Life in Canada.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 13, 13 June 1885, Page 2

Life m Canada.

T w»8 particularly struck by the physique of young Canada, being nix feet myself, and having been built to match. Your little man is no judge of stature and limb. He docs not discern *uffi«nently between fire feet teD and six (Vet two. Your tall man is a better measurer of height. Thus I realised growth when many of these Canadian youngsters looked over my h«ad, and Htroilo past me like giants, as they were. If half of those young gentlemen who wear pointed boots and write with steel pens, chained m fojrs and. heat to the counters of, suy a Bank, with no propect of becoming partners m the businns* which enslaves them, could but once fret tbi»ir lung* filled with this grand prairie air, they would slam to th<ur ledgers, roll up their gloves, and, pitching thorn out of the window, lind themselves striding over this nweet grass*, building their' own Ing houses (and you can make a log house as warm as a Dutch oven m the coldest winter), galloping after hnlf-wild cnttle, cooking their own dinners, measuring monthly move routid the chest, and feeling that it will be their own fault if they do not fcafco their own places anton? th« strong and independent men who are ma^toring this n'pw land. And, remem' er, a strong youngster who wiH laWor, working « ilh hi- 1 h -uuls, will soon got at !t>:.sti g?0 or £R0 a year with is hutrd, s»nd l>o t^mptpil to i.n grpjit o.\'p«Mis<? at It's tiilorV —The 1 .Rev. Harry Jonea, m Leisure flour.