Show I I r I II I Ir r 4 Ii J t i I Ir a hire ire Seas and an Treasure Isles ij II I i I ij I Lure to t o Pearl of the Antilles I I i Special I N ROUTE SS Prinz SI d i I I i EN Long 77 7 lAt 27 Jan you ever drink a cocoanut In ht I could shell Its when the tho you HMO Have be cut like can an apple cooled b by the tho ed cd the avocado fresh resh breeze that played on It l night Have Havo you when It was yet yot moonlight that paled the tho ever oer sat In a southern cross and dreamily watched the phosphorescent dance of oC a I chow and million lire fire Did you ever I 1 t i i feel the tho lure IurO of oC the tho l h hof RIviera of oC the westland of at anya tie o In the tho hope tint you 3 will be Inter InterI n I h I osted ted In a l few ew words from the tho south seas sas I am writing this morning ng of oC 1 i this morn f things s that amu o oIt and Interest I It 1 e I nm a i about lW miles southeast In the thep of r the ho of oC Florida Florid p I 1 1 t I of oC the west cst thoroughly a crul cruise Q do luxo lu In the finest t t God Gol ever gave gao his hia children I II Ii j i ew York three days dros ago A cold I 1 a blast held the tho whole city In hIs hist t antI and froze the tho blood In onos ono s veIns I I 1 uple pic were wrapped In furs and wool woolf and drawn by bythe bythe t f cis Il and amI were waro pinched the cold Now I am sitting on open deck dressed In thin white duck while the balmiest ot of breezes Is blowing There Is n a temporary sense ot of unreal unreality I It ity connected with the change From Froma a L bleak and baryon banon winter I em am trans i to a I land of oC tropical luxuriance The contrast and P perpetual summer i 9 Is too great grent for tor tho mind to adjust itt It ItI t I self licIt nt at once but the tho eye ee brightens at atthe atthe the prospect and tho wonderment In 1 41 creases Some da day our alkali soaked friends In the tho w west t will awake to a full ull II realization ot of tho glories of oC a In InI I tho West Vest festoon or of tropIc I Islands ja strewing their beau I I tics over tho Caribbean from Cuba on onI th north to Trinidad on the tho south I Now they migrate I to Europe seeking bl M rest r and an equable climate tt forget forgetting t ting that right here hera In our own bemis jl i I I phere thorn thero are aro the Isles of oC Enchant meat These ore nrc Indeed r t 1 I coral strands lyIng In seas r Here one ODe ma may loll the days away In InI Inan I an exquisite luxury or of rapturous In Indolence inand dolence and bask In the tho suns rays 1 i tempered by the caress ot of tho trade trado r winds Nor Is s the enchantment less I t coed ened when night descends The Tho warm and humId air Intensifies and andI I the descending rays of at the sun radIate unwonted splendors The Tho kaleidoscope I t I Is s alive with changing n lights As AsI I y I 1 darkness deepens myriads of at stars sprInkle the sky sk presided over by tho southern cross and the sea reflecting the heavenly beams adds Its own phosphorescent I Ii i phol scent glow from each wave and andI ripple I PEARL OF THE ANTILLES I I When nature natum formed fanned the sea 1 she sho WU was In her most fantastic mood It Is tucked to ono one sido ot of the great ocean occa n us Ir if reserved Its aid ald waters expand like the thO pOI hed of a hugo huge gem em a gem gem or of oval shape mounted In a charming ot of brIght shores and Islands set t with uno pearl of oC the malen maica In this part ot of the world Jamaica holds the tho center of the UIO stage s Lilo a prima donna she sho Is 18 featured An emInent writer who has man many summer lands such ruch ns as southern Cali California fornia southern Ital Italy France tho Riviera antI and Honolulu emphatic emphatically nib ally asserts Jamaica ie 16 the tho most beautiful b spot on earth For puce unadulterated b beauty aut of scenery and climate for rest and peace and charm Ja lends leads the world Today the island Is s entered through Kingston hM hes not I a gato of at sorrow BerroW for tal yet yot recovered from tf tho i of C 1907 Gaunt patches ot of ruin t tell a n pitiful lain which with Is mado eloquent by with the tho delicious rama mma ot of tropic scenery Cen which lies 1100 he yond the tho city The Tho countrY opens up Into lend land oC with to a n sand whispering cane ca fields and moving to tobacco bacco plantations with mth mountain ranges and valleys all clothed In the tho lovely riot ot of tropical vegetation LURE OF THE INDIES The Tho lure tm of at the West Indies Is felt oil through their history Moro More than once Columbus visited Jamaica and It WM was to Port Royal that Morgan and other oilier gory JOIY pirates pratos brought their 1 plunder Iun dor der What school boy has not read with dilated eyes eS of oC the bold bue buc cl careers who voyaged tho Spanish main maln what mat terrors were Inspired b by sight or of the tho Jolly Roger Roser HappIng flapping nt at atthe the tho what good shIps were boarded and captives walked Ute the plank what hat burdens ot of treasure were ero lifted find and what strange varieties ot of cola coin swelled strolled the tho t treasure Uro chest In his famous TreasUre Island Stevenson tells us tho nature ot of the tho loot En English lIsh French SpanIsh Portuguese eso Georges and doubloons and double the pictures of oC all the kings Ings of at Europe Europa for Cor the tho last years strange oriental pieces wisps ot of strings or bits of at spiders web round pieces and pieces bored through the tho mIddle ns as It if to wear your neck What nIght carousals took place pIneo when ht n the tho marauders put Into Port Ro Royal I loaded with mth treasure The Tho suspIcIon that somo or of tiro tho treasure long laid aM n away may stIll remain hidden lures manY a searching s party part even eyen to this day At all aI events there Is a sense In whIch every Island of oC the West In Indies dies was and Is a 0 treasure island But now net the sails of tho pirates hays hava vanished from the seas BroS the waters In peace C and ani every prospect allures WALLTER CLUFF |