Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-12
CITY IMPRESSIONS.
Conveyed to Betsy iii a letter from
Sister kittlr.


| DEAR BErsY-We have all bin go
powerful bissY sence we moved TO 'he
city could not write emmy sooner. We
have had sight of company and seen
more things than ever you hearn OF IL all
your lite before. SIGH grand ways aud
! doiugs as we have would sstonIsh smarter
folks than We be. When we got here l
was awful glad to see sich a nice house
to live in. but tell you nv JOY didn't
last long. It's oil painted white on the
outside and plastered inside, but it's all
cracked and l was skeered to so to sleep
the first night. 1t raincd that night and
next mornm' you ought jest to seen
! The mess was in my nice Kitchen. The
smutty water from The leaky roof was all
over the stove, pots and tlOpr, ana Jest
! sot rite down ard cried, before / could go
! 10 work IN il, for you know how do hate
a nasty kitchen, Well ! worked myself
! purity near TO death in that ar place,
and all over this 'ere house, and in about
week got things to lookin' kinder decent
| and rispektabul.
Well it was nifty nice to be in town and
see my son an daretur In Their Sundy
cloas stepln' round with the folks, and
! lo0kin' jest as stylish as eny OF 'em, and
! all of US minglln' with the Judges, Col
|
on US, and treatin' us xest like we was
grand as anybody. You know Betsy, !
! tuck heep of pains ralsin' them two
chllun, cause you know l said the Lord
! didn't ann for me TO do great things and
it 'peared like that WAS the best thing
! could do was to train 'em rite as fur as
! knOwed myself, so | staid home and done
all the work l could, hut all the time
felt that the most important thing | mad
| to do was to train my two chtlun in the
| fear and admOnitiOn of the Lord, and
Betsy you know yourself that I've had a
miUy hard strugIl to keep things a movin'
| with sich ekstravagant ways as Tim is
| got, and goin' in det heels oyer head all
the time, tell | was nigh about distrakted;
and he amt dom no better yit, nor never
Will, but we git along somehow, and |
feel NIFTY sorry for him. kase l know he
done the best he knowed how, and now /
| feel it more and more every day, that the
Lord will provide for us so long as we
| trust Him and do the best we kin. You
know what a blessed thing it is to put
| your trust where you wont be disappointed,
for you have bin all along there my sis
ter, an manY's the time we've cried over
our misplaced confidence; and now we
know where to go when we git i'll troub,l
| and where thare is one friend that sticks,
closer than brother. Sometimes it do
look like the bottom will drop out and we
wont have nOthin', and nOtbin' to do, and
then there Is work and bread, and we
know somehow that the Lord sent it.
| When | think what we have had, and
might Of had yit, and plenty more besides,
l can't hardly keen from mumerin' and
complainin' worse than the children of
| Israel in the wilderness, cause | know
jest how twas gon' TO be all along with
| Tim managIn' as he did, and he was so
hard-headed 'twan't no use tryln' to turn
him, but the way be does manage to keep
folks thinkin' be is sich yit would be
funny, il it wasn't so bad havin' 'em
think am too mean and stingv to live, and
me navin' SIGH good hOle-soled husban'.
You know Betsy | want raised to be
stingy, nor to have a stnted table,
specially when we had company, but
many's the time company's come IN to my
house and it would a tuck my best to
give 'em enough bread and bacon if they
had staid to dinner, and ! know they
thought IL was pure meanness of me not
aXing them to stay, and they called me
stuck up and all that. and a break my
heart cause | had to do as j did do.
But what would hurt the worst Of all
would be to hear Tim bragin' about how
much money he made, and thong ht folks
would wonder what he done with 1t for
'twant in the house nor on the table nor
on his wife nor chiup, and then thought
they would think he had SIGH lazy good
for nOthin' wife he couldent prosper
La, Betsy, here | am a wanderin' on about
Tim, and meant to tell you all about the
folks in the city and how we all do, and all
about the grand people we meet and
don't know what all, and now wont have
time, but | will be shore to tell you in my
next. But | must tell about my son Row
speakin' before all the big bugs. and the
house was crowded and everything was
Jest as still, while he was speakin', and
when he stopped there was SIGH a stomp
i'm and slappn' and cheerin', and the
editors OF the newspapers come up to me
and shook my hand and said they would
congratulate me about my son, bein' as he
was so young and vas SIGN a good Orerter
Betsy, / must sayl thought was a settin'
on top of the very highest shelf, when the
men what makes the papers come and
shuck my hand and my boys, two. You
know they know site of things, and
reckon they come as near havin' things
their way as anybody does in this world
and some of 'em are dOin' powerful heep
of good, and it's my opinion that editors
and school teachers are about the best
people in the world, and dom more good
and havin' a crater infooence over the
! destiny of nations as well as individuals
than preachers or enybody else is q doin'
You know l always did have a most
xalted opinion OF editors and / hain't had
no reason TO change il Wit, and don't be-
lieve / will. don't think they are half
appreciated as they ought to be. They do
more kind deeds and get less thanks and
pay than any people | know of. I've some
thin nifty funny 10 tell you in my next.
and hopin' TO hear from you soon and
sayin' this leaves US all well. hopin' you
are enjoyin' the same blessin', am your
lovin' SISTER KTrTLE.
A FRENCH REDO.