The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-02-06
The kiilkman in Malta.

One of the most interesting things
about travelling in foreign countries Is to
us, not SO much the countries them
selves, ms the people who live in them.
While we admire fine scenery and grand
buildings, and like TO visit those places
famous for some event in history, we
also like to know the people, and see
how they live, and how they manage
their matters of everyday life in the
house and out of it. We have met peo-
pie who have spent years abroad and
who could talk about mountains and
lakes, cathedrals and paintings, but
could tell nothing about the people of
the countries they visited, and who seem
to have taken no interest in what was
going on outside of, the hotels where
they staid When we visit strange
city, even in our country, we are sure to
make visit to the market, and see what
the people live upon, and the different
ways in which the things are brought to
market and sold. The difference between
market in Boston, and one in Charles
ton or New Orleans, is as great as II the
two were in separate countries, and if
we so over the border to Montreal or
Quebec, we find many things that seem
new and strange. Not in the market
only, but other everyday matters are
managed differently in different parts of
our own country, and these things are
still more strange when we go abroad.
When we first visited a city in ournext-
door eighbor-country- -MeXico-one of
our first surprises was the way in which
people were supplied with water. Com
ing from city where there was water
in every house, and one had only to
turn cock to get an abundance, you
may imagine how strange it seemed, to
see the water brought around to the
houses in great leathern bags upon the
back of a buYro or jackass. These bags
were SO arranged that one hung down
on each side of the animal; at the bottom
of each bag was hole, from which 10
draw off the water, and the funniest
thing of all was the way in which this
hole was stopped, 10 keep in the water
until it was wanteA A cows horn was
put in from the inside, and stuck part
way through the hole; when the water
man wished to draw off water for Gus
toner, he pushed up the horn a little
from the outside, and when enough had
been drawn, he let go of the horn, and
the weight of the water in the bag
pressed it down so tight into the hole that
OF n .Iro, 4
thing in the same city was the way of
serving milk there were milk men, but
no milk carts; the old COW herself was
both can and cart, as she was driven from
house to house, aud milked in the street
before the doors of the customers. This
is slow performance, and hardly fair
on the COW, to oblige her TO make the
milk, and carry it around besides, but
the customer is quite sure TO get fresh
milk and pure, though if all that is said
of milk-men in Yankee cities is true,
they would not be long in contriving
some way to water the milk. The
traveller who visit Malta, will see some-
thing like this Mexican method of
serving milk, only goats take the
place of COWS. In our country boys and
girls, at least those who do not live in
the cities, know little about goats milk,
though in cities many of the poorer
people of the foreign population, keep
goats, as their neighbors, who have
gardens, know to their sorrow. Goats
milk is very rich indeed, but you would
not like to drink it, it has a taste quite
different from cows milk, though per-
sons used to it do not mind it; we have
often, in other countries, used it in
coffee, and found it very good. In hot
and dry countries there is not for the
greater part of the year grass enough to
support cows, and the people use goats
instead, as they will live upon any green
thing, and flourish where a COW would
starve. In Malta, and other places in
southern Europe, the people use goats
milk almost altogether, and the towns
are supplied by boy who milks the
goat while yon wait for the milk The
flock of goats are driven along the streets,
and milked mt the house-doors. The
goats show great intelligence, and seem
10 know their business quite as well as
the persons in charge of them, as they
soon learn the places where they are to
he milked, and will stop at the right
houses of their own accord.-Amcrico
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