The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-06

ter All three points true but in CDR Grenfel's
Parsh Norman Duncan shows the life Of the people,
English descended-who live love, suffer and die in
STERILE inhospable land earning such livelihood they
from the sea, which is like wicked ogre of the fairy
tales, crouched for spring. eager to claim many
victims possible at swoop. Every is fisher
and every boy baby begins to learn to be fisherman
when he is five years old At his work days begin
and he out in the boat to do his share of the lighter
work Nobody FARMS because there ground to farm
The land waste of rock secured clean for miles in
land. If anyone becomes ambitious garden he
must hunt far and wide for the handsfu Of earth that
lodge here and there in the crevce and bring home by
the bucketfu to make the little mound of earth which
they proudly call "garden.''
Think what child life must be in land like that.
There PETS horses, cows sheep, pigs,
animals but the half dogs that draw the sedges
in winter-a that lasts from September June
with average temperature of 80 degrees below
There schools, there is church, there is
store around the corner for unwilling childish feet
go mothers errands. There real dolls,
for the little girls stick of wood is the best that they
can do and even if real doll does find it's way to the
to be played with and it is put up ornament Yet
they love them dearly and stated proudly that
little girl had kissed the paint all off her dolly because
she loved it so.
And even tho they had more playthinf:s, there is
ptfully short time in which these could be enjoyed.
When boys working fishermen at seven, and little
girls small that they have to stand tub to reach
the table, expected to take their share Of cleaning
the fish night they all quickly out of their play
days.
There are no apples no nuts no fruit of any kind no
candy not popcorn. If has barrel of -four
and little butter, bacon etc. laid in when
the long winter begins in September he considers the
family larder well supplied Potatoes even, luxury
And yet bleak barren, cruel this northern land is
its people love it and have idea of any land that is
FERTILE any climate that is temperate
any life that is easier than theirs Of fishing off the
worst coast in the word' AS Mr. Duncan expresses it.
emo man knows-no really knows-that else
where the earth is kinder her children and farer far
than the windswep barren coast to which he is used
They live content They born there's that is where
they from that is why they live there. -
Dr. GrenfeH is English physician and surgeon who
heard thirteen ago of the great need of these
people of the Labrador for medical attendance and op
portunites to learn to help themselves So he packed
up and VENT Mr.. Duncan describes him upon his first
meeting "a robust hearty Saxon strong ndefatiga-
be devoted, jolly: doctor, parson by times, some
thing of sportsman when occasion permits, master
mariner magistrate the director of certain commercial
enterprises designed to help the folk help themselves
the prophet and champion of peoples and very
much in love with life.''
The doctor has t'round'' Of three thousand miles
In the open from June to September he
goes by boat In the long stretch of winter from Sep
TENDER June again. he makes his calls by dog team
snowshoes.
In the short he is edge to get hither and
yon to his patients quickly possible in order to dc
work in the time than he can possibly hops
to in the winter He drives his boat fast she