Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 11, 1913, Page 6

'PAGE SIX To Write a Lotter. The art of letter writing is quite simple if you will take it in all sim- plicity. All you have to do is to conr fure up s vislion of the person to whom you are writing, pick up your pen, and—talk. When you can plo ture a face you like, adorned with a pipe whose shape you know well, it s no difficult matter to find what to #ay and how to say it. A letter is o ehat and the pen can be as effective a8 the tongue. e ————— He Could Understand. Poet—“All my life seemed to g¢ fnto that poem. I was perfectly ex {hausted when I had finished writing |1t.” Sporting Editor—“I can sympa | thize with you. I was in exactly the same condition when I had finished reading 1+.” The Ginger Man. Sometimes the weather puts ginger tato some men. Then there is a kind of man that all the time puts ginger into everybody around him. Nobody in this old world is more useful to it than the chap who gives his fellow men shots of ginger in all kinds of weather. Pretty Compliment. The Disraelis were visit'ng Strath- Beldsaye In the time of the old duke of Wellington. Going up to the bed- #oom, Disraeli found his wife and her maid moving the bed from one side of the room to the other. When he in- quired the reason, his wife sald: *Well, my cear, the duke sleeps oa the other side of the wall, and 1if I lle against it I can boast that I bave slept ~een the two greatest men in -] San Francisco Argapaul Segin Early to Train Children. It is habit alone that creates obed snoe in the child, and for the child, and it 1t is not tormed early, nothing buy bard, bitter “warfare” can ever pro mote it in its being. System is one of the noblest laws in evidence. It is the great “under study” for universs neaca. Srytng lo«ln and ump Chimneys Take the handle of an old broom and cut it into 12-inch lengths. Fasten these sticks in upright position to & board one inch thick, placing them seven inches apart. After rinstng the botties, vases, etc., turn them upside down over these sticks to dry. If & bandle s placed at vach end of the board, it will be an easy matter te fmove it about from place to place~= Woman's Home Companion Te Remove Varnish. Three tablespoonfuls of baking sods tn & quart of water, applied with a rough cloth, will remove the old var pish very easily when you wish teo revarnish furniture~Woman's Home Combpanion. Qrateful for Sentence. “Thank yer. May the Lord bless yer. May yer head never ache!” sald & woman sentenced to ten momths’ bard labor to the judge. Cri Jh Fulfliment He (In & rectaurant with his bess ¢irl)—You don't know how happy you Rave made me by saying “Yes,” dar NMng. It will be my dearest wish to make earth a paradise for you and %o fulfill your wishes before you ut ter them. Waltress, bring s portion of cheese for the young lady.~Fle No 8igne on That Read. There are no signboards along the eoad to success. We have to paint our own, as those who bave found the road are genarally too busy to attend gende Blaetter. @ the matter. Security Abstract & Title Company Announces that it (is now ready for business,’ and can furnish promptly, complete and reliable abstracts of the title to any real estate in Polk County. SECURITY ABSTRACT & TITLE CO. Miller Building, East Side Square BARTOW FLORIDA iR —————————————— RSO OSHODRIOIRICCHAOLACHINCES CICHRHH IS ROSCKAHNCRCHO C. A. MANWN PROPERTY OWNERS ATTENTION Called to a remedy for leaky roofs. V»e are agents for the Carey Celebrated System cf roofs that do not leak and that stay tight— guaranteed 1 years. We also repaiticaky roofs. If you are in the market for Brick, Lime or Cement, give us a call and save money. 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Kentucky Avs. MANAGER Phone 257 Bowyer Building fagrages ol ol ol el gey nel del el ol ot SOPTPOATEOFDOTEOPOSDSRRD IF YOUJ ARE THINKING OF BUILDING, SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The 0ld Reliable Contractors ‘Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who never “"FELL DOWN" or failed to give satisfaction. All classes of buildings contracted for. The many fine residences built by this firm are evidgnces of their ability to make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue |icans of the southwest, | talneers of Tennessee, the negroes of E of this vast America are fortunate in that by or| dinary travel, without chang- ing the flag and even with- out changing cars, we may fit our scenery and our people almost to our passing desires. We may sub- stitute coast for prairie, mountains for plains, wilderness for city, desert for valley, palms for pines, summer for winter, cloud land for sea level, virtually at the whim of the moment. And lo! what a range of type from the ghettos of New York and Chicago to the French of Louisiana, the Mex- the moun- Georgia, the Dutch of Pennsylvania, the Chinese of the coast, the Indians of the reservation! Half-reclining along the ruined wall surrounding the anclent pueblo of Taos, N. M., I thought upon these things, while before me weaved the !busy daily life of this strange people —a life, unaltered like their mystical speech,' through the centuries. Inde- ! pendent, careless of the recently-ac- quxrod statehood in which as cltizens thcy were entitled to take pride, they pursued their even, picturesque ways, writes E. L. Labin in the Los An- gelos Times. For this pueblo of Taos is the rival, in its clannishness, of the far-famed Zuni, and in its type is more perfect than Zuni. Its twain casas grandes, or great houses, the domiciles of the 600 people, rise in six and five ter- races or stories, respectively, and are the best examples intact of the curil- ous pyramidal construction. Virtually as described by the Spanish of Coro- nado’s expedition in 1540; the “Braba” of the natives, the “Valladolid” of Captain Alvarado, the “Taos” of mod- ern date, stand these two casas grandes; and their dark-skinned fold | tread the same routine. The pueblo was old in Captain Alvarado's time, and Is built beside the ruins of still a previous pueblo. What place in Eu- rope can show a life of longer dura- tion, and unchanged? Declidedly Moorish. In common with other pueblos—and buildings are entered from the ground by means of ladders, which lead to the first terraces. Formerly the ground floor of the pyramids presented only blank walls, windowless and doorless, and the ladders and entrance through the cellings constituted the sole means of incoming and forthgoing. But in these peaceful days there are doors and windows, and the ladders, instead of being drawn up for the night, re- main in place night and day. The tiniest tots, and even the dogs, are ex- pert in ascending and descending their rounds. From terrace to terrace are other ladders, and in places are merely crooked boughs—they and the adobe threshold worn smooth and deep by generations of moccasined feet. There i8 something decidedly Moor ish In these terraced, castellated walls, Joined by ladders; the windows pane- less and narrow and thick of case- ment; the figures passing up and down, squatting in the sun, or carry- ing buckets of water upoa thelr heads, and shrouded in many hued shawls, and white-booted. For this is the pueblo garb: Shawls, black, red, gray, for the women; and blankets, shawl-like, for the men; so that one must look to the feet to designate tha sexes. the moccasin and the legzins; but the women wear a soft bootee, extending above the knee, of the whitest, finest | doeskin. There is something Moorish, and de- cidedly foreign, in the gentle chatty murmur of the Taos tongue, as men, ! wonen and children move hither and thither. This is the cfficial language or the pueblo—the Taos dia'ect. jeal ously guarded, confided so rarely to strangers, far separated somewhat polyglot; it speaks Spanish, degree, English. are sent to the school where they learn Eng at Santa Fe, | ish and where GOVERNOR 9§ PUEBLO there are many of them throughout New Mexico and Arizona—the Taos The men wear | But Tms is Many of thn boyl’ ever, after tneir return to thelr own people they are given scant grace of i two weeks by the elders, when they | 'must resume shirt and blanket and moccasins and Taos speech or laavo the pueblo grounds. Of dun adobe are | the two stately edifices of the pueblo, one upon either side of the Taos creek, which flows sparkling and cold out from the snows of the sacred Taos mountain to the northeast. The hun- dreds of rooms with which the piles | | are honeycombed are whitewashed | \ with the native gypsum, low -ceilinged, | cool in summer, warm in winter, ven- tilated by the deep casements which | are closed by only wooden sxhutteu.J The furnishings are of the simplest— a bench-like platform, over which lu} stretched cowhide, for the bed, a cor- | ner fireplace as a stove, perhaps a stool. Connected with the living-rooms | are the private storerooms or gran-’ arles, with their hoards of wheat, | | squash, red, white, and blue corn, and peppets. I Grain Trodden Out. The wheat has been trodden out, in | fashion of Palestine, by cattle driven | around and around over it; it has been winnowed by pouring it from vessel to vessel, that the wind might | blow away the chaff; and it will be ground into meal by being grated be- tween stones. The bread, in flat cakes, will be baked in conical cement ovens, of which a line, for common use, stands in front of each pueblo building. And in the beginning this grain was sown by hand and harvested by the cradle and sickle. Here in Taos pueblo are perhaps the only stocks used today in America. Relics of old Mexican days, they are kept in the pueblo jail, for tribal of- fenders who deserve more than simple confinement. For Taos makes its own laws and deals its own punishments. It 18 a unity, like any other American town—strange though, as a town, it be. Its charter dates back to August, 1556, when by grant of the Spanish ! | crown it became suzerain over a Spanish square extending a league in all directions from the site of the old church tower. By virtue of this char ter and of possession It is recognized as a separate town and its populace as American citizens—the strangest citizens which the republic owns. Citizens who vote not, save in thelr own annual elections for governor of the pueblo; who have no flag except the yellowed aspen bouchs of their festival dances; who speak a language without a mate to it; who marry not and give not in marriage, outside their town limits; whose faith is the fafth unaltered of 500 vears, knowing not church nor preacher, but pinned fin. definitely to the son of Moni»zuma for whom every morn at sunrise a white. | robed sentinel watches from the roof- top. Through spring and summer the | pueblo works in its fields. The Uni. ! ted States department of agriculture ! furnishes an agricultural agzent, who | lives upon the grounds by suffrance of the pueblo and teaches the Taosans how best to farm. But after the crops are harvested, then Taos p'ays, in a succession of feasts and dances which lasts throughout the fall and winter. The first festival is that of San Gero- nimo day, on September 30, when os. tensibly in honor of the patron saint, Saint Jerome, young and old hold an all-day celebration, giving thanks for the harvest season. Clock That Needs No Winding. Two Austrian watchmakere have | bullt a clock which receives its mo- | tive power from a current of air blow- ing upon a turbine-shaped wheel. The | ' clock is so eimply built that the cur. rent of air produced by a stove or' kitchen range is sufficient to make it go. The air is brought to the clock by a pipe fixed upon the wail. A very strong current is reduced by a certain clever contrivance which regulates the speed of the works Brave Monarch's Mistake. Henry of Navarre told them to lcl~ low his plume. “It isn't as conspicuous as an early TOERICTONAICONIGO00C00300 (000Q0000CICITTIICOaNg they don coats and trousers. How- |straw hat,” they grumbled. 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