Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-02
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A Brief Note from tho Household
Drudge"
Indeed the lot of woman is hard. Has it
not been dinned into our ears since we
were young?
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 to
her worse half, the brutel and 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 wave
picked up q letter in the street which
bore eloquent testimony to these pathetic
facts. hate to print it because it bears
so heavily upon the laziness of pater-
familias and the ease and luxury with
which he surrounds himself at the expense
of his family. l do not like to give my
own sex away, as it were, but a stern
sense of duty nerves me on. So here goes:
BERKsHIREvILLE, Mass.
My OWN DEAREST, DARLING HUBBY-You
do not know how lonely we all are without
you Why don't you just drop your hateful
business and come up here for a week or two2
| am sure the old store would keep right on
running If you were not in it.
Did you send the check for fifty dollars for
the board last week? 1t has not put in an ap-
pcarance.
1t seems dreadfully stupid here. There are
only three or four nice young men in the place,
or 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
correspondence at ease in my society," Besides.
/ rather think they like me.
Those children will he thp death Of mo vat
Here am trying to economze and they all the
time making trouble and expense. l have Just
paid sewing woman two dollars for mendng
their stockings and putting new seats in their
pants. Last night Raphael knocked over one |
of the Etruscan ewers in my bedchamber |
Tho landlord says he regrets exceedingly the |
accident, as the set was very rare one, and |
he shall be forced to put down ten dollars in |
my bill for the broken pitcher.
1t has been awfully hot here and we have |
suffered dreadfully. If Mother Eve had been
here last night verify believe she would have
slept without the fig leaf. l envy you the big,
cool house in the city all to yourself
CALYPSO broke my bottle of hair beacher last
night. Wish you would go to Nine Rubens
and get another bottle and send it up by ex-
press. While you are about it you might as
well have her put up the usual set of toilet ne
cessities, the $3.50 set, as am nearly out. She
will understand.
We had delightful excursion yesterday to
mountain, and picnicked in the
glen. A mosquito bit me just between the
shoulders, where could not possibly reach it
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 hight BY the way, am 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 a grand hop here next
night and have positively NOTHING
ct to wear. | 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 soma of
heir grosgrain $3.50 silk and send to me at :
1nce. There is very nice and killingly cheap ,
lressmaker here, and l guess with prompt
work on your part that we will pull through. ;
have signed subscription paper for five
dollars to put new coat of paint on the Epis- I
opal church here. Please send check for the
amount. 1t looks mere respecta Bile to give in I
hat shape, and there is no mistake about the I
ionor. Make chccl; payable to me so l can in /
lorse it.
You poor, dear boy Iwish had the time
O write you nice long letter, but have been
invited by Jack Ashford to take a ride to Blum
um mountain, and so for today you must put
Up with this hurried little scrawl. You must
70 dreadfully forlorn keeping bachelors hall ,
Without any servant, and yet 1 suppose we :
must economic until you get rise of salary l
almost died laughing at your description of G
low you sleep in an unmade bed and try to +
ook over that horrid little gas stove t
Elsie, my nursemaid, said this morning that s
he wanted to go back to The city. She seemed n
uite set on going, and had to bride her with ;,
N offer Of five dollars more month in order /
o keep her. 1t would be impossible to get T.
irl here.
Well, goodby There arc several little COM
MISSIONS wanted You to do for me, but Mr..
lssford is calling now and have not got the q
ime to think of tLcm. Your lonely little wife, II
EvANGELINE. G,
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