The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-23
THE FARMER: FEBRUARY 8, 1909

ter even when it is almost at the
 freezing point, and'2 for frolic they 1 Will rush out of the water and dash
 Into a snow drift to get warm and I then go back again. Most of their lives 1 IS spent hunting on moving cakes of 1 !ce' ana they are very expert in jurAp- | Ing rom one cake to another. pr. 1 Cross said that cold doesn't keen them l from church. Some one asked him now cold it is, and he replied that on l the shore where the water teml>ers l the atmosphere, it is but 50 degrees l below zero in the winter, and thirty 1 lnlles ln 1t will be 70 degrees below. Tn 1 the summer it sometimes gets to be l as warm as 70 above zero in the shade although there are no trees in the l lana. There is curious custom among them of providing childless families with children. Old folks n.sed some one to take cars of them, wk ken they get too old to hunt, and So ix a man ana wife are childless relative or neighbor will give them one of their children. This is not the res:1It or lack Of parental affection, but is
 TOT the sake of helping out the old
 ioiks. There are no old age pensions
 in that delectable land, nor poor houses or hospitals.
 The canoes used by the natives are
 made out of drift wood, lashed to-
 gether with strands of deer skin, and
 covered with walrus hide. The skel-
 eton of canoe 40 feet long was shown,
 the whole of which had been built
 without nail or a bolt or pin. and
 was entirely made of wood collected
 from the sea, as there is none in she
 country. With these boats they go
 to Siberia or to Nome in Alaska, and
 trade, exchanging walrus hides, furs
 and other things for such articles as
 they need. A walrus hunt is descr!b-
 O 1sk
 run and adventure, and the hope was
 expressed that if President really
 wants enjoyment after he has got
 done killing lions and tigers in Africa
 he should go to the land of the Eski- mo. and hunt walruses.
 Herds Of reindeers were thrown upon
 the screen. MT. Cross did not think
 much of them as beasts of burden. kut he said that when it came to the pelt and the meat he is there. He alluded to the fact that Santa Claus is sup posed to drive reindeers, but he said this is mistake for he really drives elks over the tops of houses as seen in
 the picture books. The reindeer makes a man think of too many bad things to say. It is a small animal, and not easily managed.
 One has to be very careful and not trif1e with the cold. The checks the chin, and the sides of the nose are ire dNSAAI1y lIoASll dIlu IlOrG than once. Dr. Cross thought he could feel two or three of his toes rattling in his bOots He never knew the end of ones nose to freeze. It usually takes all summer to heal up the freezings one gets in the winter. One has to feel all over his face to discover if 1t is frozen. Much more of the same i'm 1 port was said, and when the lights l had been turned on, Dr. Cross put on l an Eskimo costume such as he wore l when in that land. It was regarded 1 With great curiosity by the children. Tn 1 the audience were noticed Judge John H. Perry, Rev. Dr. Lounsbury, MT. l Churchouse. Mrs. Wyrtzen and her two boys, Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Bene- dict, Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Wakeman, Talmadge Wakeman, Mrs. Banks Mrs. l Seymour, Clara Wakeman, Miss Annie i Burdett. MT. John Wood, Miss Bla- ney, Samuel Wakeman, Mrs. Lacey, Jelliffe, Bud Sherwood, Jack Work, Charles Short MT. Hawkins, Miss Haw- kins, Eddie Smith, Miss Callahan, Mrs. Walter Perry, Patrick Collins, Katie | Dunsmore, Elsie Ostroskie, Antonah1 Newton and Charles Haw- klns, Lawrence Miller, Joseph Mills, Margaret Kepleskie, Emma Miller, Fred Won Holtz, Eva Hungerford, Maud Reilly, Amelia Prutz, Mary Wayland, Sophie Ostroskie, Esther Nelson, Ralph Lane,s Dora Won Holtz' and many others.
 The ladies of the Fairfield Congrega- tional church will give azColonial sup-a per in the parlors of the church next Thursday at 6 p. m. The public is cordially invited. @
 Miss Emma F. Wakeman returned from Middletown last night z l
 Next Thursday is the married mans night at the Greenfield Country Club
 Yesterday at 2 D. m., MT. John Mo-, Garry ran over the Y. M. CA course, i've and one half miles in thirty-three minutes and fifty-four seconds. He came in five minutes ahead of a gen. ileman who followed on a bicycle. Con- sidering the state of the roads in the this was an excellent perfor- nance.
 Mrs. Dr. Donaldson and her daugh- ters were expected home last evening from West Point, N. Y.
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