Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-09-21
REAL WONDERLAND.
DR.. TALMAGE'S ENTHUSIASTIC AO-
MlRATlON OF NEW ZEALAND.

6ood womanhood. Grand Mountains, Beau
tifuI Flowers and Birds-The Tragedy OF
..The Terraces"-A Country Full Of Food
For Artists and Scientists.
rCopyright. Louis Klopsch, lS9Ll
CHRlsTcHURcH, New Zealand, July
3i.-Excellent and superb as are the
women of New Zealand more good
women are needed here. In most places
where I have lived or Travelled women
are in blessed majority and it seems
that the Lord likes them better than
men, because he has made more Of them.
There is in nest places a surplus OF
good womanhood, and thE thertf6f3 30
not get full appreciates. But New
Zealand is an exception. In this colony
there are 80, 600 less women than men.
This will by circumstances be adjusted.
There ought certainly to be as many
women as men in every land, for every
man is entitled to a good wife, and
every woman is entitled to q good hus-
band. The difficulty Is that war and
rum kill so many men that the man IN
tended for the woman's lifetime part
nership is apt to lie IN the soldier
crave trench or in the drunkard's ditch.
In the paradisaical and perfect state
the womanhood equaled the manhood,
for there was ono Of each kind. The
women in New Zealand have already
done well, for while in the United
States and Europe the women are dis
cussing in parlors and On the platform;
how they shall get their rights at the
ballot box that castle has already beer
stormed and taken by the women here.
After awhile the brave sisterhoods IL
the United States and Great Britain
will band together, and from the crowd
ed parlors where so many languish Il
inanition and inoccupation they will
make a crusade to these parts OF the
earth. where their presence would be
hailed and their opportunities aug
mented
The theory that mon must 90 into ne"
countries alone and establish themselves
in mines, in mechanism or merchandise
and then send fur their families to JOIN
them is an overdone theory The wives
and daughters and sisters had better
come along with their husbands IA
theirs and brothers. Instead OF their belne
asurplus Of men in the colonies, there
ought to be a surplus OF women out Of
which to get the supply OF maiden aun''
those guardian angels Of the .commu
nity who are at home in the whole cir
Gle of kindred, the coafdant OF the
young, and the comfort OF the old, am
the benediction Of all.
Not only is there room III New Zea
land for more good womanhood, bu
there is room for more artists and natu
ralists.
Here are mountains 5000, 10, OOO
1000, $4,000 feet high waiting To-
some one to take their photographs, ant
while most Of the mountains OF th'
earth stand stolid and statuesque anC
without varieties Of posture some o
these change their shape and altitude
under volcanic suggestion, as the maj
in the Photographic gallery at the artist
| suggestion changes from side face u
| full face or from frown to smile, an'
one day mountain turns clear round
or from standing posture sits dow
with heavy plunge, or a creylce open
between the cheeks of the hill-a Wild
open mouth, full of laughter or threat
| The changes in the mountain range
are enough to set q geologist VIII
with interest or send him runnlni
ND and down these attitudes with crow
bar to dig, or hammer to strike, or tape
line TO measure On q night IN June
1885. the mountains Of Tarawera ant
Rotomahana New Zealand, had gram
frolic. For many years tourists had gon
to visit the terraces, as they wer
called-ancient forms Of volcanic erup
ton.
There were stairs Of pictured stones
step above step of pumice and lava
reaching from earth toward heaven, bu
some Of the steps OF the stairs 0o an
100 feet high-not so much a Jacob
ladder as an omnipotent stairway, u
and down which walked all the splen
dors and majesties and grandeurs an
radiances Of day and night and sunshin
and tempest, of summer and winter, c
decades and centuries and ages Thes
steps seemed to be made out OF pearls
prisms, petrified hyacinth, lily and VIC
let and all laid out as with dlyln
geometry. Such curve, such bosses
exquisiteness, such ascents and descent'
bewildering with almost supernaturi
elories. Masonry smoothed by invisibl
trowels, walls regulated by invlsiol
plumb lines, colors put ON by inyisiol
pencils. sculpture cut by invisible CHI
els. On the night Of June 0, 1885, ii
) moon was passing into the second qua
, ter when, 10 minutes after O'Clock, Il
earth shook and mountains erupteC
Standing 10, 10, IA miles off the peop
3 felt the shock and saw the ascent OF Il
steam column and the redhot rocks an
the volcanic ash and scoria, and Il
smoke, looking like avast pine tree, a
cording to the statements Of the poeu