Show A REAL islands in the pacific inhabited only by women woman the manless islands of stjohn st john in the south pacific alir not rem remain aidin in their peculiar condition long if L H reinhart can help it he read of the situation of affairs at the islands and it promptly occurred to him that there would be an ideal spot to found a coop co op colony where young men unhampered by families could start with littfe outlay of capital and jive forever afterward he calculates that fifty or sixty sturdy young men like himself with only 25 each may fly from want and the struggle for existence that faces so many in the american cities and drop into a life of ease case and comfort eight of his companions readily joined him as soon as his plan ass tun unfolded folded and subscribed for shares in the stock of the proposed colonization company dalt it is just this way I 1 said reinhart reynhart 1 I am a carpenter but I 1 cannot get steady work here because there Is not enough to do for all the carpenters in this city or in america for that matter all a carpenter can get Is 2 a day when he Is working and if he had steady work it would require the utmost eco economy normy for him to marry and support a family in my position I 1 cannot think of marrying I 1 cannot afford it and all the young men who have subscribed to shares in the fortunes of the company are like myself in that respect we all have to work hard all da day y for a bare living and none of us can enjoy the th luxuries and com comforts forta of life there we could support a wife here we cannot their dress is simple and they have no ambition to outshine each other in gaudy feathers like the women here their country is fertile the women want us and why should we not accept such a paradise when it ft Is offered and accept a comfortable and easy life instead of one of dougery and false hopes and ambitions i we will salt sail under the american flag and plant the stars stare and stripes over our colony when it Is formed we will adopt some form of government best beet suited to our needs and it ft will be a emppy little republic free from strife and want and care and with all the comforts that man could desire I 1 the st john islands in the south pacific ocean whose population of several hundred women are patiently waiting for capt bergman and his ship abonan bonann ae to return to them with her hold full of men for them to pick for husbands and where the colonizers propose going tre ais as little known as ai any part of the world orld except the frozen froen confines of th the artie and Ant autarkic artic regions region about ten years ago a german trader n lamed a tied II Il erzog who had been dealing I 1 u hillh ath the natives of the south seas for or several years and who was confident of his ability to make friends with them billed the hermits ills little schooner ay a off the islands for two days and the vessel fast was such a source of wonder to the he natives that they forgot their savage in contemplation of it and quite alte readily parted with a good cargo of f the products of their island about a year i ear afterward the schooner returned ind and this time if me a trading post was etab lashed on the island with one of the vessels res sels crew left to manage it for a time ime he fared well an uncompleted record accord of his hi Ireat treatment ment and dealings on the he island that was wai afterward found in the he hut he occupied as a store tells of it but it gave no clue to his fate ate and it Is believed he furnished a feast for the people lie he undertook to barter with dafter after the schooner left and I 1 was ilone alone he wrote a large crowd gathered around me no people could be more more I 1 friendly than they were and I 1 had to submit loan to an immense amount of pinching and poking and feeling of clothes the general opinion seemed to be that my face was painted white and when I 1 unbuttoned in my Y shirt to satisfy public curiosity a shriek of lowed by a roar of laughter was the result they rubbed my face with their hands until it really become as black as they were at list last they seemed to make up their mands that I 1 was a freak of nature and they let me alone though they stood off and laughed and chatted at my every action H 11 II romilly an english scientist and traveler spent two days at the st johns group and he describes his reception as friendly and pleasant but he placed little confidence in his friends eala eting tt ing and slee sleeping on the ves vessel seland and only going ashore with a heavily armed guard the rifles hl his party carried were the first the natives had seen and after a few birds had been killed with them he and his force were held in awe the island seemed to have become de populated of all its male inhabitants except its old mccand men and boys by frequent incursions of cannibalistic tribes who either cither killed or captured the men until the island has come to be known as a manless island where when great opportunities for a new race of men offer the young men who ao propose this emigration seem to think that there Is a new road to wealth and happiness even the chiefs and the rulers who escaped the cannibalistic of their neighbors listened to the honeyed words ot of the and chefa evorite wife of the king of the principal island was chosen to rule over the manless lessenden les eden sEden plia pila waar is the euphonious name her subjects gave her and the crew of the bonanza say she is a queen in appearance compared to her followers all of the women who boarded the vessel were not unpleasant and some of the sailors said they would have had bad no objection to accepting their offers of marriage |