FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1925
Liners to Have Radio Motor Boats
By order of the British Board of Trade, every ocean liner must hereafter
carry one wireless motor boat for every ten lifeboats. It will have a talkingradius of 100 miles and will be provided with a direction finder. Above is aradio boat of the S. S. Orblta.
CLOTHING OF MALAYSIANSAND SENGALESE DOESN’TLEAVE MUCH TO IMAGINE
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It is a custom of the country to sendtwo men along to drive the car. Oneactually drives it and the other ginksits up and rides in the choicest frontseat. Just why this ornament has togo along I have failed to discover,unless they got the idea from steamengines, which usually require an en-gineer and fireman.
If you ask one of these discoloredsons of Maylasia if he can speakEnglish, he invariably says, “yes.”He will continue saying “yes” as longas you talk to him. He can’t evenswear in English, but isn’t going todeny anything you say. But if hethinks his tip is not large enough, andmostly he thinks that way, he willspeak his native language and sup-plement it with motions which thor-oughly indicate his displeasure. Isuppose there are lots of folks of allcolors of that variety, anyhow.
It is rather difficult to describe thetypical dress of the natives. In allthe islands down here there is a simi-larity in the conglomeration. Manywear a black fez, others have a smallready-to-wear turban affair whichlooks as though it had been made ofbatik; others wear old felt hats thathave seen better days, then otherswear nothing on their head. Manywear no chest clothing but use a pairof rompers and a skirt wrappedaround their loins. Most of themwear bare legs and feet.
The women wear some sort of acloth contraption, much on the orderof the European ladies’ evening gown.It is tucked in so that nothing butthe upper part of the person is ex-posed to the weather. Naturally Idid not want to get too familiar, socould not tell how it was tucked aroundto keep it in place any more than agentle person would, at a full dressball, endeavor to discover how hispartner kept hers in place. You seethe point, of course.
In some respects these ladies re-minded me of our native folks. Takea sparsely dressed native who couldslop around in a canal, washingclothes. Now it seemed to please hervanity to have an umbrella alongto protect her from the delightfulwarm showers that come along oddand even during the rainy season.The wet of the canal would not count.That water had been used so often inso many ways that she was undoubt-edly accustomed to it, but she was evi-dently much alarmed about the qual-ity and purity of the rain drops. Itmight have been that she was in fearof getting tanned, or freckles, whichwould necessitate an extra expense fora charcoal preparation to beautifyherself with.
So it isn’t always so much a ques-tion of just what color you are as itis the shade you most desire.
Some authority has said that fishis a great .brain food. If so it must
be some other kind of fish than fre-quent these waters. The natives haveeaten every variety of fish that in-
habit the ocean hereabouts for thepast several hundred years and asnear as I could ascertain the only
thing they learned from the fish fam-ily was from the eel. Their methodsof living really do not appeal to me.
yet, of course, this is not required ofme and I should not complain.
They live very much in the openair, such as it is, and do not seem to
care how open or how thick it is.The smaller native places of businessare one story and built very much onthe order of a Kansas or Illinois hay-shed—long and low with stalls parti-tioned off every few feet, with nofronts. The whole shop is disclosedto view and goods are scatteredaround like a wreck of a second-handshop. The shopkeeper squats on hisheels and lays for his game. In factthe Malay is the original squatter.He seldom sits down, but squats onhis heels much after the fashion ofour old-time cowpunchers. 1 don’tknow which one caught the habit fromthe other. I presume they both gotthe habit from the lack of chairs.
The front yards of houses along thestreet are all used very much as ourback yards are.
The restauranteur has a movableplace of business consisting of a cookstove on one end of a pole and hisfood on the other. He trots alongand is ready to serve meals at any oldtime or place. The .barber workspretty much the same way. Hebacks his patrons up against a walland proceeds to garner whiskers orhair as desired. There are many kindsof hair cuts. Some wear their hairEuropean fashion, others have a blackpatch around the crown, the rest allshaved, and the most peculiar fashionis a close clip with a small, long rat-
tail tied at the end with a bit of rib-bon. .1 didn’t count the bundle butit did not appear to contain over 16
or 17 hairs.It would amaze you to see how
quick a vigorous lady shopper-touristcould tear up a bale of silk batik,
kimonos or other such stuff. Therewas no let-up until the last rag hadbeen spread out and rumpled up intowhat seemed to be a hopeless heap.Then it was equally as amazing tonote how quick the itinerant peddlercould stack it up and wrap it up inhis tote-rag again.
Why, these natives do not care arap more for money than a devoutperson does for heaven—not a par-ticle. What they won’t do for a dol-lar hasn’t been discovered yet.
The Dutch government is a mightygood thing for the Malay and allhands seem to get along fine. The old-time princes and royal family, such asis, are allowed plenty of spendingmoney, permitted to swell around ingolden glad rags and live on the fat
'of the land.They are accorded many privileges
but the Dutch govern the place, levya good stiff tax and make the publicimprovements. The Dutch have notattempted as yet to reform the na-tives in a wholesale manner and makethem conform to Dutch customs. They
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Bombay, India, March 7.Well sir, nearly caught the roup
down here changing dollars for ru-pees. Rupees are the national dishhere and are traded on about , thesame basis, 38 American cents to arupee or one of our dollars equal tworupees and sixty cents in their money.
When our whirlwind gang of expertshoppers hit the Isle of Ceylon youcould feel the place tilt toward theshore and the glass merchants dug upall the old jewels that had been layingaround since the last tourist boat left.The Empress of France and anotherlarge tourist .boat came in the morn-ing following, hooked onto the placeand turned loose their gang of sore-eyed sightseers on the town of Co-lumbo.
The city of Columbo and the Islandof Ceylon most agreeably surprisedour gang after visiting Calcutta withits burning ghats, filthy streets, si-lent, sullen fanatics and general mel-ancholy aspect. The Sengalese wereclean, comparatively speaking, cheer-ful, pleasant and welcomed all handswith a military salute and a wide ex-panse of white teeth. There are manyHindus or Indians here, but they arein minority and are looked down uponby the Sengalese, who were the ori-ginal owners and rulers of the island.
The Sengalese is proud of his knotof hair, twisted up on the back of hishead very much in the style affectedby old ladies, and his shell comb,which fits around his head like acrown, open in front. From the front
it looks as though he had a couplesharp horns on his head, but he callsit his “crown.”
The Sengalese wears pretty muchthe same uniform as others, except alittle more so than the Indian. Hewears a shirt of some kind and theusual sarong—or about two shortyards of cloth wrapped about his hipsin such away that it is almost im-possible to tell whether it is a skirtor a pair of pants or both. He goesbarefooted, of course. All the blackgang does, except a favored few whoprobably were caught young andbroken to wear shoes.
The native women here wear sorterhit and miss affairs. (Oh, shut up! Iguess in the interest of science I canexplain their dress without gettingnide). You see, the waist is tightand skimpy, east and west, just suf-ficient to .braziere the figure. Thennorth and south it is abbreviated,leaving quite a large expanse of na-tive color exposed between it and theskirt below. This exposed naturalcolor does not seem to fade and it isclaimed that the sun helps to digestthe food, if you get the idea. Cal-loused feet are mainly used, thoughsome of the more forward young ladiesw’ear shoes of some kind or other andare probably just as uncomfortableas their white sisters. I would haveliked very much to have interviewedsome of the young ladies, but for ob-vious reasons had to refrain; but onecan smile back and wave a friendlyhand in return while passing splendidpulchritude without creating a sensa-tional scene—it’s not only the costumebut the custom of the country.
It must have been a very prosperousyear here last year, and young womenalong the way seemed pleased andproud to wave their shiny little off-spring out at you to admire as youwent along.
The most fashionable clothing 1have seen here for children is a smallpiece of twine about the size druggistsuse to wrap up a small bottle with,which delicate string is tied aroundthe child at about his or her equator.I was unable to find out whether thiswas for adornment, to keep off thesun or for identification. However,
the poorer children, those probablyborn in abject poverty, could not af-ford this evidence of affluence, con-sequently were turned loose in thestreets completely minus—“just aswas” as it were.
Ceylon is not a political part ofIndia, politically speaking, but thesame British hand rules here as inmain India. It was under Dutch rulefrom 1656 to 1796 and before that un-der Portuguese, rule. Ceylon, likeBurma, is mainly of the Buddhist per-suasion as to the hereafter, whileBrahaminisrji predominates in India
Nobody but a barefaced liar wouldgo so far as to say you can’t raisecoconuts, tea, rice and jewels on thisisland. One part, the southern section, grows coconut trees like we havepine trees in northern Arizona, onlymore so. There are three kinds, ac-cording to our native guide—kingqueen and common. The “king” coco-nut is the one that produces the bestmeat, oil, coconut fiber and copraThere is an odor about the coconutoil foundry not calculated to cause acongregation of polite society, but itis a profitable product and because ofwhich does not affront a native em-ployed in corraling the commodity atthe ruling wage.
The famous tea that Lord Luptonhas run his racing “yot” on for somany years, is grown here, where hehas a factory for compiling the plantleaves into different grades of tea. Itwas a mussy looking process. Damp-ened tea leaves, looking like stripped
| alfalfa were being ground with t.
j process not unlike wheat in a flou)
mill, but not so fine. It seems thatsteam, water and baking processes
are necessary to bring out the flavoiof the tea ready for use before beingbox%d and placed ofi the market.
Rice gpws plentiful on the lowerlevels where it can be flooded. It isone of the main food supplies of theisland, though many vegetables aregrown in truck gardens here andthere. Oh, yes, bananas, pineapplespopias and a grand gathering of smallfruits grow here, in fact any old thingseems to do well here except therupee, and lately tourists infectedwith them have been coming to supplythis need.
Jewelry is dug out of the groundup in the hills and the general im-pression is that it is cheaper to dig up
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rupees. The mountainous region andtropical jungle is the native haunt ofthe wild elephant. They seldom comeout into the open alon& the roads,though a week or ten days previous toour landing there, a bunch of badelephants went on a rampage andwrecked a large automobile bus, butdi(f not happen to injure any of thepassengers.
Other smaller wild animal* infestthe jungle, including one similar toour mountain lion. The deadly cobraalso lives in these parts, but the na-tives say he won’t bite a black manbut will not permit of any familiari-
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OFTHE STATE OF ARIZONA INAND FOR THE COUNTY OF CO-CONINO.
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of us went into ecstacies over the of- 1ferings presented hereabouts. In some'places I am convinced that a mudturtle farm would do well, becausetourists will .buy most any old thing jthat an average mud turtle can pro-duce.
There does not appear to be any
very wide opportunity for a mosquitoranch here at present. There are toomany other ways to get bit. But youcan’t help but like the olace and wantto come back again. Down in thejungle of native shops tradesmen willwalk out into the middle of the streetto visit with you but their main con-versation is relative to the starsapphires they raise or cut fromglass bottles. It does not matterwhether you want jewelry or not.When he shows you a small tub fullof glittering “gems,” all colors ofthe rainbow, and whispers the numberof rupees required to acquire ’em, itis most difficult to refrain fromstumbling. Don’t stumble or attempt
to reach into your pocket for a hand-kerchief. “Both is fatal,” as it were,and you are a gone gosling. All thekindly merchant seemingly wants youto do is to hesitate, and, if you hesi-tate, all holds are loose. The gloriousglitter of baubles will make a manstutter some, but when the ladies seethis splendid gliter, pa’s wallet gets awallop that causes one to think of theopening of a bale of hay.
The following day our "arty leftColombo by automobile for Kandy,some 72 miles north through a verit-able jungle of coconut trees everyfoot of the way, except where a ter- 1raced rice paddy intervened in lower !open spaces. The road as it neared JKandy wound and twisted its way up- jward through the hills, giving us a isplendid view of the most picturesquecountry below. Kandy is about 1600feet above the sea levql and is thelocal summer'resort section, but event that the natives never fuss about
winter clothes.Seasons all look alike to them, ex-
cept the rainy season, which producessome big floods in the low lands. Therainy season is during the local win-ter months of June and July. Kandywas the capital of Ceylon from 1592to 1789. The city was often burnedand looted during the 17th and 18thcenturies by European freebooterswho were numerous and who enjoyedthemselves very much taking thingsaway from the natives and helping to
fill the local cemeteries with thosewho had the temerity to object. Themwas the good old days when touristparties were conducted on a differentbasis. Now the natives loot the tour-ists. It has taken quite several yearsfor things to right themselves so thenative could recoup himself fromlosses sustained by his ancestors.
The “poor, down-trodden” Armen-ian is one of the most vicious of thetradesmen here and he is evidentlydoing mighty well. The 50 years ofconstant appeals for Near East relieffunds for the starving Armenianshave made it possible for the malesto set themselves up in business andlive easy, letting the world take careof their children.
Along the road to Kandy we met anumber of natives riding elephants.They were always willing to show offthe tricks of their mounts for a few
tion, Defendants, Greeting:You are hereby summoned and re-
quired to appear in an action broughtagainst you by the above named plain-tiff in the Supei'ior Court of theState of Arizona, in and for theCounty of Coconino, and answer theComplaint thei-ein filed with theClerk of this said Court, at Flagstaffin said County, within 20 days afterthe service upon you of this sum-mons, if served in this said county, orin all other cases within 30 daysthereafter, the times above mentionedbeing exclusive of the day of service,or judgment by default will be takenagainfct you.
Given under my hand and the sealof the Superior Court of the State ofArizona, in and for the County of Co-conino, this 10th day of April. A. D.1925. TOM L. REES,
Clerk of the Superior Court4-17-4 t
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of John W. Francis, deceas-ed. Notice is hereby given by the un-dersigned executrix of the estate ofJohn W. Francis, deceased, to thecreditors of and all persons havingclaims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them, with the necessaryvouchers, within 10 months after the
first publication of this notice to thesaid executrix at Room No. 6, Ma-sonic building, Flagstaff, Arizona, thesame being the place for the trans-action of the business of said estate,in said County of Coconino.
NELLIE M, FRANCIS,Executrix of the Estate of John W.
Francis, deceased.Dated at Flagstaff, Ariz., this 16th
day of April, 1925. 4-17-41
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
LT. S. Land Office at Phoenix, Ari-
zona, April 15, 1925.Notice is hereby given that Andrew
Erickson Sparr of Flagstaff, Arizona;who, on May 19, 1920, made foresthomestead entry (List 3-3625), No.047161, for WVa SWI4, W%NWV:,,Section 11, Township 18N., Range9E., G. & S. R. Meridian, has filer!notice of intention to make ThreeYear Proof, to establish claim to theland above described, before Tom 1*Rees, U. S. Commissioner, at Flag-staff, Arizona, on the 26th day ofMay, 1925.
Claimant names as witnesses: JamesBauguess, William F. Wallace, RoscoGates, Edgar D. Lockwood, all ofFlagstaff, Arizona.
JOHN R. TOWLES,4-24-5 t Register
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