Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-29

arc waxcd weekly. These are for best"
and all the best. For everyday use
one or two firms" OF rude benches arc
provided. The single table is OF pine.
and 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 Gipsy
hawkefs frequent Cornwall. and each
member Of the family is provided with
real "chany' cup and saucer with a
gorgeous gilt band.
For his class the Cornish villagcr Is a
generous liver. The young folk have
an unusual fund OF games distinctive of
Cornwall; marriages provide extraordin-
airy festivals, the dead are watched"
from deccasc to burial and funerals pro.
vide subducd diversions with heroic
ieas,s; leaping, wrestling, running,
cricket and putting the stone, are tile
principal amusemcnts Of youths and
men, IN which they excel: and their
countless endeared hohgoblns and
''buccaboos," which Wesley aud White
field along with the railways and tele.
graph were never able to "lay," draw
these sturdy Cornish villagers g..
together around the flashing village
smi,hy forge, the Cornishman's chief
place Of evening resort, or within the
homc-glow Of their blazing inglc hooks.
during the long winter nights when the
| cruel logs pound in over the moufs from
the secthiug Channel or the tcmpests
howl across the dreary, shuddenng
moofs.
Practically all English village folk are
labOrers, whether operatives, shepherds.
wagoners, thatchcrs, dFainers, or com.
mon field laborers, Just as they have
been for hundreds Of years There may
be a publican or innkceper, a shop.
keeper who is postmaster or postmis-
tress, carpenter, who Is often painter
undertaken, yergur and gravcdigger In
one, baker, tailor. a blacksmith and
a poachcf, for the latter IS in every ham
let in Britain, all great oracles IN their
way. But three families of quality, and
frequently not that many, are known
those Of the lord Of the manor or th,
Squire, the rector or the curatc and IN,
schooimaster, for the doctor Is AWAY,
summoned from near city or town.
English village life is therefore found
TO lie within a wonderfully close horizon
have been much with these folk in
their labor, their diversions and ,hcii
homes. Amer looking at them long and
earnestly with my own eyes, | have tried
to get, as nearly as possible, into thcil
personal environment and then look oul
Of the windows Of their minds and theil
habitations upon the everyday worlt
about them. In this way good dea
that is not hopeless and much that /,
gratifying can be discerned. II Is Ger
tainly true that an infinitely higher
standard of life aud living Is enjoyed
than in the good old days" whose
departure the wise writers SO bitterly
deplore.
Universal education has certainly
caused universal discomfort. But do
not think,t carries from youth to old age
BY the time these folk are twenty OF
twenty-five years Of age the iermenta.
ton period is passed. Some 20 away to
the cities, as with Us. or to America OF
Australia; but those who remain, are
better labores, villagers and citizens.
The English peasant clod has thus
almost entirely disappeared You will
not see very much knte.crooking, head.
ducking and TUT pulling 60 suprriors.
while there is no less genuine kind heart.
cdncss aud respect Smock.irocks and
corduroys and gu1zlings. Bat these
villagers are less gross. They are OF
better stuU. They have more whole
some food TO eat, aud great variety.
They know something about hygiene.
They insist on good drainage, In