GAIETY GIRLS AS ANGELS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144085, 2 May 1913, Page 7

GAIETY GIRLS AS ANGELS.

MISSIONARY’S EXPERIENCES. Amusing missionary stories were told by the Rev. Fred. T. Patou, son of the famous Dr. Paton, at a gathering in London a few weeks ago. On one occasion during his_ twenty years’ service as a missionary in the New Hebrides a parcel of books arrived from Homo, and while he was reading a letter the native children who swarmed round the house got hold of an illustrated paper. They were attracted by tho picture of some Gaiety girls in the act of dancing with their heels as high as their heads. One bright youth remarked; “That’s what the missionary told us about last Sabbath. Those are the angels climbing up and down Jacob’s ladder.” Mr. Paton said that once he was ambushed by a tribe ofl savages whose warlike propensities were quelled when they knew he was unarmed. The chief told him he was out to shoot a few men, but as he could shoot them at any time they could wait for another time. Before he left they made him a pudding which was 13ft. round. It was an inch thick at the side and a foot deep in the middle, tho ingredients consisting of a pig and some fowls, which were covered with leaves and baked on top and below with hot stones. He was about to begin to eat it with a wooden spoon, when a native told him something which made him halt. This spoon (which Mr. Paton showed his audience) had been used for eight generations as the sacred spoon of the tribe, and had figured in all their eannibal. feasts. Once it was white, but human blood, grease, and dirt had turned it to tho colour of ebony.