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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI, UTAH GUIANA FOPFSTS very desirable ends." How Lady Mary would have enjoyed a puzzle! The typical old !ady of a generation but lately gone, sat by the Ore with white cap and spectacles, knitfor the whole family. Toting The Philosophically Minded Person Will Discover day, socks she dons a stylish stout, wears the new Oxford. In lien of the some Numerous Compensations and Enjoyments for what passee lorgnette, and Bailies forth to solve problems of politics or That Period of Declining Activity. A contract dear bridge. me the following Hoosier friend sent Ever since the days of Cicero's "De valuable books, they are almost as Senectute." which we labored over In rare as valuable men. I must be con original verse: Junior high, as they call It now. men tent with what I can find." (What Whene'er GRANDMOTHERS I think of have been fretting about old age. a would she have thought of the output 1 think of cherished grandmothers, things; Of creamv. delicate old tare. writer in the Indianapolis News com- of books, today?) And dear remembered dream a ments. It Is generally considered a Continuing. Lady Mary writes: "As I think of modeat mignonette time of life to be dreaded because of I approach a 6econd childhood. I en at new day's dawn: the sadness connected with declining deavor to enter Into the pleasures of Of perfumed aweetpea s paatel tints: ahade upon a lawn. activity. But sometimes the window It Your youngest son is perhaps at Of I think of Artemisia opens upon a new vista, and we fol this very moment riding on a poker Like filagree of silver tray. hair. low Vida T. Scudder's page In th with great delight, not at all regret-InOf lips that speak of troubled hearts Love's worda wisdom Atlantic with Joy because they seem of rare; that it Is not a gold one and rragile Dresden china In so sane. much less wishing it an Arabian Of A corner cupboard old. d Having suddenly found herself ar horse, which be would not know bow Of Eden hours of love. rived at the age of seventj. Miss to manage. I am reading an Idle Too aacred to be told; Scudder is Inspired to take up her tale, not expecting wit or truth In it, Of shaded lights on autumn night. And aound of summer rain; pen for the benefit of those In like and am very glad It Is not meta Of new born baby's llpa against to a It as She hisMi breaat that stings with pain; predicament. physics puzzle my Judgment or regards matter of triumph, rather than dls tory to mislead my opinion. He for Of work-worbands, that vet are soft That minister with loving care; couragement. to have reached a time titles bis strength by exercise; I calm Or love that makea e'en drudgery when one may be glad to be left off my cares by oblivion. The methods A shining halo wear. of committees and like responslblll may appear low to busy people, but Oh precious, priceless grandmothers! ties, and spend the remainder of her If he Improves his strength and I Without you. bow great dearth! Oh Life shows In you days In the enjoyment of the scenes Sorget my Infirmities, we both attain Truegrandmothers! beauty on the earth. of life from the shelf to which she has been relegated, when one may resurrect the monk. And so the Trend to Spectacular read, not classics or any prescribed world of fundamental Information course, but Just what has long been in Man's Mental Focus took on new life. 'oveted as desirable or particularly Uere we are today wrangling about It seems that the human mind, indirestful. economic questions. Specifically, Lady Mary VTortley Montague evi- vidual or collective, la Dot able to foabout dollars and taxes. Such things cus more one than a a upon at like had thing dently aspiration, writing time. The queer thicg Is that this are Incidental and more or less specto her daughter. Lady Bute: "Paugh ter, daughter! Don't scold, don't call human mind prefers to focus upon tacular. We will, of course, beep on names. You are always abusing my the spectacular rather than upon the with such subjects until some one finds a way to focus our attention pleasures, which is what no mortal lasting. Back In 1SGC a lonely Moravian on unemployment The man who sucwill bear. Trash, lumber, and stuff are the titles you give to my favorl'e monk discovered the laws of heredity ceeds In focusing the public attention amusements. We all have our play which now stand as the bedrock of on this point will be calling us back to something fundamental. There things; happy are they that cnn be the life sciences. No one In 180(1 contented with those they can obtain ; cared to take a look at this discovery, are those who seem to think that disthose hours are spent In the wisest for every one was arguing about some covery Is soon to be made. Washmanner that can easiest shade the incidental gossip which grew out of ington Star. Darwin's "Origin of Species," pubIlls of life and are the least productive of 111 consequences . . . The ac- lished In 1850. By 1900 they were Really Big Thing tive scenes are over at my age. I In- tired of the Incidental and rather The great thing In the world Is not dulge with all the art I can, my taste spectacular gossiping about Darwin. so much to seek happiness as to earn for reading. If I would confine It to This gave the scientists a chance to pence and New Vistas for "Old Age" Jig-sa- d Rlvsr Transportation Geographic Society. Prepared by National Wuhlncton. D. C. WNU Service. BRITISH expedition recently explored a new region a region among the treetops of 100 to 200 feet forest giants In British Guiana. Here, Indeed, wai a place worth every effort to Investigate a rolling, sea of green extending for .several thousand square miles, and teeming with a life which was biologically unknown. Lured by its promise, a group of men decided to examine an area of forest on the right bank of the Essequibo river. They were equipped with a variety of climbing apparatus, such as machines and rocket-firinguns for propelling ropes over high branches, thousands of feet of cordage for making hauling constructions, pulleys for use In block and tackles, Iron spikes for building spike ladders, and wooden scaling ladders capable of extension. Long-rang- e spray pumps were procured for shooting poisons at Insect warriors that would obstruct Invasion of their homeland. The area selected was Ideal for a survey ; for It was as nearly primeval forest as could be found. Here every thing was In an unaltered state, with all the trees In their natural associa tions, as they had no doubt existed for a thousand years or more. The forest was composed of tall, straight trees. Some were monsters, with broad buttressed bases which, like pillars, supported the overhead roof. The vast majority, however. were of smaller size, crowded together all competing, strugby thousands, gling, Jostling with one another in tlielr efforts to get their heads Into the tree-rooEvery tree examined was perfectly straight. Hardly one had a branch until near the canopy, where, at a height of about 70 feet, occurred division Into a simple fork. Bush ropes of every degree of thickness spread about In this thicket of straight poles. Some swung across In pendent loops, or hung down like loose, others twisted swinging cordage; themselves round the great tree trunks In strangling, serpentine coils. Mosses, epiphytes, lichens, and ferns crowded the trunks and high branches In tropical profusion. Overhead the tree tops made a green roof, and the fallen vegetation covered the floor with a thick, soft carpet of mold. Formed a Roof With Windows. Throughout the forest were glittering lights, bright spots, streaks, and luminous patches, where shafts of sunlight, breaking through the roof, were reflected from the underlying foliage as from a multitude of suspended mirrors. On every side was the richest fertility; and, contrastingly, In the prostrate trunks and rotting leaf mold was equal evidence of death and decay. The silence, the gloom, the stillness, the luxuriance were most A wind-tosse- d line-shooti- ng g f. Impressive. The heads of the trees came close to one another and interloval-shape- d aced their branches, and creepers and bush ropes linked them together to form a sort of roof, though not such a perfect thatch as books on equatorial forests often lead one to imagine. In places the tree crowns stood out somewhat separately. The sky was by no means completely hidden. Here and there were windows, skylights In the canopy, through which the sunlight streamed lancelike to illuminate the "cellar" floor. From the ground one could catch only passing glimpses of the life In the foliage. Monkeys went crashing through it now and then. The larger birds, such as parrots and toucans, were seen here and there, splashes of color In its shadows. Smaller songsters were evident only by their voices, for In the gloom It was difficult to locate a bird through the mass of foliage. Occasionally, with powerful glasses, one might see through a canopy window a lofty tree covered with blossoms, about which flitted bright butterflies. The expedition's knowledge of that zone of life was confined to what a Bun could bring down from It for mu- of its birds and mammals It Is fair to say that biologists knew very little; and, so far as its smaller fauna was concerned, its reptiles, Insects, rachnids, and other creatures, the expedition was almost In complete ignorance. It was In not difficult to this primeval forest. move about Secondary growth Is somewhat tangled, but the primitive bush Is more open and accessible. There Is no need to hew a way though It with an ax. What checks progress Is usually a fallen or a pile of roots or an Impassable swamp. Nor does thorny vTPtntlon cause trouble. There are some palms with spiny trunks or stems, but , never such barriers of Pritklea as are common In less humid tree-trun- forests. in British Guiana. One soon finds how easy it is to lost In the forest On account of get the sameness of the vegetation on every side and the absence of both horizon and landmarks, It Is a problem to recover bearings once one becomes con- - rused. Some Peculiar Trees. of the great trees are most arresting. There is the stilted tree or awasakuli, whose roots thrust themselves above the ground and Incline to form a pyramid supporting "u 118 HI the tail, straight trunk. Another striking kind Is the fluted tree, or yururu. with the whole lensrth of Its trunk marked by deep longltu- umai grooves, as if It were composed of a thick bundle of smaller saplings. More abundant but none the less attractive, Is the mora, the Immense trunk base of which is drawn out Into buttresses like the witches' seats of Channel Island chimneys, some of mem often following a sinuous course before they reach the ground. The bush ropes are of all varieties and patterns to give them designed strength. Some are twisted with such perfect regularity that one can scarce-l-y tell the difference between them and ropes made by man. The expedition's chief trouble In the forest came from dampness. When it arrived, the wet season was at Its height. Every day rain fell In torrents; the air was 80 per cent saturated with moisture; every leaf In the forest A step Into the bush meant dripped. getting soaked to the skin; and, once wet, clothes never dried. One had to become accustomed to starting off each day in the sodden clothing of the evening before. As a consequence of this continual moisture, boots and everything else of leather soon were covered with a green mold; animal skins and specimens rotted; photographic plates refused to dry. Much has been written of discomforts in a tropical forest, but few writers Impress on their readers that the real trouble Is persistent dampness. The expedition had, of course, Its share of insect pests, of which the chief were the ticks and the bete rouge. These minute creatures, specklike in size, live freely on the forest While wandering about, vegetation. they collected on clothes, underneath which they soon found their way to the tenderest parts of the skin. The bete rouge, an almost invisible harvest mite, was much the more annoying of the two. It burrowed Into the skin, making a red Irritation that felt like an attack of nettle rash. The only way to deal with these tiny creatures was to go over the whole body carefully each day and pick them off. The penalty for neglecting this duty was a sleepless night of scratching. Indians Helped the Climbers. Members of the expedition anticipated difficulties of many kinds, for they had been Impressed upon them The before they sailed for Guiana. trees, they had been warned, were too tall and straight and branchless for climbing; their timber was too hard to take climbing irons; their crowns were too full of dangerous rotten branches to afford footing; the foliage, everything, swarmed with armies of venomous ants; and even if they did get Into the canopy, they would be able to see very little In the dense vegetation. Such were the difficulties that had been predicted for them. Fortunately they found that they had been considerably exaggerated. The first tree they attempted to climb was one that they had left for the purpose in the center of their Confidently they clearing. camp brought into action their rocket apgun, but paratus and the They both proved virtually useless. sent their missiles forcibly enough too forcibly in fact not only into the Imcanopy but far above it! It was possible to aim the rope over the branch selected and to bring the end back to earth through the tangle. The devices of civilization thus fail ing them, they engaged the services of two Arawnk Indians, who provided much more satisfactory help, since they had been accustomed to climb and tap for Its milky gum a sort of rubber tree known as the balata. By using loops of rope passed around their bodies and the tree trunks, these "baiata bleeders" could make ascents In any part of the forest. They first attacked the camp tree, climbing It by means of spikes on their leather boots, and carrying a to the first light line with them up fork at ".") feet. Meantime a apparatus had been got in readiness. The upper end of It was made fast to a suitable branch; to the lower end was attached a seat made of In the straight pieces of stick cut forest, somewhat after the fashion of a ho's'n's chair. Seated on this, one could be hauled to the point of fixation In the crown of the tree. Some new-we- n self-respe- ,4fiS?v JOY TO BE HAD IjN "WORD BOOK" Idea This Modern Age Will Find Worth While. Eighteenth-Centur- y Our language la a superb Inheritance, blessed with richer variety of expression and Implicit with a more ranging music than most other living tongues. It has pith, color and energy. Its flexibility and scope are enormous aa might be expected from a tongue dowered out of the precision and beauty of Greek, the rolling vowel music of Latin, the northern strains of Jelt, Angle and Sixon. Surely, aa heirs to this bequest and aa living contributors to It, we should not be content without exploring It To do so would be like emulating the beggar, who, coming Into a fortune, was satisfied with a few worn counters when the gold coin of the realm vas his for the seeking. In a century now long forgotten men and women were accustomed to keep what they described as "commonplace books" notebooks In which one entered any quotations of prose or verse which seemed apposite, wise or endowed with beauty and felicity of expression, it was a happy Idea. Any who desire to discover what effect It had upon the mind of an age might do well to explore a bit Into Eighteenth century letters. A word book, wherein one Jots down any unfamiliar word be meets with In the reading of good books, together with Its verified meaning, will go far to rescue him from present afflictions that beset our language as it la written. Only one who has tried this expedient knows the fun It offers, the renewed sense of vitality in thought the sharper edge given Ideai. and, simultaneously, the rapid fcrowtb 0f discriminative taste in reading. 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