Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-05-22
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MIR. j. G. Gangooly, the converted Brahmin,
in the Transcript, the interesting account of
his experience of snow and cold weather:
Wherever / go the first thing am asked is
my impression of the Winter "How do you
bear our New England winter, Sir e. "Does
not the weather affect your health2" &C., are
the inquiries of my friends In answer, 1 would
say, bear the cold as we'll as anybody, and like
the American winter, it is so full of new and a.
musing scenes to me. Before coming to the
Western country I had read about the western
winter-of water frozen SO hard that heavy
teams easily pass over it-of the ground covered
with snow several feet deep.
The accounts believed in part, and the rest
sounded to me like grand-mother's story. Of
course l saw ice in Calcutta imported from Bos-
ton. but was pnzzled to know how water could
be so hard by freezing. This was very natu-
raj perplexty, because had no idea of the thing
at all. When told the ladies here that the
Hindoos boil simple milk so hard that they make
dolls flowers, &C., out of it to adorn their tables
they hardly believed it until did the expert
ment before their eyes, They by their own
hands made flowers of different shape and size,
which by half an hour became as hard as rock.
As it was year before last May that / came
to this country, inquired of my friends how
soon the snow would fall and water freeze.
used to look through the windows early in the
mornings to see if there was any snow on the
ground. In September | noticed something
white spreading over the ground. l rushed out
in ecstacy, and told my friends about it. Gan
you imagine my disappointment when they said
it was mere frost9 10 Boston saw the first
snow. Astonished, stood to watch the feaks
falling from the sky. "Father," said /, ''thus
Thy blessings fall upon Us, abundantly and i'm
partialy-upon the good and the evil alike.
wished very much that my Bengalee friends
could see such sight; and finding it was i'm
possible, thought OF some way to send them a
little relic of the white mud. | made solid
heavy snow-ball, which seemed so durable in
the open air that hoped to seLd it to India by
the first opportunity; took it to Mr.. Me- and
carefully put it on the mantel-piece. Need
tell you the RESULT it is we'll known to you all.
In my letter to Bengal described the leading
feature of the American winters but could not
write anything about freezing, hoping to do it
by-and-by, after had some experience of it.
Ny health is, on the whole, better in this
country. My friends tell me to eat meat, even
if it was very little, and drink some warm
drink, but cannot do SO. | never ate any
meat, or used any drink but that which comes
out of the bosom of our mother earth. Now
and then wish to be in India to see the land
smile, the flowers bloom, and the birds sing in
these months.
On the late Christmas your churches were
decorated with leaves only-there were hardly
any flowers there. In Calcutta you could COW
er the church-yard with a few dollars worth
of flowers, you could entertain party of TWEEN
ty ladies and gentlemen, for instance with four
teen kinds of fruit, at the expense of two dollars
Contrasts like these create bit of home sick in
me, but cover it up with the garments Of duty,
and go on my way rejoicing, singing and giving
the glory to the Most High .ssste - -