The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-11-16

everywhere else, there are SO
many kinds of homes that 1t is
! difficult to typify the life of the
country. ! take, however, the rec
I .ory In 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 him-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, its considerable
population, is 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 really vast
eCiiitofy. WIN Ola VI StNtll CHuI Cuto,
widely separated, to minister at, his
home must be in some spot more or
less central to his work, however cut
off from the world His daily duties
will carry him far afield and will
often make it impossible for him to re-
turn to his family at night
Australian Horse Skiilful.
He cannot, of course, conduct serv-
Ices at all his churches every Sunday
but to reach even two or three in the
same day he must be in the saddle
before dawn. and If he returns at the
end of the day it will be by the light
Of the moon or the stars. 1t is no
easy matter to 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 path through the brush.
As it is very surefooted. the rider may
sometimes fall as sep in the saddle
without danger.
If home cannot be reached, the par
) son is sure of welcome wherever he
calls, at some wealthy squatter's
house, at some little tiny shanty tina,
= serves as homestead or even at the
: hut Of native. His wife during thess
intervals is left in charge of the house
and children; perhaps with a white OF
black girl as servant, perhaps quit,
alone.
was told by the wife of clergy
l man who had lived six years In tn,
brush that she never conquered he
dread of those lonely nights, that sh
seldom slept while her husband wa
7ay, but at every sound would 81
= up in bed holding in her hand re
volver.
Welcome, therefore, is the chang
r to rectory in the shady street of
4 country town. To such home tn
reader is now introduced
To this onestory house come man
clerical visitors, expected and unel
pected. Brother clergy who hav
l. driven In from the bush for mes
/, or perhaps to ask bed for the nigh
~ A bishop, an archdeacon, or it ma
I'd be special preacher comes for
no visit of few days OF week.
the spaio room is occupied bed ca
always Sn put up on the verand
ne But the Clergyman wife, even II sh
N is fortunate enough to have ser
ant, has much to do besides the ro
III tine of the house and the care of h,
lie children
he Make Morning Calls.
y In Australia the morning, so Z;
from being free from callers, is Il
VI usual time for women to drop in
Ist chat. At II o'clock it is expecte
that tea and cakes will be served al
the visitor, not content with fe
on minutes stay, will often remain t
u dinner time, perhaps producing h
"A needlework and settling herself col
~ fortably on the veranda; begging,
no doubt. her hostess by no means to
its terrupt such work as she may ha
~, to do. In the afternoon and in 4
% evening come other visitors, and the
are visits to be paid in return, besid
il expeditions to the markets and shol
and such work in the parish as ia
to the share of clergymans wife,
eat You may picture him as one of t
busiest Of men-so busy that he h
- to keep two horses, which he loo
after himself. He rises early to fe
IN and groom them or to turn them G
to in the paddock behind the hou
:, There are jobs to be done in the va
A' and the garden; carts to be wash,
I'M harness to be oiled, bits and stir
sous to be polished, flowers to be v