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July 1V, 1104V.
Kra. Charles (Valli.
q(bsolt) LoNoir,
Iloorotary,Womune Club of
Jaoicsonville,
Riverside -eve.,
Juckeonville, Floriaa.
Rose lAlepherd, writer.
VI 74., ,A141 If 'TOY ZI4
SOUTH 1:::L•014 VI IL
Yrs. Charles Leheir, or "Vise itollio" us ohs is 4,3T00-
tionutely knowL to the embmrs of the'omen's Club of Jack-
sonville, of which she has Loon the efficient aeoret.,ry for
seven yours, velunteere4 informutiou on Villa
re..doxan,or itohull,whA inoi,ionta of Bouth Jucksouville
history, un wuz interviewed us she sat ut hor leek ih the
businose office of the ,,t4an'a Club.
r.ee. LeNoir is a_small woman of 6cotoh-.inglish descent,
itn koon brown eyes, reioish brown huir, ruddy com-
plexion. .Jho speuke rupidly, hor hih pitohed voiood having
oc:Asidorublo nasal oiality, &mu interepi)rsee liar convorou-
tion vith quiok, exTveeeive hand qestareo,
fumily came to Jacksonville from Flint, Miohigan,
in.1870, when i v‘s u vory smull ohild," euid rre.
"ry faLhar, L. Gibson, huA 1,0en ordered to
lorid by hie pnyeician, beiw: viutiri of oonsumption, or
tubJrculosie, 49 it is now called. The libsons were early
settlers of ichifrun, my f4ther t)ein of tho fourth 4eneru-
tion of that faL.ily in thut tat*.
"Iihen we first Qua:a to this section, wo bo.rded *fth
tha fu,ily of ox -Governor Hurrlson Hoed, livin,< in tis old
Aeod house en Pluglor Jtroet in outh Jaokeonville. The
house is still etun4.;inz in its original leeatien, but *us that
Mrs. Charles 34eboir 2.
in the mentor oi small estate of toelve acres, en which
.was planted a splend t bearing orange grove, 41d other trop
Leal fruits and shrubs. This WiliS in 1879.
W. were considered Yankees, and were not vqry popela..r
at thdt oariod of Florida's history.
"H...rison iteed was the first Territorial GoVernor of
Florida, Ulso u Yankee, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, se it was
natural that ee should seek congenial friends.
"The Reeds had u shall son, Harrison Reed, Jr., and he
4.Lai I b(iini; tout theapia age, wore oordial playmates of
preschool age, aril had ..rood Li ;es romping .4.round the big house
and exploiling the estate. We were -ery fond a oats, and I
remembcr at one time we possessed in joint ownership a magnifi-
cent colony of sixteen. They Ayer° all kinds, mostly scrubs
or the common alley variety, but we loved them dearly, dressed
the up, put paper boots on them, and fed them until they were
as fat as butter.
was not lug until my father secured 44 position
bookkaepar with the Larnett bank.. He was toe third man em-
ployed. The firm oonoisted of b. Barnett. 14r. 3141
Cooper, arid then my father w...ts added, the staif of thr)o car-
ried on the ral)idly growing business of the institution. The
tiiktik. was leao.ted it small building on the same corner where
eurchgett's Department -'?.tore now stands, southwest oorner of
loorsyth and 2ina (or Iluipititreet, as it is known today). vthen
I look baok now, I slams impoasible almost to realise that
the Barnett Bank of ,Taoksonville now employees around three
hundred people. It was not it National ban-, but vv..° known
then .As he bank of Jaci.sonvillo.
Ure. Oharlee Lenoir 4.
'then ma father died in 1V1e,, he was assisant oashier
ihe Barnett batik.
"We livad vith the Roods for m yoar or so, theh my
fathor purchased an adjoinihg plot, whioll also °contained an
orahge grove, buil, a he,se, atid yhah the street wake out
through pant he house in 1866,1t was Galled 'Gibson ocreet,
aiter my family. The big old red house is still sting.
"Ix gaovarnor Harrison Red was A broth,a° of Mrs. ails-
andar :Atehall, also fro 0 ;ha owned the 'Villa
Alexandria' as to on he A, Johns Aver, farther out on
the month side, where tha .wisher roporty no' w is. In Pwicimg.
she UAMO frequen ly to visit the ,:ooas, and we go, to knew her
wiry well.
"Mrs. Mitohell was a tall, well-built we 411, and very dig-
nified in h r c.mnhor and spoeoh. :he was middle-aged, ae I
first reLauber has", i-h h4r ,uito gray. Her eyes were blue.
.;he was a woman *f mueh oulu:e, a world raveler, and quite
artistic).
"Jhe took a fanoy to me, 40.nci as 'Jilt) along rzweeit
deal iu her big house, sha often took ma to Villa _lexandria
to alai with har overnight or ov4r 1414 week end.
"The house was 4 big rambling three story strueture, all
frame, and no', yawl, pretentious from he oulside, but tho in-
side was most beautiful.
"Mrs. Mitchell used to humor me when I would be her
i
guest by giving me mw cholas of the room I was 4000194Y.
There via., a French room, with dainty blue and gold finiehed
.white antique furniture, with heavy brocade. draperies, and
lots wind lets of mirrors Yrenoh beveled in gold frames
everything v(iry dipiisity and 'Frenehe. ThiL43 mi favorite.
Then there was the Japanese bedroom, viLli ho‘vy dark lacquers&
furniture, with rugs and other furnishings from Japan; and
the ilitique room, furnished in early ,umerioun. On the other
aide of the house *AS a rath'sr largo bedroom, all greq and
straw eolor,
"Mrs. Mitchell's own bedroom vial vei4 beautiful. It had
a big bay window whioh faued Ole river. The windows in the
room were hung with white silk curtains with over -drapes
of heavy blue brocade. On one side of hr bad ehe had a
tal screen wi h throe doors that folded. Those doors were
all full-length heavy mirrors, and the other side was of
yellow plush. Three steps led ap to her bedroom from the
hall, whioh eaused some people to remark -'The steps led up
to her throne.' The woodwork in the room was all decorated
with hand-oarvings. it wae reported oho had seoured these
carvings in France, had them carefull4 taken down read, brought
ovor here and installed in her room. "ll the litAle uabinetee
the paintings on the taA.s ore French, and there were many
round and oval mirrors of ?renoh style.
"The dining room Wo‘13,4 masterpiece of magnifieenoe. It
Mrs. Charles LoNoir 4.
was quite large. The dining table ououpied the center of the
roes, thigh could a000mmodate esventy-fivo guests. Cabinets
were built in on two sides pf the room, 11th glat.fs doors, wud
in these were stored her m 4 nifioont imported china. In one
was a marvelous collection of teapots from all ovor the world,
pathently °ciliated on hoz* many trips abroad" Ordinarily
the table wascin the middle of the room, but then only 4 Low
guests were nresent, it was shoved up into the expansive by
indew looking eut upon the it. Johns liver. rise paintings
by 3urepean maetors adernod the walls of this room.
'Mrs. Mitghell's son, John, was married to in aotross.
The son was rich wad spoiled, the asiviss-wifs was high
tempered and avarioieue, and when they separated, hrs. Mitoholl,sr
took the small sent Weide whom the court proceedings in
divorce suit had awarded to the father. He was then about.
seven years of age.
"The first time I saw David Mitohall was when his grand-
mother, Hrs. Alexander 71tohell, brought him back to 6outh
Jacksonville early one fall. Thil= was in 1893. He was a
small, fair-haired youngster, dressed in a blue serge soldier
suit, ornamented with toll gold braid.
"I rev:ember he had 4 couple of ferocious bulldogs, which
he trained to catch and kill oats. This, to Harrison Aeed and
me, was the height of cruelty, and we were not vory fond of
the 'little heathen'. He used to hire the negroes to bring
Mrs. Maslen LoNoir b.
oats to villa .1exandria, which he would tux') loess and ittnk
sio thaws forooious bulldogs on them. If the dogs °aught
the uats, they would tear them apart. It *as terriblol
"Thom was no doubt of David's being a legitimate son,
g s I remember all the talk about the soparation and divoroo
of the father and mothor in Milwaukoo.
"Davie was the Apple of his -rrandmother's eye, and she
lavished evorything upon him. He was also vory fond of his
granamother and was always loyal to her.
"I romomber his oourtship with Kittie Parrott, who *us
Kittio Sutton, whom,Mr. Parrett adopted uftor he married hr
mother, Mrs. Lillie iJuttoa. She had vowed she would marry
the riohest man in Jaoksonville, aud so she set herillar for
David Mitohell. He was a sport, riding tild peal's, drinking,
gambling, and idling away his time. But they were marriot,
and I remember when the little boy, ,-,lexander Pitohell, named
for his great-grandfuthor, was born. He w...e a outs little
baby and I have lots of snapshots of him, as my mother used
to take oar() of him A -'rot deal, when Kittie (lama ovor to
visit in Jaaksoil ills.
"i?he would acme as far as our house, and to would walk
down to the river wid put out a litle white flag, when
rowboat would bo sent ovor tk: bring the passenger to this eido
of the rivor. They were landed at the foot of Newnan ;Areet.
My father hud his own rowboat, and made the trip auross the
rivir each day, storing the boat at the Florida Yacht Club
basis on lho rivor.f tti ,-AketA-7:7n)
"When David ritoholl met with a terrible aooldent 4 bad
Mrs. Oharles LeNoir 6
spill from a fast polo posy, he suffered a conouselon of the
brain und oth-Jr injuries, being unooneeloue for a period of
six weeks or so, Kittle Zuritett-Mitohell, &welded she did net
ish to be ties to u broken man, so she talked of divorcing
&avid, who was praotioally an invalid ,and not aAmtutable for
his speaoh or actions for a'ling time. Her father, who was un
ivortant offioial of the Plorita .ast Coast Railroad, wus
rather stern with her, telling her she had married David for
better or for worse, and it was up to her to remember her
vows. he refused to live with him, however, and immediately
apen the death of war f ther she inetit tod preeeedings for
divoroo. In tha meantime, she had b000me involved in u moo-
ealieuloo with dmAOlmes, loual married mein, canning a lot
of soandal, and it was reported "she lived with him for severl
yeara befolio his if died and he we ble to make her his
legal ',ifs. fter he died, she married for the third time,
now, living in tieat 41m Beaoh, having attained u modicum of
ruspeotability after her wild uotions. The son, aexander
Ultehell, is now employed in the bond department of thJ B.ruott
hieuk. He we's quite smell whs.', his father and mother
separated, and nrobably knows •orry little about the Mitohelle.
His vrindmothor, Mrs. Lint. Parrett, was very ion of him, how-
ovIr, fleit she died, in him Till she loft him h,4r beautiful
reeidenoe on A. Johns 4iArGIA10 in the ZAhhionuble „oroudeelo moo-
tion. Y.oung lexandar Mitohell was born in 1V00.
"The first ierryboat op)ruted on the t. Johne was in
1896 or 11194. It was (sailed the armington, and I need to
come over on it to Jacksonville to attend the Bradford Institute,
mrs. OhArles 1t4oir 7.
prive sdhool operated by Mrs.. Drow,Williems, under the
auspices of the Spiscepal Church.
"The next ferry was called the Ueohaniu. It belonged
to the flaglor wystem and would eot the trains at the foot
of Hogan Areet and (Awry freight and passengers over to the
south side station of the Florida Auet Coast Railway.
The bridge was started about that time, and my mother
who died in 1914. said Hhe wished she might live to see the
bridge uomploted and the two eities, Jaoksonville and ovith
Jaoksonville, joined together.
"During the fire of Vay 3. 1901. we ohildren were Awed
by the spectacle from the south aide of the river. It must
have been either on a Featurday or some holiday, we were
home from school. It started about noon. v,e had 1;aen
forbidden to go down through the orange grove which run to
the water' s edge. ,Ixr place was all fenced in, And there
was a. gate on the river side, but we never went beyond the
gate. The flames kept 'booting up wad the black smoke
rolling in, so we decided to go up to the roof of the
house. he mounted the stairs to the attic, and through
window climbed out Oil the rocf, from which we had a magnifi-
cent view. I remember the smoke And flame which (same from
the roof of the Catholic Church after a blazing Lrand was
wafted thoro by the Agh wind, and we watched as the church
Was rapidly oensumed.
"Along in the evening the forr5 began to tring 'people
over to the south side their homes and belougiugs destroyed
!'rs. Charles LeNeir S.
in the fire, their olothing in shreds and tbo Owes burned.
from their feet as they walked tbroLth the het ashes. That
night we had nineteen guests.
"The burning brands fell in every direetion during the
height of the fire the fire department simply could not
keep up with them and even the next pluming buildings were
still napkin&
"Father stayed at his post in the Barnett Hank until
5 e'elook on the morvin; after take fire. The bunk dict net
burn, as the fire lifted and burned Ihe next Wawa. Avery
thing in the other direetion, up in the block where the
AAus Club new is, was destroyed, also.
"Harris** Reed, or rarry Heed, as we °ailed him,whou he
finiehed edhool, went to work for Lite Hubbard Hardware lo.
Later ha was offered a position with the t:tandard Oil Os.,
havin charge of their warehouse in Jaeksonville. Th 11
when we parted oompany, as mother thought 'warehouteeman°
was not good enonghOter her daughter to keep company with.
when the tandard Oil Oompuni beeame more prosperous and in-
fluential, Harrison .toed was promoted, until he iinally be-
came the Florid* manager. He is retired now, having a beau-
tiful Ame in ';an Jose. He must be a multi -millionaire, s
he sold hundreds of auras to the real estate company develop-
ing *an Jose ;states, one of Jaoksouvilles most beautiful
residential suburbs. He has quite a eolleation of vUuable
historioal relies portaininit to flu has treasured
from his father's time, when he w4w, Territorial qoverner.
Getting baak to Mre. Mitehell, ehe was always a devout
Apisoopaliaa, and when outh Jauksonville was building up, she
Mrs. ChArles Lagoir 9.
oenceived the ideu of building 4 ohupel on the south site.
The spot being selooted, Rho got people intorested, and ne
one wav mere enthusiastio that, my own dear mother. lou see,
being Yankoes, e.4, few aloes friends, so mothor hud little
soolul setivity and was glad to Kiva her time to helping Vre.
Mitchell in establishiwr the little ‘,11 Saints Chapel, us it
was known.
"I remember that my futhor used to go hunting with
Mr. d Holmes and through this assooiution they beclume fast
friends. One clay Tir. 114:e said: "Gibson, I am going to
hAva my wifi cull on Yrs. Gibson, ho ,e can bo family friends."
M/ father was so *slighted whei, he brought this message home,
but my mother said "No, she'll not cull -v ire toe much
Yankee for her" and 'sure enough she didn't.
"If you will lomo k-aok tomofrow, I will tell you more
about the Atohells und _11 Sainte shurcb, also the yellow
fever epidemic of 1988."
?}Lev
1,41(.4i
July 41, 1949.
Kre. OhArlse 0. looleir,
oeoretAry,
J °knowing, t *swam
eaub,
861 Rivorside Ave.,
e'mkeenville, PleridA.
AOse Atepherd, titer.
MITOE
SOUTH (^dditIonA1).
!:va. Lefloir mAids "DAvid itakell
meet
leyAl At ull times to )1,e ,rrAtidmether. 1 -remember one
evening After he ...nd ittie fratt were ...cried, she hAd
dressed- to go out to dinner ut one of the JAcli_eouville
hetele. Duvid refused. to AuoompAny ier. ,ered, she Ask
why. "I hAve Another engArement,"" he uAid.- What is
more importAnt thun AoloompAnying me .to this dinner. You know
I oAn't go Alone,'' eAid Yittie. ""I hAve Au engAgement with
my -,:rAndmother."" "How loiw hAve you hAd this engAgeresut?"
asked Eittke. "Twanty-two yore,"" replied David.
grAndmother And I i7LAd An Agreement wholl ahe first .4.0umed my
oAre that whenever She ,oeted me I would :A:,me, °tell she were
'lonesome And wished o to sty with .or, I would spend As long
As she Liked in clespanahmehip —just she And I. This is one
of'those times she hAe Asked me to tqAy vl.th 1 -,or for the even-
inp:, And I um oulA to go on my honor." ;:;c, Urn. Kittle hAd
to atAy quietly At hor:'e 14 herself.
"Darin: %he,. WAr, who the troops were
enuAmped in JA,4c.son ill,, Anothor grwasione-- John Mituhell,
DAvid's half-brother, son of his fAthor by the eeoonu wife
Mrs. Ohsrles Lesoir go
wss s Lieutonsnt in ono of the Wiioo din regiments, and VI's.
Mitohell give a Rrsnd nsrty st Vills ,1exundris for the young
peoDle of Jaoksonville, And I wss invited. This John Mitehill
seemed to be s very fine 'iou g run, serious, and businesslike.
"Mrs. Alexander Mitohell vise lifeisleng Spisoopal‘am,
and slimIt through the e:fortu of ,ome of th, rouicionts of the
south side, a eh pel wise established ss an udjunat to staohns
Ohiirah of Jacksonville. My mother wss one of:the first ones
to projeat this venture; others were Mr. au& Mrs. Si Holmes,
Judge Cs11 and his wile, sad Mr, and ,Aes. DeLsoy. Later Mrs.
Mit,shell beesme interested and worked hesrt and. soul: for the
little ohuroh, oerated first 4.s s Vission All sints snd
it wus hard work for the 1.Nurithionars to keep Mrs. Mitehoill from
feelin- that she orsAicully owned it, s. she gave the argot'',
the furniture, the vestmeuts, and wunted to do everything thst
wus needed without question smd without pries.
"Ph: firot services were held in MAW in the little wsit-
ing room +At the Ferry station, where psweengers ohsnged trsins,
ar went serotle to JaCksonville from tha Florid. st Coast Rail-
wsy aosehes. 1 still have The. litle Biblethst wss given me
ss a souvenir of the first meeting st .11 3iiinte.
"Urn. Mitchell would luxe the ludies of the Guild meet
st her home, And defter t h+wines* mooting wss over she would
entertain them by resdin,! from s disry she nsd kept of 4, trip
to *ypt and up th4 Ale. Just s few paragrsphs st a time,
but the resdinR wus -Jontimued with the entire trip from start
to finish ha& been covered.
Mrs. Oherles 0. LeNo r
a.
"Mr. Orawford was the *irst 'retwid ,nt of 00
Florida ;alet Coast. He built a fine home in south Jaaksonville,
and Vire. Crawford nee as muoh interested s my. mother was in
the little Mission of _11 ints, and it w e th se two Who
etarted the building. The Florida -:'!ast ,oast g.ive crkOmon•
and the roes memorial vindow to Yr. Croon, un ol-iicaul. of the
iloriL.'ilk at Octuat, was also ;ivon by the railroad seople.
"The first rector of ,,11 6s.ilitaw440 the Rev. Mr. Yiellor,
from .16‘4,111.1.1.14), while it _was till a ilesion of et. Johns.
"The first regular rector afloOr it attained the status
of a church was Rev. Mk. Lee. After ha left, v had. a splendid
little man by the eame of Grubb. Ho was only there for a short
tima thee we 4 M. Brooke q. White. Then we hed a Pr. Hilm-
tower. I had by this time become interested in Christian ;'.oi-
t
once, Mnd Mr fightawor,- beinga strict adherent of the letter
of the law, tail my mother she should take my Science .books
away. Mother replied that as long as I read the bible, 'Jesuit
worship 46 I pleased. ;,s I quit ll Sainte and started 'attend-
ing he Amietian .iuiencto rhurch, in JaAsonville. I did not
know kuo h about its .a tai rs ft er that.
"Mrs. Mitobill wee very ueleAppy about David's marriage,
and thi 4..y it tumed out. ftar there w.‘,,! so much eoundel
about Kittie's oarryingson, tho. divoree, and al, Pre Mitoholl
withdrew mere aed wore from civic: end church affairs,. 4-1d lived
alone in her big mansion. Her friends vore very grateful that
she died before the vast fortune luau dissipated and 'i-eut into
unAseerving hands, ri1 thee
uhemors and tricksters.
"Mrs. Mitchell is buried in the little ,ld :!_t, Nicholas
Cemetery on the south Ade,- 14r ,,vo le i about the center
Mrs. Charles 0. Lencir 4.
of the Li.rge Plot in the southeast:rn ,eution, 4 hiiAl mound, with
flat,marbie slab -on top. 1 had memorised the ineiription cam
posed by David and hieh hl had carved on the slab aomthing
about 'good deeds live afterwards, etc.' ....but it esoapes mit
now. Haver, it is v)ry prott4- and 1-ory a'ppropriate, desurbing
Mrs. Mitchell's aCts and charitable in/inflations,
By the way, the was most helpful in carrying on the work
and establishin :it. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville. There was
a v xv,elabor4te room whieb Ale furnished and endowed in
t..Luke's, as the "Martha Heed Mitchell Memorial HoOm." The
firot g 1 did -4n 4 child was suml littio dies of linen
which I hemAitehed by hr Lot 1711.,il room.
."Ais I said before, my first exp rience at school was with
the litle Children of 415. L. Drew Williams' Bradford institute
4 privato school ,,,ndor th..t auepioes of St, Johns 3pieeopal Churoh.
fter re. tilliams beeame too feablo to teaoh, the work was'
taken ov)r hy 1.1.ss -lice -row. There wore eight girls, among
them Kittle Parrott, lAer -re. David Vitohoil, and Hollis
v.tewart, of Tt. Goor,7o Island, liktor ?Ars. Victor Plus.
"When tho school dwindled, down and wad Laosed, Iuttondod
Olivia High Ashool, of which rof. Paseo was nrinciP01,
91, ter I graduated, 1-ent to ,!aimbridge Institute, at
12ambridge, Vassachusetts. Thor' I 1144w snow for tho first
tim,), 114 sat tip all night watching thI feathory flakes fall
into drifts and pil* up on tho pavements to a depth of twelve
inches or ore.
Mrs. Charles O. Lenoir
b.
"My father, who, as I oaid oma to Florida for his
hoalth in 1879, now bectams -arw ill
had to return home, and did not got.lv Animh my college 4one
as father diad, a.nd my mothor had bOUOM4 80 .W0111 out in taking
oars of him Turing his lonK ilness that oho, toopassed otay
This wae in 1914.
two years 1,Aer in 1914.
"One inoliont romember at tisabri3ge was the ries of
the famous UWIegro,• Booker T. Washington, who wag traveling
ana leuturiuT in tha o atarn states, rails ug funds for the
Tuskaageo Institute. young 'Lady from New Orleans,
uam o have now forgotten, anA I refused to attend him loc-
tux's, and he. other girls were discussing mita, VA v,01,1d get
up end leave the mom. ."17hey oalled us Ilk° 'two hot-hoaded
little outherners.1
4fter fathor died, 1 tartod the 'Booklevarst Library'
whioh was •somothing now at that time in thowel of 4 oirettlatint
library. I ran it until the laeltsonviile Publio Library was
opened in its present looution in tho building which was con-
sidered very oranta and up-to-date at that time 1904, when
Miss Klisabeth Long and I who had boon working for tumora&
months tetting the books ready and mapo mounted to hang, went
to work there. I tayed thorn until 1909. Mr. George B. Utley
waS the librarian.
"My two brothers, who were born in bouth Jackeonville,
one ill 1880 and tha other in 1$64, hud startod a kodak store,
bundling and
handling piJturesadoveloping photographic films, gifts,
pluture frames, etc., in the building at 24 West Foreyth-st.,
Mrs. Oharims 0. LbNoir 6.
*Cli (MUG Reading Room, who I stayed wt i1 'ems Mo.rried in
191b.
"During the World War my hi.mband *us Aftwillwimaktart
lattaubuducibtauunlivikusabgtax in the U. S. Naval dorvioe 1+4
3..V44,102:.h, Georgia., I v•eut U theta to bo :tux hint, e‘rid for
two years workod in the Auditoes office of the 441Antie Coast
Line Railroad.
"1t it the wax we returned to Jaaksonville and I went to
work in the"genaral officio of the staniard Oil Co., being in
Mt. ZAohArias° offieo for ten years.
"In 1W, I oamo ovor and had a talk with i. ve
Cummlr, wh, *As at that 1,ime president of ilhe cisnins Club
of Jaoksonville, Ant plied for tho position of secretary.
We. talkod at length. The olub memberehip had goal down, they
*are doauly in debt, Urn. CuMmer told me tho sala4 would
be small to otikrt wi th, and I would have to he.. alert of house-
kleper, looking ftlr the phpsioal proporty af tho olubt as well
as handling tho soeial det/Ails, tho office work, aecsow ting,
and other incidental duties. I toll her I was used to hartA work,
eA was willing to tne:tortake it, and nor° I AM.
"This work I enjoy most thorauAlly. I am on Auty, yo1?.
might sow, tent -four hours. a day, as I havo my residenoe
her.. ,This morning as up At b:JC And o,:m-o down And opened
up the lower windows tho view fray tho eolurium through the
rose beds, the wan rising over th lma it *as intworessibly
beautiful. The vorkk 10 vo.riod. I enjoy planning the lun.Jhoons
and banquets mkW hvi irvod savaral o. the latter when there
were five humired pr,) wont Of J aurae, during the) eummor months
we do not is muoh, I4M only on half pay, big on uotive
mrs. Churles 0. LeNoir 7.
duty only on Wednesdays and Fridays', *lob are open days both
to olub members and he publia.
hueband travels, and I am aleme a ;treat deal, but
these is nev)r u dull moment.
"We have two colored regular employees, Lizzie aLd
Japer, who have ben with the caub so long their duties ore
automatic), and they are as muoh *apart of the TiLuoe oe the
walls and woodwork 'then nutting on large affairs, we have
to 1:,..vo additional maids and waiters, and then, too, Airing
the winter months we have a regular hostess on full. time, who
Plans all the meals and does the parohasing of food. In the
elummer I have to take are of this.
natitomexiick
'Then I first uamo with the Jlub in they had. te
'borrow moi,e4 to, ,.cry on their expenses, and it is gratifying
now to know we are rapidly ealling ou: bonds, and that the
funds taken in from dues and tha different departm are
more than suifiA.ent ."or all expeneos and we ,„.re rapidly laying
un A bonus. The Olub now has u roster of sight hundred members
and not a dal one in the lot!" she finished enthusiastioally.
"Besides belonging to the Womans Club and the Christian
Ouience (Muriel, I also hold membership in looal chapters of the
Daughters of the Anerican Revolution, the Colonial Dames, and
the Order of the lastorn 6tar, amerioa Chapter. o,you see,
"I am a very busy. womaniw