The Press., 1888-06-07

lv speaking, it is doubtless profitable, but to those who are not educated up to it the service appears interminable During our first Sunday on the key the minister's wife was i'll, and services were conducted by lay brother, Captain Rurert Roberts. Captain Robrr:s felt diffiient, he explained. as to the propriety of an original sermon, and accordingly read two discoursrs from the dijatic remains of an English divine of the last century. The sonorous periods of the writer were seasoned by running commentary from the Tea Ter Several
 times the aged captain enforc striking passage by exhorting his hearers to "belav that hin your 'rarts, my friends P and once he directed them to ''take ha round
 itch hin that !' A fiery exhortation of half an hours length followed the reading of the sermons. The exercises were inte'- spe d win numerous hymns, as many as
 ten being sung. Each hymn was read
 twice ill its entirety by Captain Roberts,
 and was then read stanza by stanza, each
 >tanza being sung immediately after its
 third re adine. There'was no instrumental
 music, and the singing was started by sis
 ter Tryance Roberts, who sat among the
 children at the entrance. The first line
 was generally a solo, and it was not until
 the opening bars of the SC cond were reached
 tha' the mass of the congregation joined iu.
 spent part of the two hours and a hall
 in observing my neighbors-it is perhaps
 d'screditable for me to acknowledge and
 was, as penalty for my worldliness, aston ished to find how ugly the women were
 Out of some thirty on the nearest settees
 there were only two who could claim faca
 charms even in New York, aud as for theil figure, it is the part of a wise man to pass
 1t by Ill discreet silence. The lOyaiist ref
 ugees who founded the town were nine 1T
 number, and their ,scendants include five sixths of the 600 inhabitants. Four fam
 llies- h RussellS, R )berts', Malones anC !, PIndars humber more than half tbe pop ulatiOn. The constant intermnrriage for 7 century of bod relatives has had it's effec } ill the physic degeneration of the people a generation which is indicate nor l plainly in the women than iu the men. Tn open air life and exposure to the salt winds aud the manual labor performed by tn f fair sex in Great 'Arbor, while conduc.v g tO good health, are death to good looks l Fhe complexion IS bronzed the skin coars and the ne K, hands, waist and feet ample l The lSolatlOI from the activities of moder e life and Ie mental consequences of e1 | tended inter marriage have given coarse e ness and stupidity to the faces of mos l The life of women here Is pltifuI affair j. with only the lower enjoyneuts open to il r Not one in five ever sees other land tha : the Northern Bahamas not one in ten see s even as much of thought and activity as
 found ill Nassau, N. F., 120 miles to tn :, south. With the exception of the Methc l. dist minister's lady do not think there n woman on the islaLd who has ever seen : glow, set of false teeth or Q busle. Sti e fashion has it's recognized sway even l n this remote not k. Enormous brass pel n dants, shaped like Indian clubs and all l. precisely the same size and pattern, hun l. from the ears of more than half the wOme 9 i'll the church. Most of the women wel ' robed ill cheap calico prints, among whic l. nautical figures We're de rigeur with tlI C fashionable. Anchors, pennants, capstau, b etc, were numerous. My eyes were pa $ ticul rly fascinated by the outer garmel e of one interesting soul on which red tal 2, were represented as climbing indistinC e blecA Ialines, behind wh ch r, suns wei , rising over blue seas.
 ', Llugnistc surprises await the truvele 7. who canc $ to stray into this out of tl is way Isl Id. The language IS English, l. course, with a sprinkllng of queer last Ger