| Show THE WOMEN OF A SCOT SCOTTISH TISH ISLAND cistand A correspondent of the glasgow her ald aid who recently visited the island of lewis I 1 in the hebrides says the women do all the heavy work they dig delve and hoe they carry heavy loads of manure to the fields and in the peat season you may see them all day carrying creel fuls of peat from the bog you will often see a man trudging along the road beside a woman but the creel is always on the comans womans back if they come to a liver river or ford the woman crosses first deposits her creel on the other side and then returns to carry the man across I 1 only saw this once but the farmers tell teil me it is a thing of everyday mccu occurrence arence when the creel is empty the man sometimes slings it over his own shoulders and then mounts upon the back of the woman who carries them both across together this I 1 am told is the only occasion on which by any chance you see a creel upon the back of a man the woman in the rural districts here is in fact a beast of burden and men in looking out for wives look largely to muscular development A story is current among the english speaking farmers that illustrates lu this conception of womans comans mission in the middle of one peat season when labor was much in demand a man who was supposed to be a confirmed old bachelor suddenly suddenly married A friend met irim some ays days after what for did you take a woman like that said sald the friend did you no hear replied the man that my horse was dead THERE is not a tollgate toll gate in all switzerland the roads areline are gre nine fine and belong to government A despondent editor remarks that if the country grows much worse he shall publish notices of births under the head of 61 disasters 1 tim THE nickel mines from which the government obtains the material for its small metallic currency are located near lancaster pa A successful attempt has been made in hf london to teach blind women to use the sewing machine so as to enable them to earn their living livings several of the unfortunates are stated to have acquired great skill in the use of the machine A FEW days ago twenty seven women of redfield iowa decided to abate the whiskey shops of that place and did so they were arrested tried and acquitted subsequently they were again re arrest ed aw and taken before another justice of the peace twenty five miles distant where they were again acquitted after a three days trial |
