SAN JUAN INTERESTING CITY
Tropical Town With Its Laughing, Col
orful Crowds in Its Narrow Streets,
Delights Visitors.
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In these years of no European
travel a . good many holidaying
Americans have gone to San Juan
because they could not go “abroad.”
They found a most interesting old
city, a delightful climate, a fine mo- J
toring country, but nothing in the !
way of tourist accommodations, j
There are hotels in San Juan, of ;
course, but the degree in which they I
are accustomed to and prepared for ;
the American tourist may be judged ;
by the fact that $3 a day is about the
highest tariff you may pay.
San Juan is a low-roofed, pink
and white tropical town, with nar- j
row, crowded streets and a little
plaza famous for its trees and the ex
cellent music played there by the
municipal band on Saturday nights. :
On these nights and on all after- :
noons many people go to stroll in the '
streets of San J v: i and many oth- 1
ers sit in the little open cafes and !
sip drinks and watch the crowds
pass. It is a pleasure to walk in this
slow-moving, laughing, colorful
crowd. Although you may not see a*
face you know, there is a feeling of
friendliness and good fellowship
about the place. It contrasts very
favorably with the mad, clamorous j
rush of Broadway, which causes the j
lone stranger to feel more lonesome 1
still and put his bank roll in another j
pocket. You feel here the charm !
that is everywhere in the tropics and
which has permanently won to them
many a northerner—the charm of
an easy, natural, friendly existence
based upon the consciousness of the
rich bounty of tropical nature and
the soothing uniformity of tropical
climate.
AN ATHLETIC AMOUR
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She—Is Miss Elderley trying to
draw him out?
He—Xo, she is trying to persuade
him to double up.
NO QUARTER.
Captain—Fifty cents to stay on
this deck.
Passenger—Oh, I thought this
was the quarter-deck.
DEALING IN FUTURES.
Daddy—We have started a saving
account for the new baby.
Uncle—Sort of a fresh heir fund,
eh?—Judge.
MUSIC IN ANCIENT TIMES
Stringed Instruments Found in Egypt
ian Remains Seem to Be of Ad
vanced Form for Those Days.
The most ancient representations
of stringed musical instruments are
found among the Egyptian remains.
But these pictures and such instru
ments as have been discovered—some
of them extraordinarily well pre
served—are all of a rather advanced
form for those archaic days.
Nothing is shown of the long evo
lution from the ancient fiddling lo
cust known to Moses and the Israel
ites to the graceful harps and lyres
of the Egypt which we have come to
know through tradition and illustra
tion or how old and venerated is this
tradition. For in one of the tombs
at Gyseh, date 4975 B. C., there is
pictured an Egyptian lyre, and in
the day of the first Pharaoh, 3892 B.
C., the musical scale of the country
consisted of seven notes. But of the
intervening stages through which the
activities of the locusts passed, or
luring which the decaying tortoise
shell with its clinging dead mem
branes continued to vibrate to the
capricious winds, there is no record.
The very walls of Thebes are said
to have been builded to the thrilling
inspiration of the lyre. For the build
ers when too exhausted to sing wTere
incited toward renewed efforts by
companies of musicians playing on
harps and other musical instru
ments. Curious that the instruments
;hemselves weTe of exceeding beauty
ind richly ornamented, while the
players thereon were held in the low
est esteem.
AS IT WOULD BE TODAY.
Captain Kidd’s men had been dig- :
ging for two hours without success.
“I don’t think,” grumbled one of
the pirates, laying down his pick and i
wiping the perspiration from his j
serrated brow, “there’s a potato j
buried on the hull island.”
FIERCE.
“Isn’t the high cost of living
dreadful?”
“Fierce. After my husband has
paid his bills at the golf club there’s
hardly anything left for us.”
WHAT WORRIED HIM.
“Didn’t her constant singing in
the flat annoy you ?” *
“Not as much as the constant flat
in her singing.”—Puck.
HARD ON THE TRAIN.
“Is she as sour as she looks?”
“Sour? Why, if that woman
gazed aloft on a starry night she’d
curdle the Milky Way.”
A LADY KILLER.
“I wonder what happened when
the dish ran away with the spoon?”
“I suppose it was a sad blow to the
potato masher.”
GAINED BY COMPARISON.
“Did you miss your first husband
very much ?”
“Not until after I married my
second.”
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EVERY CHINAMAN EATS BEANS
First Qualification of Housewife Is
Ability to Prepare Certain Foods
From the Legumes.
One of the first qualifications of
i useful Chinese matron throughout
;he northern provinces, and in many
)f the southern, is her ability to con
coct from beans,' green, black and
fellow, those staple factors in Chi
nese diet known as “teu fu” and
*liang fen/’ says East and West. The
nean seldom appears in its pristine
mtireness upon a Chinese table; and
t is not considered fit to eat in many
parts of the country until it has
)een reduced to its essences and put
ip in the form of bean curd or the
>ean gelatin which one sees for sale
n every roadside food shop, gather
ng dust and microbes on its translu
sent surface.
The art of producing these nour
shing foods, which are the meat of
the poor and the basis of many
patrician delicacies, is to the rural
Chinese woman what butter, cheese
ind jam making are to the occiden
tal housewife. In the large cities
bean manipulation of this sort is a
praft and a commerce, just as jam
ind butter making are in the lrage
pities of the West, but it can scarce
ly be classed as an industry, except
perhaps as an incipient industry.
The bean must be crushed, soaked,
boiled, strained and so on before
the essences appear.
NO TIME.
“Has Biggins enlisted yet?” “Oh,
no. He is too busy going round
making speeches to prove to others
that they ought to do it.”
Master Sidney Thompson while
playing on the school ground
this, Friday, afternoon accident
ally broke his arm between the
wrist and elbow.
GENERAL DIRECTORY
COURTS.
NORTHERN DISTRICT
CIRCUIT COURT—Third Monday in
February and August.
CHANCERY COURT—Second Mon
day in January, May and , ember.
COUNTY COURT—First Monday in
January, April, July and Octo^r< ,ov
PROBATE COURT—Fourth Monday
in January, April, July and October.
CIRCUIT COURT—First Monday m
March and September. ,
CHANCERY COURT—Third Monday
in January, May and "®mber^oV tn
COUNTY COURT'—Second Monday i
January, April. July and °ct0°®j; d ,
PR ORATE CO U RT—First Monday
following that of the Northern
EARLEY’S
SHOE HOSPITAL
THE SHOE SHOP CALL
Our hammers beat to save your feet
From wearing a ragged shoe.
Give us a trial and after a while
Your work will come back new.
Our stitches make a perfect rake
Across an existing rip,
You’re in luck to interest your pluc
With such a swoopiug tip.
The leather we use is not refuse.
But, rather, ’tie true as steel.
We make this raid to get your trade
True work is our seal. wHeels.
Now, don’t let those heels turn >
Or let those tongues come ou ,
But leave them here in our care
And have them fixed up stout.
Don’t let those soles wear full<>f ho'
Nor rips run on unchecked.
Whene’er we lose our pride m ^ •
’Tis'a sign-ambition’s wre0 ,,
4ow heed this call, you great an
Old as well as young,
Now sing a hymn of comfort s um,
Here before unsung
i. T. EARLEY, Shoeing
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