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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1928)
Wall Paptr in Amtrica I Wall pnpur wns Imported hy surly mUlurt of the Colonies. Tha Best factory for milking wall paper was established In this country III 171K) by John B, Howell at Albany, N. Y, but the second one did not up pent' until IK 10, During thla period the wealthy people weru In the habit of Importing their wall paper from England and Vraneo. Soil Nouriihment ' riiosgvue la usud In dye making, In the form of farm manure, nitrogenous fertilizers and green lunim.'e crops, like clover and soy beuns. Phosphorus may be added by applying phospl ale fertilizers or farm manure. I'otnssluin may bo added to a toll In the form of. farm manure, crop residues and pot stl fertilisers. wmmMM Our Pet Pcoe WtB OUR COMIC SECTION Wtnd Children en Wiy (Trtp-r-d by th National (toHcrmphl Boclttr. WuhtMton. D. CI LOXO ago, when the Gotha laid waste to western Europe, a smalt band of half-wild fugitives hid for safety In the great swamps near the Oder that low, flut, wooded region known now aa the Spreewald. The Wenda, this odd frag ment of a lost tribe call themselves; and to thi day they are hiding there. In this Spreewald swamp. Clannish, isolated, and happiest when left alone, they are concerned not at all with the rise and fall of nations around them. Though In Germany, the Wends are not of It Even the Germane them solves look oo this lost tribe more aa curious specimens of an ancient race than as a part of tbelr cltlxen body. They are Slavs. Trobably 1.S00 year have rawed alnce the Wends first colonised In this great swamp, and sallied forth, led by their pagan kings, to kidnap children and to plunder food In what la now Toland and Germany. Today only a few thousand of the tribe remain ; but through all these centuries they have clung tenaciously to their own cdd speech, their soclnj Jorms and super stitions ; and, except for a few of their queerly clad girls, who sometimes go to Berlin as nursemaids, the Wenda seldom quit their Spreewald haunts. ' Yet, content aa be Is with his eel traps and cucumber patch, his hay field and cherry trees, the wary Wend will drive sharp bargain with out siders who come trading for bla carved novelties, his wooden shoes and dishes, his smoked eels, and the cucumbers of bit Island gardens. Stronger than his diet of eels and cucumliers, however, and stranger even than his bermltllkj seclusion, la the unique plan of the Spreewalder's village and his method of getting about The Spree river, rising down near the old Bohemlnn frontier, flows up through Saxony Into Brandenburg and spllta here Into hundreds of brooks and canals whose watery net work Ilea all over the Spreewald re gion and forms thousands of tiny Islands. The ancient Tillage of Letde, built 1,400 years ago, literally covert whole group of these Islands, each Individual house standing on tiny isle all Its own, Thsir 6treta Are Streams, So, Instead of having streets and sidewalks like any normal town, Spreewald village Is served entirely by these crooked water streets. Every family has at least one boat snd In summer the boat la the street car, so to rpeuk ; and there are lines of public boats, puled by stalwart "motormen," that run on schedule time over regu lar routes and loop called "Grobla." All along these water streets there are signboards that greet you and point the way to various settlements. But Instead of saying "two miles." for example, to such or such place, the slim says "two hours," as all dis tance Is measured by the time It takes to pole to place, ., . k Some phases of this novel amphlbl u life see?o almost absurd to visit- I.ij5 rih8, 5i .AjwrigiS fef. whether he Is fourteen or forty, hU 'a ITirlTl from a brass land and a street parade and so does the youth of the Spreewald. But we have distinctly American Ideas about the correct uni form brass band should wear, and we Insist that etrett parade shall march In the street Hut the Spree wald form of celebration Is wholly different Here the memlers of the band dress In long black, funerut-look-Iiig coats and two-quart bowler huts; uud, Instead of marching, they squat In flut bout the bass drummer In the stern pounding away aa the boat is poled along the canal! The country here Is too low and wet for grain, but wild bay Is cut In abun dance. A platform of pile la ruined high above the swampy ground and on this the haystack la built Bout loads of huy, moving through the many canals, look, from a' distance a if they were sliding curiously about the country driven by. some unseen force. , In winter the whole waterway net of the Spreewald Is frozen over and bgcomes a veritable spider web of Icy Innet and avenues. Then the Wend wears special Iceshoea, with his skates built fust to them. Aided by a light ten-foot pole with sharp spike In one end, the Bpreewalder glides easily about his Ice-bound colony, not for pleasure, but for Seed and con. venlenct. Then, too, all burdens that to School by Boat. are carried by boat In summer are loaded on sleds. Etls and Cucumbers, Eels, cucumbers and cherry plea aa big as prayer-rugs figure In all feasts In these Spreewald Swamps. The Spreewald eel, slim and slip pery, smoked or stewed, la enshrined In the tonga and traditions of this singular community. A Spreewald swamp home without Its eel traps would be like a chicken farm without chicken coops. Whether you like atewed eel or not, you cant tit down In a tiny Spreewald restaurant with out buying one; it simply Isn't donet And the eels, gastronomlcally, are mated for life with the cucumbers I These giant cucumbers, deadly green In shade and wickedly curved like scimitars, threaten you at every turn. Cucumbers in heaps on the river banks; punts piled high with cu cumbers being poled to market at Burg or Cottbua; men, women and children plucking, peeling, packing or eating cucumbers, or asleep on piles of them, are alwaya In the summer picture. Von wonder the whole world could consume such uncounted tons and noj succumb to International In-diKi-stlon.' J'.'Z - Even the huge cherry pies, delicious aa they are, fairly overwhelm you by their atu;ndoua size. Throughout the region big, broad-mouthed clay ovens, built apart from the houses, are busy baking these pies, and as you glide along the canals on a still day the forest air It laden with tbelr appe tizing odor. Buxom Wendlsh muldent, swamp angela In knee skirts and bare legs, push and pull the pies about in the ovena with ten-foot poles, pausing now and then to recrack tome old bucolic Joke with a near-by Spreewald twain busy slicing encumbers or skin ning an eel Tourlstt by thousands from near-by cities flock to this quaint nook of Eu rope In tunimer; and then the Wend cashes In bit cucumbers, hit celt and cherry plea, reaps a rich harvest from hit oddly carved wooden geese and dolls, and takes toll for poling lovert and alghtseert up and down the laby rinth of water lands dividing the Spreewald Into thousand charming green isles. Here, too, all kinds of so cieties and bundt come for their out ings, many walking clubs of school boys and girls coming from at far away aa Berlin and Leipzig. Superstition Still Rife. Slaves ttill to tome ancient super stitions, the Wendt carve crude wood en figuree of beasts, birds and fishes and monnt them on the gables of their humble butt. These Images, they lay, keep off evil spirits and disease and bring good luck. Some of these old Wendlsh tuperi stltiona, dating back maybe 1,500 yean, find their counterparts today In many rural American communltlce. For example, the Wenda lay that crowing hen must be killed or the will bring bad luck. Another Wendlsh be lief common among other races la that when man diet window should be oiHod. to that hit soul may take lu If It thunders during Spreewald wedding every one It very uuhappyj for this It bad omen. Make wish when you tee shoot ing star and the wish will come true. During certain dances held In the spring the farmers jump Into the air, believing that the higher they Jump on this occasion the higher their flax will grow. Stewed mice will care an alcohollq appetite, and a plague of rats It a ture tlgn of divine displeasure. The dried heart of bat killed on Christmas Eve, If carried In the pocket, will bring luck at carda. The rattle of ttorkt' bills comet to your enrt aa you approach a Spree wald village an odd sound, like that made by a boy scraping stick over a picket fence. When these long- legged birds nest on the roofs of houses they are supposed to bring good luck. Lightning will never strike a house while a stork It roosting oo it, the Wends declare. Likewise, If young stork fulls from the nest, it Is a bud omen. Should an old stork quit her nest, the people living In the house below should also move out at once ot take the consequences. 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