New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 17

. trees of fruit and FIJT ISLANDS WANT UNION WITH CANADA Ruious for Relations Like Ha- waiian Islands and U. . Washington, D. C. Feb. 1.—Fijl wants Canada; will Canada have Fiji? That will be the.question before the foreign office of Ottawa if the move- ment on the famous cannibal islands to join Canada as Hawall jolned the United States develops to its logical end. “Terrors of Fiji's fierce savages, a name to. chasten children, have given way before the nameless dreamy charm which now wraps the islands of the South Pacific,” a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters ot the National Geographic soclety says, and continues: Cannibalism Only a Memory “Though old men stiil live who confess knowledge of the taste of cooked human flesh, they, like their sons and daughters - have become good abiding Christians. Today, their tempers are as equable as the climate of this twentieth century Eden. The Fiji group is 600 miles from Bamoa. It proudly claims the world’s unique self-rebulating climate. A thermostat on a modern heating plant could do no more. When it is hot the corrective comes automaticar ly. Heat brings coolness from the mountains. Dryness brings - rain. Stiliness brings the breeze, a Fiji en- thuslast avers. Protecting nature has even gone so far as to bulld coral-dikes against angry waves al- mst completaly around the main tsland, Viti Levu. FExtremes of tem- perature are 59 degrees and 94 de- grees. . Find Good in Hurricanes . . “But every Eden has {ts serpent which, in Fiji's existence, takes the form of a hurri These disturb- ances are affectionately known as ‘blows." “Hurricanes cannot jar the menfal eerenity of Fijl residents, one of whom claims ‘blows’ are not an un-. mixed evil, maintaining that: ‘They stir things up. They prune the leaves and give their fecundity a rest, so they bear better afterwards, They loosen the soll around the roots, They dig about them, as it were, and even blow moths and other insect pests out into the ocean.’ Disciples of Rip Van Winkle, “Of the three main raclal groups of the population numbering 157,26», the native Fijlans are still dominant, toltaling 84,775; but their predomi- nance is fading fast. In 1921 there were 60,634 East Indlans and 35,878 Furopeans. Natives of India were fmported for labor because the Tijlans themselves are too ardent dis- ciples of Rip Van Winkle, and the | Indians have . muitiplied rapldly, With happy resignation the ¥Fiji na- tives believe that the world is made for leisure and not for work and worry. The story told by birth and Genth statistics, however, * {8 very simllar to ohr American Indian's ‘position for many years; Ui hirth rate, 31.84, death rate, 27.61; Indlans (from. Tadia)’ birth rate, 38.00, -death rate, 7.5.1 3 “Although Fljlans. 1ees fhan 40 years agos killed, cooked and ate two | men. to_césbrate tha estdblisiment of & new school, thie South Bea Eden is tainad mow. . Bo easily Is law main. tuined that criminals can De wseen sobbing in the doorwny of Suva's jall becauss they are shut out! As the | hour of ®x approhches men will | eome running from. all points of the town 16 gain the jall with its food | and bed, before the doors are elosed | for thae night,, leaving them, figura tively, out in the cold Helpoed by Panama Canal “Together the fslands make up an| area almost equal in sz to the state of Massachusetts, Vitl. Levn, the largest, is mountainous, some praks rising to 4,000 feet Lewvn, ! eapital and one of two towns {n the | group is on the sowth wde of Vit Tevu, To this small ,town = have | lutely eome the réverberations of o | world event which bids fair to put | Fiil on the map commercially, This was the opening of the Panama Canal, Before this event Fiji was | s far off the world trade routes as Robinson Crusoe's Isle, But now it | fs on the traveled path between Eng- | land and her lmportant possessions, Australia and New Zealand. ! “Ships having given 1ji a reason | [P the islands | gallantly fo produce sugar-cane, coffes, copra, cotton, | rubber and ecattle. The odds are againét Fiji in fwo respects: native | philosophy Insists that life is mm]rl for fun and frolic and the warm | tropica conspire to- prodiiee pests as | g nerously as plante In the tropies it is paid. there is no cintment with out ite fly; sugar-cane had Its labor | shortage, the banana its eoffec ity leal diseass, cotton capricious American eocoanuts the hurricane. 1n spite of these obstacies Fiji's cxporta frose from $6,000,000 in 1019, to wrarl_\‘ for commercial existence have striven market, the borer, | heard singing in their villages far into the |the night ment i« more the rule than the ¢ ception and fritndliness to is carried almost to an excess 5 AR TS AT HISH NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1924, Real Live Values From the Basement A high grade Wool Blanket. In popular plaids—thick, soft, fluffy and warm—Double Annual Clearance Sale Rag Rugs in many pretty patterns. Size 24x50. Annual Clearance Sale , Full Bleached Tubing, 45-inch wide. Annual Clearance Sale Cocoa Door Mats, the well known cocoa mats, large sizes. 69 c Annual Clearance Sale . . .. Cotton Outing Flannel, the very best qual- ity, 27-ln§h wide. For warm nighties, pa- jamas and petticoats. 2 7 Annual Clearance Sale .. Genuine Ruffled Scrim Curtains, hem- stitched and picot edges in black; of the very best quality. Annual Clearance Sale Scrim and Marquisette Tape Edged Cur- tain Material, 36 inches wide, white, ivory and ecru. Annual Clearance Sale ........... 170 Fine Sloft Absorbent Turkish Towels, in fancy colors. 39 Annual Clearance Sale Heavy rich, long wearing, full bleached Damask and excellent designs. 2 yards wide. Annual Clearance $2.25 o BOC Italian White Linen of heavy quality, suit- able for hand toweling of art work., 18 inches wide. Anpual Clearance Sale . Huck Towels, large size, Size 18x36. Part linen . ... Ladies' Medium Weight Union Suits— “Forest Mills"” make. Low nack, sleeveless and tight knee. Our Annual Clearance Sale, Fa. $l .00 At the Men’s Department = Men's Shirts — Men's Fine Negligee Shirts, made of silk striped madras. A fine variety of neat pat- terns—all warranted fast colors. Value 2,75 each. Our Annual Each $l '89 Clearance Sale . .. Men’s Two Thread Cotton Hose—excellent quality. Colors: black, grey, cordovan and navy. Value 17¢ pair. Palr lzéc Our Annual Clearance Sale . Another lot of Men's All Silk Knitted Ties —dozens of patterns to choose from. Values Chearunce e 3 ror $1.00 Men's Percale Shirts with collar attached —cut full size—well made. A good assort- ment of pretty patterns. Value to $1.69 each. Our Annual Clearance Each 98(: Bedutly df face and move trangers UNIQUE CLEANING SCHEME ~A new ctor, and does anges in temporature not BOSTON STORE DONNELLY, MULLEN CO. ADVANCE SPRING STYLES OF Women’s Silk Dresses Colors Colors HENNA 50 BLACK GREY and ° BROWN TANS NAVY rices on these Lovely Silk Dresses enables every woman to wear the ‘ng;: rs;nr'i’:;“fzhl:on at this rerfi moderate price—Every Dress is the latest creation n the f t makers of Yine dresses. ko SQAT?Irfig:Cinl\"TON CREPE, GEORGETTE AND CHARMEUSE Sizes 16 to 44. Sport Coats $ 5.95 Formerly Priced to $25.00 All our Polo, Utility and Sport Coats reducéd. Noth- ing could prove more plainly the worth while saving in this sale. Every garment drastically sacrificed. In this lot of Coats you will find plain colors and mix- tures. Also complete line of sizes. - Jersey Dresses 5.00 Just received a new shipment of these much wanted Dresses, made of all Wool Jersey, We have a complete color assortment as well as a full This is the last lot we will be able to offer at this low price so come early if you want to SECURE ONE OF THESE DRESSES. line of sizes. ~ All Our Fur Trimmed Winter Coats Reduced 15 There Former Prices | greatly enric) |future metropolis, according 10 |jire and times. records dug up from the remains of | “Ops of the possibilities in excava. | !,,u.nr Mesopotamian eities. From [ting Kish is the finding of informa {time to time during that period Kish | yion that will throw | was the most important city of th land, holding its fellows under M8 ouigin or Hebre | sugerainty. Even when power passed pjready the paralle 5 %0 close respond to our knowledge of its more light on the historie betiefs, | fascinating questi Just received a new lot of Mah Jongg— the new Chinese game, which has proved an interesting game to so many. Our Annual Clearance Sale .. $2 ;98 Davidson’s Fountain Syringe, and Hot Water Bottles, its quality guaran. 85 teed.. Our Annual Clearance Sale C Toilet Goods Elcaya Vanishing Cream, an ideal emol- lient, made of pure and harmless ingredients. Our Annual 43C ‘ Clearance Sale Mary Garden Talcum Powder, highly rec- ommended for toilet and nursery 23 use. Our Annual Clearance Sale Cc Notions Premier Collar Bands, in all sizes. Our Annual Clearance Sale .. King Alexander Basting Cotton, in all numbers, Our Annual 4 Clearance Sale . C se et eee s enis e Hosiery Dept. e Pt Ty Moy Value $1.25. L rar 19¢C Our Annual Clearance Sale Ladies’ Wool and Silk and Wool Hose—for sport wear—in novelty checks and heather mixed. Value to $1.98 pair. sl 19 Our Annual Clearance Sale, Pr. ° Ladies’ Heavy Ribbed Lisle Hose (winter weight)—Colors: black, grey, log cabin and cordovan, 85 Our Annual Clearance Sale ... Pair C Boys’ and Girls’ All Wool Golf Hose— heather mixed with fancy cuff top. Always sold for $1.15 pair. 69 Our Annual Clearance Sale .. Pair C Silkand Wool Goods Silk Canton Crepe in tan, grey, navy, hrown and black, heavy quality. $l 9 8 40 inch wide. Saturday Special . Novelty and Brocaded Silks for blouses, trimmings and dresses, a large variety of :’we:ifrom. Yd.sl 019 to $3o19 Best Grade of Percales, 36 inches wide, Sale ...... Yard 19C Bates’ Dress Ginghams in all the desir- able checks, plaids and plain colors. 2 5 32 inches wide. Special .... Yard C Silk and Cotton Pongee, natural color only, 36 inches wide. Excellent 59 quality., Saturday Special .. Yard C Washable Serge Dress Gc:lods in the new oblong checks, 36 inches wide. Special ... wenssses Yard 590 Ladies’ Real sm:rd Gauntlet Gloves— strap wrist, embroidered back. Annual Clearance Sale ...... $3.69 l.ndi'es('_'Snrde Lisle Gloves, flcece lined. — Annual Clearance Ladies’ Fancy Handkerchiefs, embroid- ered corners, All linen, Annual Clearance Sale ...... Each 250 . Crepe de ('him; Blm'lls;!. fine quality crepe e chine, pink and orchid. Annual Clearance Sale .. sz .48 Cotton Crepe Bloomers, reinforced crotch, in regular and outsizes. Annual Clearance Sale 812,000,000 in 1921 Weaved From Australia ; Bloomsburg, Pa., Feb. 1. “Every man-made world develop- | means of ridding electric power wires ment seems to have its commeércial | of acenmulations of sleet and snow hhlon'lun in the wood-plie, Back | has been tried out successfully by a vocdon s 43 of Fiil's inclination for Canada is the | power company operating in this sec nasty resided there and made It hi® tne sncient Mesopo fact that thewe South Sea Isiands are |tion. A scheme of charging the wires Bflbflon Was You]]g Beside This apita: the earth was dcveloping a profitable trade with the | and making them hot enough to melt “The rst prople whom MstOry h- | chaos, and that man Aicient Gity, Say Historians |to Babylon, Kish, eight miles away. petween many Raby an-Sumerian was preserved and honored undet the aoa Jewish traditions that it is almost wing of the new state, and one of the s s ertain that they ad a commo early members of the Babylonian dy reated water Maple-leaf Dominion On the face | the iee and snow was worked ont. and Mesopotamia were the g mised with Ged's biood I of things it would seem that v'mi“h.nawr the sleet forms on the wires built cities near the ,earibes the *f ) ’. to the eat might be better attached to New |, message is broadcast from th movth of the Tigris-Enphrates, OBI¥ e or a fruft Zealand or Australla, its neighbors | headquarters of the company to all a short time ter these eariiest goiuee story a ing but 1aws passed by these respective |jnanagers of sub stations telling them wo pinston, D, €. Feb. 1.—"The known Mesopotamian ciy-Awellers rumii survived by building an ark governments designed to monopolize |16 charge the wiree. Radio equipment o oo 0 bicts and other relics on | emerge, their rec bring Kish into geared with titumer Flji trade have afienated the natural | Las been installed in all the sub ata- | . site of ish, near the banks of ' the picture; and that y I8 brovght sy ‘Noakh' landed on A affections of the island’s residents tions so that the company can gt 81l 430 Euphrates, has in it the possibili- in in a way which establishes W0 .4 wnt out 4 dove in a Native Fijlans are a blending of | gtations at once. tres of pushing back the history of important facts: that the people of fnd whether the waters '}:)' 'Pob:;;s‘hn:,‘ Q:*'Mmll_' represented | - - - Kish held the ascendancy over the .., Tee 0 v v tie wa awelians, and the (Naw 1lsi 'as P 2 ne: and that aiready a con- |, kinky-haired Malay voyagers They 5‘\0“ l'"“‘ “ aste Papfl i e i r'.1|'|1p]'0’.r\‘ h:vl are a tall, magnificently bullt peopis | of a color between coffee and bronze, with stiff, brush-like halr, trained into a high pempadour. Music is the soul of the people. They are often covered in Sumerians w1 4% & complete ta which one man's povernments so that we may pesr farther into the past than ever before,” says a bulletin from the siderable period of In Constructing Houses . hington. D €. headquarters of passed. For the record relates that s - | Stockholm, Feb. 1 13- ' the National Geographic society The King of Kish was cafied in as the | Field Mice Ignore Rules | terial made from traste “Pabylon, the mighty and won- world's first umpire—an arbitrator to % 2 g { ]!.r;g; '::fl[‘;::‘ll for cellings and wall 1 Terful. with all its glamor a8 the settle a boundary dispute between two And Ruin Wheat Fields ings has beei perfected by a Swedish | first great world-city about which we Sumerian citles After giving his de. 3 2 engineer, and production on a large know fills our eyes when we look cision he caused sones to be in Varna. Bulgarls. Feb. 1 —Tempera. | seale soon will be undertaken. The! back toward the beginning of his |seribed and placed. and o drew the tures of September pre ed n .p,,’ rew materials ar ordinary waste fory” continues the bulletin. | first internationa: voundary line ever 12titude up 1o the end of December paper such as accumulates in cities, | “Though it began its rise to power recorded fnd a8 a result Ae1d mice kept on clay and sulphate lye, the cheapness more than 4000 years ago, Babyien,| Traditions Like Those of Bible foraging for food long after """, of which warrants an inexpensive 3- | 1t is believed, was young beside Kish | “Thus Kish stands aimost at the normally quit and 4 In for their| ished product. The covering i = 1.000 Year's Babylon's Senior | threshold of written history Prac. winter's slesp Being hungrv. 'h} to be fireproof and durable: can “Rabylon first became important|tically all that is now known of the |Iitle rodents have eaten up o much applied by unskilled labor, will take|zbout 2200 B. C for more than|Kishites is known from objects found |of the seed In the areas given over to paper, paint or staln, and can even 1008 vears before that date. hn’xl\lr,it'g-'h.yv The investigation of the wu‘ wheat that farmers Adeclare ""I be polished. It is a good non-con- | K existed near the site of |h0‘r¢m|!ns of the should spring crop has been ruined. soligion, howeser, has city ieelr i