LIFT UP THE


HANDS THAT HANG


DOWN.


that wealth


which


so idly


squandered


every


week for that which satisfieth not, could make hun-


dreds happy and self-supporting,


who now go hungry


wretched to


untimely


graves, for


lack of


little assistance.


How often


I have


looked


out on such


places as


have


just been described-so full of promise if right-


ly entered upon-and in imagination appropriated (by
permission) a part of the large sum a fashionable lady
will spend on one party or ball-or, perhaps, a dinner


honor


some


distinguished


person


who,


in his


heart, would gladly give


from


infliction


then


half the sum


imagined


to be excused
e comfortable


homes such


sums would


unfortunate families.


provide
 How


for some deserving
those families need


just this which Florida holds,


waiting for them


ah I how Florida needs that class of people whom we
would so gladly send to her shores!
 True, that which we build in the night watches of
comfort and beauty i demolished by the rising sun.


But what more


substantial can


fashionable lady


show after expending so large a sum on her fancies ?


Indeed, such


dreamings as mine give a higher enjoy-


ment, free from any of the inconvenience, fatigue, or
heart-burnings which molest and irritate the fashiona-


ble lady.


We are up with the sun, feeling hopeful that


a good time will surely come, by which some of those


dreams may be worked out into realities.


She, jaded


wellnigh


exhausted-her


gold


spent


which satisfieth not--drags her


aching


limbs to


chamber just as night gives place
 4


to morning,