A Lady's letter from Tonga.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3249, 6 July 1889, Page 2

A Lady's letter from Tonga.

i Miss Wilkinson, who ia well-known . I to many Milton people, has already been travelling in the South Sea ! Islands, unit the Bruce Herald has r been allowed to publish the following , extracts from a lotter received from ' her by lust mail, "I got in for all , the troubles in poor little Somoa, and had a bad timo of it for three months —never able to get out, no sociability->te.> 1 possible between Germans and Eng>\f|r lish; bullotß for salutations, I got a horse, but was never ablo to ride out i owing to the dangerous state of tho ■ country, so I went to tho Tongan group for a month, but during ; that time things in Samoa grew worse and worse. I had no alternative but i to go back to Samoa on the chanco of being shot by the Germans, or leave all my belongings to be returned to Auckland if they escaped fire, sword, ' and hurricanes. At last, contrary to my usual ill-luck, I found that they i had escaped nil these hazards. lam now in Fiji where I mean to stay the * winter. Samoa is a lovely country and I J am sure that undorothercircurastancos * would have proved pretty equal to all ho expected and hoped, but the war knocked everything on tho head, The stores were doing no business, The natives spend every penny in food or ammunition. Food becamo scarce; meat became scarce just beforo Christmas, and becamo rery dear. Milk is sold by the botllo &i\ 6d—a little cheaper by taking larly by tho month, Vegetables are hardly to be got at all, We had imported potatoes, Sometimes we could get a bunch of bananas, and now and again a few pineapples were sent to us from some country plantations. Oranges were out of season and we had to send au immenso distance to get limes, all trees near tho town having been stripped, Everything went to the camp. It was a curious sight to see tho troops going to join Mataafa and Maliotoa. Every tribe was headed by tho Kapo, or tho maid of the village—a raost important and liighly-thoughWf young '; womon. Soma of them were Mk gorgeous; some very simply got up; < s some puffed up with conceit; somo modest and pretty. One in particular marched along like a drum-major, bearing a great wand, and weaiirg skirt upon skirt, stuffs, lappa, and garlands, until they stood out at almost right angles to the body. The special guards of the kinjjL'' the Tuatnas-asa tribe are grand fellows. They wear uniforms of blue with silver buttons, and handle their short carbines as well as any ot the New Zealand volunteers, Thoy claimed the right to lead the assault on tho Attua (ort, which was so ' hotly contested and held out so long. . '. . The expenso of staying at Tung ail hotels—los per day—is too much for the very miserable accommodation, I shall never care to visit that group again, Tonga and Haapai are flat and ugly, and Vavau, though much prettier, means starvation, Jn/ %/

neither is there creek or fiver. Th have to depend entirely on rain water. Vavau is far from one of tlio pleasant recollections of my wandering. Decent society is scarcely obtainable there. I think I liked tlio solitary sister at the convent better than anyboby else met there."

Every student knows tlmt in close reasoning parallel lines of ihought are laid clown and deductions wiced. It is not our purpose at this time to enter into a learned discussion, and wo have drawn the abovo visiblo lines simply to brine; them prominently before your eye, 'and ask .what they represent to you.

A railroad man to whom we showed them said "To mo those four lines represent a double-track railway."

.A doctor repliod to the sumo iujjirrogatory, "The lines are to me large arteries and veins lying alongide each other in tlio human body." As will bo observed thosamo linos to oither gentlemen suggested different lines of thought, as both looked at them through eyes accustomed to see only that which for tlio most part occupied their attention. To the writer both answers put an old truth in i fresh and original light. As every intelligent man or woman knows, the blood ol every living persons flows with almost railroad spofe through the arteries, forced by'that wonderful engine, the heart, From the arteries it is side-tracked through the capilliaries and veins, and every drop of blood goes through the kidneys for purification no less than 2,500 times every twenty-four hours. If the kidneys he diseasod the impurities of the blood containing the wornout tissues and deleterious acidsaro not drawn out or exMeted as nature intended, but con--4>aually pass and repass through everjy fibro of the system' carrying death and decay with every pulsation. Unless remedied the heart becomes weakened the lungs trying to do double workbreak down, the liver becdmos congested, the stomach refuses to digest food, and tlio. result is a general break down.

Why? Because the kidneys, the sowers of the system, are foul and stopped up, and the entire blood becomesnothing more or less than a sewage.

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