Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-11 | Page 33 | Looking for a Life of Ease? Cantral America Place

LOOKING FOR A lIH OF EASE CENTRAL AMERICA PLACE m People in Country Dont Don't Even Know There Is C Ceat eat War On FOOD AWAITING YOU All That Is Needed Is Just Jus JustEn En Enough ugh Money to Buy a aFew aFew aFew Few Clothes and Salt By ROGER BABSON I TELA Honduras June 10 10 I You think you have a hard life I You are obliged to work continually continually ally any to provide shelter food anc am I fuel If U you will go to Central America you ou can live lire a life Ufe of ease The country people of Central America Amer ica lea who are beyond the influence of th tb revolutions live Uve a life Ufe of perfect ease These people dont don't worry about th war They dont don't even know there is i iwar war war unless unless they have haye heard about i 1 from some missionary who has trav traveled traveled through h their village Many missionaries are doing work in these countries In to curing sick and teaching children they preface their sermon each Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday day morning with a resume of th weeks week's news The country people in making a hous stick sUck up four tour posts and make a roo and sides of big palm trees It takes about two days to build house As the climate is warm all the time tim they need no fuel except when the build a little fire of ot sticks SUcks to cook som fIsh or og bird but this Is very seldom Although there are fine tIne fish in th streams and all kinds of birds in th forests these people are too lazy t fish or hunt The Central America natives out natives out outside side the cities need cities need not even climb tr tree e for food After breakfast the go out under a cocoanut tree and d 1 lj Ii down in the shade shado waiting for a m nt nto to fall The milk of the cocoanut supplies ti tl drink and the meat supplies the foo Their only other articles of food a ai 81 bananas sugar cane and yams A b big banana tree with its one bunch t bananas will grow in about seVE sev months These are found wild out the warm valleys To raise sugar cane the native j i obliged only to stick stocks into tl th ground once a year They renew them there selves Sometimes an native wi i be seen who has two or three rows pig and a few hens but this is a grea exception Such a man Is putting o 0 airs airs in in the sight of ot his neighbors These people are perfectly happ with an income of 5 1 or 10 a a. yea ea This is enough to buy clothes for th tb family and a little salt Nothing elEis etc elj is needed The Honduras dollar Is called a a. pes pea and is worth from 35 to 40 0 cents gol goll according to whether you pay in papE or in silver Their money they earn by raising few things things perhaps perhaps a little f tc fc market each year If a native has a cow he will ale als make a little cheese The country people of C Central Amei Amer ica lea have only only- one ambition in life an that is to live as nearly like Adam an Eve In the Garden of Eden as Let me tell you they succeed prett rett well But are these people who live lI sue suc lives Ih-es of ease as happy as are you ou wt struggle for a living lhing They are no nc Happiness comes through doing thing thin