The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-09-10


Indeed the lot iii woman IL hard. HAS ID,
moi been .linlsss into our ears since we
were youngi
She Is the slave and serf OF selfish man.
Hers is the work that never ends. She Is
the one who, to give ease and comfort 30
her worse half, the brutel aud let him
daily in the lap Of ease and luxury, must
sacrifice her young life, her beautiful
hands. her everything else and carry one
on the altar of work.
AT the very hottest curl of the hot ware
Ipicked up letter in the street which
bore eloquent testimony TO these pathetic
facts. hate to print it because It bears
90 heavily upon the laziness Of pater-
familias and the ease and luxury with
which he surrounds himself at the expense
of his family. / do not like to give my
own sex away, as 1t were, but a stern
sense of duty nerves me on. So here goes:
BERKsHIREvIILE, Mass.
MY own DEAREST, DARLING HuBBY-You
do not know how lonely we all are without
Won. Why don't YOU just drop your hateful
business and come up here for week or two?
/ am sure the old store would keep right on
running If you were not In 1t.
MIA Won send the check for fifty dollars for
the board last week? It has not put in an APP
peArance.
h seems dreadfully stupid here. There are
only three or four nice young men In the place.
OF course have no trouble in keeping them
out OF the hands Of the young girls, for they
know have no designs upon them and feel
correspondingly at ease in my society. Besides,
rather think they like me.
Those children will be the death of me yet.
Here am trying to economize and they all the
time making trouble aud expense. have just
paid sewing woman two dollars for mending
their stockings and putting new seats in their
pants. Last night Raphael knocked over one
Of the Etruscan ewers In my bedchamber.
The landlord says he regrets exceedingly the
accident. as the set was q very rare one and
ho shall be forced to put down ten dollars in
my bill for the broken pitcher.
II has been Awfully hot here and we have
suffered dreadfully. If Mother Eve had been
hero last night verify believe she would have
slept without the fig leaf. I envy You the big
cool house in the city all to yourself.
CALYPSO broke my bottle of hair bleacher last
night. Wish you would 60 to Mime. Rubens
and get another bottle and send it up by ex-
press. While you are about 1t you might as
we'll have her put up the usual set Of toilet me-
ceesities, the $3.50 set, as am nearly out. She
will understand.
We had delightful excursion yesterday to
Hornswoggle mountain, and picnicked in the
glen. A mosquito bit me just between the
to scratch, and suffered excruciating agonies
all night. was just able to reach it with my
shoehorn and that was all. The man charged
sixteen dollars for the wagon, and as had so
many children had to pay half. Isn't the
price rather high2 By the way, 1 ann all out of
money, and If you want me to do what is right
and proper by the collection plate You must
send me some right away.
There is going to be grand hop here next
Saturday night and have positively nothing
fit to wear. l wish you would get the pearl
colored slippers out Of the second drawer in
the back room bureau. Take them to Blanks
and ask them to match the color with some Of
their grosgrain $3.50 silk and send to me at
once. There Is q very nice and killingly cheap
dressmaker here, and / guess with prompt
work on your part that we will pull through.
l have signed a subscription paper for five
dollars TO put a new coat OF paint the Epis-
copal church here. Please send check for the
amount. II looks more respectable to give in
that shape, and there is no mistake about the
donor. Make check payable to me 30 can in
dorse it.
You poor. dear boy! wish had the time
to write you a nice long letter, but have been
invited by Jack Assford to take ride to Blum
tum mountain, and so for today you must put
up with this hurried little scrawl. You must
be dreadfully forlorn keeping bachelors hall
without any servant, and yet / suppose we
must economic until you get rise of salary.
almost diof; laughing at your description OF
how you sleep in unmade bed and try to
cook over that horrid little gas stove.
Elsie, my nursemaid, said this morning that
she wanted to go back to the city. She seemed
quite yet on going. and had to bride her with
an offer of five dollars more \ month in order
TO keep her. It would be impossible to get a
girl here.
Well, goodby. There arc several little COM
missions wanted you to do for me. but Mr..
Assford is calling now and have not got the
time to think of them. Your lonely little wife.
EvANGELINR.
New York Herald.