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Show LEHI FREE VRESfi. LEI1I. UTAI? e' No, Florida Hothouse r r Claims Zaro Agha, who died In the Children's hospital at Istanbul. Turkey, a short time ago, may Indeed have been the world's oldest man, though widespread doubt will resist the claim of the ancient Turk that be was one hundred and sixty years of age. He could have been many years younger than the age he claimed and still compete with authenticated cases of extreme age that have been checked Mrposfy Mortal hj. . 'Just mem by men Interested lot s be n Tfr T National rrefr4 WMhlr.ttcn. D. Ceoprraphlc Society. Serrle. national playground and refuge cornea Into being the passage by congress of an act setting aside an area of 2,500 square miles of the Florida Everglades as the Everglades National park. This romantic region Is a retreat for many nearly extinct birds and a wide variety of animal life found nowhere else In America. Such creatures as the giant ibis, the Everglades kite, the white heron, the alligator, crocodile and manatee are all found there, yet they are being slowly exterminated. Likewise in this amazing region there now exists a plant life of wild and superbly beautiful palms, orchids, bromellads and fascinating climbing lianas. But, like the bird and animal life, these colorful glades and hummocks have been threatened with destruction from fires, often left by careless hunters and others. Now the protecting hand of the government is to be raised In time to save them. Set apart, preserved, and made accessible as a national park, this area will be visited in time by millions-mill- ions eager for subtropical adventure, but adventure under American ekles, amid American customs, and the comforts and excellent direction extended to all by the governmental supervision of the national park service of the Department of Interior. The leading citizens of Florida and many residents of other states urged this Important and needed project, which of course is for all the people of the nation. Florida's map resembles no other state's. In all America there Is no terrain so unusual, yet often so uniformly monotonous, as one sees enroute from Pensacola to Key West. From Jacksonville a small boat may cruise all the way down to the last big key, and even far out to the reefs on the way to Havana, broadly spenking, in sheltered waters. Shore lines of keys and islands alone measure about 1,000 miles. Certainly a real nature gave the Job when she designed Florida. To day's map, evolved through genera tlons of pucker-browecartographers, differs much from one Issued in France as late as 1750, showing high mountain peaks in the Everglades! Exotic Plants Flourish. Laved by the waters that swirl ceaselessly about It, and sweetened by the soft, pure trade winds that breathe life upon It, Florida is like a giant hothouse. It forms to the Imaginative eye a big experimental farm for all America. From 51 foreign lands plants and trees strange to us have been brought here to take up a new home and many are already adapted to our use. From Surinam to Singapore Uncle Sam's explorers have searched the nooks and crannies of the tropical world. As men in Bible times went forth In quest of camphor, Incense and myrrh, so these dauntless botanists have hunted, found and brought to Florida various exotic plants and trees whose fruits we may use as food or medicine. At the home of one famous American botanist in Coconut Grove Dr. David Fairchild was served a vegetable lunch all picked from plants with odd names utterly unknown here two decades ago. Here is the Jackfrult of Ceylon ; and the macadamia, a fine table nut from Australia; the chayote vine from the mountains of Guatemala, which bears the favorite vegetable of the Indians of that land ; here is Livingstone's a delicate maroon-colore- d fruit discovered in East Africa by the great missionary; here is the capote, of chewing-gutreef from Yucatan, and the lychee, or favorite fruit of South China; here, also, are, of course, mangoes, papayas and avocados, and the chaya of Central America whose young shoots are as delicate as spinach. In pioneering vegetable gardens one sees the popular taro and yautias, reminiscent of hillside taro patches in Hawaii ; the manihot, chief food to millions of tropical peoples, who eat it as we do potatoes; great bushes of "pigeon peas" from the West Indies the pea which, when ripe, forms an ingredient, in that famous Bahama Islands dish, "hoppln' John." Besides these, there is the famed m'chopo or Zulu fig (Ficus utllls), from whose bark Congo women make their from Polydresses; the candlenut-tre- e nesia and the lebbek tree from the venue planted by the khedive In honor of the Empress Eugenie when she C.-- WNU ANEW HatrftilfeJ deJHirj tnrua. fcoeue.N.T for om ta i.Mikeeth. or t druj. in longevity. In fact he could have cast off almost a Picking Florida Strawberries In January. :'S SAM ta Longevity Hard to Substantiate u " map-make- d gar-clnl- a, risked Egypt Here, also. Is the LImono ponderoso, or giant lemon. One sees it thriving dear Miami, but not as yet on a commercial basis. It is literally too big. K woman who had some growing in ber garden told a visitor she "mad 14 glasses of lemonade and three plei out of one lemon," and her statement, after seeing the size of the fruit, la not to be doubted. For tha Convenience of Bug. Another strange plant is the Mon-stedellclosa. It grows a queer, cucumber-shaped fruit An interesting characteristic of thin nlnnr U rh Kt holes In Its leaves, like a lace pattern. une wit suggested that nature provided these holes so that bugs may pass from one side of the leaf to the other at their convenience. The big fruit has a spicy flavor suggestive of apples and bananas. In his haste to clear land for the sites where new homes and towns now stand In south Florida, man of ne cessity destroyed much of the original growtn of cabbage palms and the dense hummock Juneles. with their many trees, strangler figs, and under- growin or ferns. But for the botanists bringing in beautiful flowers, trees and shrubs from all over the tropical woria, and the richness of the muck soil, these newly settled regions of Florida would be unsightly In their bare ugliness. Instead, now painted against a d of green erassea manv of which are also Imported, and now against backgrounds of stucco houses and garden walls, one beholds the riotous brilliance of many-hue- d bougainvillaea, named for a great French admiral; the Saharan oleander, tha gorgeous flowering cassias from Slam, the flame tree of the Caribbean, the hibiscus, the poinsettia, and a host of others. Here, too, is the sacred bo tree from India, the remarkable psychotrla from the Comoro islands, which carries bacterial nodulei in Its leaves Instead of Its roots. From such exotic immigrants of the vegetable world many small plant oases are forming in Florida. Aboui them there also gather many kinds of tropical insect pests, and tiny animaU that feed on the plants. So here, to care for these imported plants and trees as well as the vegetable gardens and citrus orchards of Florida, an in. tensive science of tropical entomology Is being fostered. This work against citrus canker and other pests is of measureless value to the whole nation. Follow the equator around the world, and in many cities near it one may see botanical gardens, maintained as show places only. But there is no other region even approaching south Florida In size where tropical and subtropical plant life is cultivated on so vast a scale, with strict quarantine and funds for fighting parasites, experimenting with new varieties, and raising their culture to a commercial scale. Besides the culture of new plants, there are costly private ventures in animal husbandry, reforestation, intensive farming, and group efforts at more efficient picking, packing and marketing methods. From that admirable Institution, the Florida department of agriculture, at Tallahassee, there Issues a steady stream of bulletins and periodicals on what and when to plant, how to raise it and sell It at a profit and, Just think, alleged humorists used to call native Floridlans "crackers." ra back-groun- Tung Oil Industry Growing. we have used "wood oil," brought from China and other foreign countries for use in our paint and varnish industry. In China, beg sides its use in and for waterproofing, settlings of the burned oil make the "India ink" of commerce. Is It surprising to know that we import the oil from the tung nut to the tune of $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 annually? Now, as one approaches Gainesville and in the neighborhood of Green Cove Springs, Florida, long rows of trees may be seea tung or wood-oi- l flourishing here as In a similar latitude in China. They grow in the most unlikely looking ground and their oily proclivity repels Insect life. Some years ago American consult In China, with our Department of Agriculture, Introduced the seeds of this tree. True, this in dustry is only in its Infancy. Tet It affords another example of Florida'! value to the nation as an experimental plant laboratory that will one day not far distant stand out In the development of home Industry. Among exotic fruits that have found a foothold here la the avocado, often called "alligator pear." In old dayi South Sea sailors called It "midshipmen's butter." Tears ago this fruit was first brought to Florida from Mexico. Since then other delected varieties have been imported. Tons of this healthy, vahiabli table delicacy, are now shipped to northern and midwest markets from the Peninsular state. For decades soap-makin- Kitchen Really half century from bis claim and still have been in sharp competition with the most extreme case of longevity ever fully authenticated by scientific Investigation, not quite 111 years. There can be no doubt but that Agha was a very old man and that be carried his years lightly, but the evidence of his greatest dependence in support of his claim, a birth certificate in which the "dogum tarihi," or date of birth, Is set at 1191 on the Moslem calendar, or February 16, 1774, few months more than two years before the American states declared their Independence, may be questioned. Not so much its authenticity as to the record of a birth on the day mentioned, as that the Zaro Agha who has Just died was the person whose birth was recorded. As to Zaro's remembrance of having fought in the Bulgarian war when he was one hundred and three and at that age of carrying heavy artillery on his shoulders to heights that horses could not carry It ; of his employment in a gun factory until he was one hundred end four or one hundred and five and Ms seeking other and easier work which he per-- 1 formed until he was one hundred and thirty-fivwe must credit inaccuracies that .must creep Into memory. For there is no warrant in man's knowledge of the persistence of life; to give support to his claims. In fact Science Service, which is mak e, cUte ing Its place In collecting the find Ings of men of science and present ing them for the edification of those who have no aptitude for scientific understanding, leads as In the other direction as it cites the one hundred and eleven year age record that was substantiated by an English Investigator who early In the century had considered close to a million cases of centenarians and found only 30 persons, 21 women and 9 men, who from outside sources could be shown to have lived 100 years or more. It Is said that in thia country several hundred death certificates annually show ages of more than one hundred years and occasionally the certified ages run as high as one hundred and When reports are twenty years. looked Into, such things as Inaccurate memories or mistaken Identity often account for many of the mistakes that creep into the death statistics. We are inclined to mislead ourselves in the matter of ages. St Louis Globe Democrat. Sea of Galilee on Biblical stories of the Sea Light of Galilee Las been shed by Capt. Herbert J. Horsey, who has complet ed fifteen years of commercial flying. While flying in the Far East he frequently descended on that famous body of water. "Right across the sea runs a hidden reef, not far below the surface," he said on his arrival in London. "Other parts of the lake are hundreds of feet deep, and it seemed to me that this reef might account for the Bible story of the walking on the sea. Present-daweather conditions bear out the New midden of Testament accounts storms raging on the lake. One moment it may he as smooth as a mill pond, the next the water becomes troubled, and In a few minutes you have a rough sea, with a wind blowing at 80 miles an hour." U y Keynote of Home There Is no other room In a house which so definitely indicates a rounded cycle of fashion In bousing necessities as does th kitchen. Within the past few years It has become the most discussed part of a home. Its decorative schemes have undergone Its uses have bemarvelous change come complex. Its furnishings distinctive, and its equipment elaborately efficient In fact the kitchen has again come Into Its own. Long years ago It was the main room in a house, being kitchen, dining room, and living room. Today it fulfills the first two of these functions. It partakes mildly of the third, although modern kitchen fittings are too mechanical h and coldly technical for the ioned cozlness to be present which cozlness was almost cuddling In its hearty welcoming atmosphere. The home builder of today who decides to feature the kitchen in her new house will do well to remember one item of the past kitchens. They These little rooms had sink rooms kitchenwere as large as ettes. The stove was not present, but the sink was prominent Around and the walls were shelves every convenience for taking care of dirty dishes, pots and pans, and keeping the clean ones neatly stowed away. Of course, there was the dining-room closet in which was stacked the best china, the sink room con- Egg te equipments for kitchens which are lacking in convenience. When closet room is Inadequate, there are sectional closets which can be bought and put in wherever wanted. There are low closets and high closets, wide closets and narrow closets, all sizes to suit all rooms. There are vegetaining the everyday tableware to- table bins, open or enclosed. There are stoves which resemble gether with cooking utensils. With such a room it was possible to se- closets and refrigerators which are gregate the confusion of unsightly like cold storage rooms, small and articles from the attractive ones, and attractive. There are cleverly conpreserve a tidy kitchen even when trived dressers which are as adecooking was under way. The clutter quate as tiny pantries. There are of the pots and pans, baking dishes, washing machines which, when needetc., did not disturb the serenity of ed, transform a kitchen into a launa living room. The sink room is one dry for a few hours as required. which would relieve a modern kitch- Most of these washing machines look en equally well, and help to make it merely what they are, practical moda more fitting dining room, which, as ern labor-savin- g equipments. And mentioned before, is one of its these are just a few of the many uses. qualities. When hidden they help to Apart from this suggestion for make it possible to have attractive home builders, let us speak of some kltchen-dlnln- g rooms. of the various aids to efficiency In Bell. Syndicate. WNU Service. ft pres-ent-dr- ty E 17 SEDriOQ to create a TIRE SENSATION is to give the people what and Firestone has done this with the new Firestone Century want, they Progress Tire. 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