The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-02


towns, ;oye IT more show and freedom
than they can find on the farm. This is
TO be exp, Cted :; but while acquiring these
ideas, let them be taught the expense of
all these desirable attachments, no. III
money merely but in many other ways"
AN ENGLISH FARM LABoRER's SM0CK
FRoCK-lb a DESCRIPTION OF Sunday
spent IN a rural district in England, Eli
hu Burrtt says:
At the other side OF the pastor walked
~ fr,t-rate specimen al an English farm
laboler. Ee stood full six feet in his
heavy, hob-nailt d shoes, which must,
however, have added a full inch to his
stature. He had on his head the round
felt bat peculiar to his class. But as It's
proud distinction he wore the white
>mock-trock which il does ones eyes
good TO see if he has ever delighted in
tories OF English rural life
1t would Ue difficult tor an American
who has not actually seen it to get a
good and proper ldea of this unique gar,
ment It is altogether "a different thing
from the cid tow trocks worn by some of
cur farmers fifty years ago, although re
,embling them in shape. 1t Is as much
the uniform Of the English farm-laborer
rs is the red coat of the English soldier !;
and he wears 1t as proudly to church and
tIl public occasions. It is not only for
Use IN week days, but for ornament on
sundays It Is literally ornamented to
The highest conceptions IF rustic genius
ID its max 1p. At breast and back it
slows the elaborate embroidery Of the
rustic needle. Indeed, | have seen some
.of them evidently kept for public ap.
lsearance) that seem to bear IN their or
concentration tull months work of such
= needle.
When put on white as snow, Of Sun
day morning, Joe Dobbin walks to
church with as much self consciousness
IS any New York belle 10 Stewards best
Then this long, embroidered robe covers,
ii not a multitude of worse detects, at
Last, defects in the clothes it conceals,
&hIch the wearer would not like to be
.ocn at church. Western Farmer
FARMERS WIVES CLUB.-At Oatka
faAs, Kansas, they have a club composed
ri farmers wives. The society meets
"nce month al the houses Of the mem
'1or> In regular succession, take their
5@nch baskets and have sort Of pic MIC
upper, SO as to give little trouble 70 the
smsstess. A regular subject connected
With the management of the domestic
department Of the farm is agreed upon
10 a previous meeting and is discussed over
he tea and knitting work Like good
wives they allow their husbands to come
in the evening, and girls, who expect to
be farmers wives some day are welcome.
The meetings are enjoyable and profta-
BILE. This is an institution that deserves
to be established in more states than
Kansas.-Pr05rde Farmer.
ALMOST from the time of King Solo
mon till now, the search has been going
on for the famous land of Ophir from
which be derived his gold. Modern
travellers now affirm that this land OF
riches is none other than the recently
discovered gold and diamond fields OF
South Africa. The ease with which gems
and the precious metals are obtained
there, together with their Righteousness
gives an air of probability to the thing
That the voyage frem the Red Sea tc
South Africa could be made without the
aid of the mariners compass is also GER
rain. but WHdC eeenS 10 duu CohAlhl&
ton to the theory is the fact that exten
sive ruins Of an old and advanced civil
zatlon are to be found in various places
in Southern Africa. Walls fifteen fee
thick, and thirty high, enclosing severa
acres, also towers and obelisks have beer
found. The style of architecture is nei
tier Arabian nor Portuguese, but mos
nearly resembles that of the Ph@nicians
South Africa just now is a place of inter
est not only to gold and diamond hunters
but to scholars and antiquarians.