New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-07
SOME WAYS OF THE WORLD
SENTATIVE MERITS OF AMERICAN AND
ENGLISH GOLFERS.
nHu LONELY LIVES ONCE LED BY WOMEN On
Nrv-v,NoIAND FARMs-A CURIOUS MIS-

THE LONELY LIVES ONCb brD D'
xrw-ENo1AND FARMs-A CURIOUS MIS-
rAKp AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
vet. n,easant news 70 hear from the other SIDE
mat two American women have carried OH uio
l~o,nnr honors at Continental resort much aheo'-
ed by English people 1t appears TO De taken io'
granted even In America, that Engllsh "oiiie"
excel in the game. Those who have faith' however
In American ability would like very mueh 10 see
Ith. matter fairly tested and It seems great pity
that some international contest cannon DC ar
ranged That Continental links VITA ua'ei.'"s
J,nglish and American players. do not anoru such "
,est is obvious Still. that the two scratch WON
a, nlayers at a well-known golhng resort shouiu
,rova 10 be- Americans is certainly a straw ana
~ seems tust possible that the supremacy OF our
! fair cousins across seas may be exaggerated
.rrhere is one reason why English players give
Nh. impression Of making better scores than Ameri-
can women" said a recently returned gofer ana
.,.t Go because on the ground set apart for women
i,bs holes are shorter-they never play on the men
links And some of the distances STRUCK me %
Ibeing ridiculously short whereas the iei'ii'ie
irolfer in America invariably chooses tne iohses.
lend hardest course and is indignant II restricted
no what are known as the ladies links while even
In the latter the distance between the hoies Is
Longer than in England"
PRAYERS OF CHILDHOOD
II has often been remarked that habits ACQUIRED
m childhood are apt TO remain throughout our
lives and II Is curious to notice how Is sometimes
the simplest things that remain tho longest ana
ARE the hardest to change. Prayers lot instance
taught in earliest years especially cnging ana
old people frequently repeat the oaoyish 'or"u'"
tahat they learned at their mothers knee
Every one laughed not long at luncheon
,when an Amazonan young woman said "hy'
always repeat even now. God bless papa ana
mamma and make good little girl
AS has already been said. such instances are
old
Iyanced years who is prominent in public lfe SAID
IN speaking Of this tendency to retain childish I'M
,pressions that he had never ceased saying every
might before he slept the simple verse OF
Now lay me. down to sleep
pray the Lord my soul 10 keep. etc
while another grave and reverend man VINO was
snresent admitted that he had never dropped the
name of his old nurse Many from his even
Ing petiton. although she had been dead for
bong time. and he himself had not seen her for
6orty years.
GLOW curious II is to think what varied lives are
lived over our extent of territory by its IN
aabitants especially the women remarked trans
Iolanted 'Vermontese" whose New-York existence
rs full 10 the brim with useful occupations and
warm human interests when l think o. my
childhood and the LIE my aunt (by whom was
raised they say down EasO lived year IN
and year out on Vermont farm. she seems like
"a dream woman and feel that she missed the
greater part of what makes life worth living
such an existence!' she continued. with little
shudder and yet my aunt. who under other cir
cumstances would have been a most superior
woman did not seem TO repine We were practically
without books and save Sundays. when she
Invariably went to church. or at rare intervals
twhen she attended a neighboring tea drink do
not think she ever went out during the long bleak
winter except perhaps 10 throw a shawl over her
head and go 10 the chicken-hOuse, which was con-
Inected with the main buildings by woodshed She
Kept one girl, who easily accomplished the simple
work and. although my aunt was a notable house
Keeper and especial occasions would conCoct
the delicious pies and cakes, she rarely inter
lsered with Marietta. our girl who cooked and
swept and busted the somewhat bare and scantily
Furnished New-Ensland rooms until they sncne
with cleanliness
'In fact / cannot think OF anything that my aunt
really did QOr the village dressmaker regularly
spent fortnight with US spring ana fall ana fitted
us out for the season. except 10 attend 10 her
every southern window with a mass OF bloom
The better class OF farmers wives IN Northern
New-England famous window gardeners; flow
ers the only bit of outside sweetness and light
that brghtens their barren existence poor things.
My aunt exceed Tic entire nelghbOrhood In having
beautiful plants. and TO give slips or receive
specimen that SIZE might nurse INTO "A plant was
her one excitement.
s'Oh the loneliness OF those lives on
the rugged New England farms No wonder the
statistics show that large percentage Of the In
mates OF insane asylums are the wives OF small
leisure-but such leisure Which Of would
envy Il! Better far better. ten years OF New
York than thirty years on a New-Engand farm