The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-11-08

many Kinds or homes that IL is
difficult 10 typify the life OF the
country. take, however, the rec.
ory In a country town as fairly repre-
sentative, being, broadly speaking. in
he middle of things and coming In
ouch with all kinds OF life. writes
Anna Woodward in the Chicago Daily
News.
The rector himself is half way on
he road from the bush TO the big
'ity, whittier his next promotion will
take hm-the road which SO many
Australians tread. His wife at all
events, is glad that the years OF com
parative isolation are over. The coun-
try town, with its electric lights. its
telephones. its shops, it's considerable
population, is a wonderland after the
Immense spaces and solitudes OF the
brush
Australia is a country so cast, its
population outside the towns is so
scattered that the brush parson may
find himself In charge OF n really vast
territory. With six or seven churches.
widely separated, TO minister at. his
home must be I'm some spot more or
less central to his work. however cut
off from the world. His daily duties
will carry him far afeld, and will
often make IL impossible for him TO re-
turn to his family at night.
Australian Horse SkilIfuI.
He cannot. OF course, conduct serv-
Ices at all his churches every Sunday.
but 10 reach even two or three I'm the
same day he must be in the saddle
before dawn, and II he returns at the
end OF the day 1t will be by the light
OF the moon or the stars. IL IL no
easy matter 90 make ones way at
night through the vast forests OF eu-
calyptus, through the almost impene-
trable scrub, perhaps across gullies
and creeks, and over hills and noun
tains; but the Australian horse is al
most as skillful as the native blacks
In finding a path through the brush.
AS II Is very surefooted. the rider may
sometimes fall asleep In the saddle
without danger.
III home cannot be reached, the par
son is sure OF welcome wherever ne
calls, at some wealthy squatter's
house, at some little tiny shanty that
serves as a homestead or even al the
hut OF native. His wife during these
intervals is left in charge OF the house
and children; perhaps with a white or
black girl az servant. perhaps quite
alone
was told by the wife OF a clergy.
man who had lived six years I'm the
brush that she never conquered her
dread OF those lonely nights, that she
seldom slept while her husband was
away, but at every sound would SIT
up in bed holding in her hand a re.
volver.
Welcome, therefore, is the change
to a rectory in the shady street OF a
country town. To such home the
reader is now introduced.
To this one-story house come many
clerical visitors, expected and unex-
pected. Brother clergy who have
driven In from the bush for n meal
or perhaps 20 ask a bed for the night.
A bishop an archdeacon. or II may
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visit OF a few days or a week II
the spare room is occupied bed can
always be put up on the veranda
But the clergyman's wife. even II she
is fortunate enough 20 have a serv-
.ant, has much 10 do besides the rou-
tine OF the house and the care OF her
children.
Make Morning Calls.
In Australia the morning. 20 far
from being free from callers, is the
usual time for women 20 drop in TO
chat. At II o'clock II f. expected
that tea and cakes will be served and
the visitor, not content with few
minutes stay. will often remain iii
dinner time, perhaps producing her
needlework and settling herself com.
fortably on the yeranda: begging. no
doubt. her hostess by no means 20 in
terrupt such work as she may have
20 do. In the afternoon and I'm the
evening come other visitors. and there
are visits 10 be paid IN return, besides
expeditions 20 the markets and shops
and such work In the parish as falls
TO the share of a clergymans wife
You may picture him as one of the
busiest OF men-so busy that he has
20 keep two horses. which he looks
after himself re rises early 20 feed
and groom them or 20 turn them out
in the paddock behind the house.
There are jobs 10 be- done IN the yard T.
and the garden. carts 10 b. washed. f.
harness 10 be- oiled. bits and gtirrup I.
irons TO be polished. flowers to be W..