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

carved and ornamented, and with
passages, hooks. inches, cupboards and
presses, bewildering in arrangements
and number.
Each stone farmhouse and cotter's
village home stands In lis own orchard
brilliant with sprays of pink and white.
or with balls OF russell aud gold, accord
ing to the season. Chaiiinches and robins
are among the MOSES in all these
orchards, blackbirds and thrushes every.
where in the thick garden strawberries
and in the tangled coppices and hedge
rows. The stage-coaches are here lust
as of old. So are the carrier. the carter,
the thatcher, the tiler, the drainer. the
ploughman, the shepherd the common
field laborer. and even the poachcr: all
as needless Of reform as Cuban guaiiros,
and ali with kindly faces aud speech
betokening sturdy pride in their vaca.
tions which were the toll Of their fathers
before them, There is no elbowing, no
iostling no marrying or hurrying. Every
body saunters, dozes or labors as
though content never paid penalty to
want. An atmosphere Of uncoustraincd
amplitude broods over ALL Hundreds
OF the olden English villages are surely
here in a region that knows no change.
Unless one has really wandered in
fock.buttrcssed old Cornwall 1t is hard
to believe that outside the picturesque
coastwise fishing hamlets there Is such a
thing as characteristic village life. To
the casual observer from the railway
train. the whole face Of the land seems
torn and SCARED rs II by Tremendous
elemental struggles. a myriad kissing
fragments OF exploded planets, hurled
In awful upper rain upon is face could
have left no more unsightly hurts. But
il is full Of enhancing hidden hooks,
where, sloping from ragged moorlands
are beautgous little valleys with ample
FARMS lesscning into timer checkers Of
hedge and and lane .broidcred fields and
these into messy old ham'ets. where the
white Wesleyan chapel and the Norman.
lowered parish church, are the only two
structures showing through a wealth Of
trees. but where are curious old homes,
and always a bawling moorland stream
turning the gray, huge wheel OF some
trembling old mill.
Here. miles perhaps from their
"pairdner" work below grass in the
mines ON the moor, live swarthy
"Coden Cousin Jack with scores Of
coiter lahorers upon the farms. Where
ever these village cottages are their
walls are Of everlasting stone, embow.
cred In brilliant Cornish crecpers and
roses, with cement iloors, and matched
roofs subject to intcrminable repairs
from onslaughts OF scores OF busy spar.
rows tiny miners themselves, cndlessly
sinking shafts and drilling 'ctoss.cuts"
and ''lcvels' in the soft and yielding
straw There is one room below; some
times two; aud half story garnet
beneath the thatlr. There Is only
front door. A window Is at either side
OF this, aud sometimes directly above
these, tney panes TO light the garrett.
Each cottage Is provided at the end or
back with an open fire place IN the
center, sort OF range at one side,
covered with brass ornaments which the
housewife is endlcssly polishing with
growder; while at the other side is the
"ungconer" with "heps' or upper and
under doors, for storing laggots or furze
for fuel.
The furniture though scani is honest
and useful At the tire place are the
"brandcs, a 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 "scfowlcd" or grilled.
There are perhaps four chairs, singularly
enough with solid mahogany frames,
but the seats are OF painted pine and