The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1885-04-15

your home here, IN years TO come, Jne
heaithiest, freest and happiest on the
foctstool. And What have said about
making a grove, ,hpplies equally well to
household AFFAIR." have it often said
TO me, "You ouent to be the happlest
woman there is You are always out and
have nothing to trouble you. How do
YOU do it?'' Wei, am happy, and
have a good times and it is just because
in my domestic affairs ] have learned
how not to do it. My housekeeping is
something like the New York dudes
first impressions of DeLand and envi-
rons, given in his most delicate drawl,
"Ahi So pwin1stive, you knaw, " and |
yet my home is heaithfully kept. | do
not wash or irons nor do | spend the in
terval between meals in trying to scrub i
pine wood white that the Almighty made |
yellow, nor in this climate exhaust my |
energy and AMBITION in trying to make |
the kitchen the most attractive part of |
tho establishment Nor do make pies. |
say it with reverence, for being of New
England origin / can imagine the bones |
Of my ancestors Fustling at my ventur-
ing to ignore that toughest OF old-fash-
ioned Yankee institutions. 20 be can
sdid, / mustewn that make the poorest
tpie crust have ever seen consequently,
kdOr ODVl0uSRr6aSOIS, nave -keafQeu now
\ not to do that. But / can and do have
\ plenty of paiddinqs, beef and salad dur
| ing the Sulsnmer.
| have taaot boRght q new dress this
\ year, butI have Rooted almost thous-
and rose cuttings, and have had plenty
of roses bloomin9 all winter, as we'll as
geraniuns, heliotI0pes, Verbenas, car
nations, and chiFsantheplums. My
fuschias, just n6sE are something too
utterly TOO, too q About the roses am
often asked, "HeRad DO YOU do it? Hav-
ing some repecE fr Col Codrington's
patience and paaek j can best answer,
come ard see. sRPll.be happy to give
you any help It3A, hoping you may
succeed and enjp Hours as much as
do maine It's al zsaploymenti in Florida
in which you wis 9 health and com
fort Sf-res
BeIieving that,experience and confes-
sion are good for the soul, / have written
mime, hoping that indirectly it may do
some good to the worn-out wives and
mothers who are coming among US for
rest, from the exhausting cares of North
ern housekeeping and many l meet ,on
these Florida waysides look as if they
needed it, but 1 ,can'trse that many of
them4go the right way,to get it. Should
they Locate near q prosperous and gro
gressive place like .peLand, they inn
port the burden of domestic life they
| should have lett st the North, and from
| stained floor to stained ceiling they pile
their household cares for fifteen years
| IMcs aesthetic, but this winter we
bought carpet, and II find it so rice
4 WhenA can to be comfortable and mot
h fashionable. Tty more roses and iGess
\ rubbing; more paHlsies2and fewer pies
/ you will never regNetsit.
! Domestic affairs can be managed in
| Floride. so that theEe need be just one
third the labor i'm the house that is NOW
a fruitful source of WEAKNESS. None
but these who have lived and looked on
in Florida, as hSxe for years, can,an-
derstand the full faTce. of our Savioar's
rebuke, Martha, Martha, you are
| troubled about muoh serving" Among
| Amenicen women there are many Mar
1 thas- $Ghall ! be allowed to ask if there
I are, among American men, an unusual
number, of Jobs3 But fear there will
be littlethope until weston sacrificing 10
| Mrs. GEundy, who, although terribly
\ tyrannical at the North, becomes quite
! an amERble old party in Florida.
We like and tKustOnr neighborS, yet
beach oms.s pecuIiarities and independ-
isence is respected
When we learn to have more regard
tfor our own health, and consequently
fer the comfort of OUR households, than
for the criticisms and ,epinions of those
who know nothing of the circumstances
that influence us, there will be no class
of women $50 healthy and happy as
Flsrida housekeepers, and no place
where one can be so independent of out
side Influences. Under Whatever cir
cunsstances you may come, the way out
of your difficalties will be easier than
you ianagine, ID you try the right way to
find it. The climate and soil of Raorida
will respond to you faithfully if you.treat
them properly, and will afford abundant
opportunity for complaint if you do not
accept the situation as nature intended.
The longer you remain, the better you
will understand and believe that here,
more even than elsewhere,
Goods greatness lies all around oar inc om-
pleteRess-
Round our restlessneGs,
His restv
HELEN L. BucxNoR.
West DeLdnd, Fla
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