Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-08-11
NO-WOMAN'S LAND.
A Place Where Wall Goes Up from
Wireless Men for Partners of
Their Joys and Sorrows.
Wives are wanted in Rhodesia, says
theJohannesburg South Africa) Stand

Wives ara wanted in Rhodesia, says
theJohannesburg South AfricO) Stand
ard.
Then-unutterab woe!-there Is a
No-woman's-Landa as well rs No-Man's-
Land. Situate, too, in Afric's weird
wastes where there Is desolation and
dreariness enough, land knows, without
the otherwhereness of womankind to
complete the awful isolation.
"Wives are wanted in Rhodesia." y
gurgling. vine-muffled fountain is want
ed in the oasisless desert; warmth is
wanted in the Arctics frigid wllds; a
draught Of cool water is wanted by the
thirsting, sun-parched, sea-tortured
castaways; rain is wanted in blistering
Kansas; a cool wave is wanted In the
torrid tropics; youth Is wanted by age;
wealth and fame are wanted Ivy youth;
perpetual motion is wanted by the de-
spairing inventor; the golden secret is
wanted by the alchemist; love is want
ed by the lonely; Christian charity is
wanted by the erring; eternal life Is
wanted by all who walk the earth.
There is lack of woman's nursing,
there is dearth of woman's tears in
Rhodesia. Single nails are SUBSTITUTE
ing for buttons in South Africa. No
mother sings at twiight's fall song
of the hill far sweeter than all. Porous
plasters must serve instead Of patches
in Rhodesia. The sound of children
playing In the streets is q sweet jargon
never heard in that wifeless realm, and
no faithful hand strives to make pump
kin pies the way his mother did. Be
lated men go uncatechised to their
cots In the early morn and the soft
sibilancy Of a woman's speech and the
silken swish of a woman's robe never
soothe the ear in Rhodesia. The graces
and gentilites of life are departed and
the flowers are dying out Of the human
heart because womankind comes not to
that remote and forlorn region, "new
hopes TO raise, new joys impart and
pour rich balsam on the heart"
"Wives are wanted in Rhodesin." 1t
is voice crying out of wilderness
of masculinity. Fair forms are needed
to bend low over cradles and lull little
rolly-pooly Rhodesians to forgetfulness
with Shadowland songs. Wives are
wanted to take commissions as high
priestesses of the homes, to conserve the
good and true, to bring sweetness and
;ignt into the dark continent, to apply
soft, cool hands to aching brows, to fur
nish sympathy and counsel, to remem-
Der the birthdays and the proverbs, to
take flowers and tears to gravesides,
to do all, to be all, to suffer all. to fear
all, to sacrifice all, to hope all that
wife is expected to be and do and suffer
and fear and sacrifice and hope In Rho"
desia-and elsewhere.
Wanted at Once-Wives in Rhodesia-
Demand for Fat Lambs.
Prof. Henry says, In Feeds and
Feeding" the demand for well-fattened
lambs steadily increases, the tender,
juicy meat finding favor among Amer
leans. Not only do prices for fat lambs
rule high as compared with mature
sheep and farm animals generally, but
there are other advantages in favor of
feeding of lambs before they reach ma
turity. A given weight of feed goes
further with the lambs than mature
sheep; the money invested Is sooner
returned, and there is less risk from
death and accident. Thus, everything
tends towards hurrying lambs to mar
ket as rapidly as they can be fattened
and as early as they can be disposed Of
to secure the highest price.