Cordelia Davis letter to Celestia Colby 7 Apr 1895

LAFox April 7th 1895

Dear sister Celestia it is sunday Afternoon and we have just been getting a "right smart rain and it rained quite hard in the night but our folks finished putting in their [vats?] the night before and it is a warm growing rain and the grass begins to look quite green now if it would only stay warm we would have early feed but they say the frogs have not been froze up three times. I have no heard them out at all. Our weather has been I guess a good deal like yours The first rain for months was a week ago to day everything was thirsty and everything else dry.

I dont believe there was a cistern but what was dry, every body was washing with hard water

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water If it had not been for that heavy snow fall in the middle of winter it would have been still worse. I guess all have got soft water enough for the present and to think we have a right to rejoice after using hard so long for everything. I see I am leaving out words but I guess you can make it out and it takes two much time to write it over.

I had to have my nap this afternoon to set down to write but that blind stupor me and I just leaned back put my feet and legs up in another chair and went off into the land off nod, and by the time I was ready to write Eva was ready to read and I cant got write and take in the reading too, so if it is any thing I care for, I lay aside the writing. I can mend a

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little or do anything with my fingers, that keeps me awake She read "Coin" week before last. I was very much interested it in it and think every man and woman should read it It is a political work; dealing with the money question, more particularly perhaps you have read it. She is reading the "heavenly twins" this week by Mrs. Sarah Grand. this week I thought I did not care to hear it. I though it would be tiresome after a few of their pranks. I always get tired of such things if long drawn out. perhaps I am not appreciative enough. I always am glad when Marietta Hollys books are through with them though I enjoy them in a way, but

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I was going to say more about the "heavenly twins" I told Eva I should think they were anything but heavenly They certainly original and I hope become very much interested in their idnoscray should not perhaps if they were the only characters but the others strong characters, lessons to be drawn on other subjects

The equality of the sexes, a plea against the double standard, the equal purity of the man with the woman demanded no man any business to offer himself in marriage unless he is pure, but I will say no more but I wish I had your descriptive faculty.

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Monday afternoon Apr 8th

Eva done a small washing this morning, washed up all her white curtains, as there has consider able rain fell; but it rained a couple of hours after she commenced and it is dark and cloudy, so that she could not put them out. Green Garfield died yesterday morning. He has been ailing off and on all winter I guess they he has not been out, but it was getting towards spring Mrs. Harvey, wife and children seemed to think when settled weather come he would be all right, but the grippe and pneumonia set in last thursday and he is gone. Eva has gone over there, Nellie Washburn, (his daughter) sent a man over