Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-11-09
BABY PEARY AND NURSE BILL.

BABY PEARY AND NURSE BILL.
grees and 40 minutes north, and it was
there the baby was born, as aforesaid.
At that time the weather was still quite
mild and the days some Is hours long,
but they shortened rapidly, and winter
came. as it does in the far north, with
amazing suddenness. l.-s 60 ~
For 1l2 days the sun never appeared
above the horizon, and the temperature
ranged from 90 to 40 below zero and
occasionally much lower, but there
! was the usual supply Of moonlight, and
IL. was indescri badly brilliant, for Of all.
the beauties Of nature none is more dag
zlingly beautiful than the night sky Of
tho far north. The natives winter in
ice huts, but the Pearys had a good
sized double house, which the lieuten-
ant took with him, all prepared to set
up, and their oil fuel made it comfort
ably warm throughout Besides nursing
the baby partook freely Of condensed
milk and other infant food and soon
developed. such an appetite that she
took heavier food and at months ate
Just what the rest did. At 10 months
she weighed % pounds. ,.a,r%s
1.-THE Eskimo" says Mrs. Peary,
''do not make particularly good serv-
ants. Bill, the little native nurse I
brought, is rather more intelligent than
the average and Is very fond Of baby,
q sentiment that Marie fully reoipro.
Gates. I did not intend to bring her with
me, but she begged SO hard to come, and
her father was so anxious to have her
do 80, that consented She is the first
Eskimo from that part of Greenland to
journey south, and when she returns
next fall with baby and me she will be
great heroine. didn't want to come
back at all, on account Of leaving my
husband, but DR.. Vincent was return
ing, and was afraid to stay with baby
and no physician during the teething
time OF course the life there was very
monotonous, but was too busy caring
for my small family to have much time
to indulge Inconsistencies had my pic
lures and books and read a great deal
in the long winter evenings .~.
1--WE have in Greenland q summer of
nearly four months, during which the
temperature is sometimes as high as 60
degrees and the vegetation is very
luxuriant. The grass grows often foot
high over tho old 'igloos,' or huts. and
is plentifully sprinkled with bright yell
low poppies, polentillas, bluebells and
rhododendrops. but there are no trees
worthy the name. During the mild sea-
son the skies and waters are beautifully
blue, and the air is wonderfully soft and
clear. -H f4ailss
II dressed there outwardly exactly
rs do here or course had to wear
very heavy underclothing, and in win
ter deerskin stockings, with the fur
turned in, reaching above the knee, and
sealskin boots. The latter were rather
clumsy, but Very warm and comforta-
BILE When I went sledging, / wore q
long fur coat, which enveloped me from
head to foot" ~ 80 A. sS@.. .s 5s,
s@ The Peary party was very well sup
piled with canned vegetables Of many
kinds, and the hunters brought in album
dance Of deer meet. The cooking and
heating were, done with oil. There was
none Of that trouble of keeping things
which is ever on the minds Of house
keepers in warmer lands, and Vegetables
went direct from the can and fresh
meat from its frozen state into the hot
water But, for all that, life in the arc
It'd regions is hard and nature, to pre-
serve q human race there, is obliged to
deaden its nervous sensib ;lities and load
itWith fat. Mrs. Peary and little Marie
,Ahmigito will try it again, however.