Show A short time ago the HERALD published a letter from N C flygare now on a mission mission in in europe staling E that tt tha the eldera elders of the church had been laboring with a d degree agree of success in iceland a country about which we hear bear or read very little it ia is now several years since bince the gospel waa was introduced X in in that remote country and quite a number of icelanders have emigrated to utah the deseret news publishes the following interesting te extract extracts from a letter received d from john Torge irson sou a t native of iceland who now resides at spanish fork foik by apostle eichardt richarde 1 I know that there are to bo he found in ia the teel icelandic and m more historical facts sli owing our pur origin than in any other history the last census taken showed the populate a to be over of those under fifteen ayears of age only three could pot read resil and 80 per cent coula write E education du cation ie is mostly domestic every parent or guardian of children regarding it 33 a strict duty to teach them to read and of later jeara to arl write ite as much so as to feed and clothe them the or others of the f family amily give the children as a rule three lesions a day faring during the winter months s 1 public c schools are very few as those considered the best states statesmen mea are opposed to them on the ground that they goulabe would be detrimental to td the educational cat ional pursuits of the young the illiteracy in in iceland is ie ices less under this system than it is anywhere elee else in the world idiocy is nearly un unknown n 0 wn in sanity ij s very rare and only two murder have been cama committed 4 during the last lOO years there are about sheep elf on ane island every family I 1 makes its t OW own a clothing nen aud and women 2 at pilling carding plant pinning 11 g and frea weaving ving in the long winter je evenings the tailoring and drese dress making fre are left ea entirely tirey toted to the fair sex A girl in in iceland I 1 who ho can cau wool and with her own hands return it in the form of clothing would not be regarded as fit for or worthy ot mairi marriage age A person who C can in neither read read cor tier write ia is consi considered def ed to be little above the vie level of tho brute creation they are not permitted to mar marry ry and are not by law regarded even feo io much asa competent witnesses 4 es in io it court there is n not 0 az village of a undred inhabitants in which there ie is not a public library and reading society the national li ii b arary my in k is the largest 4 baying having oyer volumes ab |