Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 94

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 9, 1930. Peru Enters New Era South American Republic, Rich in Tradition and Historic Lore of Ancient Inca Civil- ization, Land of V ast Natural Resources and Industrial Promise, Is Now Thriving Under New Form of Government After Long Period of Political Oppression. Editor’s Note: This is a first of a series of illustrated articles appear- ing in The Star’s Sunday Magazine on the South and Central Amerscan couniries. Another article will ap- pear in the Magazine next Sunday. BY GASTON. NERV AL. % HE first idea that comes to mind in thinking of Peru is the marvelous Jegend of the Inca Empire, which fiourished throughout that region when America had not yet become When the Spanish conguerors whom Colum- bus landed in America reached the heart of the dustry, a land that is becoming more and more At It il F5REE % | i EE I il : h i ] A typical farm gateway alon, ley road near Chosica, eru. interruptedly since 1919 by imitating the sys- tem of consecutive “self-re-elections” implanted by Gen, Gomez in Venesuels. However, the Leguia dictatorship in Peru is muech more benevolent and humane than that of Gomez in Venezuela. An Indian Market in the City of Huancayo. and a few people, intermixed with the Spanish, scattered through Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. The prosperity of Peru depends today upon #ts immense natural resources and upon the enterprise of its people. They have long since definitely transformed their country to the. standards of European civilization, cultivating arts and letiers to a notable degree, and de- veloping, through malerial progress and in-, all nations .where. this, type of. govetrnment is. » of Peace and Prosperity An old street of Colonial period in a city of Peru. TH iy 25%5 H z§§ el i : ud EE Es : i iF £y 41 il 82 g i G area of Peru, her pop- being but slightly more t that of Belgium or tries of much smaller area. Most ts live on the coast and in the The population is composed of white people of Spanish descent, of “mestizos” (mixed ho E H 3 £ SEs EiEk 1 g pot. The fruit, woody and hollow, has remov=- able tops somewhat like the manufactured pots of the kitchen. Among them is one which pro- duces as seed what we know as the Brazil nut. When the hunter is out for his prey, he re- moves the top from monkey pot and fills it with ts. .In due , the monkey appears, in and & handful of the nuts. s ik =abi i | Babcock Test for Milk. It consists of mixing equal quantities of milk and sulphuric acid. The acid, which does not react with the butterfat, does dissolve the other solids in the milk, the heat resulting from this action causing the fat to melt and run together. ‘The mixing is done in vase-like bottles which quick and of the butterfat is obtained. Spinach Seed Imported By G jil | i