The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-26

but they are necessary evil and we
could not get along without them, Per-
haps YOU would like 10 know how we
live and what we eat. These mornings
we are supposed to get up at five o'clock,
at six we have chhoti hazri little break
fast), which consists of bread, butter and
tea. Our work begins at seven and we
all try to be through at twelve, when we
have breakfast. After that we take a rest,
which is an absolute necessity in this land
in the middle of the day. In few days
we will have to sleep under the "punkha,"
large fan arrangement suspended from
the ceiling and manipulated with string
by a coolie on the outside. After our rest
we have bath and then tea. The rest of
day has no special work but there are al
ways enough "extrss" to keep us busy.
Most of the time there are women sitting
around waiting for medicine. We don't
pretend to do much along that line as
none of us have any knowledge OF medi-
cine, but YOU would be surprised at the
amount of qunine, cslomel, salts aud
castor oil we give out. They come with
all sorts of aches and pains and we
haven't the least idea what their trouble
Is but give them little salts or something
and we effect the most wonderful cures
sometimes. We haye dinner from eight
to nine and then go to bed when 1t cools
off enough You may think this pro-
gram wouldn't be very hard to carry out,
aud it wouldn't ordinarily if one kept
we'll all the time, but the heat makes one
so listless and we have more or less fever
and it Just takes the life out of one. These
days when one is out at eleven o'clock the
heat is like blast from furnace.
We have all kinds of creeping animals.
Tho lizards live in our bedrooms but we
don't mind them, as they catch the mos
quitoes, of which there are so many.
Then we've fleas, bedbugs, and sandflies.
I'm nearly eaten up most of the time with
one thing or the other. The peoples
heads here are alive too, but I've only
once gotten them on mine. / don't know
why we escape; most OF the missionaries
do. We have such time with our food,
especially flour. It's almost impossible
to keep it without its getting wormy. Our
cook isn't very careful and we often have
to pick little worms out of our breakfast
food, and they don't increase our appe-
tites any. We have buffalo's milk and
goats meat most of the time; sometimes
we have mutton. We rarely have good
butter; think l get more hungry for
some of mothers good butter than any
thing else. We have potatoes and most
of the vegetables that we do at home and
great variety of fruit. though most OF 1t
is of an inferior quality. The seasons are
too short here for most things to come to
perfection. We're having tomatoes that
are ripening almost as soon as the bios
som is off; they do better in the winter
season than during TIE heat. We eat
great deal of rice. Pm very fond of all
the native food, especially the bread. It's
made of the whole wheat flour, mixed
with water. rolled thin and baked on
griddle. The natives have very primi-
tive methods of doing things. They cut
all of their grain with sickle. The
wheat harvest was all over last month.
Now they will scratch the ground little
with wooden pillow and put another crop
in. The land that can be cultivated is
never idle, but there is great deal that
is no good at all because of the lack OF
water. If India had a good rainfall she
would be one of the finest lands in the
world.
Things are more quiet these days.
They've arrested lot of the ringleaders
in the riots and deported the worst ones
to some island.
Next week Miss Kate Corbett, of Bax-
ter, Jefferson county, expects to arrive
in India. She called at home last sum-
mer when she was passing through But
Ter and Is bringing some things for me
which will be glad to get, as they were
my Christmas presents. She expected TO
come last fall but her mother took very
i'll and has since died.
Pathankot, Punjab, India, May Is.