New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1925, Page 17

JERBA THE HOME | - OF [[lTUS EATFRS of Sponge Flshertes Washington, D. €, Jerba, the North African where an ancient Greek treasure galley was ¢lscovered rece: s not listed as a stopping place on Mediterranean cruls ‘ possesses a backgr toric and romantic | tlon places island, alw hraltar an Sept ttle Tunisian between Gl the home of the Yotus-eaters, of whom Homer tells | in of hi “The present Berbers of the Kharijite probably tell you they heard of the fat fulness that was 1 #ha Tatanhagl fotus plant were called,” Lutictia - trom the €. healquarters of t Geographic soclety. ing today pal had, of fishing boats, mosphere of ‘2 ] Secure in their insularity attacks of nomadic the Jerba islanders tend fruit groves and vegetable v with their zabites, as traders to all the seaports of the Orient ange and Pn'vn'n Fisheries ves ct, would have never to come to s the eaters of the Awrs thetr s in the | 4 r channel through the narrow sweep of water es Jerba from the are productive. Every queer look r by native gailing craft and rowboats, as it is impossible proach within two or three miles of the shore. “Jerba has been made, the efforts of its inhabita one of the most fertile and prosperous spots along a at stretch of sun- baked Mediterranean coastline. More than a ion date-palms through ‘wave their fringes over the white- | roofed towns and villages of this {sland oasis, which s approximat ly twice as large as Malta, its B ish neighbor 250 mles to the n t. In addition there are es #i~s groves of olive, orange, lemon and peach trees. “To the stranger the bleak mainland miracle. Jerba, no streams coming from and parched Tunisian this fertility seems a There are no rivers on worthy of the name even, and railfall is as scant | and infrequent as on the mainland. The apswer to the riddle is under- ground water, obtained through ar- testan wells in the same manner that the natives of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico secure a con- gtant supply of fresh, cool water. Roofs Like Inverted Saucers “Humt-Snk, the capital and prin- Bipal city. lles on the sandy north ceast about half a mile from the #¢2 and five miles from the anchor- are of steamers, Its countless little | r two stories all m the roof tops an array of in- eaucers, with the graceful lighthouses. and a number of wide curving streets show the bene- fieent influence of ths French Down by the sea is the spot where & great mound of Christian bones, Like Black Flag Powder kills every bug » { ‘ 65cen‘ts For LIQUID and SPRAYER The best liguid end it less! Kill fies, mos: roaches, and every other kousehold pest. Kill them Dep rtment stores BLACK FLAG POWDER 15 cents and up FRANK E. GOCDWIN ¢ EYESIGHT SPECIALIST 377 Main Street — Tel, 1905 sweet forget- | Washington, D. | _{of the Homerl clotus craft of | | for most of them to ap- called ‘The Skull Fort,' stood for ries. The bones were those of thousand Spaniards who \'wru massacred by the pirate Dra- But in 1560. They were collected buried in the Christian ceme- nearby in 1848 | over the island decayed baths, nl‘s — the subsoil ot all the erranean world. But aside the mausoleum of Borgho Wng remains intact of this one portant oman colony, the ce of two Roman emperors, us Gallus and Volusenus, | rira, Itants five N s south of the capital, {s a resort of Jews is built on r‘*n 'rr", Wi according to tradition, one of th tables of the law of Moses nuch revered also by Not a village of 1,500 | was |} NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925. AMERIGAN LEGION T0 MEET TONIGHT Going fo Allentown Sunday, Septemher 0 .r‘cln ' eg m" protestor from the rain ¢ ospital at w Haven plan State me and he will dies that he, as sta at Gallala, 1s an unexplolted [go. for n‘"n'ckrap"(n This is the | center of pot | where all day nufacturing e statuesqu h Centur sraceful white wa- ne-rimmed wells. Lotus Nearly Extinct “‘Of the lotus, or jujubier, as the French call it, there are few re nants Thers has been much d | agreement as to the ter-jugs "\‘('15 Lotus is & popular - applied to several plants, the Greek poet me taken by a na | tive guide inland to see what "kfi guide sald was the only living . trained v.p i ouse, shoul- out, hardy ¢s and “Soms of the natives however, that the lotu: |to do with the stranger's forg s of home. They point to the glow ot contend ndy shore — and then sary."” AT THE LYCEUM Cast in the role of |beauty who loves and is loy son and a father, Lila Les of “Midnight Girl.” feature I Truth” on the L. ht and tomorrow after- noon and evening appears to good advantage. 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