Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-18
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The Diary of Mistress Pepys, A. d. 1912

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A TH-Today comes my husband and says W g shall go % a State
ID called California which is far in the West. At which 1 a much
" perturbed, having in mind the Inconvenience of the great Journey,
= for a IA thinkeh not of what it means to a woman TO travel For
what with her hair to do and her dress to keep of a sufficient freshness,
it Is truly a great trouble Tor though it vexes my husband that 1 wear
not my natural locks, I know 1t would vex him more if did, such is the
inconsistency of man; Ana when I near the tales of dressing in these
coaches, which now that ar going, all my friends are telling me, an
But God woti q mar will have his wayl And he is In high spirits
preparing. having but to put things into bag. and having heard much
of this country. And since 1 cannot persuade him II a different mind. l
will myself make ready.
18th find the journey not 20 wearhome as I did fear, for the
coaskes are all very fine. with much plush and great windows and a very
merry company, who play cards and eat sweets, quite al though they we're
I looked about me for a place to sleep, but law monet and ws think
ing with great weariness Of the sitting UP all night, when the black man
began letting down the coach from the top. and raising it from the bottom.
and to my much astonishment we all got into little cupboards and lay on
a shelf with a curtain in front. /
As lay n my shelf and looked GU. the window, 1 seemed to be flying
through the clouds, and imagined l was o a journey to the moon; and So
dropped asleep, and dreamed had arrived at the station In the moon,
and the people were amazing white and CHASTITY. and there was no sound
whatever, and the light vas blue, and the food as without SAVIOUR and
seemed not to fill one; and Just then, I heard some one say. Wen be at
Dubois In half al hour" And there vas back IN my shelf in the little
cupboard and It was beginning to get daylight. And 80. in a short time
to the dressing room, where were many others, and one In state before
the mirror, fixing her hair most carefully with braids, as is the fashion.
and the others looking with great indignation at her slowness Thence to
table, where was much silver and linen and divers kinds of food, quite al
though the shops were next door, which puzzled me nightly, seeing we
are in a desertland and stop for naught And SO at last to our Journeys
end. which now that l I'M here, I must say Is a very wonderful place, and
would that all the world might zee this country with It's blue sky and It's
golden fruits and it's flowers which do grow everywhere, in the Streets
over the houses on the walls and up the trees, until everything is gar
landed with bloom.
15th-Up beumss and to the arranging OF my house, which is here
called a bun galow and which to me is very strange. all the rooms being on
one floor. and n o stairs whatever. But 1t doth convenience me nightly,
and I find not the wearisomeness of going up and down that aforetime I
knew. For l would no sooner be up, than some m would knock below.
And whsn was down. I would be in need of something above. And so II
wa the whole day, going back and forth, until I found myself at night
Also to my establishment, I find much furniture built fast to tho
house. which in my mind I have not yet decided whether prefer or not.
For like sometimes to move the furniture about, which is a great diver
sion. But the women here are, methinks, odd creatures. They like not
such things. They assemble themselves together, and discourse upon such
strange topics as referendum and tatn and primaries COD knows what.
Mayhap l will come to do the same myself for already feel a strange
stirring in my blood. But I doubt me, II my husband will approve Of suos4
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