The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-06
FIR ON MRS. JARVIS,
ANENTERTAININGL LETTER FROM
THE AMERICAN MINIS
TER'S WIFE.

n charming Description. OF Her Bra
lillian Home-A Terra Incoenita tn
MANY OF Our Best Informed PeonIe
"r' ana Mrs. Jarvis Health-Yelloxv
ach-Nelnarlkabie Beauty of the
Countrywide Towering Mountains
winch are Often Lilxened Unto tb.
| Alps of Switzerland,
We feel sure that every one of our
readers will peruse with rare pleasure
the following extracts from letter
written to the wife of the editor of The
SENTINEL, by Mrs. ex-Goy. Jarvis
| from her far off South American homo
The letter was dated March 10th and
arrived IN Winston April 9th, having
been in transit one month (saye q dav1
from the time 1t was mailed at Preto-
polls.
For, as this truly wonder
tul land-partly from its rem6teness
but manly from that marked lack OF
intercourse, which only exists between
the United States and Brazil-is al
most terra incognita'' to many of
our intelligent and cultured citizens. T
md many, many thing here, not only
IN the remarkab bic beauty of the coun-
try, geographically, with its tower
ing mountains, not like the frigid
| alps, so oft described, clad in their
| ICY shrowd of perpetual snow grim an
pallInS emblem of death, where even
the wild antelope dares not climb; but
whose tapestries are "a perpetua. living
green on which, as Miss Martineau So
beautifully wrote of another tropical
cline, Iou can bathe your eyes with
a delicious sense OF rest until Won
feel as though you would like to nes-
tie your face against their soft bosom
and fali asleep
Then the low lands, have indeed
from new year to new year, all the
blended coIorS OF some geogeous piece
OF eastefy tapestry--oniy now and then
a new shade is dextrously interwoyen:
as the buds and blossoms of her myri-
ad species OF Vegetation, belonging to
| the different seasons, open their sweet
lips, and send up their perfumed
breath, in grateful incense to the Giiver
of all good
The moss rose, the Marshal Neal.
and the nellotrope grow in the hedges
around all Che yards, and natuic max
es III every way such Il lavish diSelds
III Vegetation ana fruits of every kind
that 1t is hard even ior the well and
strong, "no live here, to do mach else
! then Sit under their own vine and liu
tree, and dream away their lives.
You can readily sea'how the incent-
i've to work may be wanting auona
the unambitious, poorer classes, when
broad cast, over the Iand.ruits of ever.
description han5 upon burden.
branches of trees, OF rot in the sun.
not q healthy dlet perhaps may, even
one which makes Of The poorer classes.
ready victims TO many ailments, chict-
est and worst Of which is the veal,
visitation u yellow Jack" to .t...aT
crowded cities, though this yellow le
yer Is not such Il scourge here, as IN
Its occasional visits to our cities. IS the
treatment here is very sharp and viz
orous, ana We lind Il much larger PEI
cent Of persons attacked by it restored
to health.
Then the people, themselves, their
/ habits and manners of living, are as
much unlike our own, as could well be
among the intelligent descendants OF
orr common forelathers. And some
day, when, if ever | do, [ recover my
strength, | may write your husband
long letter for publication in Tn
SENTINEL, promising to throw some
interest info tbn
unable to do now.
= [Some weeks ago] l was
taken quite sick with sort OF inter
militant fever, from acclimatory caus-
es,) which has left me very much en-
teebled, though, | am thankful to ner-
ciful providence, and good physician
who does not speak a word Of English
that l feel better from day to day,
My husband had an attack of the
same kind, but his robust constitution
enabled him to pullup more readily,
and he is now entirely well, t1ousl.
he has not followed the general habit
OF the country-to grow stouter, hay-
ing to the contrary, reduced, very con-
slderably since he left the United
States. ,..=t.-.. ~. ., =. .,a-a9
We are still at our summer quarters
In the mountains, keeping away from
Rio during the yellow fever season,
and l fear it viii be two or three
more months before we can return to
Rio, but after the 21st of March, the
weather begins to get cooler here, and
the winter Is delightful anywhere.