Show A Strange God Tree S What Is a god od tree Nobody y knows or had ever el heard hear of such a thing until until until un- un til not hot long Jong ago an 11 ethnological ex ex- plover er came carno across quite a it Jot lot of ot them I on certain little known Islands along I the lie west coast of oC Sumatra The god u tree cc Is carved nr out of or wood with curiously fashioned branches of ot I th the saine same material On tho those these o branches are hung strings of or bright colored bits of cloth and tiny lily filled with plains of rice The whole affair is not hot moro more th u 11 three feet Ceet high I According g to the tile belief of the naves na nap lives tives ves of the islands aforesaid I a n god lives In the tho tree lIe Ho Is la not n a partS good sort FOlt of ot divinity and If fC ho he I lakes akos a notion to Jea leave e the tree ho Is liable Sable to do o folks foBes a mischief The best host way to him to st stay y at home borne In treo is to make malco the latter Jatter attractive h by adorning it In ln the mannor man man- nor ner described and anti b by supplying rice in ih baskets for the god to eat The god is a household god and ini the T tree which ho inhabits Is koT In n n a curlier corner of ot the family dwelling |