TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT MARCH 16. 1911 HOMES IN ATHENS __________ • As a Rule They Are Clean, but Bare and Comfortless. PEOPLE LIVE IN THE CAFES. When Th*/ Do Gat Into Thsir Houses Their Principal Occupation Is Look ing Out of the Window«—Th* Mar ring* Custom* of Grace*. I ) PAPUAN COURTESY. TT Husbands Boat Each of Their Wives With a Different Club. The marriage customs of the Pap uans are somewhat similar to those of many other savage races. The cer emony is largely a matter of purchase. The men marry when they are about eighteen yeurs of age and tbe girls at fourteen or even earlier. When a young lake man desires to get married be visits the father of bls prospective bride and puts forward his (»ersoiial belonging« as an Induce ment to tbe father U> couseut to tbe union. If a man has a gun he la a great per sonage and can demand anything, but besides their bows and arrows and spears most of the the Papuans have very little. Even agricultural produce is scarce, the only cultivation under taken being on a very primitive scale. A little clearing is made by both meu and women, and the women then grow Imnanas and sweet potatoes. The men are always armed, and when tbe women go to the patch to attend to their crops or gather the produce the men go with them as a protection. Tlie women, however, do the work. Mauy families have a bundle of an cient Portuguese cloth centuries old, and when a young man is seeking a bride one of these heirlooms Is gener ally part of tbe deal. The youth and the girl's father haggle over the mar riage until eventually they agree to terms, and then the thing is done. The men are not limited to one wife, and once a girl Is married she Is sub ject to her busband in everything and Is practically his slave. “in another part of New Guinea.” says a writer tn the Wide World mag azine, “I remember a distinctly strong confirmation of the custom which places a woman at tbe entire mercy of her husband. At one bouse I visit ed I saw standing outside the doorway three huge stone clubs, each large enough to fell a bullock. "On making Inquiries I found that they tallied with tbe number of wives owing allegiance to tbe householder. The clubs were used by tbe man to beat bls wives with if they annoyed him. Tbe quaint part of it was that while the women seemed to raise no objection to being flogged unmerciful ly by their lord and master they would not be beaten with the same weapon as that used on another wo man. so tbe native kept a separate club for each wife.” Home life in Greece, particularly In Athens, is peculiar. It might almost be said that there is no such thing. In Mr. Duckett Ferrimau's book on "Greece and the Greeks" the manners and customs of tbe picturesque Hel lenes. which are little known to tbe average English reader, are described at length. Mr. Ferriman states that the Greeks do not know anything about tbe art of making a home. “One may meet with exquisite clean liness.” he writes, "with b«?autlful1y embroidered bed linen scented with rosemary, but never with what we mean by coxluess. The Greeks are far less In their houses than we are. nud when they are at home they apjiear to spend most of their time In looking out of the window. They are not given tu inviting their friends to their bouse*. It is not that they are nlg- gurdly, for they will gladly entertain you at a restaurant at far greater cost to themselves. But It does not enter into their ideas to ask you home to dinner, even after an acquaintance of many years. "They do not ask each other, so It can hardly be ■ expected that they should make an i exception In the case of foreigners. 1 The cafe Is a second home to them. There they meet friends and gossip. That Is one reason perhaps why they dislike country life. "It offers no alternative to the- home: there tbe hearth Is the soclul center, while In town it is the cafe, in Athens those who do not own the bouse they dwell In seldom remain long In the same abode. Two or three yeurs Is Many jieople quite a long tenure. make a point of moving every year. “The Imposing facades of Athenian houses conceal, for the most part, a bare and comfortless Interior, and a well kept garden Is rare. A garden Is not made in a year, and a person who changes bls residence every twelve months does not want to be troubled DEATH IN THEIR WORK. with much furniture, nor Is be par tleular as to Its srrangement. seeing Danger* That Beset Those Who Toil that It will be carted away In a few In Alkal’ Faotories. months. Do you like your work? “Home 11 f* has no resources for the When you are Inclined to be discon Greeks, as It has for us. It affords tent«^ with it think of the alkali work them little occupation nnd no amuse ers. They die by Inches from the mo ment. They like to eat aud drink In ment they enter the factories. Things crowds, where there Is noise and move are not so bad now as they once were, m«nt. Their Instincts are too gregarl but they are Imd enough still. ous to allow them to appreciate the In what is known as tbe "black ash" domestic Intimacy which we prize. department in chemical works big "The day chosen for marriage In open vats of caustic are used. Tbe Greece Is usually Bunday, bnt the day splashing of this caustic sends drops of all days In the year Is tbe Sunday of tbe burnlug fluid flying through the preceding the Christmas fbnat. it 1« air. A drop falling upon nake«i flesh not fashionable now to be mnrrl«*d In causes a bad burn. A drop In the eye church. In Athens tbe ceremouy takes will blind it forever If the stuff is not place in the bouse of tbe bride's par removed wit bln a few seconds. eats. A temporary altar Is set up in A black ash worker In a Welsh al th* middle of the ream. kali factory, tolllpg lit the caustic pots, “At The conclusion of tbe ceremony received an invisible globule of this the‘‘priest end tbe couple join hands deadly spray In bls eye. There was and walk three times round the altar, no water at hand with which to wash th* guests lilting them with comfits out tbe caustic. It seemed that he The nrnat Important part of the cere must surely go blind But one of hfs mony Is tbe crowning of the bride an ' mates seized on the Injured man. who bridegroom with wreaths of orange was quite frantic with pain, lifted his blossom; hence a wedding is popular eyelid with forefinger and thumb and ly called 'the crowning.' with his tongue licked out the caustic. “Love marriages are rare exceptions He burned bls tongue badly, but he Tbe match is made by tbe parents and savej tbe other poor fellow's sight. relatives rather than by tbe parties Another of the dangers that beset the principally concerned. There are cer alkali worker-and tbe worst of them tain established usages which, though all- in poisoning by chlorine add gas. not legally binding, are not to be con This gas. which corn«?* off tbe lime In travened with impunity. thin green fumes, is known to the men “Then it Is considered wrong for an.l Joked about as "Roger.” A full In brothers to marry until their sister« draft of the gas kills a man In ID have been wed Again, girls must hour.—Pearson's Weekly. marry tn order of seniority It woti’d not be right for a girl to be married End of th* Trail. while she bad an elder sister who re “I l<»t a pocketb«K»k with a roll of mstned single. Tbe men of n family bill« In It a few weeks ago.” Charlie are thus naturally anxious to see their Gibson told us. “I didn't make a fuss sisters settled, and as a dowry Is In ■bout It and tell tbe papers. but it dispensable Its provision Is often n was more than I could afford to lose. ■after of serious anxiety and the fruit So I put a detective on it Ho asked a of great self denial on tbe part of th* lot of questions, looked wise and said brothers if th* parents are dead. he'd report In a day or two Well, "There ar* cases in which brother» about three days later I found that hare remained unmarried for years pocketbook where I had mDlaid it. I and have devoted all their bard earned rejoiced *X'**dlngly, and then I called savings to the dowries of their sisters up tbe det«xtiv* agency to confess. Among the poorer class««« emigration The sleuth seemed disgusted. ta resorted to. not infrequently s«J«ly “ 'Mighty careless of you,' " he said. with this object, and many a dowry 'And I'd Just found a darned good comes to a Greek maiden from acron» clew toor "—Cleveland Plain I»ealer. th* Atlantic.“ I What W m Lacking. Tbe Hobo—Plans*. mum. I'm ■ nick man De doctor gimme dis medicine bnt 1 needs aaslstau«** In takin' It. Tbe Lady—Poor fellow! Do you want a ■poon and a glass of water? The Ho bo—No. mam; I wouldn't trouble yer. Bat di* medicine baa io be took before m«ate Have yer got a meal bandy?— Cleveland Leader. Sydney Smith’s Criticism. Tbe story is told in Mr. Barry O'Brien's txxik on John Bright how on one occasion Rydney Smith, while look ing critically at tbe unfinished portrait of a celebrated nonconformist div In*, said to tbe artist. "Do yon ixrt think you could throw Into tbe face • stronger expression of hostility to tb* «mtablisbcd church?" C*n*ci*ne*. Fame. There are moments when the pale is easily acquired. All you do la to be in tbe right place s't>.| nxxieat star, kindled by God ta ' simple hearts, whk h men call con- al tbe right time and do tbe right relen.-* Illumines oor path with truer tbtng In tbe right wry and then ad tight than the flaming comet of genius vertl** it property.—Puck on Its msgslfl’ent eoana- Mazzini To® DEADLY MINE GASES. HEADQUARTERS FOR Vhc-lr iction Upon the Flame of th* Safety Lamp. '.he safety lamp, a heavy metal lan tern abaped object with a circular globe of heavy plate glass. Is the only light other than electricity that can be safely carried into a gaseous mine, The lamps are lit before they are taken into the mine iind. iu addition, are securely locked. that no accident or ignorant intention may expose the open dame to the gases of the mine. Over a small sooty yellow tiame which gives a light less bright than that of an ordinary candle are two wire gauze cones fitting snugly inside the heavy globe, and It Is through these cones that the dame draws the air which supports it. The presence of black damp, or carbon dioxide, can easily be detected, if not by its odor, by the action of the flame, which grows dim and.-if tbe black damp exists in any quantity, is finally extinguished. White damp, the highly explosive gas which is most feared, has, on the other hand, a totally different effect. In the presence of this gas the flame of the safety lamp becomes pointed, and as the gas grows stronger the flame seems to separate from the wick and an almost invisible blue cone forms lieueath it. If the miner con tinues to ndvance into the white damp he will pass through a line in which there are nine parts of air to one part gas (the explosive mixture), and the lamp will instantly register this ex plosive condition by a sudden crack ling inside the gauze and tbe extin guishing of the flame. Were it an open lamp the explosion Ignited by the flame would sweep throughout the en tire workings, carrying death and de struction before it, but by tbe con struction of the safety lamp the ex plosion’ confines Itself to the limited area within the gauze cones, and un less the lamp Is moved suddenly and the flame is dragged through the gauze at the Instant that the explosion oc curs within the globe it will not ex tend beyond the gauze.—Atlantic. 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When asked, for example, “Why does the hull of a ship disappear below the horizon while the masts remain vis ible?” he would answer, “Because the lowest stratum of air Is the densest and therefore Moaeit conceals objects seen through It.” Finally lie showed his whole hearted liellef In Ills absurd views by laying a heavy wager that no one would disprove them. The stakes were deposited In the hands of Judges, and the trial, under agreed conditions, took place upon the New river, ns part of the canal Is called. Three boats were moored three miles apart, each provided with a crosatree of eqrtal height. If the earth was spherical the central cross would appear above the other to an observer looking through a telescope leveled from the crosstree of the boat nt either end; if It was flat he would s«*e iwtth the other crosstrees as one. "Parallax” declared that he did see them so. but tbe Judges unani mously d«*cided against him, and the poor man lost his money. We're All Actor*. Mme. Alexandria Vlurds, the Polish tragedienne, once propounded tbe fol lowing: “It Is a strange thing, but ask a man to mend a rip in his coat. "No; he Is not a tailor. "Ask another to atop the faucet from leaking “Na; he's not a plum 1 st . “Or another to do a bit of cabinet work. “No; he is not a carpenter. "But ask any one of tbe three or all of them to enact a little part in a play and each will smile In fatuous confi dence and Instantly acquiesce. "But watch him act!” Saintlin**« Unpopular. That state of mind whirls let us call the Ignominy of the virtuous is not entirely confined to boys of nine years. I have seen grown men and women, being accused of saintliness, •ver whose faces passed an expreaaion •f mortification They would accept with more complacency the tribute that they were getting to be devil* In their old age.—Atlantic. Lack of Tact. “That man ta about tbe most tact- less person I have ever known." 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The count«) hie had cxfH'rience in wnit- mg inr • DeitKM'ratict ongrr«« t<»«ie- GUARJkWTBBD SATISFACTORY« velo,, st i-doni in «••nMUriH'tiv« OMJOMIT B«yVMDZD, | and ,*n<.t bxtkit^g hut Mtwe« i MM***WcuL mb After having the M fasi . es have your eyes looked after, examined, before you try to do any close work with them. It will save you the trouble you M ay otherwise have, besides it will cost you nothing to find out the truth about them. Measles very often leave your eyes in a very bad con dition, half of the trouble with our eyes, or the eyes of the people is caused by M raslms , Don’t risk your eyes when they can be saved as well as not. Dr. H. E. Morris CLAUSSEN LAWYER, Dcittecltcv Abvohrtt. MEASLES I. OREGON J. mo She Know Her Dad. Bmltbem - Im yon know any «Mie who has a horse to »ell? Khe Tea; I «no- pert old Brown ha*. Rm it ber» Why? Rhe Well, pafia wild him one y ext er day .— Dindon Pun. h. KINDS Ob' ALI I i : I :