The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-25

preserved soups and cooked now for all
the people in the house, put all our meat
balls and broken biscuits into the same
pot, and gave now from this dish q
PlateIul to every person in the house.
mad also put some "Lieblg' IN my
pox, before left my home, and was
now able to make the best use of it. 1t
was something touching to see the many
hungry children, how they devoured
their portion. Anything like that they
have perhaps never tasted before, and
would gladly have taken some more, but
it was already Zone. In the afternoon
my dear husband kept school for the
| children, told nice stories and instructed
them about different things, and the
| children would nave gone on for long
time. The smell in the house was not
SO very pleasant, 10 persons in one room,
beside this the men smoked their Pipes
nearly the whole, time. The children
were crying and would not obey their
parents, and the parents are SO very weak
in this way.
In the evening gave once more what
possibly could spare. and for the next
morning too. But we did really hunger,
The Lord heard our prayers that we
were able to go on the next morning to
the next place, but because of the deep
snow we could only move on very slowly.
First after IL hours travelling we came
in the evening to our next station. We
did hunger more in these three days than
we have done our whole lives. The next
place was nice and clean house, where
we restored ourselves again.
In one place we visited an Eskimo .
When we entered the room, what did we
see? A sal living in the midst of their
room. The people had heard of our COM
ing and thus put the monster in the
room to thaw it up to feed our dogs with.
The animal was soon taken away. The
house was clean. but small. In this
place we had to sleep on the floor, and
we used our blankets to make couch
as well as we could. A sailcloth was
used as a curtain, SO that we had some
thing like separated place for us. Our
two drivers were also, in the same room,
and they cared for music during the
night, for they
snored Like Saw Mill.
and when they woke up they smoked
their pipes and gave the air in the room
such an odor, which I shall not try to
describe. Nevertheless, for all that, we
were happy together, and I did not
repent one minute to have accompanied
my dear good husband, in order to be a
faithful partner to him. We remembered
also 1T was not pleasant, bu5 mission
trip we made, where we may expect
many things like that. What is that
little we can do for our Lord and Saw
Jour? 1t is like a drop of water in the
bottomless sea of his love. If our jour
ney has but been blessing to some, and
if here and there one corn of gospel s
seed may grow up we are more than
paid for.
We had four nice places where the good
people did all they could to make it
comfortable for us. Everywhere they
were very thankful for my coming, and
expressed their gratitude in many ways.
At Easter time we had more visitors
than usual and they seemed to be more
happy than else.
Will you kindly excuse this short de-
scription, dear madam; it would take
me too long time to describe the whole
journey. used some of your kind gifts
for the people whom we visited, and I
hope syou will, dear madam, and the
kind ladies who contributed to your
large and rich sending accept our and
the peoples warmest and best thanks.
With kindest regards from my dear
husband and me, am, dear madam,
believe me,
your affectionately
ANNIE HANSEN.