Were All The People You Met In Your Travels Friendly?

Friday, January 24, 1868.—Prepared to go to Wright [Michigan]. We found it very unpleasant traveling. A cold wind was blowing directly in our faces. At noon stopped at Lappinville. Found ourselves in mean quarters; there was a woman with a pipe in her mouth, and a young man smoking a cigar. He said he had learned and practiced the habit and could not now give it up, although he knew it was hurtful. We ate our plain food with good relish, but were treated with incivility by the inmates of the house. They showed themselves strangers to true politeness. We found no good hay for the horses, no oats, no water. They charged us fifty cents for sitting before their fire and being annoyed with the scent of tobacco. I was glad to go out again in the air. ^{17MS 12, 1868.}LASW 120.1