The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1922, Page 18

FIRST INSTALME? THE SOLITARY. N a day tn late March, 1907 Miss Betty Doane sat in the quaintly airy dining room of Hotel Miyaka, at Kye murely sketch a man's Profile on the hack of a menu card Tho man, h neons 18 el Jounged comfortably alone by one of the swinging windows, He hid fin ished his luncheon, pushed away } coffee cup, lighted a cigarette, settled back to gaze out at the h side. His head was long and well mod eled with a rumced long face, refle ive eyes, somewhat hony nose, and a wide méuth that was, on the wholr attractive He had appeared a few days b: at the Grand Hotel, Yokohama, ¢ ing ‘a from somewhere north of Tokic At the hotel he had walked and eaten alone, austerely He was, Betty knew, a Journalist of some reputation. The name was Jona than Brachey Her sketch was about done; all but the nose, When you studied that nose in detail it seemed a | tox long and strong, and—well, knobby to be as attractive as it actually was. There would be a trick in drawing it Behind Betty, in the wide doorway appeared a stout, short woman of fifty or more. Her face wore an anxious expression that had eettled, years hack, into permanency “Betty!” she called guardedly. “Would you mind, dear one moment Her quick, nervous eyes caught something of Was Betty and the situation. There within easy earshot— acaan. The girl was unquestionably sketching him. Retty quite meekly rose and walked toward the door “Well, my dear, I think we'll go now, Doctor Hasmer thinks you ought to see at least one of the tem- ples. The train leaves for Kobe at four-fifteen. The ship sails at about eight, I believe. We haven't much time, you see.” A chair scraped. Jonathan Brachey had picked up his hat, and was etrid- ing toward her, or toward the door. As he bore down on her the eyes of the young man rested for an instant on the table, and for a brief moment he wavered in his stride. He certain- ly saw the sketch. It lay where she had carelessly tossed it, face up, near the edge of the table. And he certainly recognized it for himself; for his strong facial muscles moved a very little. Then, as coolly ag before, he strode on out of the room, Betty's cheeks turned ertmson—a further fact doubtless noted by this irritatingly, sed man. even arrogantly com TY DOANE was just nineteen She was small, quick to feel and think, dark rather than light zh not an out-and-out brunette) She was distinctly pretty, Mrs. Hasmer, who had undertaken, with mixgivings, to bring her from suburban New Jersey to Hankow, found her a heavy responsibility, It asn't that the child was insubordin- ate, forward, of, in anyway that you vuld blame h for difficult But the loss there was something, a h of vital quality, perhaps of the wre gift of expressiveness, that gave her at times a alarming as pe Mrs. Hf to the con- Jusion that Betty had been left just a rather ear or so too long the States 1 erity, luxury, were telling on the younger generations. No long were they guarded from dangerous free thinkin They read, heard, saw everything: pparently knew everything. The hureh seemed to have lost its hold (though she never spoke aloud of this fact) In the matter of Jonathan Brachey, Retty was to blame, of course, She had set to work to sketch him. ‘The vost you could say for her on that point was that she would have set just as intently at sketching an old nan, or a woman, or a child The disturbing point was thatsome-|_ “MR. BRACHEY SUDDENLY thing In the way of a situation was|TURNED AROUND AND GAZED sure to develop from the incident. |AT HER FOR ONE BRIEF IN- And the first complication would arise |STANT.” in some quite unforeseen way. him why he isn’t staying out the year HIS is the way it did arise. On| at Toklo University, and he said he T the ship the following morning| Was called home to help the province Mr. and Mrs. Hasmer and Betty| They've got tnto some trouble over a were stretched out side by alde in| foreign mining syndicate’ their steamer chairs, Beyond Betty] “The Ho Shan Compan: were three vacant chairs, then this} Dr. Hasmer. explained Mr Rrachey—his long person] “Yes, Dr. Hasmer, and he says wrapped in a gay plaid rug. that there's a good deal of feeling in A Mr. Harting, Y. M. C. A. man|the province. He believes that the th Burmah, brought forward a young Chinaman, Li Hsien, who, It turned | bribery. out, had dwelt in the household of} ‘Not at all unltkely,"* remarked Betty's father, Grigsby Doane, mis-|Dr. Hasmer mildly. ‘The Ho Shan sionary at Tianan-fu. As Betty] Company was organized by that Ital- plunged into conversation with him|jan promoter,Count Logattl. I beieve in Chinese of the Middle-Hansi dia-| ho went to Germany, Belgium and lect, Mr. Braehey suddenly turned] prance for the capital.” around and gazed at her for one brief] “1; has become an astonishing instant. The conversation was inter-} young man,” said Betty more gravely. rupted by a pleasant Englishman, Mr.}"j4@ doesn't think the Manchus can Obie, a silk importer, and soon after] jast much longer. I asked him if he PIB IHn MNO Lash depart: was still a Christian, and I think he Obie also finally left, going into the | \ e Idn’t smoking’ room) and Brachey, the] costes os oe Te wouldnt may keen-eyed Mrs. Hasmer noted), fol- lowed him almost at once. Betty, telling of her talk with the young Chinaman, said: card, “It's queer how fast things are| ‘*Miss Doane,"’ he said, “this gen- changing out here. Li Hsien is—you'd]tleman asks permission to be pre- never guess!—a Socialist! I asked |sented."’ company got its privileges through T was early afternoon when Mr. Obie, looking slightly puzzled, came again to them. He held ——— =x = a, aR BY SAMUBL M erAOUTHOR OF “THE HONEY BEE*THE ROADTO FRONTENAC Etc. ILLUSTRATED BY WILL B JOHNSTONE. eae ee “This morning I overheard y with that u talk- Chinaman," he ung ‘ent on. “It 4; ident that you speak’ “Oh, * Botty said, ‘I do,” Not word about the drawing This young man, I gather, ts in ‘Mr, Jonathan Brachey,”’ she read} sympathy with the revolutionary aloud. Then added, with u pretty | spirit, and is pr ly the type I have touch of color—"But how funny! Hefeome out here to study, Tt is onlikely has been with us before and wouldn't}! shall find in China many such nat- talk. And now ural interpreters as yourself. And of “My go catchee?" asked Mr. Oble course * © © To which little pleasantry Betty re It was partly luck, luck and innate sponded: "Can do!" courte that Retty didn’t laugh Mr. Oble brought him, formatty, | aloud » broke, as it was, inte from the smoking room. He bowed] Words, saving herself and the situa- stiffly. tion, “This morning, while not wishing | “You want me to act as interpreter? to appear as an eavesdropper."’ his be glad to do what J can,"’ she words came id —the fact | journalist, ting! hat is to say Miss Doane, I am a on my way to China to T half past four that afternoon, Investigate the political—one might A Mrs, Husmer sent her husband even term it, the soctal—unrest."" to look into the situation. He He was dreadful! Stilted, clumsy, | reported that they were “hard at it.” slow! He hunted painstakingly for! Betty looked a little laboriously tired, repeating Li but was Hsien's words. The fact-Story Russian famine HIB t @ semi-offictal, unvarnished, truthful story of the famine conaitions in Russia—first hand—wrilien by @ man who from Beptember of last year to May of this gave hia entire time and fort to feeding the starving children of the district of Samara, @s supervisor for the American Relief Administration, What he writes in this series of what came to him in reports from his fellow reef workers. bare record of starvation to the shocking reports of canntbaltam that in some places followed in its train, the The writer of the articles ts an American, Gov. Shafroth of Colorado, @ graduate of the Universities of Michigan He served during the war wit) the 78th Fleld Artillery, end California. He was a member of the American was chosen to head the work of the Samara district. Article No. VII. THE CO-OPERATION OF MEDICAL AND FOOD RELIEF, By Will Shafroth, District Supervisor American Reltef Administration in the District of Bomara from Sept. 15, 1821, to May 15, 1922. EFORE I take up the distribution B of the American corn, I would Nie to deal briefly with several other phases of our work. An ex~- tremety important one was the med- ical programme which was car- ried out under the supervision of American physi- cians in all re- gions where American food was distributed. Medical of $7,500,000, in- medical storehou: piles wa: the hospitals of the province. Many of these institutions were en tingly without such gause bandages, rubber sheets, rub: ber gloves and some of the simples kinds of medicines. The faith of th peasants in medicines, which supplies to a total value cluding a gift by the American Red Cross of $3,600,- 000, were brought into Russia, In Semara our medical proxramme was begun in the month of November. A was seoured and our first shipment of three cars of sup- quickly distributed among essentials as had ‘bees built up by the Zemstvos before the war, pad greatly weakened be- Medical Director, Dr. Henry Beeuw kes, {s the tnoculation campa which is now under way, It is planned to inooulate all the recip- jents of A. R. A. food against five diseases, typhold, two types of para- typhold, smallpox and cholera, which has now begun to break out. This work was well under way before I left Samara, and tbe educational campaign carried out by the local Government with pictures and pam- phlets was assistiog greatly in smoothing the way for it with the peasants. The distribution of clothing was another thing which proved a great help to the children, espectally in the cause of the many quack preparations | country, In Samara Province alone used by the small country doctors|some 60,000 pairs of shoes and stock- and apprentices who had been unable|!ngs, 40,000 Lean overcoats and a . large amount of hospital clothing to get the required drugs. These] vere distributed. Against the bitter Were supplied with such essentials a8] rigor of the Russian winter these quinine, aspirin and fodine. warm garments were of great value, Most remarkable was the change we|and many children who would not were able to accomplish in the chil-| otherwise have been able to come to dren's recetving homes, which I have|our kitdhens for their food were described as hellholes of filth and\thus doubly helped. overcrowding. After feeding e menth| gayveED BY $10 WORTH OF FOOD. in these places and seeing no im- provements, we announced in a| A whole series of articlos could conference with the head of the local] easily be written on the development Board of Health that if something}? the food remittance plan in my was not done in a given time to clean| “istrict, where it was under the able up and to find room for the hordes|#upervision of Oscar J. Anderson of of children coming there in ever-| Brooklyn, N. Y. One hundred and increasing numbers we would be|fifty food packages for doctors were obliged to stop feeding them and let|recetved; over 100 for general relief the Government find rations. and over 8,000 for individual bene- On the other hand we declared that] ficiarles from friends. if the homes were put in sanitary] Many touching incidents occurred shape or—better—if new ones could|!m connection with the food remit- be found, we would not only feed the| tance packages which were donated children but we would furnish blank-|to “‘seneral relief." One such case ets, shoes and olothing. was that of a family in the village of articles (s what he actually saw or From the story 4s based upon official facts. He 4s the aon of the late Relief Administration in Poland and Novosemakino, about thirty versts A SCANDAL OVER THE RECEIY-| rom Samara.” During the visit to Samara of Mrs. Eleanor Franklin An investigation by a Government] gan, the able and charming corre- committee at this same time was tm-|spondent of the Saturday Evening mensely helpful to us, as @ report WAS) post, I arranged a sled trip to this made to the Samara Soviet of the|ywjlage. Among the houses we visited really disgraceful condition of the re-lin the village was one in which we ceiving homes. The resulting scaN-|¢ound a family on the verge of star- dal caused the swiftest and most] vation, satisfactory action which {t was my| ‘The one-room hovel contained an fortune to seo the Government take.|o1q woman slowly pounding into meal A large apartment house in thelthe bones of a horse, centre of the town was taken over,| from the top of the Russian stove thoroughly cleaned, slightly remodel-|jooked down three pale little children led, supplied with beds and in three}and one boy of an indeterminate age weeks made into a collecting home for] fe was told to come dow six hundred children which would do] proved to be a young man yout credit to any city In America, Within] eighteen or nineteen, a good & feet three months, all of the old disease-(jn height, but so weak he could hardly breeding holes had been closed up and|gtand. This occurred before the ar three bright, airy, new homes were|rival of the corn in this particular housing a much happier looking group] village, and while the other children of children. ate at our Kitchens the boy was over The latest activity of the Medical|the prescribed age and so had not Division of the A. R. A, under the|been admitted. A ten-dollar package able and energetic direction of the!donated by an American benefactor and he it every village where I stopped the very Noticeable effect in the attitude of mind of the peasant. I was told over and over again, “There are no deaths from hunger now," or “The only deaths now are of people already too ek to be saved by American corn.” With a food supply on which they knew they could depend until the harvest, the courage of the peasants had returned, and they were spend- ing ays in the fields working on the little plots of land which they had been able to plant. The story of the first stage of this inspection trip is rather tluminative of the general feeling which I found in the villages. 7 When I left saved this boy and perhaps his mother from death, and enabled the other children to have more than their one meal a day, until the distribution of our adult rations brought them secur- ity for the future. HALF A MILLION REGAIN HOPE- FULNESS, About the middle of March the long awaited American corn for our dis-| the first of Ma trict began to arrive from Black Sea] difcult of p ports. Shipments for Ufa and Oren- | be burg, which were further east, had] cuts and canyons by which they were already passed through at the rate| crossed. In the middle of one of of about two trains a day. Our|these, the good Ford died, and all first problem was to get as much] efforts of the chauffeur and myself corn as possible into the country be-| were ‘without other effect than to fore the setting-in of the thaw, which] cause the car to sink deeper into the for about three weeks renders all] soft mud. A church surrounded by roads impassable to traffic. Our sys-| peasant huts was just vistble in the tem of distribution was the’same as| distance, so I set out on foot for for child-feeding supplies; in fact] what proved to be the Tartar village the same committees were used. It] of Lopatine, was the duty of these committees to] The Chairman of the A. R. A. Com- submit lists of the most needy people,| mittee, the President of the village which were approved by the A. R. A.| Soviet and four or five husky pea: inspector, There was, however, this|/ ants were soon found as volunteers Important difference—our adult ra-\fer the work of rescue, and many tions were given out in raw form—)more would have been available if two weeks’ or a month's ration dt ®| desired. The extreme readiness of time. This simplified enormously OUr| these people to undertake a walk of organization, and enabled us to dis-| five versts, the pulling out of a tribute our 800,000 rations as quickly} stranded automobile and the five as the food arrived, versts return to the village rather ‘The effect of the arrival of the corm| surprised me, as in the present on the general situation in the prov-| weakened condition of the people it ince was wonderful. With its d!s-|(s not usual to find them willing to tribution In the villages, there ceased) qq any kind of work without com- to be a famine, Half a million people | pensation But I soon had the who had beea actually face to face| answer in the fact that American with starvation were saved and hope] corn had arrived a few days before. and energy were given to hundreds of] “yt had been my intention to return thousands of others. to a village which we had passed on The area in which our COrm WASline road and spend the night there, distributed included the entire Prov-| maxing a detour the next day, as Ince of Samara, with the exception] jist outside of Lopatine was a much of the part of Buzuluk Ouyezd, whieh }iarger stream than the one in which was covered by the English Quakers.| we had been stuck, But once we and a dozen cantons near Samara fed} wore pulled out the President of the by the Swedish Red Cross and S€V-| Soviet insisted on my spending the eral other Nansen organizations. night in his village, declaring that he NEW COURAGE CAME WITH | would get the entire population out FOOD. and if necessary earry the car across In our territory we put into every| tho next stream. home an ave of two pounds of I finally consented, so he climbed American corn for every day in the]into the car and rode with us to the Samara by Ford on the roads were still sage by automobile, © of the many little bridgeless month, in addition to the American] stream, on the further bank of which ineal received In the children’s kitch-| ose the Tartar mosque of his village, ens by at least one child from the] Before many minutes men, women family, The a was one and aland children came swarming to the fraction, In the worst places in the} bank from all directions, A rope was district the pe 's fed were much| fastened to the front of the car, In ces nine out of|trousers were rolled up and a guard every ten adults recelved a corn ra-|of honor of about thirty waded in tion and three out of every four chil-[and pulled us across, amid the dren ate atan A, R, A. kitehen shouts of delight of the children on An inspection trip which J made] the bank during the tirst part of Muy In ("lorie Best HOUSE IN THE ouyezds of the province personally Cena enabled me to observe the great re sults we were obtaining and to eco in My chauffeur, a Russian, who had ‘ RWIN ~=" ee are ee ee ies a Wy, . in English, in order that Mr hey might have them down in what appeared to be a sort of short- hand Which report Mrs. Hasmer found masculine and unsatisfactory. At five she went herself, took her Battenberg hoop and sat near by, Betty saw her, and smiled The journalist {gnored Mrs, Has- mer. He was a merciless driver, Whenever Betty's attention wandered as it had begun doing, he put his questions brusquely call her back to the task Four bells sounde Mrs. Hasmer. as always when she heard the ship's even sharply, to bell, consulted her watch. Six o‘clock! She told herself she must consider the situation calmly. It must he taken in hand of course. Th man Was a mannerless brute and had distinctly encroached “Il must ask you to come with me now, Bett she said firmly At this, looking heavily disap- pointed, Mr. Brachey rose “We could take tt up iff the morn- in) he suggested, You will not take it up again, sir!'’ cried Mrs. Hasmer; and left with the girl. VTE that night Betty sat in her L tiny stateroom, indulging in re- bellious thoughts, It was time, after an awkwardly silent evening, to go to bed. But instead she now slipped into her heavy travelling coat, tip- toed past the Hasmers’ door and went out on deck. It was her first free moment since they had left Yoko- hama. After that very quietly— sweetly, even—the chaperonage of Mrs. Hasmer had tightened. Suddenly she met Mr. Brachey coming out of the smoking room. Both stopped. “Oh!" said he. “I was just getting a breath of al said she. Then they moved to the rail and leaned there, gazing off at the faintly moonlit land, He asked, tn his cold way, how she had learneds Chinese. “I was born at T’ainanfu,” she ex- plained. “My father {s a missionary. “Oh,” said he. And again, “Oh Then he remarked, casually, * we walk?” They stopped, a little later, up for- ward and stood looking out over the forecastie deck. ome day I'm going to ask the chief officer to let me go- out there,” said she. "Tt Isn't necessary to ask him,” re- plied Mr. Brachey. “Come along.” ‘Oh,’ murmured Betty, half in pro- test—"really?" But she went, thrilled now, more than a little guilty, down the steps, past hatches and donkey engines, up other steps, to seats on coils of rope near the very bow The situation amounted already to a secret. Mrs. Hasmer o#uldn't be told, mused Betty. Neither had mentioned Mrs. mer. But now he sald: was rude to-day, of "sald she. "No." “Oh, yes! I'm that way. I see of people the better.” ‘This touched the half-fledged woman in her, hall Has- course.” The less You're interested in your work," gently rat's all, And t. You're not a trifler."* m a lone wolf.” Was beginning to find him out- ind-out inter You travel a good deal," she yen- ired. demurely. All the tt ie Always cet lonesome?” “On But what does it mat- ter?" She considered this. ‘You go into dangerous places?" “Oh. yes.” ‘Aren't you a little afraid, some- sing into such places all no," ‘Oh, “Rut you might be hurt—or even— killed."" “What's the difference?’ Startled, she looked straight up at him; then dropped her eyes. @he waited for him to explain, but he was gazing moodily out at the water ahead, “f DON'T care much for mission- arle said Mr. Brachey sud- denly “You'd ike fathe: “'Perhaps."* ° \ “He's a wonderful man, feet five. And strong." “It's a job for little men. souls, With little narrow eyes.” “Ont No!" “Why try to change the Chinese? Their philosophy 1s finer than ours. And works better. I like them,” “Sodol But . . ." She wish her father could be there to meet t! man's talk. There must eurely be strong arguments on the missionary side, !f one only knew them, She finally came out with: 3ut they're heathen!"’ “On, yes!" they're polygamous! Why not?" But Mr, Brachey . . . She couldn't go on with this. The con- versation was growing rather alarm- ing. “So are the Americans polygamous. And the other white peoples. Only they call it by other names, The Chinese are more honest,"”” One bell sounded. “It's perfectly dreadful,” sald Betty. “If Mrs. Hasmer knew I was out here at this time of night, she'd'’—— ‘This sentence died out. They went back iS “Good night,"* sald she. She felt that he must think h very young and simple. It seem: odd that he should waste so much time on her. No other man she had ever met was Iike him, Hesitantly, desiring at least a touch of friendli- ness, on an Impulse she extended her hand. He took it, held {t a moment firmly, then sald: “Will you give me that drawing?" “Yes,"' sald she. é ow she tiptoed twice again past He's six Little “Yes,! And the Hasmers' door. “Please sign it," sald he, and 9ro- duced a pencil. “But it seems so alfly! nothing, this sketch,"’ “Please !"” She signed It, said good night ain and hurried off, her heart in a curious flutter. I mean it’s (Copyright, 1922, by the Bell Byndicate, Inc.) (To-morrow's instalment: “A Kise f and a Parting.’’) been in charge of a machine-gun squad on the French front during the war, then took command of the situation and calling over the Presi dent of the Soviet asked him where the best house in the village was to be found. After a short consultation the President rolled down his trousers, put on his felt boots, climbed aboard and we drove off to a small three- room house in the centre of the vil- lage. On the way {t was explained te us that while the owner of the place where we were to stay had the best house in the village, !t was all that he had left of his former pros- perity, After one igek at the family this statement needed no further con- firmation. They had that wornout, white, silent look which showed they had been on the edge of starvation. The room which we were given seemed to be spotlessly clean, with little touches of Tartar embroidery on the table and shelves and a shiny samovar on the table, but long black bugs were con- tinually running out from cracks and streaking across the wall or floor as if themselves in a desperate but futile chase for food. ‘The old man offered us some tea. His family consisted of himself and wife, three children and two depen- dents, family connections of some kind. The only child who was below fifteen ate at the American kitchen. He said he and his wife and prob- ably some of the others would have already been dead tf it had not been for the American corn. They had been able to hang on until that came, and now with four corn rations in his family he was beginning to recover strength. He had been able to plant a small amount of seed, having re- celved from the Government about half enough to plant the land which he had prepared for sowing. In another house to which we were asked some corn had been prepared by chopping it very fine and bolling it a long time, Although not done according to any of the recipes given, it proved very palatable. We moved on at sunrise the next morning, still receiving the thanks of the peasants. ———— STATE PICKS VOTERS’ TEST. 100 Extracts From Constitution Are Being Sent Out To-Day. ALBANY, July 24.—The 100 extrects of approximately fifty words each, taken from the New York State Conati- tution, and which will be used on reg- istration days this fall for the lteracy test provided for new voters, will be nt out of here to-morrow to Boards of otto: throughout the State, Choice of the constitutional extracts was made by Secretary of State John J. Lyons, Long and difficult words hav bocn avoided. Each extract, averaging fifty words, was selected as complete in itacif, and for conveying information to the new voter and those about him, as he reads it. The writing test will be any ten words from the extract. Voters subject to the test are natural- Ized citizens voting the fret time, out- sidere entering New York State and those who have attained majority, By Roger Batchelder. Superstition is an important ele- ment in daily lives of many Hawatians who live in the yvolcantc districts, according to G. S, Leithead, at the Pennsylvania from Honolulu, “To the educated, superstitions seem ridiculous,"" Mr. Leithead re- marked, "but occasionally an inct- dent takes place which gives the natives a chance to say ‘I told you 80 ‘Not long ago, for instance, Prof. Jagger, the eminent scientist, ex- perimented with the gases which arise from the volcano Kilauea. The natives, who call the mountain ‘Pel the lava, ‘Pele's hair,’ were not back- ward in showing their disapproval of the professor's attempts to ‘make Pele angry.’ A hole was bored be- side a fissure in the course of the ex- periments. When it was eighteen feet deep, the bottom fell out of the pit, and lava came out of a hole about @ mile and @ quarter in diameter. No damage wes done, Dut the natives’ belief in ‘Pele’s’ majesty and tem- ‘perament became more firmly grounded,”* eee THESE CROCODILES DON'T WEEP, On the Isle of Pines crocodiles are 4s common es cate in the Bronx, says W. H. Brown, who ts staying at the McAlIpin. But in his seventeen years’ residence on the isle, Mr. Brown recalls-no instance of a person being attacked by one. “The Isle of Pines fs only thirty- seven miles long by thirty-five wide,’ he sald, “but it would be a difficult undertaking to try to exterminate the crocodiles, They cling to their old habitat, the coast-line marshes and the Inland swamps and rivers. They cause the loss of much live stock and are particularly partial toward pigs. the ne plus ultra of thetr diet. And the pigs are fond of the cool mud baths of the marshes, In consequence the crocodiles are quite well fed." oe WHO Is HE? Gene Sarazen, the American na- tional open golf champion, told the story of his iscoverer" at the Bilt- more before leaving on a week-end trip to Philadelphia. “I went up to Bridgeport last week to see George Sparling,’’ Gene re- lated, ‘‘When I was seventeen, George predicted that I would have the title which I just won when I was twenty-one years old, In view of that fulfilled prophecy. I was much interested in his assertion that he hud another lad under Ais tuteleke who should himself be at the head of the list within the next five years."’ THEIR FARMERS UP-TO-D. ree “The farmers of my State al® the most progressive in the country," re+ ported C. B, Messenger, editor of a Loa Angeles agricultural paper, who & at the Pennsylvania after a bust ness trip through Canada. ‘Thi have every kind of labor-saving de- vice which has proved its worth,” ho went on, “and modern conveniences are as common tn the country hom; as they are in the cities.'* eee A BOOST FOR THE FLAPPER. The much maligned flapper has a brave defender in Senor R. Gatos, Hayana cigar manufacturer, who 1s at the Belleclaire. Because of her in- fluence, he tells us, the semi-wild na- tives of the Cuban mountain fast- nesses are beginning to wear clothes. “Only when they saw the gaudy and attractive regalia of their flapper] sisters of the cities did they want to dress,"’ Senor Gatos relates. ‘In emu- lation, they went to the towns them- selves and bought the flashiest out fits obtainable. In short, the flappers} have solved a problem which has defied the moral and legal forces of the} teland for 400 years. * 28 THEY'LL FISH VIA RADIO. ‘The Government scheme of locating! colonies of seals by aeroplane and re~ porting their whereabouts to the Nova Scotia sealers has been a tremendox:| success, in the opinion of R. D. Le fevr®, at the Commodore from Quebeo. t 1s expected that before long th fishermen will employ the same agen. cles to facilitate their catch," said Mr Lefevre. ‘Schools of fish are easil; seen from an aeroplane, and report would eliminate much unnecessa sailing in search of them, The in stallation of radio outfits on the email ships would also minimize the danger, of the terrible fogs, in which man. boats have been run down by large vessels."’ FARTHEST FROM HOME. The “New Yorker for a Day 0} Two” wha ia farthest from home to. day {s Mrs. V. Seraphto, who ts ai the Pennsylvanta, Her home townl Vina del Mar, Ohili, ts over 4,50 miles from Broadway. Harlem Offic Now Located at 2092 7th Ave. Near 125th 8t. G@OTEL THERESA