Show A I MODEEN MODERN 31 tousia ersland san francisco wa I wish Will william iain black could have seen Rosali tid young who supplied the interesting article on the pitcairn call ill bland lland published in scribners for may as I saw her four years ago A tall st straight black af black k eyed brown a skinned you young ng woman with bare feet and ankles standing the beach of her native island waiting for our boat to make a landing in the surf her iler long hair was tossed and tangled by the wind which swept her short calico skirt lightly against her little agn graceful cc form I knew just as much about her history as any ono one else and that I thought was wag nil all there was to know she was the descendant of an all english sailor one of the mutineers muti odthe of the ship Bo bounty tinty and his Otah itean wife slie she was about twenty years ears old and had lived all lier her taic life on pitcairn island excepting the two years passed on norfolk island to which all the pitcairn IsId islanders liders ind immigrated when she was waa a b baby b this was about all the his history tory to told of her and her strange people but I knew more the captain of our thip had visited the island once and told roe me that this rosalind young was waa ver very cl eldr was a teacher of music M and tho ordinary grammar school branches to the laland children that she had fieve never r seen a white young 12 lady had only such ideas of the hutsi outside I e world of her little south pacific island smaller than angel island as she could gather from the miscellaneous collection of books papers and nInga magazines leit left at long intervals by passing ships surely then I thought I knew JAL jala U a fb x f any a inte interest in D D ABBOTT ent ful life 21 an P PO box i e surf v doca V and I saw this strange girl standing there and looking at me with pei perfectly fee honest wonder I began t to think n of f gierin a very different way her ifer situation was so unlike anyta anything i 19 elso else in the world that there was nothing offered ered to my mi mind nd div giving i ng even a hint be how IV to greet r act her or h how to gon consider sider her ff if she 11 had ad only been a semi barbarian I thought for the moment that she would have been more interesting but she was a devout christian and intelligent at that knowing ever so much more about the bible than I did but she had never seen a re regularly ordained minister was utterly unacquainted with missionary worl work had no conception of what a church society was and was blankly ignorant of the subtle relation of sewing selvid circles to the salvation of souls looking across the line of white surf I saw her standing like a sta tue on a tide washed rock holding li her tangled hair back from her as with a bronzed hand her bal bare cazet feet half buried in thelea the sea moss covering the rock I saw too that she waa was b beginning nai e nning to look just a little shy and ray my fl feminine intuition told me that she wag for the first time beginning to realize the difference between her and the rest of civilized womanhood in the latter of dress I took a meal at rosalinda Rosa linds house heard an eloquent grace before I or C ja and nd alia thanksgiving n ks iving after cat cating ing heard rosalind play on th alie melo 10 ileon icon queen victoria victori has since sent en t them a ft handsome cabinet organ and heard some religious music very well sung the children are taught to read music when they are taught to read E english agli ab and read cither either with equal facility F few deiv of them care to progress in learning beyond a degree which makes reading their bible craycr prayer book and reli rellious religious ious song books boks an easy matter rosali rosalind u d however eagerly looks forward to the occasional consignment of books papers and magazines she reads studies rather averyt everything hill prin printed ted which is sent to the island and the result is that her litt litte crary attainments arc are of a broader and and higher character than those of the average average seminary girl all this he however C er without any more personal i interest tr t I iii lii the people and all thin things 18 read about than any city bred young lady would have in the ch characters arac of the daughters dau raters of an egyptian kin king |