Show THE AUSTRALIANS A sailor on the warship ship Louisiana writes from the tc le sea of Java Jaya to the New Kew York Sun his reminiscences remi- remi of Australia The Tue letter indicates that the tt IL I All Australians about wore the American tars out with I II j I their hospitality and he lie says the humor of ofus Aus- Aus is like our own that the jokes did not need explaining and that the Australians took to American Ameri Amen I can slang like liIm ducks lucks to water I The writer thinks that the climate has much to todo I Ido 1 do 10 with making Australians great fellows There is isI I hardly any winter in in Australia nine tenths of the I inhabitants do not know what snow means all over I the continent there is open air life and there are no I especial hardships Tho writer says in cold climates the people naturally hover around tho the hearth while I j in ill Australia every day and almost every night is spent out of doors without Sl suffering fering There i is consequently con con- a loosening of family discipline AVe We e presume no old resident on the coa coast t has failed to notice the same thing in California There Therein in all the valleys vallejOs and along the seashore there i is no such thing as a long winter night in the family with I its nuts and apples and popcorn and sweet cider cicIel and the steady discipline of the east cast The rhe children do as I they are arc a mind to grow up wild and many of them are arc no good until they ther have passed thirty years rears of age because they were never trained to anything Ho He says sas the Australians have a it great sense of I humor The Americans made mado many speeches and I told many stories and then the Australians started in to swap yarns arIlS matching the Y Yankees ees ever every time The They are very fond of President Roosevelt over oyer there and he lie quotes from a a. newspaper as ns follows Mr Te Teddy dy rough and read ready To tho crowd doth cry See Soe the rabbit pot get tho the habit babit Go anti and multiply The writer looks upon the press of Australia as asvery asvery asvery very high class which is true of at least two or three of the Sydney Sdney and Melbourne i papers lie copies a great many helps fo to getting married of which this one is a sample as DS it appears as an advertisement advertisement advertisement adver adver- in a Sy Sydney ney paper LADIES LE GEi GENTLEMEN EK CONTEMPLATING TING MATRI- MATRI IA TRI mony molly consult proprietors bit Holts Holt's s 's Chambers specially eTl erected ct I by bv proprietors for marriages cs costing Established Introductions privately arranged between eligible i partners partners view matrimony Only letters containing stamp I alls answered All communications treated confidentially an and aud I managed solely by proprietors thereby insuring strictest privacy Telephone When the ships sailed away they were fairly overloaded o with birds until birds until the pets dogs pets dogs emus ships hips looked like floating zoos The following is a I little ittle description of on an Australian bird Tho The Louisiana got ot what its people re regarded as the tho boss p pot ot t of them all aU It t was a laughing jackass You 1011 don dont don't t know enow what hat a laughing jackass is isi Well Yol it isn't a jackass at t all Its It's a bird one of the strangest birds that lives in inho inthe the tho ho world It belongs to Australia and is so 50 revered by th the people coplo that rarely is one allowed to take a 3 jackass out of ot the he country The Louisiana's Louisiana s 's came from a zoo zoo 1 A lau laughing bint jackass is tho the solemnest looking bird in all creation It is about the size of a crow or a magpie gray 13 grayn in n color coor with brown or beautiful blue mu wings s with a long sharp harp beak and it sits around on trees and posts and buildings build build- in ings hour bour after hour bour the most forlorn looking thing your eyes yes ever er rested upon It is a flesh eater loves snakes and insects and any other kind of meat it can get When it chooses generally at sunrise or sun sunset t it lets lots loose Ioos its cry There hero is no fun in that bird but its cry is the most Ions dons guffaw human ears over ever heard You can cant can't t listen to that hat cry without shrieking with lau laughter hur It is the catching kind tind of laughter If you want t to start the day da in good humor just have havo a n laughing hinz jackass come coma around and get you up The Louisiana Louisiana's s 's jack was silent for s several seral days after he be became cam came amo on board but a few days ago he be began becan to laugh at and at sunset au and every ono one who hears him has a good time It wouldn wouldn't t be bo a bad investment for Undo Uncle Sam Sain Saino to o provide laughing jackasses for all nil his men mon of war |