THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY,
OCTOBER
1934.
WOMAN'S LONELY HOME ES
IN NORTH. WILDS
QUITE CONTENT AS BRIDE OF VETERAN PROSPECTOR
Beatrice Minson did not, in- DECAUSE the culinary art of
clude making read, ahe won for herself, contrary to what might be anticipated under such circuin- stances, both husband and a home, far north of the Arctic circlo in n land that has never been surveyed. She does not know for sure whether Masonland, where they live, is in the United States or Canada. The nearest post office la at Fort Yukon Alnuka, six hundred miles away, whither the Masons travel once a year for their supplies and the ever-welcome batch of letters that will be nwalt- Ing them. Their only other, mail bour comes when the ever roman- tic and scarlet-coated figure of the Royal Canadian Mounted. Police comes mushing up to Masonland on his winter patrol. Quite impartial- ly, therefore, they patronize the mail service of both the United States and Canada.
Beatrice Mason's arrival in thin "no man's land" where hers wan
This magnificent cradle has been presented by the city of Naples to the Italian Crown Prince and his wife for thair first born
Princess Marin Pin.
child,
probably the first white woman's foot to tread and where she can Indulge in the pastime of shopping but once a year, was the result of childhood summers spent in the Adirondacks. There she met a hermit who told her stories and carved a toy dog for her. From that moment she resolved to live some day as this bermit did, 'way off in the woods where there would be no going to call her to school and where, who could race through, the forests to her heart's content without a thought of keeping starched frocks immaculate.
.Later on, this resolve ervstallized when she read "Ten Thousand Miles With a Dog Sled" by Hudson Stuck. As she rend, in fancy she mushed with him as he visited both Indian and white settlements in Alaska, for he was their arch- deacon. Now she was going to bring that childhood wish to frul- tion, somehow.
AMBITION ACHIEVED.
. Not having Indepewterdt melna Beatrice enrolled as hygiene and social worker for Fort zaken. enme about that there was an open-
It
'ng as manager of the very sana- orlum, which Archdeacon Stuck had catablished, so we urg
ettors that bound her to civilisa- lon and made for the Far North. mushes To-day Beatrice Mason
hrough the trackless woods as did the archdeacon.
When she first arrived at Fort Yukon, though, she found that her manager's duties were in reality hose of a cook, which troubled hor nat at all, though up to then she had done but little cooking. There at. Fort Yukon, a settlement of about six hundred Indians and three hundred whites, the meals were plain and the cooking easy, except the bread-making.
art of
Two old grape gatherura quenching their thirst during the work in one of the Rhine province farms.
Her woman's Inuch was needed the line of the City wall. A tablet
It came to pass that when the entire annatorium staff had failed, one after another, to teach her to make a light brown, crusty loaf of bread, an "old-timer" happened along. He was one Willoughby Mason and offered to coach thie newcomer in the subtle
"Ludgate" led the citizens of bread-making, which every dweller of the North must know. Where to make the rooms attractive with on the front wall of a building in Londinium to the settlement of others falled he succeeded and not curtains, draperies and pillows. Aldgate High-street, a few yards Westminster, at which point there only taught her to make good bread The rudely constructed furniture feast of the Minorica, denotes the was a ford across the Thames.
It fe interesting to sonow the but took advantage of those lessons was painted in cheerful, blending actual site of the gate. In Roman
True to her idea to draw times the thoroughfare now, repre-road from Ludgate a little way to- and turned them into courtship tones, perioda, finally winning his "pupil the beautiful to their home, each sented by Aldgate High-atrect was wards Westminster. At Ludgate A Circus, looking north and south, we for a bride. They waited until her year when she returns from Fort the main rond to Colchester.
old valley of the River year at Fort Yukon was up and Yukon she brings something to few yards west of the gate is the ace the
Flect, or Holbourne very im
river in those
dava. then there was a simple July wed-embellish the interior, if it is only 10mus adgente pump. ding in the little log church where fresh paint and new mualia for Passing through Duke-street and portant
Camomile-street in the direct line Farringdon-street now occupies the the wild arctic flowers provided curtains.
Although she is indeed a pioneer of the wall, we arrive at the site valley. Continuing up Flect-street the floral arch and where her "riden-maids," na aho humorously woman of the North who must do jof "Bishopsgate, through which and passing Chancery-lane we come expresses it, were two members of the washing, cooking, housework visitors from York and Lincoln to the site of the Temple Bar, at And mending, she sets, aside an entered London, then on through which point the Strand begine. the Royal Canadian
to "London llere, too, are the Royal Courts of hour or two each day for recrea- Wormwood-street Pollee.
VETERAN PROSPECTOR. tion. In the winter she can go Woll" another famous thorough-Justice.
Along the Strand, past St. For more than twenty years Wil-nowshoeing or mush along with Care which needs no explanation."
navigable river Clement Danes Church of "oranges loughby Mason had been prospect-her dogs, while indoors she reads The "Walbrook,"
the and lemons" fame, and leading ing and hanting and now he took and writes and listens to the radio, in those days, flowed under
City wall at Finsbury-circus, and down towards the river, is a small RADIO WOES. his wife with him on a six hundred
appeared to have had its source opening exiled Roman Bath Alley. A portion where a Roman bath, still fed by Just beyond Moorfields.
power.
land.
Mounted
one of the farms.
ALTERNATIVE.
mile journey through the "high- At first the Masons, were com- waya, or rivers, of the Northly isolated, without neighbours First they went up the Porcupine ar radio. Now they have some of the original Roman wall is still its original spring water, may be nd thn on up the Bell until Tndian neighbours twelve miles existence, and may be seen asen.
A visit to Waterloo Bridge, now Maseniand was reached. It tooky and a radio, which however wa three weeks to make the trip
<ut at most inopportune don Wall. Almost immediately we being demolished, will be worth famous When they hear the be- come to Cripplegate Buildings, one while, since it may be that last op- isurely fashion, guing in a Ikunch mements. that had an engine of twelve horse ginning of some momentous news, end of which marks the site of the portunity of seeing this
hedge. Descending by the tem- "Cripplegate." During the day's run they may have to wait to know the
Js beyond "Cripplegate," the porary steps to the Embankment, was nothing to glance shoreward ending until they reach Fort Yukon and sec u bear, moose or caribou the next June. Their neighboural turned sharp left verging to-it enn then be determined whether along the Embankment, touching the main thorough-rettirn looking with astonishinent at the in this northern land' are indians.wards the centre of Aldersgate-we finish the walk at that paint or
street, intruders in the land they thought There is an Indian camp two hun-fire at the Church of St. Anne and following, as far as novihli than exclusively thefre
dred miles away, with individaul
St. Agnes. This marks the alte af direction of the southern or river When Mrs. Mason set forth from families nearer.
"Aldersgate." This presumably wall to the Tower of London, taus Fort Yukon she resolved to prove
The days pass happily for Bea- by example that no matter how far
trice Mason at Musanland. It is the the farmers' gate since it led, completing the circuit.. one travelled from civilisation one first winter that stands out must to the open country and to a limited
An alternative, and very interest- could bring the beautiful into one's in retrospect, when they saw no one area of pastureland. Most of the months, country outalde the wall was forest daily life. That has been the key but themselves for ten
to continue westwards along the past Cleopatra's note to the happy life led at Mason- when they trimmed the Christmas or marsh, but a few farms existed.ing, conclusion to the trip would be
tree with strips. of tin curled off Smithfield Market, west of Alders Embankment, from keys used in the opening ofgate-street. stnds-on the site of Needle, to Westminster, boarding
"river-bus" at Westminster pler, cane of food and when,
The wall continued along the journeying back to London Bridge writes:
northern side of the General Post by water. The river, of course, is "We were here alone, Isolated as Office (St. Martins-le-Grand), final-full of general interest, but pointa if on the moon, without visitors, ly turning sharp left at the Old of particular interest could be noted mali, radio or communication of Bailey, where the Central Criminal on the way, as, for instance, Block- any kind with the world beyond. Courts are situated. These rust friars Bridge, where the Fleet There has never been a winter to not be confused with the Royal River entered the Thames. Cannon. equal or surpass it. It was ideal Courts of Justice in the Strand, street railway bridge which h to me and the choiceat experience where civil actions only, are tried.
ly marks the point where ships of of my life."
The site of "Newgate" is indicat-commerce once saued up the Giver ed on the wall of the courts - in | Walbrook.
Finally, London Bridge, some 200 this thoroughfare was known asyards beyond which is the site of Watling-street, and led to Veruthe original Roman bridge. Dis lamium (St. Albans),
embarking at London Bridge, the The next and last gate, "Luid-walk could be continued gate," may be reached through the Thames-street, passing in turn the Old Bailey, which roughly follows Monument, Billingsgate Fish the direction of the Wall. A tablet Market, and the Custom House. on the front wall of the Church We should then be within a few of St. Martin, on Luigate Hill. yards of the Tower of London, slightly to the left of the Old which marks the easternmost point Bailey, marks the site of the gate. of the old City wall.
HAND MADE LUXURIES. When the framework of their house was up, hers was the tank to smooth the logs on the inside, to make a dressing table from pack- ing canes and shelves from boards for their books. Every luxury they wished must be made from what was at hand, except the stove and the bedsprings they brought with them. She remarked that it wis extraordinary how much they packed in that thirty-foot launch
£8 she
and the smaller boat attached, for ROMAN LONDON Newgate-street. In Roman times,
the
they transported not only human beings but seven dogs, to- boggans, bedding, clothing, tools al a year's supply of food and ather essentials such as gasolene, But the five gallon tin cans of gasoline. when empty, became wash-boilers and water buckets, while the smaller tins served as work baskets and flower boxes,
Just before the latest typhoon disaster in Japan a solemn commemora tion service was held at Tokyo for the victime of the grant sarthquake in 1923-The hoto-shows the Great Earthquake Memorial Hall, Honji at
Tokyo.
OF TO-DAY
LONDINIUM WALK LASTS LIFETIME ANCIENT DAYS RECALLED
Visitors to Loudon, and even Londoners themselves; should make a trip round Roman London. The total distance is little more than three miles, but a whole day may well be set apart for it. The trip is full of interest, und, with the aid of a little imagination, a walk round the walls of Londinium will provide memories that may last n ilfetime.
The original City walls enclover" an area of Rome 350 aures—icas than -square mile. The six wit of entry from the surrounding "Country" were: Aldgate, Bishops- gate, Cripplegate, Aldersgate, New gate, and Ludgate.
The starting point should be Al Hallows Church. close to the Tower of Lunden-Berkyngechircho-by- the-Tower, as it was, and still le quaintly deserthed. This char by the way, is the home of Toc }} In the Underernft of the chur which is open to the public at n reasonable hours, will ho found g faxelnathug model of Roman London sit existed in the early puri o the fourth century. The mudi should be studied carefully before the walk begins Ab official of the Church's 'wava available to es plain the model. A booklet, on- Ulled "Roman London." price 3d. may be purchased from the official It contains some very interesting particulars, and also a lucid map of the area covered by the model, and will, therefore, be found Invaluable, In the Undercroft, Roma 15 ft. underground, may be seen, in situ a portion of the floor of a Roman shop dating back to the time of Bondices, in the middle of the Grat century, Lonving the church, the first point of interest is "Aldgate," which may be reached by way of the Minorias, a famous street run ning parallel with but Junt outatile
The wreckage of the fire scarred American Liner "Morro Castle" which
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first class: attraction for the Hule resort.
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The student of manners must. scorch the past for origin and example. The man with somo- thing to learn about dress may look in a hot for information.
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