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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, August 26, 1937
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.00
Six Months .75
Three Months .50
i High-Producing Hens
Make Owners Money
Clemson, Aug. 33.—An average
egg production of 11.3 eggs per hen
for the month and a labor income
of 11.4 cents per hen was shown
in recent reports from 78 farms
with demonstration flocks totaling
9,580 hens. The results show that
the high-producing hens make
money for their owners, says P. H.
Gooding, extension poultryman.
The hens ate 26 cents worth of
feed each, and returned a total
income of 40.9 cents, including
sales of eggs and poultry, leaving
an income above feed cost of 14.9
The Prize
By MARCIA DINSMORE
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
“I Want My Man
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By MARTHA SAMPSON
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
Good July Production
FY»r All c cents per bird for the month. The
±JFail J average monthly charge for in-
I terest on investment, depreciation
Clemson, Aug. 16.—The herd of on equipment, and all other costs
19 Jerseys owned by Wheeler j except feed, is approximately 3.5
P-rcthers. Saluda, led all other ; ^ents per hen, according to records.
South Carolina dairy cows on test
for production in July, as shown
in the report of R. L. Steer, in
charge of Advanced Registry test
ing for the South Carolina Experi
ment Station.
This herd averaged 50.63 pounds
ihis deducted from the income
above feed cost, leaves the labor
income of 11.4 cents per hen.
Highest egg producers in the va
rious groups were as follows:
Flocks with less than 50 hens,
J. D. Stansell of Pelzer; flocks with
Clemson, Aug. 23.—A total of
$7,447,294.36 has been paid in
grants to South Carolina farmers
who cooperated in the 1936 Ag
ricultural Conservation Program,
says R. W. Hamilton, state admin
istrative officer, AAA. Payments
of grants for 1936 have all now
been made, he states, except a
few which for any reason neces
sitated legal procedure for settle
ment.
The total number of 1936 appli
cations paid was 71,740, making an
seventh place being won by the 18 average of $103.81 per application.
J. Dowtin- of McCormick.
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Payment Of AAA
Grants For 1936
About Complete
of butterfat per cow, and four of 51 to 200 hens, J. H. Crews of
these Jerseys were among the 10 Latta; flocks with 201 to 500 hens,
highest individual producers for j Mrs. Ruth McManus of Lancaster;
the month; Standard Volunteer fi 0C k S w ith 501 hens or more, P.
Jewett placing first with 76.88
pounds, Queen Lillian Ruth third
with 73.73 pounds. Peer’s Royal
Onyx seventh with 63.69 pounds,
and Standard Lillian tenth with
61.24 pounds.
The Wheeler Jerseys were fol
lowed closely by four Guernsey
herds with these records: second
place, 50.38 pounds averaged by 7
cows of L. E. Stroud, Great Falls;
third, 49.89 pounds by 9 cows, W.
E. Verdery & Son, Orangeburg;
fourth, 48.61 pounds by 10 cows, W.
C. King, Bishopville; fifth, 48.43
pounds by 19 cows, J. B. Guess, Jr.,
Denmark. ,
The sixth herd average, 47.55
pounds, was made by another Jer
sey group, the six cows owned by
Neal W. Workman, Newberry.
Then came four more Guernsey
herds to complete the list of 10
highest herd averages for July:
Guernseys of Pedigreed Seed Co.,
Hartsville, with 45.72 pounds;
eighth, 22 cows of N. G. Roosevelt,
Moncks Comer, 44.92 pounds;
ninth, 12 cows of J. B. Roddey, Co
lumbia, 43.94 pounds; tenth, 6 cows
of Bureau of Dairy Industry, 41.99
pounds. I
Since each interested producer in
cluding share-croppers received an
individual check, the payments in
volved the handling of 115,070
checks. . __ 7
“It is interesting to study the
costs involved in the administra
tion of the entire 1936 program,
Some high records for Holsteins f rom the signing of .the work ^heets
were made by: Boast Ormsby Ann j in the spring of 19 3 6 by the com _
Artis, owned by the State Hospital, I mun ity committeemen on through
Columbia, ranking second among the final che cking and forwarding
individuals with 75.75 pounds;
Ormsby Colantha Dee, owned by
Clemson College, placing fourth
among individuals * with 72.90
pounds; and Mamsell Ona Ann
Beulah, another State Hospital
Holstein, sixth, 66.59 pounds.
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Make Good Pastures
For The Dairy Cows
of the application for payment
from the county office to the State
Office”, says Mr. Hamilton. “These
costs include all the costs of meas
uring the land and all other costs
incident to the handling of the
applications within the county.
The county offices carried out their
administrative duties at a remark
ably low percentage cost for ex
penses of only 5.64 per cent. The
additional administrative costs,
which include the auditing, check-
Clemson, Aug. 14. — Improved' in S. certifying for payment, and
pasturage judiciously used is nec- j P a y men t in the State Office, were
essary in economic milk produc- done at a cost of only one per cent
tion, say C. G. Cushman and T. F. °* the total amount of the grants.”
Cooley, extension dairy specialists,' jxj————
advising that late summer and T
early fall are good seasons to begin xiiLicasc
work on building or Improving pas- j yield Of Com And
“Dairy cows require a certain
definite amount of feed nutrients'
each day. This requirement is in'
proportion to the live weight and
the milk production of the
Cotton In South
County Agent R. D. Suber, in dis-
in- cussing the 1937 Agricultural Con-
dividual, and must be met by the servation Program, pointed out the
daily feed supply to prevent a loss importance of winter legumes in
in body weight, a loss in produc- the farming system of the South,
tion, or both”, the specialists state, and especially in McCormick coun-
“Improved pastures produce both ty.
greater yields and feed of superior “Recently”, he said, “the South-
quality to the ordinary native pas- ern Division of the' Agricultural
tures. This can be attributed to Adjustment Administration com-
the introduction and growth of a piled a summary of experiments
variety of clovers and grasses, showing the effects of legumes
rapid and tender plant growth due on the yields of cotton and corn,
to fertilization, conservation of The summary shows that cotton
moisture due to less run-off of preceded by a good winter legume
rainfall on dense sods and proper- crop yields on an average about
ly constructed terraces and con- 50 per cent more than cotton grown
tours. under similar conditions except not
“From practical experience we preceded by winter legumes. About
have found that it fiormally re- 40 per cent more corn per acre was
quires two to three years, and produced when preceded by winter
sometimes longer, to make a good legumes.
permanent pasture. Where fair “Another important considera-
native pastures are now available tion is that the seeding of winter
they may be improved in a shorter legumes is an approved soil-build-
period.” ing practice under the 1937 Agri-
Two new bulletins issued through cultural Conservation Program,
the Publications Department at and any cooperator whose seil-
Clemson College contain much in- building allowance permits may re
formation on pastures of value to celve a Class II payment for seed-
dairy farmers. These are Extension ing these legumes provided the le-
Builetin 99. Permanent Pastures for gumes are adapted to the area
South Carolina, and Station Bulle- and are seeded in accordance with
t,.n 2'j?.. Permanent ‘‘a:ture Studies good farming practices for the
In South Caiolina.
the agent state;
\/fRS. ADAMS looked meaningly
at Mrs. Todd over the head
of their neighbor, Mrs. Capps, who
was lovingly re-reading the latest
letter from her daughter, Hope. The
girl, in her usual racy style, had
joyously recounted the progress of
a beauty contest which was going
bn in the town where she was visit
ing.
“Honestly, mother, you ought to
see some of the girls who are try
ing for the beauty prize. It’s enough
to make me try myself.”
It was at this point that the mean
ing look passed between the other
women. Hope Capps, of all people
to try for a beauty prize! Thin and
gray eyed, with dark, stringy hair.
Oh, a nice girl, but, well, non
descript. The mother smiled.
When the two ladies came to see
Hope Capps about a week later, the
girl had just finished telling her
mother the story of her visit, and
was on her way out to keep an en
gagement. She paused uncertainly
on the threshold.
“I’m so sorry I must go,” she
said. “It is so good to see you
again.” From the hand which she
raised in a pretty gesture of regret,
a silver vanity case dangled. Mrs.
Adams’ eyes fixed themselves on it
curiously.
“Your beau give you that, Hope?”
she asked.
“Heavens, no,” laughed Hope.
“None of my boy friends is so de
voted as that. I got it for a prize.”
She dashed off with a final wave
of her hand.
For once neither of the visitors
had a word to say. Not before Mrs.
Capps, certainly. But out on the
street again their tongues wagged
freely. '
“A prize! That skinny child get
a beauty prize!” gasped Mrs.
Adams.
Mrs. Todd shook her head. “In
my day she would’t even be called
pretty. But they judge differently
now.” She considered. “Her eyes
are rather nice, though. And she's
graceful, too.”
“Her hair looks pretty well
bobbed, though I never supposed it
would,” conceded Mrs. Adams.
“Here comes your Ted. I suppose
you’re going to the dance tonight,
Ted.” v
The boy halted his hasty stride
and shook a gloomy head. “Nope.
Girl friend went back on me.”
“Get another,” advised his moth
er. “Why not ask Hope Capps?”
Ted was scornful. “Dumbbell,”
was his verdict.
“Maybe,” said Mrs. Adams, “but
she won a beauty prize, just the
same.”
“Oh, come!” The boy was in
credulous.
“She did,” asserted his mother.
The boy paused. His eye strhyed
to the Capps porch and he hesitated.
“I’ll stop in and say hello, anyway.”
That night Ted Todd took Hope to
the dance, much to the anger of his
girl friend and the amusement of
the other boys. But to all joking
inquiries Ted responded with a wise
smile. “You don’t appreciate home
talent,” was his only reply. And,
indeed, he had only just begun to
appreciate it himself.
Mrs. Capps may have guessed at
the reason for Hope’s sudden and
unprecedented popularity, but, if so,
she kept her own counsel. To Hope
it was the most amazing thing that
ever happened to her. Instead of
one or two straggling callers a
month, her house was fairly be
sieged with prospective boy friends.
In some way she connected this
popularity with her first appearance
with Ted Todd, and she loyally fa
vored him before all the others, to
his delight and their chagrin.
It may have been Ted’s ascend
ancy in this matter which annoyed
Mrs. Adams, for her Carl had not
met with great success in his at
tentions to Hope. At all events she
began to think the matter over, and
it occurred to her that there may
have been some mistake.
“Hope, my dear,” she began at
the first opportunity, “that is a love
ly vanity case. I didn’t know they
gave that kind of prizes, though.”
Hope laughed gleefully, waving at
Ted, who had just come in. “It
was a put up job,” she confessed.
■“You know I was the worst player
there and practically sure of getting
the booby prize. Marion wanted me
to get a nice one, so she marked
this booby prize, on the chance of
my getting it. And it was really a
lot nicer than the first prize.”
Mrs. Adams put a hand to her
head. “Booby prize for what?” she
demanded.
“Bridge, of course. What else?”
“Then you didn’t win a beauty
contest?”
“Win it? I never entered one.”
Hope flushed hotly.
Mrs. Adams could not resist a
triumphant glance at Ted. “Of
course you didn’t mean to give a
false impression,” she began sweet
ly, and stopped at a scowl from
Ted. The boy had honestly forgot
ten why he had first gone to call on
Hope and he resented the tone Mrs.
Adams was using. He had needed
no reason for his continued interest
in the girl.
“Beauty contest? Hope?” he said,
wltheringly. “Well, I should say
not!”
Mrs. Adams bit her lips angrily,
but Hope’s mother breathed a sigh
of pure relief.
T HE town gossip, known as “Old
Ironsides” because of her heavy
steel braces, seated herself in the
cane rocker in Mrs. Jones’ kitchen.
“Don’t you just love the smell of
newly-baked bread?” she asked ex
uberantly, her beady black eyes
swimming richly and her heavy
face beaming.
“Yes,” replied the demure Mrs.
Jones, lifting a pan of bread from
the stove. “But I’m rather glad to
see this is the last loaf.”
“Yes, I suppose you are,” sym
pathized the gossip. “Now you can
sit down and rest a while and we’ll
chat a bit about things.”
Little Mrs. Jones seated herself
very gently on the edge of a kitchen
chair while “Old Ironsides” rocked
expectantly. Mrs. Jones turned her
head undecidedly for a few mo
ments, and then began: “I think it’s
a shame the way the girls carry on
today. Why, you’d never believe
how silly they are until you have
one of your own. Take that Sadie
of mine, now—why, from morning
till night that child hasn’t a sen
sible thing in her head. She gets up
in the morning with just a few min
utes to spare; she slips on a few
flimsy rags and plasters on some
paint and calls herself clothed. She
drinks a cup of coffee and chews
a bit of toast and calls herself fed;
and Then she rushes off to the train
as fast as her spindle legs can take
'her. She goes into the office and
types all day; but I doubt if she puts
a moment’s thought on her work;
it’s all on parties and dances. I don’t
see how she can give a respectable
day’s work to her boss. And the
hussy tells me all the girls are the
same.” This was Mrs. Jones’ usual
tale of woe, and when she concluded
it, she heaved a sigh of relief.
The buxom gossip leaned forward
on her elbows. “It’s a fact; that’s
all they do. I’ve been around to
all the ladies of the neighborhood
and they’re all complainin’. Now
take that daughter of yourn, what is
she aimed for? It’s a shore thing
she ain’t following no career or
studyin’ for no profession. Her mot
to is that of the rest of the shop and
office girls, ‘I want my man.’
“Take that Ellie Brown from
down the road away. She was one
of those office girls, trottin* off to
the city every day, runnin’ out to
dances and parties. She kept going
pretty fast—too fast, according to
some of the stories that were going
around, outlandish stories that I
wouldn’t have told of no kith nor
kid of mine; and I’m glad I ain’t
got no chick or child in these wild
times—but she managed to hook up
with this Jimmy fellow, and let
me tell you that this Jimmy boy is
about the same type, travels fast
and light-hearted.
“They’re all up to it. It ain’t like
it use tuh be when we was young.
But the certain shame of it is that
these wild girls get the men. Now
if for some reason they stopped get
ting the men, they’d tone down a
bit; but with the men coming free
and easy, everything’s hunky-dory
with them.”
“Yes,” sighed Mrs. Jones. “I sup
pose it’s all true. I suppose that’s
all Sadie’s aiming for; and she
doesn’t care about anything else.
But I’m anxious as to whether or
not she’ll get a decent man—you
hear so much about these heart
breaking sheiks now-a-days, and
with the girls as frivolous as they
are, goodness knows what’s going
to happen to them. They’d just as
soon run off with any man that
stares at them even though it’s only
a glass eye he’s staring with.”
“Indeed!” broke in “Old Iron
sides,” “I know of one young lady
who saw a man in the subway she
thought she’d like to know. Of
course, she coqldn’t speak to him.
But this young lady had a queer
habit, unconscious, you know, of
blinking her eyes, very catchingly,
too; and, my land, that man fol
lowed her for some stations and
th^n spoke to hex* and today he’s
married to her. Queer!—Queer
world!” And the old gossip shook
her heavy head.
“I’ll admit there isn’t much for
mality to the present generation.
They point at things and babble at
the top of their voices. I asked
Sadie one day, ‘Why do you talk so
loud?’ and she came right back in
a voice that would startle a mule,
‘Oh, ma, how am I gonna make
myself heard in a wee, quiet voice
when everybody else is screeching
at the top of their voices?’
“I know several young fellows
that I’d like to have interested in
Sadie. But she doesn’t take to fhe
idea of me fixing it up for her. She
says, ‘Let me pick my own. Those
of yourn are dead ones.’ I do hope
she does pick out a good man.”
The conversation was interrupted
by the slamming of the front door.
There was a stirring of two pairs
of feet, a whispered conference.
Then a girl’s voice broke out, “Oh,
ma’s a darling.”
“Why,” gasped Mrs. Jones,
“that’s Sadie. So early in the aft
ernoon. Something must be up. Oh,
I hope it’s nothing serious.”
The curtains between the kitchen
and the living room was spread
apart and Sadie’s head appeared
with tousled hair and rouged cheeks
“Oh, mom, I want you to meet Mr.
Munton,” throwing wrde the cur
tain, “my husband. We were mar
ried this afternoon.”
'Honored for Trying to
Steal the Crown Jewels
Do you know that the Crown jew
els were stolen from the Tower of
London more than two hundred and
sixty years ago?
At that time, the jewels were kept
in a small iron cage on the lower
floor of Martin Tower, relates a
writer in Pearson’s London Weekly,
and here they attracted the atten
tion of Captain Blood, a notorious
Irish swashbuckler.
Blood disguised himself as a par
son and paid regular visits to the
Martin Tower. Soon he was friend
ly with the eighty-year-old keeper,
and suggested that a marriage
might be arranged between his
“nephew” and the keeper’s pretty
daughter.
He appointed a rendezvous for the
couple at the unromantic hour of 7
a. m., on May 9, 1671. But, instead
of the “nephew,” Blood turned up
with three lusty swordsmep, who
knocked down and gagged the old
keeper. Blood snatched the Crown,
and while one accomplice seized the
Orb with its giant ruby, another
sawed the Sceptre into three parts.
But at that very moment the keep
er’s son returned from a long cam
paign in Flanders. He gave the
alarm, and a guardsman captured
Blood at St. Katherine’s wharf.
Charles II treated the whole af
fair as a joke. Not only did he par
don Blood, but he received him into
court, and granted him an estate
in Ireland to console him for his
failure to bring off the most daring
burglary in British history.
First Brakes Were Used
in Seventeenth Century
The Greeks and Romans had no
brakes. It was not until the Sev
enteenth century that anything re
sembling a modern brake came in
to existence. For not until then,
observes a writer in Fortune Maga
zine, did it occur to anyone to move
wheeled vehicles along tracks. The
track, eliminating irregularities in
the roadway, stepped up vehicular
speeds, thereby creating the neces
sity that mothered the invention of
the brake. Early brakes were hand-
operated levers, worked by deflect
ing the lever so that its business
end w&s forced against the wheel.
Even the earliest steam locomo-
aives, however, were too potent for
hand-braking, and in 1833 Robert
Stephenson invented a power
(steam-driven) brake to go with
them. The individual cars making
up the trains, however, were hand-
braked. Hand-braking was inade
quate even for the short, light trains
of 'the 1860s; no two brakemen
braked with the same speed; the
trains stopped slowly and jerkily
and with a high percentage of brake-
man mortality.
Catacombs Under Palaces
There are nearly eleven miles of
passages and grottoes underneath
Fortress hill, which rises like an is
land of antiquity among the more
modern buildings of Budapest, the
pleasure loving capital of the Hun
garians. The hill is built up with
the older palaces and newer man
sions of the Magyar aristocracy,
who didn’t know until a generation
ago that their homes were under
mined by the deepest of man made
tunnels. Some of the passages ex
tend out beneath the bed of the Dan
ube. The catacombs date back to
the days when the fort of Buda was
held by the Turks, marking the
farthest fortified advance of the
forces of Islam into Christendom.
Author of First Geographies
Jedidiah Morse, author of the first
American school books on geogra
phy, was born in 1761. He was edu
cated at Woodstock Academy and
at Yale College, where he was grad
uated in 1783. After teaching for a
few years, he entered the Congrega
tional ministry. His most important
work was the authorship of school
books which included “Geography
Made Easy” (1787); “Elements of
Geography” (1797), and “Universal
Geography” (1314). He died in 1826.
Fire of St. Anthony
The name fire of St. Anthony was
applied to a form of erysipelas. A
distemper of this character became
epidemic in France in 1089. Many
miraculous cures having been ef
fected by the imputed intercession
of St. Anthony, the order of Canons
Regular of St. Anthony was founded
the next year for the relief of those
afflicted with this disease. The or
der continued to exist until 1790.
Ice Cream Originated in Italy
Ice cream, generally thought to be
an American invention, originated
in Italy in 1600. It spread to France
and England, then crossed to the
American colonies. Even the wide
diversity of ices and ice creams is
neither modern nor American, for
when the process of freezing first
was discovered it was used for al
most every dessert and beverage.
First Use of Candy Machines
About 1825 foreign candy manu
facturers began to use some ma
chinery in their factories, but the
actual introduction of machinery in
candy-making dates from 1840. The
first machine of this character to
be brought to the United States was
imported by Sebastian Chauveau of
Philadelphia in 1845. In 1846 Oliver
R. Chase invented a machine for
the making of lozenges.
AL/ssinians Used Coffee
as a Food for Soldiers
Coffee was used by the Abyssm-
ians for centuries before any-
ore else learned of its merits. Be
sides making a beverage of it, these
neople used it as a war food, mix
ing pulverized, roasted coffee with
grease and molding it into balls. It
was the only food they carried on
short marches, relates a writer in
the Kansas City Star.
Later its use as a beverage spread
through Arabia into Egypt and to
Constantinople. Venice accepted it
early in the Seventeenth century
and next England, the student body
at Oxford setting the example. Soon
its use had spread over Europe and
coffee houses became the meeting
places for those interested in
politics and other current questions.
Many religiously inclined among
both Mohammedans and Christians
denounced coffee as an intoxicating
and insidiously pernicious drink;
statesmen saw political danger in
the discussion which marked the
attendance at the coffee houses and
governments opened new sources of
revenue by heavy taxation on every
gallon of coffee brewed.
Beans have been cultivated since
long before there was any recorded
history. They are known to have
been eaten by the ancient Egyptians
and Greeks, and when the first voy
agers reached the western continent
they found beans growing. Natives
of this country added corn to give
the world the dish known as succo
tash.
Geld Marriage Rites Are
Observed by Canadians;
Ancient matrimonial customs pre-.
vailing in certain sections of some.
French Canadian provinces probab-:
ly would amaze prospective brides;
in the United States. Much of the"
form and tradition harks back two
and three centuries to the mother
country, France, says a writer in
the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In some outlying districts and vil
lages a wedding assumes the char
acter of a festival.
One of the picturesque customs
surviving among the “habitants,” or
rural residents, is that of the pub-'
lie wedding procession which passes
through the streets to the church.
At the head of the procession is
the groom, his two nearest of kin
walking with him. Next come his'
friends and relatives who are mar
ried, marching in pairs, and then
the sihg’e men of his entourage. Be
hind them, comes the bride, escort
ed by a large assemblage of her
own relatives and friends marching
in the same order as those of the
groom.
Another quaint custom is the wed-
d : ng feast. The bride is seated at ;
the head of the table, but the groom,
stands behind the chair and serves
her throughout the dinner.
“The Man Without a Country”
The character of Philip Nolan in:
Edward Everett Hale’s story, “The
Man Without a Country,” is purely'
imaginary. Mr. Hale explained how
he got the name, from that of a
man mentioned in the memoirs of
General James Wilkinson, but did
rot know that the first name of this
Mr. Nolan was Philip until long aft
erwards. The historical Philip No
lan referred to by Wilkinson died in
1801, w'hile the fictitious Philip No
lan invented by Hale appeared first
in 1807. To explain the matter still
'urther, Hale wrote a paper on the
real Nolan and also a book called
‘Philip Nolan’s Friends” about this
same acquaintance of. Wilkinson’s.
Taste and Smell
Within the brain, taste and smell 1
are essentially the same, notes a ;
writer in Literary Digest. The |
nerve-centers of the olfactory bulb 1
are similar to the taste-buds on the !
tongue. It is almost impossible to ’
taste something differently than one ,
smells something. Besides the con- I
ceptual identity of the sensations j
when they reach the brain, the nose
and the mouth have a direct physi
cal connection, so one can often
literally taste what one smells and
vice versa.
Bats Breathe Same as Humans
Bats breathe in exactly the same
way as humans do. The air is taken
in through the nostrils, rarely
through the mouth, passes down the
pharynx, through the glottis into
the trachea or windpipe, and into
the lungs. The action of the dia
phragm regulates respiration. With
the contraction of the diaphragm
air is taken in and with its expan
sion air is expelled.
Naming Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads, the channel
through which the waters of the
James, Nansemond and Elizabeth
rivers pass into Chesapeake Bay,
was named from the town of Hamp
ton on the near-by shore of Virginia.
“Road,” in either singular or plural
form, is used in nautical affairs for
a ship roadstead—a sheltered place
outside a harbor, where ships may
ride at anchor.
Seal Skin for Footwear
Sealskins gathered on the Arcos
islands, which are near Campeche,
Mexico, are made into shoes and
sandals here for the benefit of Yu
catan’s (chicleros) chewing gum
hunters. Sealskin is the only leather
that is absolutely water-resistant,
and it alone will enaole the chicleroa
to work in comfort in the jungle.