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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ~ MONDAY,

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WOMAN'S LONELY HOME

IN NORTH WILDS

QUITE CONTENT AS BRIDE

OF VETERAN PROSPECTOR

Arctic

orium, which Archdeacon Stuck had catablished, so she wro

etters that bound her to civilisa- tion and made for the Far North. Beatrice Mason mushes ugh the trackless woods as did the archdeacon.

ECAUSE the culinary art of Ing an manager of the very sana- B Beatrice Mason die not in- clude making bread, she won for herself, contrary to what might be anticipated under such circum- stances, both a husband and a home, far north of the circle in a land that has never been surveyed. She does not know for Bure whether Masenland, where they live, is in the United States or Canada, The nearest post office is at Fort Yukon Alaska, aix hundred miles away, whither the Masons travel once a year for their

supplies and the ever-welcome batch of letters that will be await- ing them. Their only other mail hour comes when the ever roman- tle and scarlet-coated figure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Pollco comes mushing up to Masonlund 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 this "no man's land" where hers was

When she first arrived at Fort Yukon, though, she found that her mannger's duties were In reality hose of a cook, which troubled hor not at all, though up to then she nd 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.

Two old grape gatherere quanching their thirst during the work in one of the Rhins province farms.

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It came to pass that when the entire sanatorium stall 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 this art of newcomer in the subtle

Her woman's touch was needed the line of the City wall. A tablet

"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, draperica and pillows. Aldgate High-street, a fow yards Westminster, at which point there taught her to make good bread The rudely constructed furniture cast of the Minorics, denotes the was a ford ncross the Thames. only

It is interesting to folow the but took advantage of those lessons was painted in cheerful, blending actuai site of the gate. In Roman and turned them into courtship tones. True to her idea to draw times the thoroughfare now repre- road from Ludgate a little way to periods, finally winning his "pupil" the beautiful to their home, cachsented by Aldgate High-street was wards Westminster. At Ludgate for a bride. They waited until her year when she returns from Fort the main road to Colchester. A Circus, looking north and south, we year at Fort Yukon wng up and Yukon she brings something to fow yards west of the gate is the see the old valley of the River

Ficet, or Holbourne-a very im then there was a simple duly wed-embellish the interior, if it is only mo. Aldgate pump.

Passing through Duke-street and portant

in those days. ding in the little log church where fresh paint and new muslin for

Camomile-street. In the direct line Farringdon-street now occupies the the wild arctic flowers provided curtains,

Fleet-street the floral arch and where her

Although she is indeed a pioneer of the wall, we arrive at the site valley. Continuing up

through which and passing Chancery-lane we come "bridca-maids,", ns she humorously woman of the North who must do of "Bishopsgate."

the washing, cooking, hourework visitors from York and Lincoln to the site of the Temple Bar, at expresses it, were two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted and mending, she sets side an entered London, then on through which point the Strand begins.

hour or two each day for recren-Wormwood-street

"London Here, too, are the Royal Courts of Police.

VETERAN PROSPECTOR. tion. In the winter she can go Wall" another famous thorough-Justice.

Along the Strand, past For more than twenty years Wil-snowshoeing or mush along with fare which needs no explanation. loughby Mason had been prospect her dogs, while indoors she reads The "Walbrook," a navigable river Clement Danes Church of "oranges ng and hunting and now he took and writes and listens to the radio, in those days, flowed under the and lemons fame, and tending his wife with him on a six hundred

City wall at Finsbury-circus, and down towards the river, is a small milie Journey through the "high-

At first the Masons were com-appeared to have had its source opening called Roman Bath Alley, *#43# or rivers, of the North. First they went up the Porcupine pletely isolated, without neighbours Just beyond Mourficks. A partion where a Ramun bath, still fed by or radio, Now they have some of the original Ruman wall is 'sta original spring water, mins be nd then an up the Bell until Indian neighbours twelve miles in existence, and may be seen as

A visit to Waterloo Bridge, now Masaland was reached. It took

away and a radio, which however Bhree weeks to make the trip in a

Kives mit ut most inopportune don Wall Almost immediately wexing demolished, will be worth leisurely fashion, going in a launch

of seeing this famous that had an engine of twelve borsements. When they hear the become la Cripplegate Buildings, one while, since it may be that inst op bridge. Descending by the tem- power. During the day's run it inning of some momentous news, end of which marks the site of the portiuni

they may have to walt to know the "Cripplegate."

Just beyond "Cripplegate," the norary steps to the Embankment, This magnificent cradle has been was nothing to glace shoreward presented by the city of Naples to and see a bear, moore or carlixou the Italian Crown Prince and hiking with astonishment at the the next June. Their neighbours wall turned sharp left verging to it can then he determined whether in this northern kind are Indians, wards the centre of Aldersgate we finish the walk at that point or wife for their first born child, intruders in the land they thought There is an Indian camp two hufare at the Church of St. Anne and following, as far as possible, th

street, touching the main thorough return along the Embankment. exclusively theirs.

When Mrs. Mason set forth fremdred miles away, with Individaul St. Agnes. This marks the site of direction of the southern or river i

families nearer.

"Aldersgate." This presumably wall to the Tower of London, taua Fort Yukon she resolved to prove

The days pass happily for Bea- by example that no matter how far trice Mason at Masonland. It is the Was the farmers' gate face it led completing the circuit. one travelled from civilisation one first winter that stands out most to the open country and to a limited

aren of pastureland. Most of thei could bring the beautiful into one's | In retrospect, when they saw no one

An alternative, and very interest- daily life. That has been the key- but themselves for ten months, country outside the wall was foresting, conclusion to the trip would be note to the happy life led at Masont-when they trimmed the Christmas Smithfield Market, west of Alders Embankment,

or marsh, but a few farms evicted, to

continue westwards along the past Cleopatra's tree with strips of tin curled off HAND MADE LUXURIES. from keys used in the opening of Rate-street, stands on the site of Needle, to Westminster, boarding a When the framework of their jeans of food and when,

she one of the farms,

"river-bue" at Westminster pier, The wall continued along journeying back to London Bridge hotise was up, hers was the task writes: to smooth the lugs on the inside, to "We were here alone, Isolated as Omice (St. Martins-le-Grand), final-full of general interest, but points northern side of the General Post by water. The river, of course, is make a dressing table from pack-if on the moon, without visitors, y turning sharp left at the Old of particular interest could be noted Ing cases and shelves from boards mail, radio or communication of Bailey, where the Central Criminal on the way, ns, for instance, Black- for their books. Every luxury any kind with the world_beyond.

Fleet without a thought of · keeping they wished must be made from There has never been a winter to Courts are situated. Theso-must friara-Bridge--where-the-

not be confused with the Royal

River entered the Thames, Cannon- what was at hand, except the stove equal or surpass it. It was Ideal Courts of Justice in the Strand, street-railway bridge which h and the bedsprings they brought to me and the cholcest experience where civil actions only are tried.

of my life.”

ly marks the point where ships of The site of "Newgato" is indicat-commerce once paned up the aver ed on the wall of the courts in Walbrook,

Finally, London Bridge, some 200 this thoroughfare was known as yards beyond which is the site of | Watling-stroot, and led to Veruthe original Roman bridge, Diy-

Jamlum (St. Albans).

embarking at London Bridge, the The next and last gate, "Lud-walk could be continued thronek 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 Ludgate Hill, yards of the Tower of London, slightly to the left of the Old which marks the easternmost point Balley, marks the site of the gate. For the old City wall.

Princess Maria Pia.

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 hermit who told her stories and From carved a toy dog for her. that moment she resolved to live Home day as this hermit did, 'way off in the woods where there would be no going to rall her to school and where she could race through the forests to her heart's content

starched frocks immaculate.

Later on, this resolve creatallized- when she read "Ten Thousand

Miles With a Dog Sled" by Hudson Stuck. As she read, in fancy she mushed with him as he visited both Indian and white settlements in Alasku, for he was their arch- deacon. Now she was going to hring that childhood,wish to frui- tion, somehow,

AMBITION ACHIEVED. Not having independent means, Beatrice enrolled as hygiene and social worker for Fort Yukon. it, came about that there was an open-

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with them. She remarked that it was extraordinary how much they packed in that thirty-foot launch

ending until they reach Fort Yukon

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and the smaller boat attached, for ROMAN LONDON Newgate-street. In Roman times,

they Transported not only the human beings but seven dogs, to- boggans, bedding, clothing, tools and a year's supply of food and ther essentinis such as gasolene. But the five gallon tin cans of Igapoline, when empty, became wash-boilers and water buckets, while the smaller tins earved as work baskets and flower boxes. -

Jung, bukone ko ih da woon.diznicah in Jäven « solamn commemora tion service was held at Tokyo for the victims of the great earthquake in 1923. The jhoto shows the Great Earthquake Memoriat Hall, Hopji, at

Tokyo.

OF TO-DAY

LONDINIUM WALK LASTS LIFETIME ANCIENT DAYS RECALLED

Visitors to London, and even Londoners themselves, should make 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 A full, of interest, and, with the aid at a little imagination. a walk round the walls of Londinium will provide memories that may last n lifetime.

The original City wails enclos -n area of some 350 acres-leas than a square mile. The six gute 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 [ London Berkyngechircho-by- the Tower, as it was, and still le quaintly described. This he by the way, is the home of Toc H In the Undercroft of the church which is open to the public at all reasonable hours, will be found a uscinating model of Roman London Is it existed in the early part of the fourth century. The model

should be studied carefully before he walk begins. An official of the -hurch is always available to ex

lain the model. A booklet. on- titled "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 invaluabla, :

In the Undercroft, some 15 ft. underground, may be seen, in situ portion of the floor of a Roman hop dating back to the time of Boadicea, in the middle of the Grat

entury. Lanving the church, the: first point of intereat is "Allgato," which may be reached by way of

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The wreckage of the fire scarred American Liner "Morro Castle” which- the Minories, a famous street run-is riding a sanr bar within a hundred feet of Asbury Park Beach is become

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The student of manners, must- search the past for origin and example. The man with some- thing to learn about dress may look in a hat for information.

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