Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1924, Page 77

tor of The Star EAR! about custom Why it that Hon. sted or some other prof venter do not get maks American homa & thusly save ots of people from so much Scottish oning that comes in bottl know because of what happen so suddenly that Hon. Mrs. C. W. Quuck- Sir: | ask to another American is onal Pre- after Tea? avery mire and me are not speaking except | n syllables, ploded Two three weeks of dearie boss lady commence treating me like 1 was a servant. Think that! No soonly she would arise up from breakfast than she say, "Togo, where did you misplace your brains this am.?” Before 1 could tell where she This are how it ex- vould hrosh me off like I was a poi- | son can Yet when Hon. Talefone go jing- jing her throat would get all choco- | late Sund Hello—how well today, Clara. Could with me Wedsdy the 32 narming 1 am to ask you “Mrs. Madam,” 1 require, ak lemons to me and oranges to alefone? Because,” she report, “there must be two (2) ways of talking—one way servants, other for you are you come nd. & tea How, ote. 1 wish you would talk fone,” I report fune- ep from feeling slightly jounce, “beeause planning a very 1ceasion for next Wed. p.m. jay 1 shall be “But ou not at ask out € are On tha at home home now? toeless you ure tulking!” she pronounce. “Do not all world that 1 are at 2nd Wedsdys of Jan., months? “It would require Notel clerks to keep so much in mem- ory,” I divuldge. But she could n similate those words I said so “To morra is my Wedsdy,” she pro- volie hottily 1 congrattilate lurge u day,” I peruse ot hit by that thought. “How now & 5th home on steins owning so » was you on But s “You must arrange retreshmints for several persons, all grabbing at once,” ehe short order. veethearted would you statistic sons 1 Mrs. Ma kindly s to tell me how shall make feed hasiege. S e mate some nny D for™ “Who can tell any ezact arithmatick about o Tea TFarty?' she ralate “where are only one (1) rule. Som thing ways happen. 1f you pre- pare sandwelches for 301 persons pus- | sibly 19 will arrive up. Therefore you botter cook powerfully, so all willy have plenty to get full on” Mr. Editor, when T hear those com- mands 1 commence to cook with all the strength of my wrists and elbows. 1 prepare foods with carnestness pe- uliar to Hen. Bert Hoover getling ready meet Trotsky. 1 manufac- ture so many ham sandwelches that my kneck grew soar from looking up- ly. 1 made jinjer cookies in solid #platoons and surrounded it with nu\-l of every politickal variety. sandwelches also 1 made so them that two (2) knifes 1y cake Lettns many of What then At 4:13 p.m. o'clock Hon. Mr. Quack-| mire arrived looking like he was pickled in mustard 1f [ was not wasting my val. time this female gobblefist,” he narrate, might be doing something useful like losing 19§ playing polka.” Hard grunts by him while Hon. Mrs. set by table lighting a spiritual lamp under + silver wash boiler. Pretty soonly ner Aunt Arnica Jonmes arrive up, looking very top society. “1 am expected to pore.” Aunt Arnica, speaking 1 Ladies Journal “When people come tiate Mrs . W. Quackmire, “be careful not to ulk about umpolite like (;randpa who were a coachman in the street Cleaning Dept.” { you think? home report Homely | { subjecks minutes pass off while Hon. Mrs. | Vol- This | teadruniing a habit in | this looking | why you | tale- | happy social : July & sume (-Uu-r‘ | and | { tock them in ice box where they will not evaporate. Then what collapsed? with derable gas, wheel 88 & push e \ e like she | Everybody on At 472 pm, popping and ottermobiles, mutter to front ng to war, O horrus! earth, and some extra | tore down doorbell in hast to get inside. My brain d with adding ma- chines. With 11 sandwelches for 318 how many would be that aplece? > that hard arithmat con: music, masts 1 could n THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON My heart stood up and fainted away. Yet more people continue to come with famine sounds in their laughter. When nothing is to be done it are al- ways best plan to do eo. Therefore I set in kitchen, smoking Xmas eigars in hopes to die from it before too late. But could not do. Sounds of fashionable foot- steps approaching up. Door jumped. Then income Mrs. C. W. Quackmire, looking calm but nervus. *“Togo,” she commence With voice pecu- liar to church, “there are 346 persons in “YOU GOT SIFFICIENT SANDWELCHES TO DAMN UP THE PANAMA CANAL Parlor. Where are immediate feed for all those™ “In ice box, please’ I multiply with frozen glass on my backbone. She look in while observing those 13 sandwelches, Shrieks by her, deep breathing by me. Then she laid down on floor and enjoy some very difficult fits while I eloped around looking helpless as usual Hoping you are the same Yours truly HASH (Copyright, D. C, APRIL 13 O the Editor: 1 been hanging around Washington a wile in the hopes of getting called on to testify though I don't know nothing about anything but that don't seem to be no bar to getting called on They have had witnesses that come all the way from Seattle to tell that flowsrs lasts longer if you keep them in water, but two or three days of rigid cross- examination falled to shake them. However, they wouldn't nobody pay no tension to me though I hung out in all the different committes rooms and smiled and winked at all the different senators and kept coughing and clear- ing my throat like I was ready to teil them a story that would leave them in hysterics. But somebody must of put in a knock and I finely had to pack up and g° home without a whole lot of people even knowing I was in town. That is the kind of a deal they give me. The boys and gals that was on the stand seemed to be having the time of thelr lifo and their faces foll 1 a f when the senators aid that will do. It was the first time the most of them had ever been in the limelight and they hated to get it over with. They was a battery of newspaper photographers always on the job and it certainly was pathetic to see some of the boys and gals keep look- ing in their direction in the hopes that they would not be forgotten. But plates cost money and before they will walst one on you you have either got to be beautiful or Harry Sinclair. On aect. of the nation wide disappoint- ment rising from me not being sum- monsed maybe I would better give my evidence just ke I would of give it had I of been asked and show the senators what a mistake they made when they left me out in the cold and in giving it I will try and follow the style like 1 heard other people that was lucky enough to get called on. Q. Do you know Harry M. Daygherty? A. Well, I know a2 man named Jim Daugherty of Philadelphia. He referced the Gibbons-Dempsey fight in Sheiby, Mont. where Senators Walsh and Wheels mes from. He was supposed 1924—PART 5 to get $5,000.00 dollars for his scrvices, but he claims he did not get that much. Q. Do you know any other Daug- herty? A. Well, T used to kmow one that was =pelled Dougherty. His first name was Pat and he played left fleld for the Red Sox and White Sox and come to think of it he was in- terested in ofl wells up in New York state. He had curly hair. Did he hit left or right handed S5 SN 4 S5S5SSussss NN = 0 ”/ A. Left handed. But he throwed ht handed. Q. Did you ever know a man named Smith? A. No. Q. Did you ever know a man named McLean? A. One of my best pals was Larry McLean the catcher. Q. Was you ever interested in Pure oir? Only in French dressin; Q. Did vyou ever any kind? A, Yes, I bought it for something else and didn't know what it was til after 1 had drunk it. But it cer tainly wasn't pure. In faet, I would call it poor oil. (Laughter.) Q. Have vou talked with anybody connected with this inquiry? A. What inquiry? Oh ves, T know what you mean. Why yes, I have talked with Mr. Will H. Hays, bu that was way back when he was the postmaster. Q. What was the conversation? A. Neither of us understood it, It was all in code. Q. How did vou come to loose s much hair? A. If you are going into personal ties, Senator, why, where did you get them funny eyebrows? Q. Your front teeth looks all right but how about you back teeth? A. Well, T want to explain that, Senator. I had a couple of loose ones which the boys said had better come out and they took them out and are going to put in some bridge works But I have got to wait till 1 have time as 1 find it impossible to get through my work in a hr. and a % per day like a senator. (Laughter.) Q. What is your work? A.1 refuse to answer on the gronnds that I might make a monke of myself. Q. Was vou ever refused for in surance? A. Just fire insurance. The exam- Iners seemed to think they wus dan- ger of me burning up. But I want to tell you, Senator, that 1 always like to be took out on a five card major suit and when I double a bid of three 1 mean business Q. That will do. A. But wait a minute, Senator, 1 ain’t told you how many children 1 got Q. That will do. That is a example of what I would of testified to and shows you whal they missed not calling on me, but senators is libel to make mistakes as they are only human though ther ay look different. own any oil of Cosmopolitan Crowd Enlivens the Streets of Constantinople BY FRAVK G. CARPENTER. PLE.—1 bave and the Bo ship at Con- delta of the Danube, ed from Rumania to Turkey. 1 was Rumanian and the sail different from on the although the Black sea five times as large as Tt is nearly as big as and Its only outlet is the Bosporus strait nineteen long and from one-half mile to es in width, which connects it the sea of Marmora and the Mediterranean. was not great lak is more than { Lake Superior. the al narrow miles two wit ts 1 have reached from the Mediter- through the Darda- sea of Marmora to the This year I have drift- Danube by water and ruil through Austria. kiz, Hungary, Serbia and Bulgariz. From Bulgaria [ crossed into Rumania to Bucharest, and thence took a train for Constanza. The Black ooth and its deep blue water sparkled under the We left Constanza at night and Constan ranean, pa nellés and 1 Golden Horn. ed down the have come by Czechosioy A was s sun. | the next morning founa ourselves a: the entrance of t strait which sepa Asi, The famous history logical Bosporus tGireek and was so called maiden lo, transformed into white cow by Jupiter, swi here frou Y A to Eurape we entered the strait was point called Anchor Key. from the an- which Jason found here when the Argonauts were seeking the Gold- en Fleece. On the other side of the ait is the Giant Mountain, where this same Jason made sacrifices and built temples, and where Darisu, the great Persian king, stood and looked it narrow. windin ates Burope and Bosp little Its s is perd boay of v ame is myth s from the ord,” und it the beautitul con “Ox becau means m acr Where near a chor Quackmire pretend she wasn't there «nd Hon. Mr. Quackmire cat ciga to keep his words from coming out Then jing-jing by doorbell. Who | was thet? Oh, how nice. A literary| gentleman with seeds on his hat wish | to intreduce Handlehauser's History | of the World 15 down and you needn't | d it until salisfied i am door in his face pronounce | Mrs, Quackmire. { I attemp do but could hit his nos & 80 onwards, <0, 1t even Ar. Editor, until 5.11 | p.m. when Prof. Virgil Spilicopp. wl work in a college, therefurc require more eating income with Chine: pression. e 1 sandw tulk about Ancient Roman Ruins “I could show you a modren Ameri- can ruin what has them all peeled a mile,” provoke Hon. Quackmire while pointing to his self. Nobedy got to laughing about that, So pretty soonly it was 7 o'cloek & Prof. Spilleopp £dy he must seurry home & read about ustronomy, Then Mre. Quack up her tea and inrush to kit where she look at dense Dile of sandwelches, cake & other eatible delickittensen whieh I had ummassed for feed: “Goshes!" she holla, “What you axpeet was coming this afternoon p.m.? The Armenisn Reliei, perbaps- iy, or the Society for the Prevention of Hunger Strikes? You got sifficient sandwelches to damn up the Panama camal. Yor (2) weeks we must eat nething else.” With that mean back o what could I do last Wedsdy, Mr. ditor, when she inform me to pre- pare for another rocial Tea Drunk at ner home? “You cannot cut off your leg 2cc in the same place.” say won. Shakspasr, famous bookmaler. “iscrefore, when she ask me to prepare sroeeries for her gusts I do o with cau- lion peculiar to rats eating firecrackers. Foods shall not be wasted,” 1 inform myself with Hoover in my soul. So I manufacture 13 pilldickle sandwelches & ate . ol curse she stamp i upon E n the top is thus referred to | Twelve Tribes, by Byron, of whom we may truly say “he hath a gentle wit": “The wind swept down and the wave foaming o'er the blue Sym- plegade "Tis a grand sight from off “The Giant's Girave To watch the progr ing seas Between the: Bosporus. and lave Europe and Asia, you being quite at ease There's not pukes in Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.” the Euxine, Bro! ess of those roll- as they lash sea the passenger e'er After that day the early Christians changed the temples built by the Greeks into churches, and the Tu turn have changed the Christian churches to mosques. The Turks have a tradition that Joshua, after he had led the Israelites across the Jordan, subdued six nations and thirty-one kings, and divided the promised land among the ame to the Bosporus They say he died here, and to live. point out his grave near a mosque on | ETOups of fine stone structures, some | beggar and porter, and from the top of the mountain. This is a mis- take, for in the Book of Joshua, King | One of these is Robert College, which | but the women. The taxes were re- James version, we are told that he died at the age of 110 and was buried at Timnathserah, in Mount Ephraim. That was about 1400 B. C. The Mohammedans represent Joshua as equal in to the Colossus of Rhodes. They say he was so tall that ha frequently stood astride the strait and let the ships sail between his legs. and that he loved to sit of an evening on the top of the Giant Moun- tain and lave his feet In the water of the Bosporus, which was more tha 200 yards below him. 1f you can im- agine two legs each as long as the Washington Monument, and & body big enough to correspond, yeu may have the Mohammedan conception of Joghua, the son of Nunm, cooling h horns. wize w‘ anchored awhile under the Giant Mountain at the town of “THE MOST STRIKING OF ALL THE CHARACT! ARE THE HAMALS, OR PORTERS, WHO AR Kevak, not far from some Standard Oil tanks, until the quarantine officers OF STAMBOUL TRAINED FROM CHILDHOOD TO CARRY ENORMOUS LOADS. A SADDLE OF PADDED LEATHER 1S USED TO PROTECT THE BACK, AND THE MEN CARRY EVERYTHING FROM ASHES TO PIANOS, |looked us over, und then wound our way down the HBosporus between villas and villages, which dot the shores of the strait in both Europe jand Asia. There many hotels jrising up from the waters, and here jand there are great palances built by the sultans. The largest palace | Dolmabaghchen, where the last of the | caliphs lived until about six weel ago. It is a mighty structure of ! marble, as long as two city blocks, | with a marble court fifty feet I'xdci | between it and the water The Bosporus is walled with hills from the Black sea to Constantinople. { There arc castles on some of the hills ;and both shores are fairly well set- |tled. The country seems ragged and rough, but many of the villas have | beautiful gardens. The poverty of | the Turka and their desire to avoid | tuxes by showing no signs of prosper- | |ity is everywhere in evidence. All the | | buildings lack paint, and the windows like great, blearly eves, looking | aged and faded faces. Many | houses are of wood, almost ! to pieces. Here and there are {out the { fallin of them flying the American flag. | is the greatest educational institution | in this part of the world, and another | the Constantinople College for! Women, which takes the place in the | Near East that Vassdr, Smith, and Wellesley have In our country. Among | |its students are many Turkish girls. | | who, as the wives of statesmen, will| | have their influence on the politics of | | the future. Another building with the | American flag is the summer home G B. Ravadal, the American consul | goneral, who has represented United | {of | FHERE is 4 bridge of boats cress- jof flesh, !of the Golden Horn. At ! they refuse to pay and the officials ! were dressed ing the Golden Horm, connecting Christian Pera with Moslem Stam. bou!, and this bridge is the great artery through which the blood of | the two civilizations mixes as It| flows. This s one of the most re- markable of all the bridges of the world. It surpasses in interest the Rialto, in Venice, upon which Shylock bargained with Antonfo for his pound or Brooklyn bridge, New York, that great cob-web of steel and cement with its polyglot crowd, or even the Thames bridge in London, which has, perhaps the most traffic of any bridge of the world. This Gala- ta bridge is said to be crossed every day by 300,000 people and not more than one idea. The crowd on the bridge is a mov- | ing picture show such as you can see | nowhere else in the world. Thel bridge is about 100 feet wide and it | rests on boats high above the waters ita two ends stand Turks in uniform, who are supposed to take toll from ail who cross, from the pasha and bey to the women as well. They do so with all cently quadrupled and the who had bLeen previously exempt. were included In the new toll. but hardly dare lay hands upon them, for Mohammedan custom forbids a man touching any woman except his wife or daughter. When I was here in 1303 all the women who went over this bridge in the old style Mo- hammendan costume. They had bal- | loon-like gowns of black or some n| | States trade on the Bosporus for| other dark color, which were tied in | many years. { With & string at the walst, making | As we near Constantinople, the Bos- | each look for all the world like two porus is filled with shipping and | mammoth sausages walking on feet. great steamers are Iying in the har- | Their heads were covered by their bor. There are barges of lumber and | gowns and the sides were gathered [ other cargoes, Turkish craft of vari-| in at the chin, so that the faces |ous kind, and ferryboats filled with | showed only through veils of white commuters — red-fezzed passengers | gauze, the vell often beginning be- | who are riding back and forth from low the bridge of the nose and les- | their home on the strait. There are | ing itself in the bosom. The cyes and | fifteen different stations on the Bos- | a strip of forehead were all that {porus and the Princess lslands, and | could be seen, and one imagined | morning and evening the boats are| every woman a beauty. Some of the | packed like those of New York. There!Moslem women of today have similar {are also hundreds of caiques, the fa- ! mous canoe-like boats of the Turk, {and the traflic is as strange as that of | Bangkok. H | Coming down the strait I had a fine | | view of this great eity of more than | {a million with itz hundreds of mina- ! rets cutting the sky and standing out ! {like so many white pins on a huge | cushion of gresn. The city seems to| { rise, as it were, from the edge of the | {#ea. Tts hills are crowned with { mighty mosques, some of which cover {acres, and from the minarets you can hear the shrill tenor voices of the mueszins calling the hours of prayer. Constantinople is divided into three {parts. You first pass Pera, whero most | of the foreigners live, where modern | business has its headquarters, and where the caliphs had many of their palaces. At the left across the water in Asia is Scutari, where the most tanatical of the Turks have their homes, where many of the dervigshes live, and where until recently there | were tens of thousands of refugees, | cared for by the Near East Relief un- der American doctors and nurses, and right in front of you is Stamboul, which is the most important part of the city. Stamboul lies mcross the Golden Horn from Pera. It contains the bulk of the Mohammedan popula- tion. It is the seat of all the great mosques, it has mighty buzaars, cov- ering many acres, the sublime porte, where were the offices of the Turkish empire before the new government was instituted at Angora, and in short | everything that Is essentially Tur-| kish and Mohammedan. The Golden Horn, which separates it from Pera, is a deep inlet, about a mile wide j where it Joins the Bosporus and nar- rowing as it curves in between the two cities and goes back into the country, forming the sweet waters of Furope. gowns, but a great many have dis- carded the veil, and it would be dif- ficult to find an uglier oollection of faces on any highway. The wemen look slovenly. Some of them wear slippers, and their white or gay col- ored stockings show out, their heels bobbing up and down as they. tramp {over the bridge. The bridge is a good place to study the cosmopolitan character of Con- stantinople. Stand beside me upon it, midway between Staboul and Pera, and look at the crowd. Of the more than a million inhabitants who make up Constantinople, only about one- half are Turks. The rest are Greeks, Armenians, Jews and all the strange characters you will find in this part of the world. There are tems of thou- sands of Jews. Here comes one now. He is dressed in a leng black gown and he has a fur cap on his head, still common in Constantinople. ‘These men are probably going on er- rands for the wives of some bey whom they guard. Behind the eunuchs s a Circassian, a big man with a black beard, whose breast is covered with cartridge boxes. His clothes are half Euro- pean, he has & dagger in his belt and he belongs to the new Turkish army. With him is & Raossian in top boots, his long jacket belted in at the waist. They both stand aside to let pass that automobile, in which are some of the ladies of a high official of the new Turkish republic. Notice the chauffeur. He has the ordinary uniform of his class, but his cap s & fes and the man sitting bestde him 15 a stiff-backed eunuch who was prob- ably imported from Nubla. T take & mapshot as the sutomobile goes by. The eunuch sees me and raises his whip in a threatening manner. Never- theleas, I catch & glimpse of the| ladies They wre thinly veiled. One| of them is a pretty Circassian whose golden hair shines out over magmifi- cent eyes [ can sce her rouged cheeks through the white geuze, and | as the troffic stops the car I observe that her dress is of sky blue, trimmed with satin. As the automobile moves on my gulde warns me to be careful now I stare at the ladies, saying that & man wss flogged by a eunuch not long ago for his glance at the young i bride of a bey. This is no place for| the masher, ! * | UT here come two men upon horse- | back. The steeds are Arablans— fiery blacks with thin necks and heads high in the air. The riders are Turks, one of whom wears & gown and turban of green, the prophet's oolor, which shows that he has made the pilgrimage to Meoca. Both have rod shoes turned up at the tues. But the most striking of all the characters on the bridge are the hamals, the porters who carTy great 10ads on their backs. This work is a profession in Comstantinople. The porters have their unions and the business {» handed down from father to son. Boys begin to carry burdens at eight and ten vears of age, and they are still carrying them when their hair is white at three score and ten. Some are bald-headed and many wear turbans. Here comes one who has a load of beards extending far out behind and In front of him. The lead is enough for w mule, but he totes it along without trouble. I am told that & porter will take a full length of eight-lnch iron pipe and curry it up the hills of Stamboul on his buck. IHero comes two men load h melons, Iuch has o three bushel basket full of watermelons fastened to his shoulders. Other porters have dry goods bexes, up- right plasos, beds, tables and all sorts of furnitur The porters are also the ash-col- lectors of the city. I see them every morning tolling up to the damps, which lie between my hotel and the Golden Horn. At a given point they bend their heads and empty the ashes (rom the great baskets on their from each side of which, in front of | packs down the side of the hill. the ears, hangs down o long curl,! showing that he is descended from the Spanish Jews, who came to this part These hamals uss saddles to pro- tect their baeks from the heavy | weights put upon them. The saddle of the world when they were driven {is a padded cushion of lcather, of from Spain. Behind him struts a long: triangular shape, with & prejection baired, orthodox Catholic menk, in a!at the bettom which prevents the high black cap and long black gown, | and on the other side of the bridge is dervish, whose fanatical Arabian features are crowned' with a sugar- loaf, tan-celored cap, which rises o foot above his head and looks like an inverted tumbler. The dervish wears a long black gown with a sash round the waist, and his face has numer- ous scars. He belongs to a sect who mutilate themselves in their religious enthusiasm. Among the next passers-by are two flabby-faced eunuchs, as black as the charcoal in the basket which is being carried by the porter behind them. Each has a stick in his hand, and both talk in shrill, piping voices as they pass. Notwithstanding the cut- ting down of the harem, eunuchs are [te the man's back load from It is fastened as though he were o donkey, and his load is often | hoavier than any denkey eould earry. The usual basket is &s big around as a bathtub and about four feet in depth. It is often filled ¥ith freshly ! killed beef and mutton, or with ves- | etables, or, in fact, with every sort of goods that are seld in this city. As 1 write these notes my guide| grabs my arm and jerks me out of the readw: A caravan of camels {s coming and one of these ill-na- tured beasts may bite at us as they pass The caravan {s led by a man with & donkey, and the guide tells me this is a common custom through- out the ceuntry T am surprised that the camels lipping. | Turks have no speed law. pay no attention to the automobiles. Behind them are some mules with panniers, bringing stuff in from the country, and among the traffic are horses drawing all sorts of vehicles, and even the black, ugly water buf- falo, half-hog and half-cow, with its great black horns extending out like the crescent which for centuries ap- peared on the coat-of-arms of the sultans, A curfous feature of this animal traffic is the biue beads which hang in strings around the necks, across the foreheads, and even on the tails of the beasts, Every animal has them, and they are put there to ward off the evil eve. 1 was out driving yesterday in a victoria behind a mag- nificent team of prancing black horses, each of which had four strands of blue beads around its necl, a belt of blue beads around its fore- lock, and two beads fastened to the hair of its tail, six inches down from the joint by which that caudal ap- pendage is hung to the body. The driver must have been afraid of the devil, for he had protected his horses going and coming. An even stranger thing was an automobile we passed driven by a long-gowned, turbaned Turk. The car had a strand of blue besds wrapped around the radiator| cap at the front. The man was zo- ing like the wind. and I doubt not he had implicit faith in the charm Speaking of automobiles, these and their driving is more reckless than Jehu's My heart has taken a permanent lodg- ing in my throat, and 1 jump about as though I had St. Vitus' dance in trying to keep out of the way of the motor cars. The main street of Pera is o wide enough for two cars to pass, and the fezzed chauf- fly in and out, grazing the street cars, at a speed which would cause their arrest in Chicago. Even the street cars are dangerous. The sidewalks are often not more than two feet in width and the car tracks come so close that the cars are apt to skin one's legs as they pass. They £0 like mad, and the ringing of their bell vies with the honking from the automobile This Is a noisy city. Street ped- dlers shrick out their wares. The “THE TERRACED STREETS OF hamals vell to you to get out of their way. The pavements are cobbles, and every vehicle rattles. Right next to my hotel is the Petit Champs, & gar- den where they play jazz music and sing until 3 o'clock in the morning, and whers the after-midnight sights would disgust Vienna, Paris or Ber- lin, even in these days of their great degradation, I do not always sleep well and I try to drop off by keeping time to the music. At about 3 am, it dies down and the city is quiet. But even then I hear the resonant sounds of the club of the policeman as he walks his beat, tapping the flagstones every so often to warn the thieves of his ecoming and to show the city fathers he is on the job. (Copyright, 1923, Carpenter's World Travels ) — Crowning a Pagoda. RETURNING missionary tells of witnessing a curious festival not ®0 long ago at Mandalay, the chief {town of Burma. A new pagoda dedi- cated "to the Buddhist religion was to be completed by the placing of u huge crown, or thi, upon ita summit, more than 330 feet above the ground. To observe the ceremony came Bud- |dnists from Indo-Chine, from the | Himalayas, from Laos and Chan and {Stam. Warriors from Katsehin, sor- |cerers from Mot and people from {other places made a medley of lan- guages lke that at Babel. On street corner would be seen a den tist pulling a customer’s tooth. On another corner a Mohammedan bird dealer sold paroquets to Buddhists who piously set them free. At very modern booths one could buy ice oream, soda or tea. Mandalay was a gorgeous spectacle, and the new pa- goda was the center of it. Every pagoda has at its summit « thi, or cap, the placing of which is often @ herculean task. The one now to be raised weighed several thou- | sand pounds and consisted of a gilded ball and a great spindle above it To get It to the top an inclined plane of bamboo scaffolding like a |huge toboggan slide had been built. and was decorated with silk flags and umbrellas. Six days were required for the ascent and a Seventh fasten it place. CONSTANTINOPLE ARE SOME- TIMES CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER BY FLIGHTS STONE STEPS. OFTEN LINED WITH SMALL SHOPS." i