my
old fondness for plants? WANTED to
would stand transplanting to the colder
climate of our mountainous region. 1t
is too early vet to form a satisfactory
opinion. but have hopes that the ex-
pertinent will be success. Have you
ever met Miss Fanny Howard, daughter
of old Samuel Howard on Fifty-ninth
Street? She must have been a mere
girl when l left. and has "come OUT
within year or two. She is visiting q
cousin of hers, James Fullerton, and
has been here all summer. Fullerton
is Superintendent Of the rising "Star of
the West" mine-a mine, by the way,
in which your humble servant is toiling
for his daily bread. trying to find out
what the property is really worth. with
. view to future investment if it pans out.
Fullerton, however, knows not that I am
other than seem, and has taken quite a
fancy to me. being worker himself. l
am an occasional visitor at his home
and there met Miss H. soon after her
arrival. At first thought she was like
the rest of her sex, caring more for the
pursuit OF pleasure than the cultivation
Of useful knowledge; but she has devel-
oped some qualities not often shown
by girls brought up as she has been.
and has shown considerable facility in
adapting herself to the surroundings
she found out here. She has been at
the mine several times with Fullerton,
and during q recent visit an incident
occurred which greatlyl increased my
admiration for her. She and Fullerton
were on horseback and had just ridden
to one of the upper levels where was
then looking after some timbering, the