Show I Three Joines I IOn On the Pacific side of or the Isthmus of ot Panama partly Panama partly in the republic of Panama and extending into Colombia live live the In Indians They are arc area Aron a n most Industrious people spending their days outdoors planting and caring caring caring car car- ing for their crops and hunting and fishing during the dr dry season and I weaving baskets ropes and hammocks carving dishes stools and mortars out I of tree trunks Indoors during the tho raIn rainy season That they're an honest hO as well as a fresh loving people Is evidenced evl- evl lanced by Ly tho ho fact tact that their hous houses house's S Sare are built without walls The Tho floor is ts raised rallied about eight feet teet from the ground on plain posts which I extend through It to bear tho the roof above The Thc floor Is made of tho the split trunks of ot another species of palm and anti the roof Is that thatched hed with palm fiber The Thc kitchen is 18 merely a hearth built In the corner least exposed to the prevailinG prevailing pre pro walling winds winds just just a square frame filled with clay with a few large stones stoneson on which h to set the pots The family sleep on the floor which is always alwa's kept scrupulously clean I Through cracks in the floor long sticks are arc thrust Into the earth beneath and andon andon andon on these Is stretched mosquito netting to keep the pests from disturbing the tho family's rest As the floor Is raised so 50 high above the earth there must be provided pro some same I way to enter the house though there are no walls In a tropical forest It ItIs itis Is un unwise lse to have too easy a method of ot entrance into ones one's house because snakes and other unwelcome things may take It a fancy to pay a visit The solve their problem by providing providing pro pro- viding hUng a log that projects through a a. ahole ahole hole In tho the floor and as this log is movable mo and is notched on on only 1 one side it can be bo turned over to discourage discourage age ae the dogs who like to come In with the tho family an and l be removed remo when there Is danger of chance unwelcome visitors via via- during rest hours Also ilso in this honest country countr the log when removed or turned with the notches down serves senes as a n sign that the family Is away Then the human vis visitor visitor vis- vis 1st I tor pas passes by and waits for another t occasion to pa pay his respects to the tho I family |