180 HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA. 



Frost during our life-time, and we are perfectly sure no one 

 wants to. 



AVe have now said enough to show that it would not be 

 wise to leave all warm clothing behind when bound for a 

 Florida home ; bring it all, on the contrary, no matter how 

 old or shabby or condemned in the Northern home. That 

 is one of Florida's good points, the ability to wear out one's 

 clothes, even after the new shine is rubbed off; the fact is, 

 we often think how we should pity the '' old clothes man," 

 if he should unhappily wander down to these regions ; he 

 would find no stock in trade, for every body wears the old 

 clothes as long as they will hold together, keeping the best 

 for Sunday-go-to-meeting occasions. He is wise who dresses 

 according to his occupation, and rough work around farms 

 is more suitably done in old clothes. For a year or more 

 before we migrated from the North it was a standing joke, 

 when articles of dress became too shabby to wear for our 

 city home, yet i\'ere too good to give up entirely, to thrust 

 them away into a trunk, with the laughing remark, "This 

 will do in Florida." We hardly expected to see the Land 

 of Flowers then, but we did, and every one of those cast- 

 away articles came into use, saving something better. Go 

 thou and do likewise, O future Floridian ! It is a wise 

 plan to follow, for it costs nothing and saves much. Old 

 coats and pants, old dresses and sacks, old waterproofs, old 

 shoes, good, but too shabby to wear in thickly settled com- 

 munities ; all these are treasure troves in the wild free life 

 of Florida's new settlements, and do just as well and bet-, 

 ter to knock around in than newer and handsomer cloth- 

 ing, to whose welfare thought must be given. The heavier 

 winter flannels that are worn in our Northern homes are 

 worn by prudent people in Florida also during the months 

 of November, December, January, and February. When 

 the temperature rises, the change in dress is made from the 



