The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-04-15

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under huge umbrellas and knit or gos
sip or both, while waiting for customers.
They all look yellow, and dried up, and
wrinkled. They chew tobacco and
drink quarts of tea which accounts for
their color and many have dreadfully
shaky hands as result. There are
many high hills which l love to climb
and then look down upon the rest of the
city There is pretty park near the
place where live, where can go to
get thesunshine as often as / like. Such
beautiful days as we are having and so
warm. l have known nothing of cold
this winter as you have. My room has
two windows opening onto pocket
handkerchief sized court, with trees up
on which the leaves are already unfold
ed and many birds that l find quite in
teresting. My floor is bare but secured
with sand until it is white as the whitest.
the walls are pale blue, with high
arched ceiling. l have sofa with a
back to it and some hard straight backed
chairs. When l get back to Gods
country again won't l enjoy an easy
chair as never before? At first l
thought / never could eat the food we
have here, but the Fraulein. i board with
tries very hard to please me, and every
thing is kept exquisitely clean which is
unusual in this city am told. They
never serve meat with its own gravy,
but it is seasoned with carraway seed
cinnamon, onions, horseradish or some
thing queer. | am not losing flesh, so
don't worry about me for / seem to
thrive on all their strange dishes. am
living quite alone with Fri. Soucek,
who is about my own age, and two Bo-
hemian aunties, one of them sews and
the other does the house work They
make dolls, stitching the bodies and
stuffing them with sawdust, making
the arms and legs of clay and coloring
them when dry the heads are furnished
them, but just think, for making and
dressing dozen they are paid, what
would be in American money about
eight cents. Fri. Soucek has recently
buried her mother and she goes about
with such sad look on her sweet face,
that it makes ones heart ache to see her
She tells her beads by the hour, and
denies herself necessary food in order to
save money to get her mother out of
purgatory. never longed to show any
one the way of peace as / do her. The
aunts speak only Bohemian but am
learning few words such as, good
morning, please, thank you and adieu,
for it is considered grave breach of
etiquette here to leave store, whether
you have bought anything or not with
out saying adieu.
1 was in our kitchen one day when
one of the aunts was ironing pillow
cases She folded them square then
rolled them around a rolling pin and
laid them on wooden chair, then with
long smooth board she rolled the bun
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primitive? And their wash tub is for
all the world like the canoe that Robin
son Crusoe made out of log, for it is
long and is hewn out of one piece of
wood and that by hand.
/ am getting so think in German
half of the time and many days do not
speak single word in English, still
am not homesick or unhappy, when l
am tempted to be I try to think how
happy we will be when we are all to-
gether again. l am so delighted with
my lessons here, and 80 thankful that /
was led to make the change, for / feel
that here l am getting just what want
so am content to stay and work long
time yet.
The American church service is held
as is the Anglo American club, in the
parlor of hotel All around the room
antique looking pictures alternate with
mirrors, while at one end in an alcove
there are shelves with several casks of
wine. The service is conducted by DIR.
Clark, all American Board missionary.
His hair is Isnowy white and he speaks
quietly but very nicely. / am sure he
has hard row to hoe here in so Catholic
country.
MABEL A. FERRY.