Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-09
An Island or Pretty Women.

The grass grows green and rank and
the perfume of the rose fills the air even
in the bleakest days of the bleak au-
tumn in the little sea-encircled para
disc, writes n correspondent from st.
Helier's, on the Island of Jersey. There
are hundreds of LeautifuI lanes
winding among the valleys and hill
sides, with trees on either side growing
SO close together that no sunshine can
ever penetrate through the interlacing
boughs TO the hard. smooth-beaten
track beneath; miles of white, shin4ly
beach, on which tho sand is as white as
sifted -four, and is left by the receding
tides as hard as cement; quaint little
farm-houscs EMPOWERED in sweet SMELL
ing shrubs and flowers, and acres of
moorland that are covered the year
around with hel:otropes, petunias and
marguerites. A blue-gray sea rises and
falls around the island forty-two feet.
sweet little Jersey" ''Dear old st.
Heller s." is the afectionate way in
which the people here speak of Their
island home and its chief town of 3d.
| O0J souls. st. Helier's is queer old
place. Its streets are narrow and
crowded. Massive earthworks and
miles of masonry crown the hills about,
and render the place apparently i'm
| pregnnble against the foe.
The channel islands, and particularly
Jersey, possess much of interest to the
stranger, but the browning glory of
Jersey is the beauty of her women. For
general comel ness they would readily
be awarded prize in any competition
of fem nine grace. Rare, creamy COM
pleNiOns that would put the bloom on
the peach to- blush, figures made grace
full anil sinewy by bodily toll. with
rather strongly cut features, eyes Ike
aloeS, and lustrious black hair, the q rls
met on the streets of st. Hel:cr's seem
: to the stranger the personihcation of
womanly independence, beauty and
maidenly reserve. The soft white m SITS
that wrap the islant every night
from SHUTDOWN to sunrise give them
| carnat;on checks. The toll that
brings with it the active, healthy
body is due to causes which
will enlist on tie side Of these women
tho sympathies of true manhood. II is
because o. the wJeful dcarth of men in
Jersey that the women do I'll the work.
Where you meet one man i'm these
tortuous streets of st. Helers you meet
ten women.
Out am.ng the green farms this dis
| proportion of the sexes is even more
painfully apparent. The heavy. I'M
calmly carts ON the country roads are
almost without exception driven by
women. and handsome women, too.
Groups Of cherry girls may be
seen in the wayside orc ards. some
picking apples from tho trees. others
straining at the rude cider presses. The
little fields, with their luxuriant growth
of turnips, cabbages and bogas are all
tended by women, while the blooming
flowers in the house yards show in their
rich variety the evidence of woman's
care and attention. None but women
are to be seen in the big public market
Of st. Heller -women buying and
women selling. What men you see are
either too young or too old AMI de-
crepit-boys who have not started out
in life, or old sea-capt1ins who have
come home to end their days, smelling
of salt cod and full of "reminiscences of
stormy voyages to Buenos Ayres, to
Australia or through the China seas =
~. y. Times.