Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-02-09

and hope M clJthss will be on
them.
Grapes are not raised here. Mrs.
McGilvary has a vine. but | don't
think it mas ever done much. She
has just received some freesia bulbs
from her brother, but | d)ubt if
they ever amount 20 anything. she
can make them grow. if anyone can.
Chieng Mai, Laos, Nov %. 1910.
Here am on the mountain. having
the time of nv life. and getting fat.
Miss Buck and | were getting ready
to come up together. iast Friday
morning, when the doctor VINO mad
been called to see one of tire girls
who was unable to go home, found
her quite sick. Miss Buck had some
sewing to do this week, 50 | told her
to go on up, and stay over Sunday,
and would come up this week.
That night the girls fever was LOG
but next morning she was normal
and seemed most we |. when left
Monday morning. / never saw any
thing like TIE fever these people
have. and they eat quinine like it
was bread.
Miss Buck returned to the city on
Tuesday. leaving me with two Of
our girls and Mrs. Carr's nurse. an
old woman, in possession of this
house. Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Carr
and Aileen, are in the next house,
and we have Thanksgiving dinner
together tomorrow. They invited
me to take my meals with them, but
they eat very late in the m )rning.
while like to have early breakfast
and go for walk. | had to bring
the girls along for company anyhow.
and thought | had just as we'll give
them something to do. When | get
upon the hill, like to be indepen.
dent. anyhow, and go and come as |
like.
love to sit on my porch in the
late afternoon. and watch the green
rice plains below while the pink
and blue on the mountains beyond
fade into deep violet. and the stars
come out one by one. Nor is it less
beautiful in the morning. Then the
trees in the plain look like regiments
of soldiers, while the clouds above
envelop them like the white smoke
of battlefield. Every hour of the
day has beauty of it's own. and
every moment is joy.
Today | tasted for the first time
what is a favorite dish out here
stewed peanuts. | think they are
first boiled in their skins-shells, |
mean. then they are shelled. aud
stewed with cream dressing. Try
it sometime. Another dish | like
for dessert is rice and cocoanut milk.
The rice is soaked several hours, and
then steamed with cocoanut milk.
which is prepared by grating the
cocoanut and pouring water over it.
then strain. II you want it rich,
and like it better. let it stand over
night. and skim off the cream.
Sweeten little il you like.
Tonight we killed an enormous
scorpion while out walking. They
sting with their tails and their sting
is very dangerous. though believe
not fatal. When the men were
bringing me up. on Monday. they
threw at q snakein our path. the
first have seen up here. II there
were many. wouldn't be quite so
enthusiastic about this place.
This morning while taking a walk.
| | heard a great Gathering and noise
in the ravine. and creeping up. found
the trees alive with monkeys. | sat
down and kept very quiet. and
watched them at play. Ono little
fellow sitting between the forks of
high limb. matched me with as
much interest as | did him. He would
squat on his launches. put his hands
on his knees. and peer at me anxious
lily, as if to say what is that any
howl" | kept perfectly still. while
he would go from one limb to an
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