Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-02

model for the imitation of her sex. She
is an obedient and respectful daughter,
faithful wife, and devoted mother.l
She is soft of speech, and has grace OF
manner which gives charm to ell she
does. Well educated and accomplished,
with keen wit, she makes brilliant
figure in society, but is, nevertheless, an
excellent manager Of her household
and gives most careful supervision t"
every detail that will enhance the COM,
fort of her lord. She looks diligently
after the physical and intellectual well
fare Of her children; especially are her
daughters trained under her own eyes
in all that goes to make women lovely
in mind and person. Their tasks for
school are connel by her side, their
music lessons are practiced within her
hearing, that she may detect the least
false note. She shares in all their
amusements; she is their companion,
their contidate, their friend. They
come to her with all their little hopes
and fears, sure Of her sympathy,
When her daughter is grown the
Creole matron blooms again into ricl,
second youth; her own girlhoo,l is re-
newed in that Of child; they s,,v
scarcely mother and daughter any
longer, but pair Of loving sisters. The
young girl is educated in q convent, and
leads secluded existence until she is
launched into society, and then in the
Joyous life that bursts upon her she is
always surrounded by the same watch
full care that guarded her childhood.
Young girls are not allowed to go into
society without being accompanied by
their mothers OF some other married
lady as chaperon-one Of the many
Creole customs which have been gener-
ally adopted by Che American residents
of New Orleans
These young girls are often wonder
fully beautiful Good features, hand
some eyes, and graceful figures combine
to make them very attractive, their
beauty being not infrequently Oriental
in type, though the vivacity Of their
manner marks them as essentially
French in character. Many Creole wo-
men are very accomplished. They have
o skill in music and painting that is
often artistic.
In the literary clubs which society
women have inangurated of late years
in New Orleans the American ladies
have been astonished to find the Creole
ladies quite as well posted as themselves
in English literature, while possessing
a much greater knowledge of the litera-
turo of other countries.
SLAVES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
The method of procuring these slaves
is simple, but effective The settler
who desires the labor Of native man.
woman, or child, draws up paper, in
which the native is made to say that he
offers himself for employment for a GER
tain period. The master signs this doc
ument, and the native makes his CROSS
in presence of policeman, and the
thing is done. From that time the ma
tive is really a slave as though his mas
ter owned him body and soul. He is
generally ignorant Of the contents of
the paper which he has signed" but it
places him absolutely in the power to do
with him as he pleases during the term
Of the assignment" and at it's close he
is frightened into signing again. Most
Of the natives thus assigned are kid
mapped and brought in from the inte-
rior, and when once they have made the
cross, whose Significance they do not APP
preciate, they are held by the magis-
trates as subject to the masters and
servants act Of Great Britain, and pun
ished under it's provisions if they run
away, although that law was never in
tended to apply TO barbarous people.
Mr.. Gribble relates many instances of
the cruelties practiced ON the Austria
Ian slaves, Of the manner in which they
are loaded with chains for trivial Of
fences, and OF the indignities which are
heaped upon the women and girls.
Most Of the slaves are used in working
the pearl fisheries, and the punishment
for stealing pearls is in many cases in
slant death, the master acting as Judge.
counsel, and jury. In one day sixty of
the unfortunates-men, women. and
children-were thus sumnarily exc
cuted and often the natives are shot for
running away. Men make regular
business Of kidnapping the natives for
assignment. i.
A NOBLE SCHOOL,
Miss Sharp "a missionary sent out By
the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
said one day to her little negro scholars