The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-30

rates 90 not exceed shillings per. week
Tor such home.
Nearly all of these worl1men's village
homes have front area flower plats. In
the gardens of all are mazes of flowers
and vines and beds of vegeta bles in sum
mer. Every parlor has its solemn-voiced
'grandfather's clock" II also boasts
chests OF linen, drawers of comfortable
clothing and many cheap and pretty
pieces of furniture; while on the mantle
or bureau top is always found some fanci-
1ul sketch, painting or curious model, the
result Of emulation to win prizes for in
Ventlon In new processes or for unique
and original designs in modelling and
decoration. The murderOus truck" sys-
tenn is unknown in England, as it should
be IN America; and every penny due every
man is paid him each Saturday noon We
are very fond, about election time of tell
ing our workmen what lucky dogs they
are / wish they truly possessed the home
comfort and pleasant environment that
English workmen's villages almost uni
versaIy disclose.
Another and most interesting type of
villages and village life may be found in
the region comprised in Southwestern
Warwlckshire, Northern Worcestershire,
Eastern Herefordshird andSouthern Wor-
cestershtre, between the towns of STRAIT
ford-on-AvOn, Hereford, Worcester and
Gloucester. The antiquity of most of
these villages is as great and their char
acteristics as distinctive as those of the
stone hamlets of Cumberland. Like
the latter, most are of stone and
from 800 to 500 years old Here is
everything curious and ancient in old oak
doors and hinges, fanciful chimney pieces,
oak lintels, doors and balus-
trades, mullioned windows and paneled
rooms. When the habitations are not of
stone they are the still more picturesque
ancient Tudor half timbered houses
These in their gables with browning PIN
nacles, their odd porches, small but mass
i've doors, mulliOned windows and huge
chimncys, Overhanging stories and jun
bles of projecting windows, are no less
quaint and curious than their interiors,
with their spacious, low-ceilinged rooms
paneled with oak of ebOn blaclnesS, often
deliberately carved and ornamented, and
with passages. hooks, inches, cupboards
and presses, bewildering in arrangement
and number
Each stone farm house and cotters
village home stands in its own orchard,
brilliant with sprays of pink and white,
or with balls of russell and gold, accord
ing to the season. Chaffinches and robins
are among the MOSES in all these
orchards; blackbirds and thrushes every
NItIG III lllC bIlCh RdIutil SDIuUUtIlCS
and in the tangled coppices and hedge
rows. The stage coaches are here just as
of old So are the carrier. the carter,
the thatcher, the tiler the drainer, the
plOwman, the shepherd, the common
field laborer, and even the pOacher; all
as needless of reform as Cuban guajiros,
and all with kindly faces and speech be-
tOkening sturdy pride i'll their vocatiOns
which were the toll of their fathers be-
fore them. There is no elbowing, no jost-
ling no marrying or hurrying. Every
body sauntcrs, dozes or labors as though
content, never paid penalty to want. An
of mconstrained amplitude
brOods over all. Hundreds of the olden
English villages are surely here in
region that knows no change.
Unless one has really wandered in rock
buttressed old Cornwall it is hard to be-
lieve that outside the picturesque coast
wise fishing hamlets there is such
thing as characteristic village life. To the
casual observer from the railway train
the whole face of the land seems
torn and SCARED as if by
tremendous elemental struggles. A myr-
lad kissing fragments of exploded planets,
hurled in awful upper rain upon its face
could have left no more unsightly hurts.
But il is full of enhancing hidden hooks,
where, sloping from ragged nIDorlanGs
are beauteOus little valleys with ample
farms, lessening into timer checks of
hedge and lane-broidered fields and these
into messy old hamlets, where the white
Wesleyan chapel and the Norman lowered
church, are the only two structures show
ing through a wealth of trees; but where
are curious old homes, and always bawl
ing mOorland stream turning the gray,
huge wheel of some trembling old mill.
Here, miles perhaps from their "paird-
ner" work below grass in the mines on
the moors, like swarthy "Coden (cOusin)
Jack" with scores of cotter labOrers upon
the farms. Wherever these village cot
tageS are their walls of everlasting stone,
in brilliant Cornish creepers
and roses, with cement floors and
matched roofs subject TO interminable
repairs from onslaughts of scores of busy
SparrowS, tiny miners themselves end
lessly sinking shafts and drilling 'cross-
cuts and levels in the soft and yield
ing straw There is one room below
sometimes two; and a half-stOry garnet
beneath the thatch. There is only a
front door. A window is at either side of
this, and sometimes direct above these,
tiny panes to light the garnet. Each
cottage is provided at the end or back
with an open fireplace in the center; a
sort of range at one side, covered with
cndlessly polishing with growder; while
at the other side is the 'ungconer" with
''heps", or upper and under doors for
storing faggOts or furze for fuel.
The furniture, though scant, is honest
and useful. At the fireplace are the
''brandes," triangular iron on legs, on
which, over the Goals, the kettles
boil, the circular cast iron 'baker'
is set, and the fish or meat |
when they can be luckily had, are
''scrowled" or grilled. There are perhaps
four chairs, singularly enough with solid
frames, but the seats are of
painted pine and are waXed weekly !
These are for "best," and all the best.
For everyday use one or two firms or
rude benches are provided. The single
table is of pine, an implanted side for
daily use and scrubbed daily, and a
painted side for Sunday The table ware |
is something startling in cheap goods, for
the gypsy hawkers frequent Cornwall, |
and each member of the family is pro-
vided with real ''chany'' cup and saucer
with a gorgeous gilt band.
For his class the Cornish villager is a
liver. The young folk have an
unusual fund of games distinctive Of
Cornwall; marriages provide eXtraordi-
nary festivals; the dead are watched"
from decease to burial and funerals pro-
vide subdued diversions with heroic
feasts; leaping, wrestling, running
cricket and putting the stone, are the
amusements of youths and men,
Il, ,-birb thew pvcel. and their co1rntless