Show thermometers AWS NEVER SAFE octta of GUSt AMSIA Us far for torpid pvn it U you want to keep a ter in guatemala you have to set a z yard d over it said a traveler travel tr who bad had juat just returned from a visit to central america its a fact I 1 assure you shortly before I 1 started tor for home I 1 made a trip from port barrion to guatemala duat emala city the weather was broiling hot and when we got to guatemala city which Is about the largest town on the road I 1 thought id see ate what taa the temperature really waa was so I 1 strolled atrol lod llod out of the hotel to locate a eter and after a long search I 1 found one hanging on a porch ot of a residence to my astonishment it was surrounded by a cage of wire net netting heavy enough to hold a young bear it was a cheap thermometer and such a precaution seemed all the more remarkable because petty hoUSe household holti pilfering 11 la practically unknown in that country uund out during my CUT that the reason for this protection Is is that the people suffer from torpid livers and regard mercury as a specific how flow the belief became current goodness only knows he be went on but it Is universal all through the interior and it if en an outside thermometer la Is left unprotected overnight it Is morally certain to bo e broken and drained an english surgeon at told me that ho he hid seen scores of natives suffering from chronic rheumatism brought on by swallowing raw mercury |