p ' \ .- . 'f . i : THE FLORIDA DISPATCH.---. 235 I _ "'-" growth of pine timber and grass as from near the ground. One of these is had all this to bear, has taught her i in the morning. On the other hand they are the two most valuable cropswe I stopped at either wire, and two arms young daughters lessons of self-respect, there are idle, silly, selfish, exacting, can obtain from our wild land. If are trained along each wire. Theseare of courage in misfortune, that can I extravagant wives, women who whine I I, never be effaced. Those of true, hon- anyone wishes to see how this wild pruned to five or six buds each, est womanhood she did not need to be when their husbands bring them an land in Eastern Florida would look, and the shoots as they grow, are taught, for they were inherent. When orange instead of an apple, and vice let him look at the woods on a similar pinched during summer as above the Southern girl walks on the ave- versa, and yet it does seem to me as if soil in South Carolina where the fires stated. This pinching, and the hang nue she is as distinctly recognizable as these kind of women receive more adu- , have been kept out for fifty or a hun- ing down of the shoots as the fruit de- though she were marked 'From' lation from the men than the kind, I Georgia, or placarded 'an Alabamian. dred years. In place of our beautiful velopes and increases in size and Her step is easy, for it was learned cheery, helpful wives we often see. I I park-like pine woods, where one can weight, checks the flow of sap and from Dame Nature herself, and the claim that women are not any more to ride or drive almost every where he tends to the formation of good, plump slender feet might belong to the dain- blame, and not as much to blame, for wishes, he will find an impenetrable buds at the base of the shoots, which, tiest ankle that ever gleamed in the the "disenchantment" of married life shadows of the walk at Seville. jungle of oaks, gums, bays maples, when ripe, are termed "canes." The You never knew orange before how lovely a than their husbands are. Women are myrtles, &c., all of small size, and the annual pruning thereafter consists in costume of simple white could, and by nature more unselfish, more sensi- I tops of all tied together with grape cutting off the entire arm, up to the yet you say to yourself that the costliest tive, truer and kinder ,than men are. vines and green briers. One would be cane nearest the trunk, bringing that device of the cunningest millinerin Their duties are more varied and more all and busheson around the wire to take the the Rue de Bac could not be more endure obliged to cut the trees cane on wearing. They greater suffer- effective in demolishing the masculine half before he could of the removed and short- have strain their an acre get place arm heart. Every woman who sees her ing, more upon nerv- one to fall. The few pines would be ening it in to five or six buds. Some- knows that that hat was the work of ous system and bear up under adver so dwarfed by this miscellaneous growthas times the bud expected to make this the wearer's slender fingers, but how sities which a man often shoots him- to be nearly worthless for lumber, arm may, from some cause, fail to becoming it is, lighted by the softest, self in the head to get rid of. They and one could hardly walk without grow, or may turn the wrong way, so sweetest brown eyes, and as you look, need more sympathy and tender care thoughts are miles from the I stumbling over prostrate grape vines, that the cane cannot be bent around your crowded avenue and its away everchangingscenes. I than a man does, and I am sorry to . and having his clothes and flesh larce- where needed ; in such a case, take You are young again and the say they don't always receive, it." rated by the cruel and unrelentingthorns the next cane for the arm, and prune romance of the far South comes back, - -.---- --- of the green briers and high the obstinate one to two buds, one of and you smell the orange trees as Employment of Women and Chil- blackberry. In these impervious thickets which will very likely come to whereit they were in bloom so many years ago, dren. and with Owen Meredith uncon- Several States have you already the "fox would litter safe," the is wanted the next year. No positive sciously 'Oh that adopted say : we were which forbids the legislation wild cat would feel at home, and it rule can be laid down to follow eternally young !I' employ- I of children under would be a paradise foroppossums, rac- inflexibly, as there are exceptions in 4 ment a certain age coons, snakes and other crawling and all cases, and there is no system, that A Wife Speaks Out. and definitely regulates the hours of I labor. This has been done in New will not at times need a little modifica- ' creeping things.In A married lady writes : "It seems to' these thickets "the shy black tion or variation in some of its detailsto Abe a common failing of the gentlemenafter Jersey for example ; and Massachusetts - in addition has law which snake that bring fortunes to house- the final accomplishment of its aim. they have been married a little a pro- holds," the friend of man, and deadly -American Agriculturist for March. while, to discard all the little courte- vides for twenty weeks schooling in -- -----e--- -- for children. In every year working \ of moccasins rattlesnakes and sies which have been enemy they wont to The Girl of the South. New York there is no law directly I reg- "ground rattles," would have less 9 show their wives before marriage. The"please" General Roberts, of the Washington ulating child labor, and Governor Hill, chance to torment the poisonous snakesto and "thank j you" are forgotten. - Herald, thus discourses the Southern i in his recent message, called attentionto death and break their eggs by usinghis I When I go to a place of amuse- Girl : the desirability of abolishing labor tail as a flail or whip. So much ment and see a. lady and gentleman "From where the tide washes the by children under fourteen of vegetation rotting on the ground instead Patomac and Chesapeake beach ; from together, I can tell in almost every in- In the years similar age. past, petitions to a of being burned and thus puri- the pure streams that flow from ice stance whether they are man and effect have been made the State fying the air, would cause a great in- cold Kentucky springs in the blue- wife. If the lady drops her pro- by land from the banks of far-off Medical Society, the State \V orkingmen's - crease of fevers and febrile complaints. grass ; gramme or handkerchief and has to Southern rivers where the Assembly and other ever-moan organizations. - Doctors would be plentier and busier, it herself I she ing pines sing her lullably there comesto stoop to pick up say . and especially in summer and fall, and the nation's capital a type of American is that man's wife. On the contrary, Through labor-reform members the druggists would have to lay in a girl of whom my poor pencil is not if the gentleman is kind and polite to bills have been , recently introducedinto far greater stock of quinine.M. worthy. Not very well educated,per- her, careful about draughts, etc., I say CHESEHRO. haps, for she grew up just as her birth- they are not married. We hear a the Connecticut legislature, pro- land was healing from the scars of viding that no woman, and no child -- --.. --- great deal of talk about the trials and savage war, she seems to know-by under sixteen, shall be employed for Training Grapevines.Of instinct, perhaps-all that makes the cares of a man in business. They more than ten hours daily in factory - all the various systems that have sex adorable and worthy of love have to battle with the world. it is any been introduced, advocated and prac- and honor. She does not read much, true, and labor for our support ; but and that no child under twelve for she has not been able to get the shall be employed in manual labor the last twenty-five women are the home-keepers and the ticed, during years, , I I books. She knows nothing of the renaissance under any circumstances. One of the the most and valent todayin little trials and cares which come popular prf in art, and mayhap has up demands which the Knights of Labor the vicinity of New York, is what never heard of Ruskin, but when every hour in housekeeping are justas make of State legislators is the non- is known as the Kniffin system or she has overcome her shynessshe hard for them to bear as a man's employment of children under four- some modification of it, and its popu. can talk intelligently and some- office or shop duties are to him. To times with a perception that aston teen in workshops, mines or factories.Of . larity is, no doubt, chiefly due to its keep a house well is no play business.I . ishes, and listen appreciately. She Congress this organization asks for simplicity and ease of practice. The could not give you any of the rules of would like to see a woman wrestle the enactment of laws securing equal trellis consists of two wires on postsset dress that modern art has laid down, with the servant girl question and pre- for work of both and at convenient distances ; the lower\ but her costumes are chosen with a serve her "ideality." This will cause pay equal sexes born taste that is at fault. shortening a day's labor to eight hour good never the fade in her cheek wire, two and a half to three and a j roses to quicker -- ---e- - "The Southern girl shines brighest half feet from the ground, and the at home. She has not forgotten the I than anything I know of. The Dawson (Ga.,) Journal asks : upper one four and a half to old time respect that children should "Now, I believe in marriage. I be- "Does anbody know of an educated five and a half feet. In our have for their mothers who gave them lieve that there are a great many good negro who is willing to work in the own practice, we adopt the greater life, and the graceful affection in and noble men in the world, and that capacity of a servant? Our observation - distance for convenience in passing which she holds the gray-haired woman there will be men angels in heaven ; has been as they get a little smattering who kept a brave heart the among under from one row another, in any horrors of war and in the sickening there are men who rise at night to ad- of reading, writing and spelling part of the vineyard. The vines are days of poverty and privation that, minister soothing syrup to the baby, they want to set up at school teachingthe grown with two main stems, or trunks followed in its train, and, though she and who struggle with the kitchen fire first thing." . k I - A .,# _- ..... ) '- ,'-.J '", "' .......-.J 11ID'Jj.n.: i..""'in" .tK.:..