358 HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA. 



baby's complexion promised to belie her name, proving 

 yellow instead of jet, the misnomer was corrected by the 

 same obliging neighbor, who made it still more striking by 

 the addition of Errata. 



E Pluribus Solus and Jettica Errata are now stylish 

 *' young ladies." 



Our second dish-washer feared to go out in the rain, at 

 least that was the excuse given for a four hours' absence on a 

 near-by errand — marbles and two other boys constituting 

 the " fear." He preferred fishing to working ; loved to go 

 to sleep in the wood-box, Avhile the fire burned out ; con- 

 sidered it a superfluity to wipe dishes after having washed 

 them, or to wash the outside as well as the inside of pots 

 or frying-pans; and finally, after secretly breaking and 

 hiding a valuable tool, w^as '' took very bad sick," and de- 

 parted — to fish all the afternoon, remain away all night, 

 and return the next morning, to be amazed at the mandate 

 to take up his clothes and go forthwith to his home. 



But still there are some reasonably satisfactory boys to 

 be found, and we would advise our help-hunters to look 

 for them, and not to be discouraged too easily. ''If at 

 first you don't succeed, try, try again," is a good adage to 

 put in practice here, both with regard to the dish-washers 

 and cooks; perseverance may reveal a treasure, rare as 

 treasures always are. 



As might well be anticipated, the code of morality here, 

 as elsewhere, does not stand high among the majority of 

 the colored race ; and this fact, with all its consequences, 

 the housekeeper must be prepared to face as an irremedia- 

 ble evil, and make the best of it. 



Their ideas of some very important subjects are fairly 

 and humorously illustrated by the following, taken from a 

 current issue of the great Florida daily. The Times Union, 

 of Jacksonville — an actual occurrence : 



