Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-09
A uIndoo,a Iden Of nm American winter.

A Hlndoo's idea of an American Winter.
Mr.. &C. Gangooly, the converted Brah-
min, now studying theology in Massachu-
sets, gives, 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 dc
you bear our New England winter, sir?'
Does not the weather effect your health?
&c. are the inquiries Of my friends. In an
swer, ] would say, bear the cold as well as
anybody, and like the American winter, it Is
so full Of new and amusing scenes to me
Before coming 20 the western country 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 grandmother;
story. Of course l saw ice in Calcutta i'm.
ported from Boston, but was puzzled TO know
how water could be so hard by freezing
This was very natural perplexity, 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 experiment
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 window,
| early in mornings to see if there was any
snow on the ground. In September l no
| ticed something white spreading over tho
ground. | rushed out in ecstacy, and tolt
| my friends about it. Can you imagine my
| disappointment when they said it was mere
| frost In Boston | saw the first snow. As
tonshed, stood to watch the fecks falling
| from the sky. Father" said l. 'thus Thy
blessings fall upon us, abundantly and i'm.
| partially upon the good and the evil alike
l wished very much that my Bengalet
friends could see such a sight; and fading i
was impossible, thought of some way to senC
them a little relic of the white mud. / mad,
| a solid heavy SNOWFALL, which seemed SO dur
| able in the open air that hoped to send it t
| India by the first opportunity; took it to Mr.
| Ms and carefully put it on the mantel-piece
| Need tell you the result2 it is well known t.
you all. In my letter to Bengal | described
| The leading feature of the American winters
out could not write anything about freezing
hoping to do it by and by, after l had som'
| experience of it.
my nedlIn Is, on Ine Wnole, DeIJer IN tnl
country. My friends tell me to eat meat
even if it was a very little, and drink SOM
warm drink, but can not do so. neve
ite any meat, or used any drink but tina
which comes out of the bosom of our mothe
earth. Now and then l wish to be in Indi
to see the land smile, the flowers bloom, an
| the birds sing in these months.
On the late Christmas your churches wer
| decorated with leaves only-there wer
| hardly any flowers there. In Calcutta yo
could cover the church yard with few dol
lars worth of flowers, you could entertain
party of twenty ladies and gentlemen, for in
stance, with fourteen kinds Of fruit, at the ex
| pense of two dollars. Contrasts like thes
create bit ofhome-sick in me, but cove
it up with the garments of duty, and go OIL
my way rejoicing, singing and giving glor.
to the Most High.