The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24
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the leaf, felled later, cut into four-foot
lengths, and as soon as the friendly snow
makes sledging possible, drawn down to
the woodhouse. Afterwards the needs of
the farm can be attended to, and farm
like an arch, is never at rest. A little later
will come maple sugar time, when the
stately naples are tapped as the sap begins
tie stir, and beringed with absurd little
buckets "a cow being MIXED into thimble
gives some idea of the disproportion) which
are emptied into caldrons. Afterward
(this is 10 the time of the 'ssugaring- off
parties'O you pour the boiled syrup into
tins full of fresh snow, where it hardens,
and you pretend to help, and eat
and become very sticky and make love,
boys and girls together. Even the intro
duction of patent sugar evaporators has
not spoiled the love making.
There is certain scarcity OF men to
make love with Not 80 much in towns
which have their own manufactures and
lie within lovers Sabbath-day journey Of
New York. but in the farms and villages.
The men have gone away-the young men
are fighting for fortune further west, ana
the women remain-remain forever, as
women must. On the farms, when the
children depart, the old man and the old
woman strive to hold things together with
out help, and the woman's portion is work
and monotony. Sometimes she goes mad
to an extent which appreciably affects
statistics, and is put down in census re-
ports. More often, let US hope, she only
dies. In the villages, where the necessity
for heavy work is not so urgent, the women
ind consolation in the formation of literary
clubs and circles, and SO gather to
themselves great deal of wisdom
in their own way. That way is not alto
gether lovely. They desire facts, and the
knowledge that they are at certain page
4 1t.., ,NDlr l,f1
tain time or that they have read the
proper books in the proper way. At any
rate, they have something to do that seems
as if they were doing something. 1t has
been said that the New England stories
are -cramped and narrow. Even far-off
view OF the ircn-bound life whence they
were drawn iustities the author. You can
carve nus in thousand different ways,
by reason OF the hardness of the she'll
Twenty or thirty miles across the hills,
on the way TO the Green mountains, lie
some finished chapters of pitiful storles-a
few score abandoned farms started in a
lean land, held tiercely so long as there
was any one to work them, and then left
on the hillsides. Beyond this desolation
are woods where the bear and deer
still find peace, and sometimes even
the beaver foreets that he is prosecuted and
dares to build his lodge. These things were
told me by man who loved the woods fer
their own sake and not for the sake OF
saughter-a quiet, slow spoken man of the
West, who came across the drifts on snow
shoes and refrained from laughing when
borrowed his footgear and tried to walk
The gigantic lawn tennis bats, strung with
hide. are not easy to manoeuvre. If you
forget to keep the long heels down and
trailing in the snow you turn over and be-
come as man who falls into deep water
with life belt tied to his ankles If YOU
lose your balance do not attempt to recover
it, but drop half sitting and half kneeling
over as large an area as possible. When
one shoe above the other deftly, that is to
say, the sensation of padding over ten
foot-deep drift and taking short cuts by
buried fences is worth the ankle ache. The
man from the West interpreted to me the
signs on the snow, and showed how fox
(this section of country is full of foxes,
and men shoot them because riding
is lmpossible) leaves Is one kind