Show If ILVA lA is the tropics stewed in a I sauce flav flavored red with I oriental spice In n my mind I had always pica pic- pic d Java as a wild Jungle with mon mon- inon- inon screaming from the tr trees s and 1 hants crashing through the prime- prime j wilds and and boa constrictors cro cross cross- s 1 i pur OUr path and the dusky natives ng in the sunshine as they whiled f y y tho the idle hours twanging upon I r flight guitars reality it is about as wild as a a. agi lg gi Island truck farm tarm Every inch Binder r Inder Intensive cultivation not a ad d growing even on tho the roadside Jonly Ionly wild animal I saw was a rabbit in the hotel garden and only snake I beheld was con confined tined v a glass cage in a little museum JIe le as for the native natie about the they y Instruments the they ever get a n. aCe Ce to perform on are the tho hoe hoc and spade w I he efficient Hollanders are said to lr only people who have ever been elto make a Malay work They have wely ely done that in m Java The natives 1 practically enslaved but the tho re- re marvelous and it raises an M cresting question in ethics and aDd eco- eco eft to themselves th the Javanese Uld tild be perfectly happy living In IntS' IntS inI I tS' tS made of ot reeds and subsisting on fruits of ot the earth that the Lord Into their mouths and they Id ild contribute nothing to the well ig g o of the outside world Goaded to JOr Or by the Dutch they produce on lr ir marvelously fertile Island an im- im ise nse percentage of the foodstuffs that thatto thatto to nourish the hungry o 0 of other Ids ida It l leaves aves you wondering it if might isn't right after atter all I WN LIKE TURKISH BATH We re entered Java by way of ot Batavia rich Ich has the temperature and humid humid- ot a Turkish bath steam room It Itan Itan Itan an ugly ragged cl city cily the foreign rt t of which is built of ot concrete box uses and the native part of ot bamboo its ls Never was there a place ot so He Ue le privacy The natives live Jive and andye v ye their being in the open streets e. e Dutch eat and drink and sl sleep p their wide verandas where they pear in a scantiness of ot costume that f fare are accustomed to associate only th a trip to the bathroom There r re is something very ery curious out out ut the way that hot weather breaks breal s i the morale of or people everywhere J makes them do things and wear ings ings they would ne never r dream of ot dotor do- do stor tor wearing in the winter time so soU U 1 can imagine how negligee every- every dy gets to be in a place where it Is ismal mal arnal summer We te e stayed at a hotel built on the k of ot a canal and it must have vered red acres of at ground for it conI con- con I fut ted of ot a series of ot little bungalows ch h with its tiny veranda The rooms Jr Id d stone floors and beds seven feet teet e with no other covering but a ajeet jeet spread over the mattress not a leet red jred to put over you but each bed bedd d din ln it a a. long bolster affair affail that was led ed- ed eda a Dutch wife wite You Youart ar art are sup- sup 2 sed d to gain gam coolness through the altering tropic nights by elevating Our feet teet or your arms on this so as astI tI make ake a passage for tor the air to clr- clr ate ate under you lOh the little veranda in front of ot Ich fn ch ji room was a big chair with ex- ex I- I Slon pieces to the arms which out to make a rest for the legs M he men as they took tool their after siesta Here also was a wicker juch l h for tor the women and a little taa ta- ta a here at 6 G o'clock In the morn- morn servants placed your early break- break at fruit and toast a jug of ot hot bot and a vinegar cruet filled with withe je e cold coffee J VS Ys S OF RICE TABLE y gets up at the crack of ot wn In Java and goes about their or pleasure in the few tew com com- r r cool hours of the day At AtKin Kin as luncheon is called everywhere es est of ot Honolulu I made acquaintance lith the noblest institution of ot Java JaY if It in the whole realm of ot eats Is the rice table and it is a au u rig to be approached only with awe l reverence id and a c certain foolhardy Mirage urage The matter of or It is like this soup plate of enormous capacity brought and set before you and you with rice from a vat that a husky I r bears from table to table fter ter him comes a procession of ot wait wait- each bearing a dish containing a afferent afferent variety of ot food tood One will have st st. steak ak another chicken another fed eggs another pickled eggs an- an h tier hr r sausage saUage another bits of ot fish shrimp another salmi anh an- an h her hr r fried bananas You take some l Ot each dish and put it upon your yourL L Then comes a waiter walter with an n tray on which are condl- condl ts chutney ground pepper grated walnut pickles minced onion 1 id l dozens of other things whose very very p arance I did not recognize You sprinkle the mound of ot food tood in your up p plate with these Last of ot all alt mes a k waiter waltor bearing a soup tureen curry mixture You souse this lver your rice and condiments and your soul to God and go golit lit the mixture perfectly Uy deli- deli JUS ut it is very rich and nourish- nourish Ito to the tho 13 last degree and heaven help of or any lady who partakes takes atras' atras of at fas ras' h her r daily dally diet You understand h hythe th Dutch fraus traus In Java look like at er t barrels on skids and nd also why n. n have llave eschewed corsets and opt opted d the native dress which con- con ts-of ts a long strip of ot cloth wound d you In place of ot a skirt and a aie alu lu ie Jacket for a waist You couldn't reconcile the rice table with straight ea front After you have parken parken parkin par par- kin ken o of that you need room and plen- plen Sf fiL it After Aner tiffin everyone staggers to toes toe's e's es room puts on a negligee and re- re irs irto to the little veranda in front to the the snake business until about 4 la The men have on their parn parnas pa- pa rn s the women their kimonos Nody No- No dy has on any stockings and y you u are full public view I never saw so tny my knotted and t f feet et in my nor 3 so inor-so so many in need of ot the earnest of ot a chiropodist SACRED SIESTA rids siesta hour is sacred ely l And wo woe to him who violates Everybody notices notice are put up on oni i walls requesting guests not to talk w en the hours of 2 and 4 and that at dogs will not be permitted to tok k nor children to cr cry cry If It you a whisper a long sibilant 5 ike a snakes snake's runs t tie the e rounds of ot IR Once I a baby babye babyC like e C one wall wail and no more It was short Probably its mother stran- stran atH to death rather than have it omit the blasphemy my bbb of disturbing s sI It I I i I X VL JA JAVA WHERE VA WHERE THE TROPICS ARE RE TAMED f- f LI r l lt dr 1 J t l j ji t t tt tt t 0 i I j sd d t s st t iJ 1 q s i s 1 tA Ii i r I f i r 2 i 1 1 C 00 Siesta 0 a a. a people who were zing off the rice table And they tell teU with bated breath of ot the b- b horrible fate that be befell feU a rash young youn American who foolishly ImagIned Imagined Imag Imag- ined med that he could violate a holy institution institution institution and get away with it It seems that this bold youth had bod a typewriter and he undertook to pick off oct some letters letters letters let let- during the siesta hour The management management man man- sent him a polite message re requesting requesting re- re questing him to desist and telling him that It was not permitted to make any noise between 2 and 4 o'clock The young American replied that he was sorry but the mail mall boat was leaving i the next day and he had important business letters that he must get off and he clicked merrily on About two clicks more That was all aU The proprietor followed by his menials arrived on the scene and before before before be be- fore he knew what had happened the young American and his typewriter typewrite and his bags and baggage were out inthe inthe in inthe the street together and the door behind him was lock locked d. d And its it's no joke to be thrown out of ot a hotel that is the only one in Be several ral hundred miles During the siesta hour you may ring the bell off and no servant will answer for they too slumber and sleep but promptly at 4 o'clock your room coolie reappears with tea and toast and jam and little cakes after atter which you have your bath and dress and ride in a little wagon built like a a dogcart with seats fore and aft and drawn by little ponies not much bigger ger thai thap sheep and so light ight In weight that a afat afat afat fat p person pirson who sits on the back back- backseat seat I will often otten lift the pony into the air all until another heavyweight gets get into I the front seat and balances the ve ye- ye hicle hide I Dutch society In Batavia is said to tobe tobe tobe be quite smart It runs to musicals at I which the ladles ladies appear in the latest I finery from Amsterdam and pecks peeks of jewelry There is a little social intercourse intercourse in intercourse in- in however between the English English Eng Eng- lish and Americans and the Dutch for tor the Dutch have made madet a curious social ruling They will do business in the English language but the they re refuse refuse refuse re- re fuse to 10 use it social socially and they say that if the English and Americans desire to mingle socially with them they must learn to speak Dutch The Dutch are not crazy about foreigners coming to trade in their preserve anyway BRILLIANT LOCAL COLOR COLORIN IN A few hours ride from Batavia Bala is the Java Simla the beautiful beautiful beau beau- mountain resort where all aU Batavia Batavia Batavia Ba Ba- tavia goes to get a br breath th of ot fresh tresh air all when It can endure the stifling heat of or the sea coast no longer There is a fine tine road to it and as we motored motored motored mo mo- up It was fascinating to watch I w cI r rM t if Jt I It t Laundry ry work in i n J Java ava j c. c I v 4 at v 3 t looking lice the nat native nate e life I was especially in intrigued intrigued in- in d by the little boys who sat on buffalos while white they tended their hC herds hards of cows or r goats or Dr watched fields of ot grain to scare awa away the crows Nor did I ever weary iveary of ot remarking the groups SToups of or women en engaged engaged engaged en- en I in the national of at cootie hunting I This was engaged in without shame I or camouflage and wherever two or three wo won won-ip n had gathered together I by the wa wayside side or In front of or a door instead of ot crocheting or teaching eI each h hother other a new embroidery stitch the they had Farted each others other's long black blade blackhair blackhair hair hall and were looking Into int each others other's others other's oth oth- ers er's heads to b s see se what they thoy might discover there ther en anti J always they wore a most interested and pleased sion aba Evidently cootie hunting has thrills and excitements of ot which we more sophisticated people little know Just to see the people walking along the road was to to- watch watch- a a. brilliant brilliant bril bril- procession for both men arid and women had on sarongs that w were re every every ev ev- ery possible hue and combination of ot hues Moreover l every few tew miles th there re was a passer or market that tha t was Wa-s as a a. splash of or color against the green of ot the fields and tre trees Here squatted by th tho roadside women dressed In gay y sarongs were selling their gayer wares waxes There were great piles of scarlet peppers and baskets of or a kind of ot fruit I that looks like yellow and crimson that the spikes I Iare chestnut burs except are as s soft as silk and that within Is Isa isa a long white kernel that tastes like solidified lemonade There were heaps of ot that are purplish red without and white snow-white within and th that t. t are the most delicious fruit on onearth onearth onearth earth a combination of ot sweet and sour that has no counterpart this side of at the ambrosia of the gods Here lIere also were quantities of ot jack fruit big I green STeen watermelon-looking watermelon affairs that tha are a variety yat of coarse melon meton and here were big prickly the fa favorite favorite ta- ta fruit of ot the natives that smell like a cross between a skunk and an onion with a dash of ot thrown in for good measure but that are said to be delicious when eaten with a Cl clothespin on your n nose se And here for tor sale also were great bowls of ot grated cocoanut and rice put up In little cases made of ot plaited bamboo that would be boiled In the cas case and small bottles of ot crude attar of ot roses and aromatic gums an and spices wrapped up in leaves and al all sorts of native sweetmeats which look better than they the taste And speaking Breaking of ot things to eat one comes with tears to the subject of ot Java coffee for alas there is no such thing any more as real Java cof cof- fee The once famous and delectable coffee grown in this country is a tradition tradition tradition tra tra- o of ot the past past past-a a mere trademark for tor an inferior article About twenty years rears ng ago ag a 3 curious blight descended upon tho the Java cot coffee ee trees and killed them nut out root and branch and the coffee now raised in Java is a much coarser variety than was ws Imported d from Africa The Thc method of or making coffee in Java is precisely that employed In making drip coffee in New Orleans except that the Javanese make a cold cole filtration instead of ot a a. hot one as I Is r l lt t t t tt tt t t sd d s st t s i s f i done lone In New Orleans Tour n Java is brought you jou ou cold In a small glass bottle with a pitcher of ot hot milk and you compound yourself a mild lukewarm beverage that 1 1 a apale apale apale pale image of at your rosy dream of ot what genuine Java coffee should be As I have hae said is a hill resort a a. little town of or pretty sumIller sumner sumner sum- sum ner Iller homes and with an excellent hotel hat that is beautifully situated on a a. ravine raine raine ra- ra vine ine that overlooks o a valley through which flows flaws a swift little stream On he the other sid sidi of the river was a naive naive native na na- na- na ive tive village and it was very amusing to 0 o watch life go SO on in the open fryer dyer yer women there here women cooking in little pots pots suspended over vcr a fire tire and washing heir their clothes in the river which they id by tho the simple process of taking laking a garment and pounding it the a stones tones until they loosened the dirt or wore it into shreds In the river also they took their baths and washed the children and by ts Its side they made their ther toilettes a simple proc process ss to fox for themselves themselves-of of Jr winding a gay sarong around their hips lips and putting on a jacket that they fastened with big orn ornamental mental pins The childrens children's toilette was even simpler for or th they y wei were considered sut sufficiently clad with nothing on but on but a necklace an anklet and so 80 they only needed to be rinsed of off in the tho I river and set on the bank to dry HEAVEN OF BOTANISTS has the fl finest est botanical garden in Ia the world orld and botanists come ome to It from everywhere to study Its ts wonderful flora In It are all aU the varieties of ot spice trees trees cinnamon cinnamon all allspice all all' allspice spice clove nutmeg pepper and so soon on and on-and and all sorts of ot grotesque trees natures nature's little jokes such as the thesau sausage sau eaU sausage sage tree which seems to bear Im Imported Imported ira ira- ported frankfurters and the breadfruit breadfruit bread bread- fruit tree and the ban banyan an tree whose limbs grow down to the tha earth carth and heaven knows what other marvels Its orchids are unrivaled and nothing |