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gg N TS ER SRE RE : . » : Ce ; THE SEASONS IN With the breaking of the lee in June comes the first boats bringing from fore the last boat in the the United States long-awaited con- signments of mail, fresh eggs, oranges, sight or taste of which Nomeites have 'been denied for many months. The : little Arctic town suddenly awakes as. fom a long nap and begins strenuous. | ly tidying up in preparation for sum- mer activities. Nature, an ever efficl- | gives a farewell blast of the NOME, all too quickly, and it is not whistl turns southward and fades into , distant horizon. It means the sovgr ing, for ten long months, of the last} "link between the outside world and} Nome. October is approaching and 'there 4s a touch of frost in the air, with now and then a light tall of snow ent housekeeper, begins busily to per-| that melts as ft roaches the ground. form her seasonal duties; carpeting the tundra with a brilliant array of blue-! bells, forget-me-nots and violets; and using the foothills at the back of Nome on which to spread patches of sweet . blueberriess, and bathing them ail in abundant warmth and light; for the summer days in Nome are twenty-four hours long, the sun hardly sinking in the southwest before it is up again. Already the Eskimos have arrived and are encamped on the beach at Nome to barter their wares with the white inhabitants. Tourists on sum- mer excursions through Alaska are stopping off at this far northern town to obgerve with wide-eyed Ww. ment its curiosities. They go first, perhaps, to the mines scattered among the foothills back of Nome, where they see quautities of gold dust taken f the sluice-boxes, afterward to be con- verted into bullion. At the Eskimo vil: lage cn the Sandpit they see the na- 'tives in their daily haunts; see them eat their blubber soaked In seal oil, watch them carve their ivory, weave the beautiful beaded baskets, dance their weird, grotesque dances of the n 'tune of tom-toms, and race injgheir kyaks--small water-tight skin -- on Bening Sea. Perhaps, too, the - tourists will have pointed cut to them several small schooners anchored the roadstead and will be told t sthey belong' to an. exploring party which has made Nome its headquar- "ters Lafore sailing farther north into uncharted Arctic wastes. Tze long, warm days of summer pass © ried People How to Ke Happiness They Have bak: I am a district brought in ve home life of year. Far tco f regret, that husbend drifted apari. IW < chang offers' to Hy j , Gradually, tribe by tribe, the Eskimos | break camp and paddle northward to their native haunts, their oomjaks loaded with the white man's flour, | sugar and other foodstuffs the result of the summer's tradi nes The days grow grad Snake River, flowing tl into Bering Sea, is covered th a sheet of ice, and skaters skim for miles along fits clear, blue course, their skates clinking gayly e bit- ing ai 1g Bea, for th 'month "by 4 eavy storms,* is bgeoming daily : ote subdued, until finally it} lies completely hushed, hardly a rip- -| plo on its surface. A skim of thin ice appears, and shortly Noge -is com pletely locke th by a barrier of solid ice stretching as far as. the eye can see, The thermometer has dropped}: below zero mark. Then one day a fine dry snow begins to fali, accompanied by a wind that sets in motion a swirl- ing wall of snow-dust. + This may last] for three days, and on the morning of the third we open our door to be con- fronted by a solid wall of snéw., We into a ord buried ina "great white | "silence." The snow. is piled in huge tention. to us through Tstves an interesting' Ld wor |that these ~ pleasurable duties - fall, towa. : | Moreover, 'it is the further responsi- or towar 'Bmers on him. If he is a mus' of t he of the spechal shold mak: 28 working or oi Preys ions which a hr 1 for of ed guests. + music. Ifaw is usually upon the wife and mother tie hostess £] 3 for ity amd privilege of the lhostess to ods direct the trand of the conversaticl of the {after her Buests have arrived. Eon A woman cf the writer's acquaint or ance who, having devoted herself for , many years 2» bringing up her family, had found little time vis Tl period for study of social life to feel ag her family grew older # of social faculty and kaowle current affairs. She consulted { whol, home, "Avas a cehtre |soctal lifes "This friend advise? ficou set tam to 3