TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, October 28, 1920
SQUALID PORTO RICAN TOWN
TOOK TIME TO DO THINGS NATIONAL FLOWER OF FRAÄCE
Beside Superb Scenery, Pone« Would
Seem to Have Little to Attract
the Tourist.
In “Ox-Cart Days" Men of Genius Old
Their Literary Work Leisurely
and Well.
Irl* or FIsur-de-Lis Was Ortgfnafly
Called the Fleur-de-Loulo—Valued
for Its Medicinal Purpose*
Ponce. « city on the south cos st of
Porto Rico, gl« - rhe fat-e imprvsal«Mi
of being a larger city tlmt> the capital,
loosely strewu as It la over a dusty,
tint plain and overflowing In hovels of
decreasing size uno the low foothills
behind. It Is the most extensive town
In Porto Rico, ami. like many of those
aroumi the coast, lies back a tew uules
from the sea. for fear of pirates In
the oiyen days, with a street-car serv
ice to its shipping suburb of Ponce-
Playa.
Airplants
festoon
Its
telephone
wires, and Its mosquitoes are so ag
gressive that to dine In Its principal
hotel Is to wage a constant battle
while to disrobe ami enter a bath
room Is a perilous undertaking, a««
cor«Vng to Harry A. Franck In th*
Century.
once nothing
Ptterta de Tierra,
more than rhe “Inml este" Its name
Implies. Is almost a city of Itself, a
pathetic town of many shacks built of
tin ami dry good* boxes, spreading
down and across -he railroad ro the
swampy hay. Naked babies play In
the mud. and mothers with pitifully
small cup« «curry to milk shops In an
effort ro get the precious food for their
infants.
How did they do It. those old fel
low»’ Take a novel by Tlmekeray. for
example, it Is monumental. Looks as
if one of them would be a lite work,
The mere penning of it appals a mo«l
out
ern man.
volume after volume as if time and
energy were Interminable
And his
No
work was practically perfect,
slovenliness, no carelessness, no haste,
no guess-tlds-wlll-do-ncss. Today we
have every accessory to speed, every
time-saving device, all knowleilge
classified
and
compendlumed and
stored in convenient libraries,
But
where are the Thackerays? Or the
Goethes. Dickenses, Hugos and Bal-
zacs?
Men of their day were compelle«! to
waste time. A Journey of a few tulles
took all day. or several days. A din
ner Involved sitting up all night and
drinking ones self under the table. A
message to a friend was not a ten-
word telegram, hut a beautifully
penne«! and excellently expressed es
say. Such letters were preserved anil
handed down. Later they were put In
to print. How many letters have you
writt«;n which will be handed down?
And how would you like to have the
beat letter you ever wrote put Into
print? Chances are that If you write
more thnn two .pages you apologize.
And you sign It, “Yours hastily.”
The men of the ox-cart days did
things thoroughly and well. In the
days of the wireless, we “have no
time."—Lynn (Mass.) Item.
The Iris, or the fleur-de-M* fs th®
national flower of France. It was
originally called the flettr-de-Lonl*
The ancients valued It highly for me
dicinal purposes. A powder mode front»
the mot. mixed with honey, was used
for broken bones, ami It was also con
sidered beneficial for snake mu) scor
pion bite* A valuable perfume and
oil was also obtained from the hi*
The legend ns to how the flower re
ceived Its name goes back to the
Greeks. Iris was the messenger of
the gods, and the rainbow was dedi
cated to her. On her birthday. June
Invited all the flowers to celebrate
the occasion.
They nil came In
their prettiest frock«. Among them
were
three
sisters.
gorgeously
dressed In gowns of purple, yellow and
red, ami who were unknown. Since
they had no name, they were called
Iris, because their gowns were the
color of the rainbow.
Since Iris was the messenger of the
gods, ami conducted the souls of dead
women to their final resting place, th®
Greeks decorated the graves of their
women with purple iris.
This flower was widely used In old
Egyptian architecture. It signified
power and eloquence to the Egyptian*
and was, therefore, carved on the brow
of the Sphinx, and upon the scepter*
of their kings.
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WARREN G. HARDING
Your Kind of Man
and—
FEW ESCAPED TAX GATHERER
In Old “Merrle England" His Net Was
Wide and Its Meshes Set
Especially Close.
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BACK UP THE
PRESIDENT!
By Voting for
for
U. S. Senator.
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The Bulgarian bachelor who now
groans under an annual tax. equiv
alent to 8s 4d a year, has leys cause
to grumble than many a British cell-
bate who shied at the altar a couple
of centuries or more ago.
During the 13 years from 1095 to
1708 the man over twenty-five who
shirked his matrimonial duty was
called on to pay £12 10s ($02.50) for
a duke, a tax which yielded to the
revenue about £1.000 ($5.000) a weel*
More than thi* In those good old
times the Briton had to pay a tax
when he took himself a wife, and an-
other every time he qualified as fa-
ther.
Thus. a duke's nuptials cost
him £50 4s ($252); hie heir, £80 2«
($152). and for each later male addi
tion to the family hie joy was dlocount-
ed by a payment of £25 2a ($127).
The betietUct whose Income was lees
than £50 ($250) a year bad to pay 2s
fid (00 cents) for bls bride and 2s (48)
cents) every time be became a father.
NEW YORK GOAL OF PILGRIMS
Their Original Intention Was to Found
a Colony There, but Plans
Were Frustrated.
The Pilgrim Fathers might have
founded New York If It had not been
for the bribing of the Mayflower skip
per by the Dutch, who persuaded him
to keep the Pilgrims from the mouth
of the great river, which they planned
to settle with a colony of their own.
The ancient charter of the Pilgrims
gave them land which probably In
The patent was
cluded Now York.
granted to them after they fled from
the Virginia oompany. This grant was
not exactly the Instrument the Pil
grims wanted, because Of Us religious
provision*
The Pilgrims wished to
get a patent that would permit them
the fullest liberty of worship, but the
king refused te give them a charter tn
which a definite stipulation 'of relig
ious freedom wta contained. So they
were forced to content themselves
with the Virginia patent. It being sug
gested by fhelr sympathizers that In
the wilderness they would probably
not be disturbed.
Musical Strset Crier*
I d Charleston, even the chimney
i sweeps are musical, and as their tiny
faces appear at the top of the chim
ney they are sweeping, you bear:
“Roo roo" sung out over the sounds
of the street below. Also to this tribe
He drives
i the charcoal boy belongs.
Into town a tiny donkey hitched to a
tiny two-wheeled cart. The cart and
load nre black, the donkey Is black,
the boy Is black and the only other
color that you can see In the whole
outfit Is the whites of the hoy's eyes
as he rolls them nround and calls the
long-drawn-out
“Clinr-conl !"
eerie.
You wonder which Is the sadder and
hlackest. the driver, the driven, ca rt
or contents, as they wend their soil-
tary way .onward, crying ever that sad.
minor wall of char-coal 1—Charleston
News and Courier.
Little Known of Frog*
Along the rivers and streams In
some parts of Texas, and nround the
margins of ponds and lakes, we meet
with great beds of the water hya-
cloths, says the American Forestry
Magazine. Their dellcnte white flow-
ers and dark green leaves present a
picture of floral luxuriance not very
easily forgotten,
Where they grow,
one should be on the lookout for va-
rlotts species of reptiles or batra-
chlans. and their habits and appenr-
ances In nature carefully observed
We know very little about some of
the forms, and science will welcome
any new facts In regard to them.
Some of the frogs and toads, for ex
ample. are not only very rare In collec
tions. but we are practically lacking
In any field notes upon their exact
distribution and habit*
HEART REVIVED BY MASSAGE
Dr. Petti of Buenos Aires Perform«
Remarkable Feat on Woman Patient
Who Recovers After Long Fight, j
Doctor Petti of Buenos Aires war
shocked on making an Incision In *
woman's abdomen to find that no
blood flowed and that his patient was
pulseless. She had Collapsed under
the chloroform. Artificial respiration
hnd no effect. Caffeine was Injected
both under the skin and Into the vein*
with no result.
The surgeon then extended the 1*-
clslon he had made. Inserted his hand*
and took bold of the woman’s heart to
massage IL Be squeesed the heart
with both hands, but at first It did not
respond. All at one« a powerful co»'
traction was felL followed by other«.
The massage was stopped, but hap to
be resumed at once. The «Mtrastlona
reappeared but the massage was con
tinued and inhalations of oxygen were-
given. At last the patient was out of
danger.
She remained unconscious for a
long time, and when she recovered
had no Idea how close she had been to
passing out. Her recovery was very
slow, being complicated by violent de
lirium, but she got well at last.
Great Statesman’s Hobby.
Gladstone In Ills day was quite a®
axman.
The great Englishman uaed
to slip away from the cares of stat®
and hie himself out to his estate at
Hawarden, seize the haft of his trusty
ax and let the "chips fall where they
may.” To him the exercise afforded
the most complete mental rest that h®
could find. With cont off and shirt
sleeves rolled up the prime minister
would tackle a tree several feet In di
ameter, and keep at It until he bad re
duced it to cordwood. He was forever
consulting his friends as to the ad
visability of cutting down this tree
or that one on his estate. So proud
was he of his wood chopping ability
that he even had himself photograpb-
ed with hls favorite ax at his beloved
pastime; and so great was bls reputa
tion and no ardent his admirers that
he war frequently being presented
with an ax as a mark of esteem. At
one time he had more than 80
In his collection.
Oldeat Confection In the World.
The greater part of the black stick
licorice consumed Is derived from
Spain, where it Is made from the Juice
of the plant and mixed with starch to
prevent It from melting tn hot weather.
The licorice plant la a shrub that at
tains a height of three feet and It
Modern Cereals Superior.
grows wild where Its roots reach the
The wbent and barley of today are
It
flourishes
especially
on
the
water,
I much larger and finer grains thnn the
banks of the Tigris and Euphrates wheat and barley which have been
It Needed Attentlew.
Since the valley of the En- found In ancient Egyptian tombs and
river*
He had been sent to a certain
phrates contained one of the enrllest in the burled cities of Greece, As
civilizations In the world, the prob for rice, which feeds more than one- urh to tune a piano. He found the In
ability is that licorice Is about the third of the human race, there are strument In good condition, and net in
oldest confection In the world, and the now a number of varieties (developed the least need of attention.
A few days later his employer re
taste which the hoys and girls of to chiefly by the Japanese) which are
day like so well was enjoyed by the far superior to any that were known celved a letter from the owner of the
piano, a Indy of would-be musical pro
youngsters of 3.000 years ago.
even half a century ago.
clivities. stating that the piano hail not
All of our grains, excepting maize, been properly tuned. It wus no bettor
seem, to have originated In southern than before.
Armenian an Ancient Tongue.
Asia. Consumption of rice, the great
The Armenian tongue, however, much
After receiving a reprimand from hl»
It hus changed in the course of centu Asiatic cereal. Is now growing rapidly employer, the hapless tuner made an
ries, Is descended from the language tn the United States, most of our peo other trip and again tested every note,
that Priam and Hector spoke. The Ar ple having learned only recently to ap only to And us previously, no futdt
menians hull, like the Homeric Tro preciate It, and how to prepare It for with the instrument. This time
jans. from Thrnce, which subsequently the table.
told the Indy so.
became Incorporated In the Byzantine
“Yes,” she Said. "It does seem
Freak Newspaper*
or eastern Roman empire. Erzerutn,
r ight, doesn't It, when you play It,
In Germany there Is a newspaper ns soon ns I begin to sing it gets all
capital of Armenia, has retained the
deathless name of Rome.
It was that Ims nothing In It but stories about of tune."—London Tit Bits.
founded In the year 415, by Theodosi rheumatism. People having this trou
us. a sebastos, that Is. emperor, of ble write tn their experiences, doctor«
Proper Shade for the Eyes.
tell new ways to get ri«l of It and It
eastern Rome.
He called It The«*
While better working condition« co®
doslopolls; but Its native name Is Erz seems that everybody there having
tie attained by properly steading mid
rheumatism subscribes to this queer
erum, or Armenian Rome."—Ernest
Installing the lamp, much can be ac
Hartwltz iu Asia Magazine.
newspaper, Some years ago a Itus-
complished by shading the eye. But
slnn editor started a postcard-siae
1 like lamp shades, eye shades may he
newspaper, the print of which was so
good an<l bud. To Hie (utter ctasa
A Fix Indeed.
small that he furnished a magnifying
She—I'm In an awful tlx! Just fan- glnss to each of his regular subscrile belongs the curved, opaque sluide wills
cyl My husband has received an ers. Somehow the Idea didn't take, aa Its edge made conspicuous In the field
anonymous letter Informing him of he wily prlnte«) n few numbers before of view by a dark lining. Such a
shade, acting as a distracting obj.-et,
something 1 did before marriage I
fltming out that the people didn't ap
not only disturbs the adjustment <<C
He—The best thing you can do is to preciate the Idea, even though the
the eye, but by darkening the upper
confess.
magnifying glnss was furnished free
half of the field of view causes glar®
She—That's Just It I He won't let
on working surfaces on which ther®
me read the letter—and I don't know
Needn't Worry About That
Is no glare and Increases die glare <m
what to confess I
“What am 1 to talk to my lady part surfaces on which glare is already
ner about?" asked a young man about
present, medical men assert.
Not a Matter of Relief.
io go to bls first purty, of an elderly
“Music speaks a universal lan- friend.
Goed Management.
guage," said the enthusiast
"Surely you'll talk about the most
"Our ward leader expects tn corrai
“1 have beard so,” replied Mr. Cum- pleasing question of all—tier beauty.”
all the feminine votes in the primary.*
rox. “But judging by the program*
“But If sbe doesn't happen to be
“How Is he going to manage ItF*
the words of a universal language are '.eautlful?”
"He has caused It to get all armi nd
lust aa bard to spell and pronounce
“No matter, sho’U take your word
that all the polling places are te hav®
is any other*"
for IL”
mirrors In 'em.”
The Wilson administrai Ion was
A sent on America’s front porch Is
such a good spender that after it had worth a whole bench in Europe's
¡spent all the money In the United back yard.
States a couple of times It tried to
trade off the Constitution.
For the consolation of thoae who
think this nation ought to take upon
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Candidate Cox says the Republic Itself the duty In future of feeding,
ans are trying to suppress free speech fighting and financing the world. II
and free press. Coming from the can may be stated that there Is nothing
didate of an administration which in the Conslt<lutlon to prevent these
has done more against free speech people personal'? from using tbeli
and free press than all its predecess blood snd treasure on that job even
ors combined this Is probably Intend- If the United States falls to sign the
i to ba tunny, but it will puzzle a tot twortgaga Mr. Wllao« made out and
•f peofie <• «S® the JU»e
breugbt heme ter m t® iwi».
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First It was Fighting Col, then It
was Floppy Cox and now it la piai.»
Poppy Cox.
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The man who Imagines he
grown too broad to be patriotic Is too
narrow, in truth, to know what pat
riot Ism In a land like this realty
means.
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Considerable mystery httaches
thè preoenee of George Croel in Méx
ico. bul wbrt more appropriata iWt-
l«g place for iba «alion a abiat
portar
in (be bali
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