In respect of missionaries the pro-celibates seem on stronger ground. There are still wild parts of the world into which one feels a woman should mot go, especially with the prospect of bringing up a family in them. But even in this no-hard and fast rule can be drawn. "And judging by one reference of St. Paul's ("have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife" ete.) it would seem that the earliest missionaries were married men who took their wives with them.
What, I want to see in this correspondence is something from a parson's wife. If ever my family allow me to have anything to do with the running of our house, I am appalled at the endless attention to detail that it requires. Add to this the details of running a parish and you realize that very special qualities are needed by the girl who marries a parson.
And such families as they do have, Though I promised not to dilate on Christmas festivities, there is one I must mention before closing. At the Sanatorium for Sick Animals of the Poor, near Ilford, the patients were given a Christmas tree and a special tea. It should be mentioned that there were no serious internal cases among them. Mostly they were recovering from accidents or sprains, or were suffering merely from old age, like Pompey, a 27-years old war horse, acquired by the Sanatorium some time ago to do light jobs about the house.
Tables were laid for 40 horses and ponies and about a score of dogs.
The feast took place in the stable yard of the Sanatorium, says the "Times." A large Christmas tree, laden with delicacies that appeal to such palates, adorned a corner of the yard, and when the horses and ponies were in their Shetland ponies, and led by er laces "at table" a sledge, drawn byWtwo Christmas, brought in "the Christmas cake, a huge "confection" of three tiers, surmounted model of a horse. The Feclpes dor tH and ihe special cakes for the dogs are in the keeping You can have these lustrous waves too, if you "perm"
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