The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-16

! git dinner and git the chores done to 90
again IN the evening, until tell 'em some
times / helieve Sunday is the hardest day
il all the week. We generally go to the
fair enc day, but that's hard day, too,
because we always take our dinner with
! US, you know, and we have TO start
early 30 to hurry home in time to
| do the milkIn'. And then we gener-
ally go somewheres the Fourth on
account OF the children; that Is, he
and the children 60. l don't always.
| And there's the church socials. We go
sometimes to them, tut l have to take
something, beans or biscuit or cake. / de-
clare sometimes / tell EN- | suppose IL I
ever GIT started for heaven I'll have to cook
the victuals to eat going. or course, In the
winter we women folks visit back and forth
some, but you know the roads isn't always
good and the men have the wood to git out,
so they use the horses and we have so much
to do ne don't git started. The men visit
more. They go and swap seed potatoes or
they change WORK; they see each other on
the road and at the factory, but we don't
git out as much as we'd orto. OF course,
we see each other to the village where we
do our tradln'. But We don't have much
money to spe ID, 80 we don't go to the
village often"
But what do you do" faltered the ques-
TONER. "to-to-enjoy life at slll"
80, we are too busy TO think much about
life and all those highfalutin things that
worry you. There's the children always,
and the living things around US to keep
growing and the few flowers we can raise.
or course, when we have trouble we think
then. did want to get away SO alter my
little girl died. | wanted him to take me
back where l used to live. My folks is all
dead or moved away, but l wanted TO go
with the horse and buggy. 1t wouldn't
have cost much. You know l was married
in Y,pn no, 81
all in bloom along the road, and
the wild roses. l never see so many
wild roses. wanted to ride through
1t all again, just as | did then, you
know, when he brought me here after the
Weddin' But he thought if we went any,
where's we ought to go to his folkses, and
be didn't see how we could both get away
any way, so l stayed and he went
and brought his mother back with him
to stay here. She was lame and little
out, you know, aud had enough to do,
tell you, the rest of the summer" and then
she hurried out TO start fire for supper.
only stopping long enough TO really laugh
in answer to the last question and to say:
Money to spend for little things | like?
Why, bless your heart, no. We git the
things we must have and are glad IL the
cheese and butter will pay the store bill.
OF coure the men has to have their tobacco,
but that's about all the luxuries we have
money for"
And when she was gone the woman in the
vine shadows sat still thinking of lot of
things, but principally of what odd things
women do for sweet charitys sake. How
they will go from tenement factory to tene-
ment factory, begging admission to lay
bunch of flowers beside each poor seamBtress
sweltering at starvation wages and never
seem to think that by combining to patron
iZe any store or set Of stores whose owners
NIL 4 g.
made clothing they could make it possible
for the sewing women to pick their own
flowers in the fragrant country meadows.
How they gather up the walls and strnys Of
the city Sums and pack them off ont into
the country for women to take of who never
have a days rest or recreation and never
think of inviting the women in return to
their city homes for a breath of fresh life In
winter.
OF the women who go off with nervous
prostration over getting their spring ward
robes ready for the summer. who have to he
taken t. the seaside for rest after getting
their calling list finished, who are worn out
and hvsterlcal over their housekeeping,
which consists in ordering Jane to polish
the silver and Mary to have chops instead
of steak for breakfast, and come oet iuto
the country to shake out their perfumed
fTills in the faces or those other women to
whom the contFest must be maddening
And Just then with clash OF dinner pals
and "a hurrah, the brown-leEged urchins
came swinging up the lane from school,
bounding through the clover to where the
woman IN the faded gown came with the
pail of water for supper. And one had
brought string of ripe red Strawberries
threaded on grass stalk. ano her had a
birds egg Of speckled blue, and the third in
his grmy hand carried a dewy cluster of
wild June roses that grew in the hedgerows,
and so the dull facs frightened and softened
the woman with the clover blossoms thought
of some more things not dreamed of hitherto
in her philosophy which she isn't going to
tell.