THE ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER.
I IE KODIAK
rARTIST ORPHaNAGI
1 ir Wok kicks, ou salary, are
l,e" ^ Learn, Supei inteiiilent,
v‘ >. *hu Viiluir, M»>. Learn.
i ik IVki-osk of the )rph..n^eis
l" t> ovule i Ch.isti.iii hone ami
t .i 11 in^ for destitute « hildien.
* f -’ Kkco i»s show that 6y males
*.ii 1 o y e Males (ti tal i y>i have been
-e eived, | mh es i»:nl 42 females
lisvh .rjed i !.y cortip.etion of time
ai. i by d :ath ). .’5 uia.es ..nd 28 ie
Mi.lies now en.o led.
Fo.n v si \ Convkkts u..ve been
i 11 .mcised and re* eived in the h.iri h.
T 1H Sr
Wo nan <
Mission S<
/75,Ai-°o .1
1’1*okt is p.ovided lv The
American baptist Home
>ciety whiih <\-penls here
vear. It is helped that the
OoNTRiun roNs marked A aska"
will eventually sulli.e, Theiefoie,
Kv kkv Si xinv-snimi, and every
Ndi.v; I’kom.k's Sociktv in I lie
l.iml IS urKe<i to make an annual con
tnlmtion. Help from all sour res
IS gratefully accepted. fHis is the
dni.v »\i>tist mission home for
Alaskan children. Ami the
<*N'I.Y Iltnisi' O.ti'it vy k'.ij mi the
Pacific Co vst.
>ctttl all CoNTKlnr'Tloxs front New
j‘.v ll.Axi) to M ss (Vkrtrcdk 1,.
IMVIS, Ford Bui 1 liner. Hoslon, Mass.
k ox tit i hit i o ns from other
pots of the country are to le sent to
.'Irs» A. if. Barber, 2969 Vernon \ve.
Lhiougo, III.
I lie mission has two new ^rand
chill.en. Kohli.. ami (iriue Ainok
l'ok are the happy father and mother
of a baby hoy, wh >.11 they have named
Joseph because lie was horn on Joe.
< * iffherd’s birthday.
()n Nov. 23rd. the home of Wasook
and Annie Ballano^off was gladdened
by the birth of a dau ghter whom they
have named Ivate.
A number of friends have asked us
about tlie length of tilt* daylj'ht he e
in winter ami summer, and wbat
fruits and other kinds of food van le
obtained in this p..rt of the eounfy.
'1 he time etween sun ri-e and sun
set about Ju ic twenty-fifth i- nine
teen and a q ia> te. b »u s It l" e ai y
much longer th.n ib .t, «.s the twi
liifht and the dawn meet and there is
no t ea I dar k ness
In winter, about Jan, 1st, it is qui'e
the reverse. The actual tine be
tween be j i-dujr and setting of the
sun is six anil a half hours, but «.s tin
sun diops behind the mountains ear y
in the .iMeriuioii our daylight is ve»y
mudi shortened; and when i.s d«ok.
its dark I he.e is no twilight lb <w
ever there is a j^ood de.«l of moon
light. • art of eat h month the moon
ri-es .a dusk and shines tui^htly until
the sun is up. It may he only im..4
ination, hut the moonlight sec., s
brighter he.e than in the States,
The one wild fruit that grows un m
abunbuatly in this part of Ah -ka \>
the Melena J’criy. It looks .ike i
g eat big r.-pherry. hut it does n*
t..ste ike one. Vlauy people do rot
liive the.n at first hut they soon grow
very fond of them. We have ..Is
lilue Bersies. Wild Cranberiies. 1 ew
Berries rind .alena Beriies.
Cultivated f. nils do not flourish
here. If the season should be ve.v
peasant a few Strawheriies might
U‘°'v in a very sheltereu place.
There have I een Raspl erry and Cur
rent bustles in the mission garden for
some years, lint the seasons are too
short and cold for the fruit to mature
A nu in her of fiuit tiees too we t
planted sotne years ago, i ut have not
grown perceptibly.
The most of the fruit we eat grow
in tin cans and wooden boxes, « ml i.^
gathered at the store.