A True Helpmeet.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2211, 5 September 1910, Page 2

A True Helpmeet.

Tn " Reminiscences at Oxford" the Rev. W, Tuekwell describes some of t'iue work of Buckland, the British geologist and clergyman, whose Bcietific lectures and writings attracted ranch attention— hostile as well as friendly—at tihe time. It would appear thiit to him his wife was a source of help as valuable as was Madame Curee to her fcawband. Witilwut her moral and intellectual support Bueklr.nd mould not so lightly and ho <?on>fidently have laced the difficulties and achieved his aims. An accomplished mineralogist before tfbedr marriage, sihe threw her whole heart into her husband's work. Khe dea%ihered! Ihis horribly illegible papers, often adding polish to their style ; ami her skilful fingers illustrated many of >}» is (books. Night after night, while his " Bridgewater Treatises"—-his important conttribution on geology vind nwneralogy—was in making, fli'.e sat up writing from his dictation till the morning sun shone through the Eftnitteas. From her came the lirtA suggestion as to tihe true character of t'he lias coprolites, a puzzling kinid of fosail stone. When, at 2 o'clock an the morning, the idea flashed upon him that the footprints of the Oheirotiheriuirn —since fcund to be a large four-footed animal—were tortoiselike, he awoke his (wii.fe from sleep. She hastened down to make dtoug/h upon the kitdbeu table, while he fetdhed in a tor-taif-e from the garden, and tihe pair soon eurw wioh joint delight tlhat itf. impressions on the paste v/ere almost identical with those upon the slabs. • »' « * * •

The Tattered One; : " I hear from the villagers, madam; that you are an expert rx-vdlew/oman." Lady (highly gratified): "Well, tuy good man, I ean do most tilings in uhat line." The Tattered One : "Then maybe you could stitch a shirt on this wri.-;tband."