Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-25

one Is struck, not so much by her energy
and endurance, as by the fearless way In
which she trusted herself to the guidance
of half-savage people, selfish, brutal, false,
or at the least, ignorant or dull, with
whom, one might reasonably suppose her
loneliness of such life one would think
would be intolerable to woman. Yet
she always won her way safely through,
and seems to have kept her cheerfulness,
her humor and sweet temper unimpaired.
1t may be true that to the genuine globe
trotter peril Is pleasure and discomfort de-
lightful, while an unexplored nook Of this
planet partakes of the nature of paradise.
There Is a magic potency In snowy plat
eaus and savage mountains, In glaciers and
even in deserts, that lures and draws them
away from the hum drum life of civiliza-
ton. So let 1t be, for they add to the
knowledge, geographic and scientific, OF
the stay -at-home, chimney-corner people,
and broaden their mental outlook.
Mrs. Bishops varied journeys have
brought her to this conclusion, that the
power for doing the greatest good to be-
nighted fellow beings In heather lands lies
in the hands of the medical missionary.
His work she believes to be "the" mission
ary work of the age, and she has frequent
ly spoken in public upon this subject with
much eloquence and power, notably at the
meetings uf the Edinburgh Medical Mis-
sionary society.
THE KITCHEN MAIDS COMPANION.
This title does not refer, as might be
supposed, to visiting ''cousins" of the op-
posits sex, but to scrap-book compiled
by the mistress, which ehall be "for re-
proof, for correction, for instruction" in
common things.
Many servants are appallingly In need Of
such instruction. They are not 80 careless
as they are ignorant, and not SO malicious
as they are careless. They pour water on
cracked lids; they throw burning matches
into the chip basket, and carry lamp
when searching for the place from whence
gas Is escaping.
A lady once warned her NEW broom"
of her objections to the practice of light
ing the kitchen Ere with the morning
paper or the latest msgazlne. "Indsde,
men," she replied, oomplacently, 'Tll
niver do that while the kerosane cans
handy"
The remedy, as proposed by an expert
enced housewife for such propensities on
the part of the kitchen-maid, is to prepare
cheerful exterior, and a "skeerful" in
terror. 1t may have some pleasing tales
of fiction In it-''how Lady Amelia said
this and how our Lord Augustus said
that" and some sentimental poetry. There
may also be few amusing pictures and
anecdotes, fashion plates, and directions
GLOW to be Beautiful" )" but first and last
and in between, horrors, always hor-
rors. Cut out all the dreadful
household accidents from the newspapers,
and all the illustrations possible, otherwise,
if your maid be not reader she will not
learn the important lesson you wish to
teach. There are stories of the kerosene
can and of fat in the fire; of upset lamps
and bursting stoves; of houses, or aprons,
in blaze; of falls caused by leaving things
on the stairs, and a thousand other things,
horrible and bloodcurdling. Your object
being to scare your help into thoughtful
and careful habits, and saving good deal
of scolding and fretting, you will be sup
ported in the dismal task of making such
a scrap-book, and she for whom you have
thus lsbored will rise from Its perussl q
sadder and wiser girl. HILARY.