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Ttuntt POrmitn dirt Write* of Ablu. . lion* Which Occupy tho Best Port of a Day. Accotnpanied by young girls of my own age and by the elderly women who were to bathe us, 1 was taken to tho baths. A narrow stairway led na under ground to a star-shaped room. Its walls were entirely covered by tiles painted and ornamented with Persian writing. Chattering like sparrows, we undressed. Then we went into another room, where walls of heated stone surrounded a pool of warm water. We sat on the edge of the pool and dabbled our toes In It while the bath attendants let down vur uair. iiitii v?t" pasocu IUIV u iwuj sb large and somber as a mosque. There the attendants soaped our hair. When the soap was washed away the lislr was dipped In henna and left wrapped In reddening cloths. After the henna, which strengthens the roots, women rinsed the hair far an hour and covered It with curdled m??K, which nourishes the scalp. After an- other Interval came another hour of rinsing and an hour of drying and combing. Then the hair, moistened In rose water, was braided. It was noon, and in another room luncheon awaited us on little copper platters. We went happily, er.ger to taste the cooler air and to feel beneath our' bodies the freshness of divnns covered with woven straw. To our dismay, the attendants feared our being chilled, and compelled us to return to tne natnroom to eat .our dessert, goblets of sherbet and trays of fruit. Then we rested for a while, Stretched out on the hot ruga moist with steam, while the servants brought the kalian. For the first time, I tested the scented smoke drawn from through the bubbling water perfumed with attar of rosos. It brought me a delicious sensation of age and experience. I lay on the rugs, drawing deep breaths of the smoke and letting them curl * from my lips to mingle with the steam In the rnys of colored light, and ; realized all the dignity of my fifteen y. years. But In a little while t felt dizzy nnd gladly let the water-pipes be tnken away by the attendants. Our bodies \fefe abandoned to vigorous old women, who massnged every muscle, dipped us Into worm water and then into cold, soaped us till we lay in mountains of foam, rubbed us with curdled milk, rinsed us for two . .. hours In water scented with herbs, and at Ifcst. with the words, "Ya Allah!" hllmrpd ite tn psrnnp Intn n lnriro nnnl of perfumed water. * They had every difficulty imaginable In persuading us to leave the pool two hours later, because, sitting on the edge of the basin and eating oranges, the young girls were telling ueb amusing stories that we were exhausted with laughter.. Night had covered the. glass dome with darkness, and the. lanterns wer^*.lighted long heifore the attendants cbaxed and scolded . us Into our clothes.?Asia Magazine. ' " Ink Froze Upon Her Pen. Mrs. Spencer Jones, who is accompanying her husbnnd, the well-known HStronomer. to Christmas island to prepare for September's total eclipse of the sun, will undertake Important | v Jg .. ;- */-i * -iIfy:'-_v1'^/ ^:gS?.*J,{ ?f<y ' KHfeb | polPonTfl^^iMBi presses. leprosy, rape fformc, bubonic plague. conjunctivitis pnnim >r complaint, tuberculosis, gonorrhea. green pus. enteritis, trachoma rtr.vslpelns. gas gangrene, ctomncb worms, pin worms, ophthalmia. ODD TRADE SIGNS ~ ? Signals That Puzzle American Visitors in Europe. In many streets of continental Europe are still to be seen signs, or unwritten words, which have no such cleur significance as the hat before a hatter's shop or the boot before a cobbler's. Certain of these signs are so obscure in origin and meaning that no one could understand tliem without reference to tradition or the passers-by. Everybody In this country knows rnat a pole painted with spirals of red, white and blue Is the usuul sign before a barber's shop. But how few know that the stripes are supposed by some persons to represent surgical bandages? That was when barbers performed simple" surgical operations. Before many borber shops in Europe small brass 'plates are hung. These are oval, concave and curiously scooped out on one side, as If a piece had been bitten out of It. This represents the old-fashioned cupping dish which barber chlrurgeons, or surgeons, used in taking blood from patients. Who would naturally suppose that mats of straw, loosely plaited and fastened to the corners of buildings signify, that oysters are there for sale? But this is their meaning. In Europe oysters are never eaten except raw. and in mild weather they are exposed on the sidewalk beside u man ready to open them for customers. In bad weuther, when the oysters OVA nnl- nvnoon/1 nn^-nno wIia nnn cnn/1 MI \ IIV * I AJ/WCCU, Jit I Ct'IlO n IM/ V.UI1 I VHU mny find thera mentioned among the nntnes of fish on the shop's placards, but the mats are then expected to Inform the Illiterate on the point. The old proverb, "Good wine needs no bush." refers to the custom of putting a bush before u wine shop door as a d|gn. Sometimes a branch is placed above the door instead. Often no name or any other sign Is displayed by the wine seller. Such a bush may be of auy tree common to the locality. In the North It Is often spruce or pine or a huge branch of mistletoe. In the South it Is almost always olive or myrtle, and generally renewed on fete days. The bushes have acquired the nanie "bouchons" in France and this is applied to small taverns also. The ancient usage of hanging a bush over the door is obsolete in cities, but was doubtless the origin of the liabit of placing small evergreens in portable wooden boxes outside cafes and restaurants in Paris and other large communities. A common sight In Paris is that of horses' led through the streets with bnnchts b/'stra'w Had to their tails iThls signifies that t^ese animals are for sale. In fact, a bunch of straw tied to anyAobJect can always be interpreted to mean that the present owner Is ready to enter into negotiations with any one who takes a fancy to his property. Thus, as he passes along the streets one sees baby carriages, bicycles or any second-hand furniture with the bunch of straw attacheik lie who I may read such a sign even better a written or printed curd. Berves another end us well, for tlsements can be taxed, while Is no tax on n bunch of strnw. ranee, unless an owner has a ir license to sell, he must place 'ernment stamp on any sign or lg hung at the door. In the way even a dressmaker or shoe* r In want of apprentices must i government stamp on any nolo displayed. eurlous Instance of this use of used to be seen near English ourts of the Eighteenth century, willing to ball criminals or debtere seen parading with straw In Tthoes, thus signifying that they 1 bail for pay. Thns worthless came to be called1 "straw ball." w the Caribs Bury Their Dead. i Caribs, the aboriginal Inhablof the West Indies, once exceednumerous. are pow virtually exas an ethnic group. At present are practically no pure-strain s In the islands except in Domlca. Is chiefly due to the treatment i the native population received e hands of the Spanish and the persecutions and abuses by the French. The slave trade began e islands soon after the coming i! umbos. s chief deities among the natives good and bad spirits, and they worsidped tlie sun. moon and The Pee-ay-mnn. a kind of rer. was tlie medicine man of the and he effected Ids cures by Ivoking the good spirit of some bird nnimnl, mennwhlle making dlaboi>il noises and stinking the "sluiencf" a small calabash. emptied of 5 contents and filled with hard seeds id provided with a handle. The dead sre r.otv burled. Juit inclosed in a immock and suspended hetueen two rest trees.?Detroit News. Knew How He Felt. We had just had dinner. Donald as whining- around saying he want* I an ice-cream cone. I toid him he had .hist had din>r and begun enumerating everything h? had eaten, when Ileth, a neighbor's c did, who was listening attentively said: "You know, that's just the \vnj i with children. They are never sot[ tefled."?-Chicago Trlbuue FROM BUCKETSHOP TO JAIL Tlie first conviction In New York state of a bucketshop operator, and bis sentence to Sing Sing prison for grand larceny, marks, in th9 opinion of the New York Herald, "wnftt ought to be the start of a long proyssion ot such creatures, little andxblg,*o state's prison." Moreover, agrees the Philadelphia Public Ledger, "it shows what can be done If the authorities and the defrauded public co-operate." Financial writers have estimateck that the bucketshops of New York city despoil the people of the United States of ut ipnKt- xinomnnnn ,, vtio r roni n elr o tlin Literary Digest. Knrly in the year thousands of victims revealed their losses to the district attorney of New York, who Immediately began prosecutions. At one time there were more than thirty firms under Investigation, with totnl losses estimated up to $I>0t000,000. The first conviction was made possible, as the Herald explains, under a ruling of th'e United States Supreme court which refuses to allow a federal court bankruptcy proceedings to "be a shield for such flagrant crookedness as bucketshop operations." Since it formerly was the custom of bucketshop operators to tuke refuge in bankruptcy proceedings and receiverships, and thus keep their books beyond the reach of prosecuting attorneys, the handicap under wh#Nf these officers worked prior to the Supreme court ruling can easily be seen. What is a bucket-shop operator, or "bucketeer," as he is often called? The staid and formal definition of the dictionary is that he Is one wbo'pperates a shop which uses the terms and outward forms of the exchanges, hut who has no Intention to deliver or receive securities. Newspaper editors are less charitable in their definitions. "He Is a sure-thing better," asserts the New York World, while In the qgjnion of the Providence Journal he is merely "an ordinary thief, and -Should be piwoctuicu UD SUUII. AH U1I8 puper explains: "The unwary customer takes his money to the bucketshop in the confidence that it will be used for the purchase of stock. As a rule, of course, the Intended Investment Is only a speculative and. marginal one, but if the margin is accepted as sufficient It Is the broker's duty to make the purchase. No purchases are made in a bucketshop, nor are sales. The cusj tomer pays for a service which he is | told has been rendered, but which has not been." "Unless the law takes a hand, the I operator cannot well lose," notes the I New York World. In the recent conviction and sentence of the New York "broker," who, according to the Judge, "entered into a scheme to fleece people In modest circumstances out of their hard-earned savings," a "small fish" was caught; "but," predicts the Philadelphia Public Ledges,. ?wh??n the prosecuting authorities hiflc^hito' court some of the big men, and Vhake a serious effort to Convict them of bucketi ing, this sort of thievery \vil4 not be so common as it is today." Japanese Courtesy. Social service is manifestly a very real service in Japan, where n most solicitous interest in the welfare ol the public is shown even by municipal authorities. "In ttie most unexpected places," says Miss Mary Page, a Y. W. G. A. worker in Kyoto, Japan "we find a keefi enthusiasm for every variety of service wh^ch tends to I heighten the standard of living. For I instance, when it rains lierc^ in Kyoto our police boxes imng out little signs. 'We lend umbrellas,' and the poor, benighted souls who have ventured out 1 without t heir picturesque naln para sols are able to go home safe and dry ?free of charge! On the street corner the other day I saw a hi cycle rack equipped with all sorts of tools and pumps labeled, 'Please Use Freely,'" Quite In keepingi with the general attitude of quaint courtesy Is the act of the keeper of-grass plots in'one Japanese city, who, not carinp to hurt his fellow citizens by a peremptory "Keep Off the fJrass," put up a sign which read: "Much more better that you go round." Early Risers. Thomas Smith, an Illinois farmer living southwest of Vlncennes.* boasted of being the earliest riser In his neighborhood. "I am always up before three in the morning," Smith is said to have told his neighbor, Wilson Bow' man. Bowman said be was always up 'before that time, and had a part of his chores done. Smith, thinking Ills neighbor was a member of {he Annnlas dub. decided to do a little Investigating on his own account, add a few mornings inter got up at two o'clock and went to Bowman's home. He rapped on the back door and Mrs. Bowman opened it. "Where is your husbandV" asked Smith, expecting to tlnd bis neighbor still In bed. "He was around here early In the morning." answered Ids wife, "but I don't know where he is now." Smith, -thorough! v disgusted, returned home, vowing thai lie would he careful of his boasting thereafter.? Indianapolis News. "Silent Rooms" for Testing Motors. A "silent room." designed to enablt the workmen to detect any defect cuus ing excess friction, or a break in flit smooth"thinning purr of the motor, he fore !ts shipment is an innovation de veiop?d by 'a large manufacturer ?! automobiles. The room is designed after the mi inner of the chambers usee in pi onogrj ph factories for r.he crea tlon of records, absolutely protected i against outside sounds?Jktchansr*. I I I S DUTY TO ANIMALS Movement Seen as Awakening of World Conscience. "For centuries tlie world progressed Slowly toward more -civilized condl tions, but consideration for the suffering of nniinals received scant attention," snid Dr. W. O. Stlllman, president of the American Humnne association, in a recent summing up of the mission of Immune societies, according to the New York Times. "Man had not fully developed in a moral way or recognized and relieved the sufferings of brutes or prevented the infliction of the/most diabolical cruelties. Way hack In the days of ancient Babylon, some 4.000 years hefore Christ, there were laws passed to protect animals, but this was done only from the standpoint of safety and protection for the owner. "One hundred years ago. in 1822, the first law for the protection of animals from cruelty, for their own sake, was passed by the British parliament. Since then the movement lias spread throughout the world. The conscience of mankind 1ms become thoroughly aroused. It is plainly seen to be a duty of man to prevent unnecessary suffering. This is a big task. The world now recognizes its duty in tills respect. Civilized society, in every country, has placed statutes on its law hooks prohibiting tlie cruel treatment of subhuman Ventures. "The object *>f all tills has not been wholly unselfish or altruistic. It was felt that the persons who practice cruelty would not be? pood fathers, husbands or citizens. Cruelty acts reflexly on character. Jt not only renders man callous in his finer faculties. h\it also,corrodes and brutalizes him. Society. In self-protection, has felt ttint it must suppress cruelties to man or bjenst. The conviction has been reached that the development of moral character is the hlphest duty of man." It is only within recent years that the churches have recognized the im| portance of this work. Doctor Stillinan said. They are gradually adopting the belief that the movement in favor of humanity is one which vitally affects social service. "The churches are penerall.v finding a broader path to pursue." lie declared. "I believe that this is a most w'se course on the part of all religious denominations and that they will be of til* most use to the world by broadening their work and making It intensely practical. As president of the American Humane association and also of the International Association of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. I beg to assure all thnt the co-operation of the churches is slm cerely appreciated and welcomed. It Is ehtnbstly hoped that <*ver.v church will mnke a part of its social service work an effort to promote the movement in behalf of better protection for | children and animals. "Looking toward tills end. humane | education is befng introduced into the i schools of the United States. Already j 20 stntes hove passed humane educni rion laws. When ali states have such ; laws and humane education is unl| form I y taught In puhllc and private I schools, when teachers' institutes and j training schools for teachers have in| structed their memhers so that better : school service in this respect will he , rendereiU and the character of the child will he altered so as to respond : to the higher conceptions of public ; duty, there will l.e a wonderful improvement in all social conditions and* i in Int'erriatlonal relations. Perhaps this will introduce the reign of peace on ! earth and pood will toward man and beast." I Out of Reach of Puny Man. In Central Africa, as in he great valley of the Amazon and the hinterlands of the Ouinnns up in the northeast of South America, there is in the j dense roof of the lofty jungle over'-head another world, unknown, unseen and forever far out of the reach of ! puny man, that is populated by a host : of creatures that never come down to | earth. The African natives tell stranpe ami gruesome stories about some of these living things. For instance, they declare there is an animal, something of the leopard kind, hut striped like a zebra, that cannot face tlie daylight, so used is it to the twilight overhead. Selous, the great hunter and explorer, saw an apron made of its skin, which HUB U'h/illl' litilllrn nn>' hud ever seen. This animal is particularly fierce und anile, attacks the natives from behind and then, having bitten them at the hack of the neck, sucks their brains out as the weasel does the blond of a rabbit. > Bolshevist "Loot."^ The total value of the confiscated Jewels which the Bolshevik! have succeeded In selling is estimated by M. Rosenthal at between .'{00,000,000 and 400.(i00.000 francs (normally $00,000.. ; 000 to $80,000,000). This includes ! Jewels sold at Iteval, those given in I part payment to English manufacturers. those disposed of before the or ganizution of the big Bolshevist Jewelselling campaign, those turned over to the Polish government to cover war i costs after the Bolshevist defeat h. fore Warsaw, and those sent into Ital> Germany and France to be sold fo I the benefit of Bolshevist propaganda 1 lie estimates the value of the jewel; sold by Russian refugees at a slmlbn j figure. I QUITE AT HOME IN JUNGLE ' Guy Wernham, a London boy nntI urulist, who Is not yet sixteen years of j ape, has traveled 8.000 miles to collect j ' specimens for the natural history department of the British museum. He Is now In the junple?In the French Cnmeroons, which is one of the richest <i?lds in the world for natural history specimens, according to London j Tit-Bits. The boy is n flnme of enthusiasm , ( for everything scientific, and, as his | father, Herbert Fuller Wernhnni, D. ! ' Sc., F. L. S? is an expert on tropical | plants, Guy has been-In the right at- , Kmosphere for acquiring knowledge. i Familiar with much of the proced- I | lire and appliances of research work, I , he has a ferocious curiosity concern- ! ing all forms of life?botanical moth. i bird and beast. He devours Information on nature from books and life, and packs It away in mental plgeon; boles. Writing from Klat. Guy said: "You would be surprised to bear tbe noise made by insects at night. Tbere are millions of prassboppers and crickets, j which keep up a constant sinpinp. 1 made by rubbinp tbeir bind leps. which j are made like rasps, against tbeir ' winp-cases." j lie described tbe jungle as "a huge I hothouse, but with an infinitely greater variety of plants, with tbe addition of birds, animals, lizards and butter' flies rivaling tbe flowers in brightness of colors." Toward tbe end of bis journey, on a rough bush track, be was picked up by Doctor Webber of tbe American ijiis, slon. who was riding a motorcycle. It was a strange meeting. Tbe natives were very curious about Guy. nnd bad to be assured again and again by Mr. Buck, of the mission, that "he's a real boy." At Bitje Guy will attend to bis collecting. but already a Journey across Nigeria is projected. He wants any\ thing interesting?bats, birttertlies. ] birds, squirrels, weasels nnd plants of all kinds. He goes out at night and I "sugars" tbe trees, collecting tbe intnvlt'lltf'd lnv:p/?lo f rnnt tlmtn #1?i * I j the day. Though vessels leave Punln f??r I,ivI erpoo) almost every week while men j In the interior, owing to the bush difj ficufties. can neither receive nor send mails except at intervals of two or three months. But this Is not good enough for fluy, who is planning to J set up a portable wireless apparatus so thtri he can send and receive from Duala. and so get news to and from home quickly. Ouv can speak and read French nnd has a knowledge of geology. He is able to draw a bird or plant from life | so faithfully that a naturalist can j identify it. Pandora's Box. Pngdnrn, in the . mythology of the Greeks and' ltonuuis, was the first j woman. She was made in Heaven, and i every god contributed something to j perfect her, and this is the significance | of her name. Pandora, the "all gifted." Willie she was in tlie home of Epi! niethevis she discovered a jar?tlie ; famous "Pandora's hox"?*in which j were contained a number of noxious qualities which the Titan had decided not to make use of when he gave man : Ids set of personal characteristics. One | day Pandora opened tlie lid to see what the Jar contained and a multitude nf unpleasant matters flow out, burdening the human race with many disorders of the body and equally unfortunate distempers of the mind. She attempted to put back the lid, hut lie- i fore she could do so alPtlie plagues hud escaped. Only one tiling remained in llie jar and, when that was exanrtned, | it was found to lie hope, which ever , since lias prevailed to lighten the i hardships which the remainder of tlie ; Jar's contents have brought upon mau- I L 1...1 j Dangling Under a Balloon. i Three men were holding a balloon i while it was being tilled with gas at j .Maine-et-I.oIre, France, when it sutl- ' ; denly shot aloft. One man let go his i i hold when he ?ns hut a few feet from I the ground and was uninjured. The j second man held until he had been i carried nearly KM) feet in the air and ! , then dropped, lie was killed. The j third man became entangled in the i drag rope and was carried skyward j i dangling 300 feet undev the runaway | I balloon and was entirely helpless. An < j airplane was summoned and sent to | the rescue and when he iirst sighted i the runaway it was at least G.000 feet , j In the air. By the time he had over| taken it. the balloon started to de- | | seend and It landed its unwilling pas- , ; senger in a tree. His injuries were I slight but bis experiences were thrill- j | lnp German Time in England. The extent to which clocks have J been imported into Great Britain from , i Germany during the first four mouths ' ! of the present year has been remarkable. Out of an aggregate number ! of 1,104,732 complete clocks from till ; countries, no less than l,lir>,014 come Hum ueriiiuuy, or cnnsiuernmy more ( than 40,000 nbove the number re; celved during the game period in 1013, while for the same four months of 1920 the Imports of complete clocks werta 000,773 and 081,882 In 1921. i A Froit, "Mrs. Newrtch expected that her daughter when she brought her 'out i would he quite n society bud. but the society lenders took no notice of her." "Ah, nipped her hopes In the bud, so to speak."?Boston Transcript. -I.l MlWuI Ml IdVVI I ? I. I ... Ml J I I & END OLD UUSlOM \ Canadian Authorities Forbid Further Potlatches. : I Indians of the Pacific Coast Resort to Courts in Effort to Retain Ancient Rights. One of the most unusunl legal buttles in Canadian history has Just been stuped on the I'mlfle const of British Columbia, where some forty of the Kwnkiutl tribe lmve lteen convicted of holding n "potlatrh." nnd some of them sentenced to two months' Imprisonment. Among those convicted wns a. squaw, the lirst in the history of BritIcli Pnllimliln iji The potlatch is one of the outstanding events of life :imons the Indians of the Pacific const, according to Francis Pickle In popular Mechanics Magazine. hut very little has been written of It. and tlds mostly without understanding of the deep social significance of the feast, dnncinp, ceremonies and pift-pivlnp which are a parr of the ever/ called potlatch. The government's plnclnp restraining laws apainst the holding of potlatches was on the ground that Indians on these occasions Impoverished themselves by giving away all their earthly possessions, often the savings of years; for when an Indian pave n potlatch. he did give away everything he owned to members of his tribe whom ,he had invited. In some cases, where a very great chief pave a potlatch. people of other tribes, often hundreds of miles away, were invited. In the years before the white man came, su' h feasts lasted from ten days to a month. Hut though the government was partly right in its claim, the potlatch presents a paradoxical situation, for in giving away nil lie possessed an Indian was at the same time acquiring a vested interest?the potlatch was nothing less tlian 11 life-insurance nre niiuin. old-age pension and endowment fund nil rolled Into one. In fact, the Indians ltnd In operation u mutualbenefit system long before the white man. After the coming of the white man, the potlntches changed eonsldernbly. Tnstend of furs, the Indians began plving blankets. Hour, guns nnd ammunition bought from the Hudson's Bay company. As time went on they took full advantage of the wonders of the white man, so In recent years potlatches have presented one of the most Incongruous sights perhaps the world has ever seen. There came Into existence sewing-machine and furniture and gramophone potlntches; potlatches of cooking utensils and clothing; boots and clothes; frequently furs and some other articles. But the chief potlntches in recent times have been grnmophonp. furniture and utensils. The writer has been fortunate In obtaining the most recent photos of what may he perhaps the last potlatches ever held. These photos also show the march of the wild men to the grent ceremonial hall. Should the potlatches he stopped forever It Is hard to foretell what will be the effect on the Indians. It Is a fact that quite aside from the vested Interest acquired by giving a potlutch, the giving of such gave the giver immense prestige. It was the highest peak of social ambition for a coast Indian, striven for as eagerly as a nouveau rlche trying to break into New York's "four hundred." Looked at from this point of view, the taking away of it may rob the Indians of initiative and ambition to earn money to hold one?another paradox in view of the government passing a prohibitive law because the potlatch impoverished the giver. Unhappy French Colony. "Since the doctor came here we have Been the most wonderful things happen. First of all he kills the sick people; then he cures them, and after that lie wakes them up again." So a native girl wrote of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, author of "On the K<lge of the Frimeval Forest." who went out in to the Ogowe lowlands of the French colony of Gnlioon, there to maintain for four and a half years a surgical and medical clinic for the negroes, says tile Detroit News. "Our country devours its own children." was the sage remark of an old chief. A vicious climate, a plentiful lack of proper food, overindulgence in rum and strong tobacco were killing off the natives rapidly when Doctor Schweitzer arrived. One of the worst problems was chronie nicotine poisoning, producing acute constipation and nervous disturbances. The tobacco comes from America in the form of leaves, frightfully strong, and is so highly prized liy the natives that it is used as monev?a sineln b.nf in??on.r two tint* pineapple*. Misdirected Talent. "I will now read to the gentlemen of the jury a few of the defendant's Impassioned letters." remarked the lawyer for the fair plaintiff. The defendant groaned aloud. "Did 1 hear a noise in court?" asked the judge. "You did. your honor." said the unhappy defendant. "Little did 1 dream when I won prizes In school for writing the heat compositions that It would ever lead nie to this!"?Birmingham Age-Hera Id. # .Vadk.uui?V he\'T Know "what to do when 1 call on a sielc, fsden'd. Johnson?Well, it's always as well to remember not to look surprised because lie Is still alive. *