The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-21

Onc pOunu OF IL lasted three OF us
twenty-one days and we had all
we wanted every day. 1t was
about the color of the yolk of boiled
eg, which with little encouragement
might have become chicken, and it
looked and tasted like axle. grease.
They don't have veal outlets, nor
asparagus, nor peaches, nor oysters,
nor sugar, except as they import it,
nor strawberry short.cake, nor ice
cream, nor molasses candy, and yet,
strange to say, they do have some
thing. They have, in the first place,
chicken. Probably there is no
country in the world where the life
of chicken is worth so little as in
Turkey. We had chickens in every
conceivable shape, and at every
meal, for a little less than two
months, and yet when We came away
we were surprised to notice how
many there were left.
They have ham and eggs, they have
mutton which they like to trim off in
thin slices, wind them around wires
and roast in the fire, they call them
kerbobs. They have lettuce, string
beans, squash, beets, onions, and I
think cabbage and turnips. Turkey
they have as matter OF course, but
it dosn't comfort them much without
cranberry sauce, which they haven't
got. They have radishes, cucumbers,
watermelons, oranges, dates figs, and
ponegranates, and chiefest of all they
have grapes, the largest and most
luscious in the world. They have
canned meats and vegetables and
maple syrup and butter and sugar all
imported from home. They have
canned oysters, which they have to
open themselves, because it makes the
natives sick to look at them, such is
the difference in taste. They usually
begin by getting -four from home but
become accustomed at length to the
coarser native article and like it..
Upon the whole, they have enough
to eat and good food, though not in
any great variety. They have com
fortables homes to live in, with carp
cts and pictures and curtains, Libraries,
cabinet organs and whatever home
like things they could bring with
them. They have servants whom they
pay from $I2 to $25 year, sometimes
less, sometimes more. They have
horses costing from 40 to IS dollars.
1t is their only means Of travelling as
well as of exercise Mr.. Lee has a
salary Of l think 1900 piasters-
equivalent to about $3.50. Miss
Barnes and Miss Doane a salary OF
about S375 each.
People say, "Well, l don't see
that they are suffering" No, they
are not At least SO far as getting
something to eat is concerned. And
l don't know why they should. And
yet there are people who seem to
think they ought to, in order to realize
the idea of being missionary. And
SO when they hear about home com.
forts simple and few as they are
about servants, which they themselves
wouldn't have in their houses here in
America, and lots of chicken-"why'
they say, show is this ?" Do you
call that being missionary-there' S
nothing so terrible about that, / be.
lieve could be missionary at that
rate And yet, strange as it may
seem to such people it is nevertheless
a fact, that these are those who have
all they want to eat and yet are not
entirely satisfied. They want some
thing else. They have yearnings and
aspirations and heart sickness, which
all the chicken in the world could not
satisfy. Now that may be hard for
such folks to believe, but nevertheless
it is a fact. They are away from
home-not for vacation and holt
day-but forever, it maybe. Now
there is something in that if you
think of it. They are among a peo-
pie who, SO long as they live, will
never understand and appreciate them,
a people of different language and
c,etonoe en- far heneoth than, in intel