The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-03-01
ANOTHER BRAZILIAN LETTER


ed for the benefit OF the many
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Davi-
son in their far-ofr field Of labor
in pernambuco. Brazil.
The letter:
10 does seem strange TO even try TO
imagine winter. One girl was max
ing such fuss over washing the
ice for the ice chest. told her 1t
was colder than ice at home and
she said, "Miseri Cordia" like she
would die in that, and | expect she
would. can't imagine what 1t
would be like never to have been
cold in my life. The weather Is
much the same now as when we
came in August; perhaps the sun Is
hotter, but the breeze is good and
il is cool in the house and shade and
We have good rains almost every
night, which | understand is I'M
usual for this time OF the year. A
young woman told me the other day
that she had actually baked cake
by simply putting IL out in the sun.
II spot OF sunlight rests on you
when you are sitting near win
dow, you can certainly feel IL and
want TO move in hustle. Wish we
could ship you some for your water
pipes. Our water runs pretty hot
during the day, as all the water
pipes are exposed on the outside OF
the house. We boil all our drink
ing water and put IL into earthen
bottles 10 cool. II is not so cold
as Berea water. but il tastes good
and the earthen bottles let the air
get in. so il Is not tasteless.
We get the Citizen, the Spring.
field Republican and Literary Di-
gest and read them from cover to
cover. Waldos father sends the
Norfolk papers quite regularly and
other friends are good about re-
membering us, especially was IL fine
TO get the Detroit and Boston papers
telling about the Billy Sunday cam
paign. or course, we could hardly
wait TO get the account OF the cleo
ton and we too were for Wilson as
most OF the folks here were. He
surely is a wonderful man and see
ing things from this distance makes
his stand seem more important.
A week or so ago, japanese ship
was sent in here to unload sailors
from sixteen vessels which the Ger
mans had either sunk or taken
into their possession; luckily, all
freight vessels. and day or two
later. an English cruiser came in
but no news was given out concern
ing il.
I think as TO the price OF food
stuffs we are feeling the high prico'
hess here than almost any place
else. Sugar is INC. pound. butter
Soc, eggs 25c. doz.. flour "A lbs
for $3.50 or SS lbs. for 5000: Argen-
tine flour and very good. Our meal
is only 1910. H., good young
chickens SOC. each, plenty OF them
and turkeys for $500 each or less
Our largest item is fruits and veg
etables, they are cheap and we buy
most OF them. Pineapples 2hc. each
oranges Zoe. n dozen, bananas p
for Zoe. Good lettuce, tomatoes
cabbage. sweet potatoes, etc. We
are certainly thriving on this fare
Waldo's work opens up February 3
II does not seem much trouble Il
get cooperation. Things are II
pretty much of a mess. and we prac-
tically have TO- start from the be-
ginning with IL all. He has hat
much encouragement and I have M
doubt the first years work even will
show up TO good advantage. He get
along we'll with the language. W.
have several times had groups o
young men TO our home for dinner
and hardly spoke word in English
during the evening. He has WRITER
and had published in the paper
articles concerning the association
purely OF an advertising nature
which would have TO be paid for a
home, but which they are glad L
take as news here.
We have the house in pretty goo
running order. We were fortunate
in getting an intelligent girl wit
learns easily. is honest and reliable
and whom can trust TO leave thing
TO-
\, Now | am at work on a girls club
There is nothing TO bring the girl