AN ADAMLESS EDEN

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6059, 4 November 1920, Page 2

AN ADAMLESS EDEN

ISLET INHABITED ONLY BY GIRLS There is a re-al Adarniess Eden in the So:,tn Sca>s—an islet upou winch n ycu'.-g Ladies' school ilias bwun estabiished, i,n charge of a ituly missionary, and liom which niadcs have been absolutely 'excluded with the exception of one emied individual who esteems it a privilege to act ;i& "hewer af wood and drawer of water" for this maidenly community.

Tl'o young Undies, iiumbieiring betlween 70 and 80, ar e Prom the best 'aut-ivc lamjiies on the Mice and "Union Islands, and the islet upon which' they dwell and' where, according to the ti/isMorary, "h.ippiuuess reigns supit me"—is Papaelise, in the Funafuti Lagoon Ml ice Islands, the headquarters in that group of the Londcu Missionary Society. Miss J'o'liffe, tho London Missionary Society's representative in the E'.lice Islands, while at Sydney, •on her way to E'Jg'aid on furlough, described the EHice Idnders, in an iiiforvicw ■with a lie:aid representative, a.s a quiet, peace, b'e foil;, who were absolutely honest 'the curlew hell wn.«. she s.ni.d, rung fvcry 'night ;it Funafuti at SJ | o'clock. At that hour all gbod people wore supposed t'o he indoors. 'J he people (»]■• Funafuti and of the Ell.'ice Islands generally were very law-abiding, she said, and in ninny respects led exemplary lives. The girls at the school of Pa pa el iso displayed keen intelJigfnce. Four couples from the group would arrive by the John "Williams on her next ! visit to Sydney, and proceed i)o Papua ! as missionaries.