New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1923, Page 16

may cross from Sweden in summer and move to Norway's northwest coast and in the winter may cross from Norway to inland Sweden, “Aside from the real dwarf peoples, such as the pygmies of central Africa, the Lapps are the smallest people in the Eastern Hemisphere, Their aver- » neighborhood of . ) age height 1s in the States That Swedish Frontiers-| v "t Seven "inchen-—a phovicai condition ascribed to the age-long men Threaten Exis[eflce 0[ People wanderings of their ancestors in the | frozen, cheerless region of the north, It has been suggested that the Lapps £ were the first inhabitants of the frozel o Washington, April 27.—A L&DR| zone after the great glacial shect ot ‘ambassador” from the ~Swedish|ine 1o Age receded and made North- north country who recently “""‘"‘ ern Europe habitable, Many centuries the King of Sweden to complain that| ,gs they are supposed to have lived FBwedish frontiersmen threaten the| | throughout the Scandinavian peninsu- el:i";llvn;:t:rf“h‘;fl!:\'nll;)‘:jhb‘;" :l':']“r'l'"ll’:h Ia, but with the arrival of other peo- w! r eindeer, re-| o0 Yo o : . !n!rod‘:lce's '.h‘l'!(‘ rovers of the Arctic| ples lyhf‘)"“ll(‘ foroed farther north. to & world that had almost forgot-| Jife Centered About Reindeer ten them. A bulletin from the Wash- | The reindeer is the typical animal ington headquarters of the National of Lapland, and about it their life has Geographie society tells something of | centered rnrvum-s. It carries them what it terms “these. qu little folk | UPOn its back and draws their loads, who live under the rays of the mid- |8ives them milk and cheese and meat night sun—and the darkness of the for food, clothes them with its skins, and furnishes materials for {imple- by | ments and utensils from its bones. Like flm P:mngo h\dlnns or Arizona |¢Ve" been that of a nomadic herder, Rhd.. - Maxico and the forest living in tents and following his herds dwellers along the Brazilian-Peruvian ‘f;‘ \nz:‘:‘ ““],M;‘"Sto':’r"u l“’:‘“‘;':‘“;lf::‘g":l line, they have a lofty disregard for|. .. .- ' A v herds of reindeer with them, pastur- in n‘u1_n|n-rs in late years, and ‘Lap- ing them today in Sweden and to- land’ is now far frnm‘h(‘h\g a land Iaboraw’ in No;‘\\ny Ith SRRt Ghre. peopled by Lapps and still less by Lapp nomads. TIn Swedish Lapland, for ex- mony, ample, only about seven per cent of Nomadism Must be Served the inhabitants are Lapps. It is the “The Lapland of the maps spreads|pushing in of more settled people that into four distinct countries: Norway, | has made life so hard for the roving Sweden, Finland and Russla. Once the |aborigines. And there has been a Lapps paid no attention whatever to |desertion of nomadism by some Lapps. any of the boundary line in their re- | Where once ‘Lapp’ and ‘reindeer gion. But Russian and Finnish bound- | herdsman’ were synonomous, there arles were eventually closed officially |are now numergus seitled, agricnl- against Norway and Sweden; and |tural Lapps; and others who fish for while some straggling still takes place, |2 living. Some have turned miners in the larger movements were stopped.|the rich iron flelds of Swedish Lap- Norway and Sweden, however, take |land. official cognizance of the needs of Helped American Tudustry their nomadic joint-citizens, and have “Christianity was taken to the a treaty agreement whereby Lapps|Lapps only in the last few centuries, and there are observers who still question whether their somewhat con- fused religlous ideas are more strong- ly marked by Christian or pagan u ure practices. ‘The Russian Lapps espe- cially seem to insist on thorough go- ing pragmatism in their religion. It o is told of those along the Arctic coast that they make offerings at the shrine ry s of Boris Glob when starting on a fish- ing expedition, and that if they are 'unsuccessful the straightaway retrieve Apply it to Anv Rupture, Old or Recent, their offerings! These same Russians Targe or Small and You are on the Lapps, up to a few decades ago, pre- Road s Convinced i n;‘.htnnl::nds. ferred to steal thelr brides from an enemy or a stranger rather than to o |obtain her by purchase or persuasion, sent F]'ee to Pl’ove Thls\ “The United States is largely in- & TR e oF onil debted to Lapps for an important and nyone ruptured, man, chiid, 8 3 y ghouid write &t once to W, B. Rice, 46¢5|Tapidly growing industry. The first Main St., Adams, N. Y., for a free trial of (efforts to introduce reindeer intc his wonderful stimulating application. Just | Alaska were not very successful be- put it on the rupture nnd the muscles be- | cause of a lack of expert knowledge Jin fo Mpbten: they begin te bl ‘""“"”wm breeding. and herd management 8o that the opening closes naturally and the need of a support or truss or appliance is|Several score Lapps were induced to then done away with, l)nn( negleot to|go to Alaska to take charge of the send for this free trial. Even I your run-|onterprige fn 1898, and their skill gave ture doesn’t bother you what is the use o¢ wearing supports ‘all your llfe? Why | reindeer raising there a great boost. suffer this nuisance? Why run the risk of | The natives learned from the Tapps gangrene and “uurh dangers tflrom hd!mfl” and now hundreds of thousands of and innocent little rupture, the kind that| oinqeer in Alaska are turning other- has thrown thousands on the operating table; A host of men and women are daily | Wise useless moss into food and cloth- running such risk just because their rup-| erials for the territory and tures do not hurt.mor prevent them from getting around. Write at once for this| free trial, as it la certainly a wondertu ST P thing and has atded in the cure of ru Try and write at once, using the coupon be- low: | Experiments Show That Pheasant Free for Rupture W. 8. Rlce, Inc, | FEggs Can Be Brought and Hatched ain Bt., Adams, N. Y. | You may send me entirely free o || Here, Sample Treatment of your stimulating application for Rupture. London, April 27,—Exper1mentsl |made by a large firm of game breed- |ers have shown that pheasants’ eggs can be sent to America and satisfac- torily hatched out. Name Address State .. téfin'n for mfimm:e—~ fiethm&t § THE S1ORE OF THE CONNORS-HALLORAN CO, INC, UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT George M. Lioyd— Jos. M. Halloran 215 Main Street The firm has therefore made ar- rangements with a transatlantic line of steamers to take over ten Lhous- and eggs by thelr vessels when tho laying season starts next month, “The pheasant s not native to Am- erica," sald the manager of this firm, “and stocks have constantly to be re- newed and the blood strains changed, Hitherto we have been sending live birds, but now we know that eggs can be sent equally as well, They will be shipped the day they are lald and should be under a hen pheasant cr in an Incubator in America about ten days later,” BANK FOR TELEGRAPHERS WILL BE OPEN IN JUNE New Institution Will Be Conducted Along the Lines of the Enginecrs' Home St. Louls, Mo., April 27—The Tele- graphers' National bank, which prob- ably will open here about June 1, will be conducted along the line of the Locomotive Engineers’ Cooperative National Bank of Cleveland, according to E. J. Manion, President of the Or- der of Rallroad Telegraphers, who will head the new institution, Organization of the bank, which will have a capital stock of §500,000 and a $100,000 surplus, was author- ized at a session of the grand division of the railroad telegraphers’ union at Savannah, Ga. in May, 1921, The capital and surplus has been sub seribed, Mr. Manion stated, and the majority of it by members of the union, Although the bank will be con-l trolled by the union, no distinction ie to be made in the list of depositors } The accounts of all persons will be| sollcited. L. J. Ross, grand secr tary and treasurer of the union, wil! be a vice president and cashier. Under the by-laws as adopted by the board of directors, a limit of 10 per cent has been placed upon the dividends to be declared. Earning: above this, Mr. Manion says, will go either to the surplus or be dividec among the depositors as a bonus. The directors will be: E. J. Manion L. J. Ross, G. E, Soyster, G. E. Jos N. 8. 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