Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1924, Page 18

ISLAND OF SOCOTRA IS HOME OF INCENSE Long Historically Noted for Its Popular Product of Aro- matic Gum. Pt ITS PEOPLE ARE CIVILIZED Story of Cannibal QOutrage Comes as Surprise. “Socotra, isolated island off the northeastern point of Africa, where @ lighthouse keeper is rumored to have been the victim of cannibals, has always been associated with much pleasanter thoughts than man- cating savages,” says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic Society. “For it is the ‘Isle of Frankincense’ from which once came most of the pleasant, aromatic gum bur: cense in the churches and te hoth the west and the east. It is even possible that one of the gifts of the Magi to the infant Jesus came from Socotra, for in the past the island was “most the sole source of this highly prized gum. Socotrans Leng Civilized. “The suggestion that there are can- nibals on Socotra is somewhat sur- prising. The island people bscame at least superficially civilized ages ago through the influence of gum traders. They were at one time (hristians, but since the seventeenth have been Mohammedans. v are ruled by a sultan under| British protection. Nor is the island small; it is nearly half as iarge as| Crete or Porto Rico. | “Socotra is not often visited by westerners, but this is rather because of the religious jealousy of the sultan than because of any danger from the natives. The latter were described a | few years ago by a visitor, writing | for the National Geographic Society, as ‘a kindly folk, hospitable and quite harmless. Continuing, he wrote: “Hadibo, the | capital, or Tamarida, as the Arabs| call jt, from tamar, the date-fruit | tree, is a collection of flat-roofed white houses scattered among the ralms. The Sultan's ‘palace’ is a large mud structure with flat towers, and the two prayer houses are suggestive of the graceful Arab mosques only by contrast. The poorer population, chiefly of African descent, and much older in the history of the island than its Arab aristocracy, lives in huts of thorn and plaited grass, invariably overrun with luxuriant gourd vines. Surrounded by tiny garden plots. in which tombac, or native tobaceo; ien- tils, melons, “and yams grow abun- dantly, they are more picturesque out- side than inside. “There is not much to be seen in Hudibo. The principal amusement af- forded the visitor is that of being sken. Touches of Pastoral Beauty. “Nothing could be lovelier than the sight of slender Socotran cattle graz- ing knee-deep among the grasses and FOLKS When times are normal, Senator and Mrs. David A. Reed of Pennsyl- vania and their two children, Dave, jr., and Miss Rosamund, who is finish- ing her educa- tion in Italy and France, with = view to being ! presented to so- E7 ciety next winter, turn their faces toward the set- ting sun along about July 1, and spend three months in the se- clusion of the senators big ranch _in Jack- | sons Hole, Wyo. Mrs. Reed gath- ered up all the £ood books she had no time to read during the crowded social sea- son, and the senator throws off care in the hay and wheat fleld, and spends his time in the saddle. He also spends much time browsing over | problems, whilst he casts a line in| the cool dark streams of Wyoming. | The yongsters have enjoyed this part of the year immensely, riding and picnicing and joining in the revels of the natives about Jacksons Hole. But this year Mrs. Reed has found no time for such a vacation. She sailed recently for Europe, where she will join her daughter, in Rome, and the {wo will pass what remains of the summer in Geneva and Lucerne. Senator Reed, who will be in the thick of the campaign, is neverthe- less planning to attend the reunion of the world war veterans, which will be held in Paris i ugust. He will then join his wife and caughter fo the homeward journey Then, if is well, the family may have a few weeks in Wyoming, where the sen- ator will speak in the local gather- g% about Jacksons Hole before tal & up his schedule in Pennsylvan Mrs. Reed has been one of the tirele: hostesses of the winter, and her su mer program calls for emergy and determination. But a few weeks in | the bracing air of the ranch, with life in the open, she found, is the best tonic which can be prescribed i At present a devoted Pittsburgher, Mrs. Reed is in reality of New York, having been Miss Adele Wilcox of the well known industrial family of that name. Young Dave is a sopho- | more at Princeton. STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That's All Houses For Sale and Rent J. LEO KOLB Main 5027 - 923 N. Y. Ave. 1237 Wis. Ave, ' the palm branches that line the banks | fi of the lagoons near Hadibe. Clouds | massed above and mountains near be- hind; long shadows dappling the water, and the sun turping to gold be tiwny flanks of the cattle, make a picture of pastoral beauty rare to ehold in this part of the east “Today Socotra exports practically nbthing except ghi. a rancid butter. | made from goat's milk and highly prized | n Zanzibar. The inhabitants number About 5.000. and the bulk of them are | of African descent, though Bedouins live | in the mountain caves, and the ruling | class is Arab. The language is distinct | in itself. though possessing many Arabic and Mahri words It has a_wondrous wealth of gurgies and impossible noises in the throat. There are no words for horse or dog, because these animais are ot found on the island. A fine breed of cameis and donkeys, which are the tamed sons of the wild Asses roaming in thousands on the interior plains, are the beasts of burder Lack Industrial Skill “The Socotrans are for the most part A pastoral people. living upon their | flacks and herds. Ther have neither in- | kill for the industrial arts. | they weave and _their | cocoanut are rude in lieu of a potter's wheel, itations of the southern Atab’s handiwork. Those who live by the sea catch fish or dive for mother-of- pearl. They have a most ingenious ‘tele- spope’ for ‘spsing out the wonders that | M it® at the ocean's bottom. It is simpiy % kerosene oil can, Wwith a sheet of glass set into one side. Into the opposite side the observer thrusts his head, and with the glass bot- 16m well down in the water he is rowed | slowly back and fourth, mouth and eyes well “protected from the salt water, which further serves him as a magnify- ing lens™ College Gir Enter Contest Can They Win Gold? Time Will Tell Chex Secret! should help in a requiring a forceful, catchy, descriptive sentence suitabic for 2 slogan to ad- . vertise Chex. The makers of Chex believe - in_new ideas. They will pay for the best—and give $150 in gold to those who compete for it successfully. Local judges, well known. award prizes. . Solve a Picture Puszle, or simply write a sentence — any- body can try. Chex is an Amazing new toilet soap that does mors than soap. It ban- ishes all body odors, checks ex- cessive perspiration when used instead of ordinary soaps. Read the Big Prize Money Ad Chex Contest in Fridays issue, of this paper. The first Education contest fashioned with a bit of | ‘made in America,’ | f w. Z4TH STREET N. MOTHER-IN-LAW BEAT WIFE, COURT DECIDES Struck Younger Woman With Rod and Hatchet, Trial Reveals. Aided by Sister. By the Associated Press. LAURENS, S. C. June 1L—Two women, sisters, were found guilty last night of assault and battery with intent to kill, in connection with an alleged brutal attack upon a third woman, daughter-in-law of ome of the defendants. The three lived to- gether in the home of Elmore Youns, husband of the accusing witness, son and nephew of the accused women. court will convene tomorrow to pronounce sentence upon Mrs. Alice Young and Miss Emma Stroud, who, the prosecution comtended, beat Mrs' Katherine Young with an iron 'rod ‘as she stood at the t their home at Clinton, S. C., months ago, then procured & hatchet with which ‘they knocked her in the head several times. One witness testified that after striking ng woman in the head with the hatchet, e of the older women remarked: “Sounds like a gourd.” Elmore Young, the husband and son, who testified he has not been living with bis wife since the al- leged attack upon her, asserted on the stand today that he disbelieved his wife's story, but gave credence to his mother’s and aunt's denial of the charges. He told of the existence of jealously in the home. The jury was out but thirty minutes. Mrs. Grace Amick, Spokane's only policewoman, recently led the entire police force in target practice, scor- ing 47 poimts out of a possible 50. n two Furnishes ‘the source of reliable in- formation. You can't go wrong if you take a Blue Book along—and follow it's explicit direc- tions. While others are inquiring the way you will be covering the miles. 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