862 HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA. 



We have thought much and seriously on this subject, 

 for it deeply concerns the welfare and the happiness of ev- 

 ery refined household in Florida ; nay, even the very life 

 of the delicate wife and mother, whose strength is not equal 

 to the unaccustomed strain of "doing her own work," with 

 all that it entails. 



And we would respectfully submit for the earnest con- 

 sideration of our Florida readers, the outcome of our med- 

 itations, in the hope that some one can suggest a better 

 plan, and that it may be acted upon with all the energy 

 and promptitude that the emergency demands. 



In every county of the State there is, or will shortly be 

 a Fruit-growers' Association, and the great majority of 

 their members are husbands and fathers, who should cer- 

 tainly have the welfare of their families at heart. 



Florida has also a State Fruit-growers' Association, and 

 a Farmers' Alliance. 



Let these, as bodies already organized and in working 

 order, take this matter up and look into it until they fully 

 realize its vital importance, Jiot only to the community at 

 large, but to each one of themselves as individuals; and 

 then let them act promptly and efficiently in their oflScial 

 capacities. 



Let these associations select as their agents, in each of 

 the larger cities of the North and West, a well-established, 

 thoroughly reliable Labor Bureau or Intelligence Office. 



Having accomplished this, the preliminary step, let them 

 notify the various County Associations that the secretary, 

 or some other official specially appointed for the purpose, 

 will receive and forward all applications from communities 

 or families in need of servants. 



The County Associations, in their turn, should publish 

 in their local papers and at their meetings that they stand 

 ready to receive such applications, not only from their own 



