| Show II GB the Way l I Darjeeling Women Fond of Gems Copyright 1823 1923 North American Newspaper Alliance The city of Darjeeling on th the borI border bor- bor I f der between northeastern India and South Tibet Is a great market place for a wide countryside where the westerner In the person of the English comes In contact wIth Tibet and Nepal Except for some savage or age peoples there Is nowhere else perhaps such a lavish and widespread display of barbaric Jewelry on the perSOn perSon person per per- I son as one sees in Darjeeling As AsIs Asis is the habit of all Indians Indians Indeed Indeed of ot most the the bulk bulle of the tho natives natives' natives natives' natives natives' na na- na- na tives' tives wealth converted Into Jewelry Is carried about Every Sunday mornIng morn- morn Ing In the little stone paved market marketplace marketplace marketplace place of Darjeeling congregate a huI human human hu hu- hu- hu man medley a clothing exhibition an agricultural display an outlay of secondhand secondhand secondhand sec sec- I ond-hand ond d desiderata a Jewelry vanity fair There Is the of the Hindu the plaited straw of the laborer on the plantations the trimmed fur-trimmed cloth cap of the Tibetan mountaineer face types that grade rade all the way from South Indian II Tamil swarthiness to the Parsee and the high caste Indoor door Brahmin from the Caucasian lineaments lineaments lineaments linea linea- ments to the pure Chinese says a writer In the Christian Science Mon Mon- Kemal does doesn't need to rattle the saber salier so long as he can rattle the allies Duluth Duluth Herald I Vikings Had Uncanny Sea Knowledge The Vikings were not only oily great warriors but they were equally dis- dis hed as maritime explorers They were s so vigorous In their activities so dauntless and daring such genuinely strenuous that mat they i were bound to do great things or fall faU where none coul could l have succeeded I says E E. Ke Keble Kebie le Chatterton In Ships and Ways of Other Days And Dr Nansen reminds one that they had neither comp compass ss nor astronomical astro Instruments nor any appliances of our time for lor finding their position at sea they could only sail by the sun moon and stars and It seems Incomprehensible how for days and weeks when these theae were Invisible Invisible in invisible In- In visible they were able to find their course through fog and t bad weather But they found It and the open craft of the Norwegian Vikings with their square sails fared north and west over the whole ocean It was not till years later that the ships of other nations nations na na- na- na were to make their way to the same regions As to T Turkey Turkey Turkey-to to keep her straight keep her Strait Norfolk Virginian I Were English Royal House was was was' th the name of the I royal h. h house use that occupied the throne of England from Henry II 1189 1164 to Richard 1 III 1483 1485 Inclusive a period perlo 1 of ot years This word is said to be derived from the planta genista the Spanish broom plant a sprig of which was waa adopted as a device by hy the Earl Farl of Anjou great grandfather of Henry II during a pilgrimage to tho the Holy Land and was commonly worn by him In his helmet According According- to the story the earl chose this sm- sm m- m blem Wem for tor reasons reasons having offered himself himself- to be scourged with the stems ste-ms of the broom plant In atonement atonement atone- atone ment for a mu murder he had committed Headline n says She Still Paints 57 Of at 67 57 course and passes for halt half that Sioux City Journal Calico Horse Of Give-Away Give Dance The Ponca Indians and the same Is IB true among several other tribes wh wha were neighbors of the before they all an d to Oklahoma have a custom still till followed of decorating horse which they Intend a horse as a gift elft in colored brightly-colored calico Not only Is the animals animal's body covered bu but t the legs will be encased and sometimes th the neck neck and and forehead will bo Ibo b. b al similarly similarly lI decorated And If It it Is la possible to get several different pieces and colors of or calico it Is all the tho more tory When the Indian tribes hold th their lr give away dances which Is a stills followed by many of them It Is ia not unusual to see a great many horses fully attired In calico and all such Buch are Intended as presents to the guests present the representatives of other tribes It Jt Is reported that the Russian Reds are on a new tack We hope that at last this Is something that will get under their skin skin ManUa Manila Bulletin Fine Paints Made From Old Mummies One of tho the richest and finest of or brown paints Is manufactured manufacture from mummies The Tho paint Is made by grindIng grindIng grindIng grind- grind Ing the bones of ot mummies with the bitumen with which they were em em- Besides Its wonderful rich color the paint has the advantage of being practically permanent and for these hese reasons it is In great demand among artists especially portrait painters whose subjects have brown hair Unfortunately the supply of suitable mummies Is getting scarce for It Is I only those of between 2000 to years of age ago that will produce tho the beautiful brown paint so loved by ar ar- ar It was during that period that the art of embalming was at Its best After the embalming process had been carried out the body was coated with bitumen and subjected to a slight heat peat It Is this warmth i In combination with the great age of the bitumen that has produced the wonderful brown that makes the paint produced from It the finest In the world All the A. 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F find Ind they are Unknown Soldiers when they try to talk to congressmen about another another an an- other bonus bill New New York Trib- Trib un une e Scientific Ideas Ideas' Of Age of Earth There appears to be be no prospect of finality In scientific Ideas of the age of the earth arth Archbishop chronology by which the creation was fixed at years ago has been aban aban- cloned Half Halt a century ago Sir Hussey Hussey Hussey Hus- Hus sey Vivian startled the house of ot commons com com- mons by asserting that ho he could prove that the Welsh language was in use 1000 years ears before Adams Adam's s day Since then there has been friendly rivalry between between be be- tween astronomers and geologists In trying to solve the problem the lat lat- ter getting far ahead of ot the former In a recent address before a geological geological geo geo- logical society Professor Eddington using using- the rate zate at which the earths earth's rotation rotation ro ro- ro tation Is slowing down showed that It has taken more than million years since the duration of the day was between three and four hours and the moon was born We Ve cant can't help wondering how Adam felt when he discovered that Eve didn't know a darned darne thing thin about cooking Hartford Hartford Times r. r Tradition of Stone Images on River Bank BankIn In Campbell county South Dak Dakota ta there i Ig Is a stream now known Spring fr frt river which once n had the h as or name of Stone t Idol creek because ee aau of tnt two J ston stones s resembling human figures which adorn Its banks Concerning I these stone Images the Indians had this tradition A young man was deeply enamored with a girl who whose parents refused their consent to the marriage of the young people The youth went out Into the fields to mourn his misfortunes A sympathy of feeling led the young oung woman wo wo- man to the same spot After Arter wanderIng wander wander- wo-I wo Ing together and having nothing grapes to subsist the but on young oung pIe pie were at last converted peo peo- which beginning beginning- at the feet Into gradual stone ly invaded Invade the nobler parts nothing nothing- unchanged but a bunch leaving grapes which the tho of girl holds ir In hi hands to this day Whenever her diana passed these sacred stones the tho In Indiana Indians In- In I stopped to make they some offering to propitiate the tho deities of ot dr lis |
