AN ADAMLESS EDEN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 7

AN ADAMLESS EDEN

ISLET INHABITED ONLY BY GIKLS,

There is a. real Ad'amlessEden in the South Sens—an islet upon which a young ladies' school has been established, in chaffre of a lady missionary, and from which males liavo been absolutely, excluded with the exception of one _on-> vied individual who esteems it a privilege to act ns "hewor of wood and drawor of water" for this maidenly commun.-', itv. The young ladies, numbering _ between: 70 and 80. riro from the best native fault-\ lies on, the Ellice and Union Islands, nnd tho' islet upon which they dwell— and where, according to the missionary, "happiness reigns supreme"—is Papaofiee. in the Funafuti Lagoon, liflicO| Islands, the headquarters in that group of tlio London Missionary Society. Miss Jolift'e, tlio London Missionary: Sooiety's representative in tlio Ellioo Is--lands, while at Sydney, on hor way to England on furlough, described tlio El-i lice Islanders, in j\n interview with si "Herald" representative, as a quiet, peaceable folk, who wore absolutely holies 1). The curfew bell was, she said, rung every night at Fonatuti «t 9 o'clock. At that hour .all, good people were eupposod to bp indoors. Ilia people of Funafuti and of tlio Ellice Is> lnmte generally wore very law-abiding, who s'aid, and in many respocta led exemplary lives. The girls at the eohool of Pnpaetiso displayed keen intblltgonco< Four couples from the group would aprivo bv tlia John Williams on her ncxs visit to Sydney, and proceed to Papual as missionaries. '