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Show - f LEIir FREE PRESS. LEHL 3If a AN S - a: to " - UTAlKjL. i . S . D Events in the Lives of Little FOR SIG TIME y (Hi OUR COMIC SECTION i ' D Mai Father So, yon are one of the star . players of the home club, Tonng Hopeful Yea, bat I'm prepared to jump te the trig leagues If ' they want me.' Sak Yea MigVt Like Gasworks Doctor (medically examining applicant for Job) Humph t 'FYald you won't do. lour teeth are toe bad. Amazed Applicant Teeth too badt Well, what's It matter? I'm going to shovel coke not chew It I Bystander Magazine.. . i! -- ev; 41 -- Teaching Tidin Mayor I never saw the park littered se with paper as It is this morning. Mow do yoo account for ttt . Superintendent The park commissioner bad leaflets distributed yesterday asking people not to throw paper r '. ' " ' about n'f V " My - MitUke Disgusting to see a girl dressed like thatl ' , Sir, that's my daughter I Colonel I am sorry," sir. I didnt know you were her father. I am not I'm her mother I Tutler , , , Magazine, . Colonel ' t f 6 A Oocil )Dfs, i k by National tfr9red Wuhlnfton. D. ufK. Ceylon Temple Elephant. Oeorraphle Society. Berrtc. ya8 HE duke of Gloucester, on his fortbcoming visit to Ceylon, will J present the Island with the i throne of Its native kings. The "f iart Tamil king of Kandy, Wlkrama Mts,"JUja Sinha, was unpopular with his uhjects. Aided by the British, they deposed him in 1815 and sent his throne to England, where ever since It Ti at been preserved In Windsor castle. Ceylon Is known to most of as only ! 19 for Its fragrant tea. let aside from t8lli? producing the leaves of one of the world's most popular beverages, the w Island contributes many other prod-10ccta to commerce. Coconut fiber for ota brushes ; tortoise shell for combs and -glasses; graphite, an Important, ore .component of pencils; cltronella oil, to ward off mosquitoes; and haeafdamons, used to deaden the taste been. f medicine. I j& d Island half the size New York state, Ceylon lies In the I Indian ocean off the southern tip of rigid. India. It Is a British possession and no political connection with India, )re though separated from It only by 22 thus miles of water. A Hindu epic relates liver 1Kb t this strait was once bridged by a slow -- causeway, the handiwork of an army C-- S WNO -- -- 1 m tttj pear-shape- .f ipij o monkeys. 4 Legend rises like Incense from lor. A huge hollow In a rhododendron-itro--covere- d hill Is revered as the footprint sptt- Buddha. Mohammedans call It )as8.?Aams peak. Arabian legend relates that Adam and Eve, driven out of Pitradlse, were allowed to enter this enchanting Island. In many ways It Is fsecond Eden. It Is drugged with f Wet scents that breezes waft far out I ovpr the high seas. Three days before Hnfriners sight Ceylon, they can smell itt heavy fragrance, which rises from I flower-decked temples, from blossoms 1 trtmpled on the highway, from bloom-- g .' log lotus, franglpanni, gardenia, clnna-- i laon and other spice trees. J Natives Hav Idyllic Life. x I British modernization of the Island disturbed but little the almost idyllic existence of the natives. Off the shores, where lazy surf roils on yellow Bands, they fish leisurely from outrigger canoes. British Automobiles may speed over the Island's copper-colore- d roads, but Ceyg lon's 34,000 bullock carts ret the tempo for natlvo life. On any road, arched over with tamarind trees, fivstooned with pepper vines, one bullocks, drawpasses cream-colore- d ing huge thatch-roofe- d "prairie schooners," bursting; with families and their household belongings. The brown-skinne- d Sinhalese women are slender and delicately featured, often beautiful The men in their tight skirts, end hair caught up In a bun, appear effeminate. Their mouths are stained scarlet from chewing soothing betel raits. Ceylon is a land wrested from the jungle. It well deserves its ancient name of Tamraparnl, the island of ."dusky leaves," for most of Its hills and plains are covered with thick jungles. Glossy jak trees, bamboos, ebony and other rare hardwoods re woven together by wild vines. I Jungle has overgrown Ceylon's cities. The most extensive of these, Anuradhapura, 250 miles north of Colombo, was the capital of a highly civilized Ceylon about 200 B. C. A royal residence, with 96,000 Buddhist priests among its inhabitants. It must once have covered an area larger than 'London. Fllndu Tamils reduced It to 4 heap of granite posts and sculptured friezes. It now Is strangled by creepers. The Ceylon archeology department, which erected government offices nd bungalows there, cleared glade-Ifk-e corridors to It, so that visitors may view Its fascinating ruins. Sunshine and Heavy Rains. f Ceylon's climate Is fairly good for the tropics. Though moist and enervating with warmth, It Is tempered by ftoa breezes, and Is healthful except in g the jungles, where malaria has taken heavy toll. Infant mortality Is excessive, due chiefly to malaria. Intensive anti malaria work and ma tern a 1 and child welfare work are lowly producing good results. I The Island alternates between scorch ??er Cey-acl1- , is slow-movin- low-lyin- g an-de- tow-lyin- ing sunshine and heavy showers. At times the air is very still and hot Thunder over hills and jungles precede midsummer rains so torrential that every leaf drips. Clumps of giant bamboo already over 100 feet high shoot up another foot in a single day. Liquid bird calls echo through drenched jungles. The streams leaping from fall to fall down the central uplands to the coast gush In torrents and sometimes flood the land. Formerly, when scant rain fell, the rivers dried up Into parched water- courses, carpeted with grass. Deer from the woods ventured out on them, and wild swtne plowed them op at night The northwest and southeast corners of Ceylon became burning des WAm n .. j i KM' J mmwmmnumii mm im ml v .ts , wmm mr-Li--M Mil r n i mm Space-noothln- yit ... OF A THK Aft FOT? ft t5s-oi am f here HOMt.AeiNl Jitr J&dff A. A. A. 1 4L ' Mm JS . mmrm - 1 W30 . : "j ". : . 1 - Save ' " ' the Surface T m: Milium, u .hi Jii KjH id mi in . ikilfUiiih &6T mWl f FLYnIM Ar4' PO SHE BE HAViU' SUCH FOIK1E r a .. 1111 ' . r u"1 , . ' PTNTJFY Jait Space Friend WTiat's your son been tak ing tip at college this year? , ' g Dear Old Dad but space. h mmrmmmj i . erts. To counteract this. Irrigation was begun centuries ago. Irrigation is needed because rice is the staple food of Its Inhabitants. The early Sinhalese kings made a great part of Ceylon cultivable by constructing artificial lakes or "tanks." Modern Ceylon is doing extensive Irrigation work, damming up rivers and conserving water in reservoirs for dry times. This has hot only converted arid land Into agrl cultural areas, but has checked floods and malaria. Ceylon's prosperity depends entirely on her agriculture. The soil is extremeof the ly fertile, and about land is under cultivation. The valleys are a patchwork of vivid green rice fields. The hills are striped with rows of tea bushes, and rubber trees. The tea industry, largely In the hands of Europeans, is the mainstay of the island, exporting about 250 million pounds annually. Most of the work on the rubber and tea estates Is done by Tamil immigrants who migrate annually from South India, and return home at the end of the season. In 1931 these Tamil Immigrants composed 13.05 per cent of the total population of Ceylon. One sees Tamil women In bright red and white draperies winding down paths between the waist- high tea bushes, chattering and throw ing tea leaves over their shoulders Into baskets. Aside from tea, and cltronella olL Ceylon exports chiefly raw materials: cacao, cinnamon, coconuts, areca nuts, rubber, and cardamoms. Island Is a Jewel Box Unlike the Tamils, who do most of the unskilled labor,, the Sinhalese are skilled workers, being largely Jewel grinders, weavers, lacquer makers. Ceylon Is a Jewel box of precious stones. In Colombo, the headquarters for jewel grinders and wholesale and retail Jewel sellers, one may purchase pearls, glowing rubies, sapphires, amethysts, moonstone, and alexandrite, those weird stones, green by day and sullen red under artificial light The early Greeks knew Ceylon as "the Land of Rubles." The Island Is noted for Its pearls. The pearl fisheries are located on the northwestern coast along the Gulf of Manaar. Along this shore, which is sea bottom become land by slow upheaval, for 10 or 12 miles inland, the plow turns np oyster shells every where. Here, at the time of pearl fishing, thousands of boats are anchored off shore, temporary villages spring op overnight, complete with snake charmers and magicians te lure the money of the newly rich pearl divers. Tearls of rare value are sometimes discovered. Legend has It that pearls from here found their way to Cleopatra's earrings and the Queen of Sheba's necklace. Ceylon's fauna would populate a d weird too. flamingoes g mate In Its artificial lakes. crocodiles bask on the shores. Through shoulder-higgrass, wild buffaloes watch fame buffaloes plowing rice fields. The air rings with screams of wild peafowl and white-heade-d fishing eagles. The Jungles fill the tropic night with uncanny hootlngs and catcalls. The call of the devil bjrd makes one's flesh creep and one's hair stand on end. The brown hawk-ow- l makes a cry like a strangled cat Above the chattering of monkeys, one hears the trumpe'lng f wild pa rfP-rf- Supriuprvmoa "Do you think the stock market can be supervised?" - - -- f "Certainly," answered Mr. Dustln Star. "But inside . Information .has speculative value, and what I want to L know is who is going to supervise the snpervisors." Ignorance I Bllte " "You've dlcharged yobr bookkeeper?" ; "Yip." '."Don't keep any account of how your business is going?" , , ' "No. I bave been losing so much I didn't want to know about Portland Express. ' AMYBODT CAN HAE , If THAT'S SOMETHING one-four- th WM OH Yis! . poM;T.LmJl j II JYez. pom& Roisht! ; "Have jou ever done any dit-efishing?" "Well, 1 became engaged on an oieaa liner." i Hi Some Comfort "It Is said when a man goes mad the first one he Injures Is the one he loves most," remarked friend husband. "Well," snapped his wife, "It's a comfort to know that If you go mad you'll be so busy Injuring yourself I will have a chance to escape." ' ' THE FEATHERHEADS P 7o Vou MINP f STOPPING- - IN Nlr HERE WITH 7 WITH. S I nil r i rffT For sissy' g Wlrl .a 3 HAVE KkIoWn f j&iteGa Come om!I WAKE UP! WHAT Do. YOU WAMT TO BUY LIKE V Wtm Piiiprai h 6 To PreAM L Man-eatin- WAkJT GET A 1 ijjjjj por. me -.- 1 1 Sweet Dreams s- - V Rose-colore- blood-curdlin- wal oi THAT For, fir r LA5T MIGHT SH& .SAtfl YOU'RE;. LUCKY! MY HAP A PRfcAM IM WHICH SHE .WIRE. THINKS THAT EVEN SHE; To WHEM..JSHE. WAS MARR.'EP IShVY pREAMlftf MlLLlOfVAjRE. f ' Do Yon Know Why? Teacher If one maid can clean a room In two hours, how long does It take two maids working together? Pupil Four hours. Pearsons' Magazine. Controlled Ire "I note with approval," said the constituent, "that you are slow to anger." . "You are mistaken," answered Senator Sorghum. "I try not to be demonstrative. But I have always found that the angrier yon are, the more desirable It Is to keep quiet and think hard." -- . The Home Wrecker 'That fellow spoiled my marriage." "How?" "Married my cook and now my wife does the cooking." , |