TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT MARCH 16. 1911
HOMES IN ATHENS
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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*.
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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.“
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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
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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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SPHERICITY OF THE EARTH.
"Parallax” Bet Against It, and He Lost
Hi« Wager.
The stralgbtest canal In the world is
In England and runs from Erith, in
Cambridgeshire, to Denvers Sluice,
twenty-two miles away. It was here
that years ago a decisive experiment
was conducted to prove the sphericity
of the earth. At that time, says "High
ways and Byways In Cambridgeshire,"
a deluded gentleman, who called him­
self "Parallax," was obsessed with ths
notion that the globe was a flat disk
and used to go lecturing with great
vigor on the subject. After those lec­
ture« he invited questions, none of
which was able to shako ills belief.
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."
"I agree with you. lie would have
no more sense than to nsk a bartier to
•ntmrrtb* to a fund for tbe parpose of
pvovlllng a monument for the Inven­
tor of the safety razor.“—Chicago Rec­
ord-Hem Id.
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A Morning R
Yoa awake with a mean,
taste in the mouth, which re
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you that your stomach is in a
condition. It should also ret
O regon .
T illamook
you that there is nothing so i
for a disordered stomach
It >• maid lli.it iiicmlier* of llie new Chamberlain’s Stomach and
('«ingress ho|>e fora «Ix«, ri extra ««•• Tablets.
•ion. but ex|ie« t t a long «»tie. The
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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
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MEASLES
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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.
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