Show PEARL SILKS DIVERS DIVERSI I WEAR SilKS Tahiti Natives Reflect Prosperity in Rich Dress Tahiti April 5 E 5 P A-P CW Pearl arl divIng off ott the th Island nd of hail bRIO yielded rich r during the season eason lust st closed Both pearl shelL sheilA h ll and pearls earl of high value have bave been be n found In large Irge numbers In the th waters water of o the lagoon These Thoe pearl 0 oster o liter ter beds bed d had bad been under restrIction for tor a number of o of MrS ears f r and that for for that reason remon the th thel jew jew- jewel el el crop was wa good food The Tho Th diving Is 1 l done don by natives who have trAined d themselves from childhood to to great depths and remain under und r water II a along long tIme Urn No N diving machines machine are ar permitted The rho Tahiti merchant merchants establish statton at the tir Inland during the tho th season ORBon to buy the tho shells and to t sell en provisions and luxuries to t the tho th div divert ers ert and their families from froni Paris Parl je elry houps houas hou h oy ar are on hand band lo to compete for fortIe torM HI tIe e bettor better of peAr pearls pearI Pearls Perls of lesser value fall all Into the th hand h nd of o speculatively p Inclined Chinese I and nd European ner captaIns From long experience the th native 0 aId fulls aare a are re of oC the tho th value of ot their I rinds find so 0 o that not many bargains are aro available a PARADES IN SILK The South Sea Island native re- re reacts r acta acts to prosperity pro p ostentatiously o lyThe The wife Ife of o the parades the th hite coral beach of oC did In brilliant silks high heeled shoes hoes picture hats hat and the most mo t costly Chinese e shawls hI aha l In the th inland of o Bora Bora where whre the high price of vanilla be beans ns has baa i growers of that staple to affluence the Chinse shawl has ha been appropriated d by bythe bythe bythe the men as a the th Insignia of ot great riches It Is worn d draped ra ped a around rou nd the neck with the th embroidered end ends hanging gr gracefully down the back and chest cheit The Th I leal vanilla b barons ron wear In addition a second hawl of o a different color about bout the waist Min Man Mans stories of oC lucky fInds AtI at I hae har drifted Into IOno One tell how the keeper of II a a sema ema signal at t who went ent to 10 the Island on a holiday hollday happen I I ly-Int ly ed cd to t ae see ce a large larf pearl r ly Ing in shallow hallow water near the beach dived Cot t t It ft and on opening o It found r und pearl poul for tor which boI I ru a or bo hore- hore h 1 If 16 ranc Another re- re re relate lata late that an old native woman while fishing on the th reef stubbed her too te against an n oyster th that t yield yield- yielded yielded ed a gem em worth gold old RIches ho h aT a Ta native any ny i permanent good They ar are In Infine fine cloth clothes CM S Of t tinned sal MI mon tl-mon non mon no native will wll wet his hi too In In the th se scam caln earch of ot fish if It can can- canned canned can canned ned salmon almon can be bet had be had guitars guitar accordions accordion and all banner Anner of triv triv- trivIal trivial ial hI amus m nt Then when the th tide tit of of f V J has ba ebbed the th Tahitian returns l Ia q fhi his loin cloth and isis hla hi brad fruie to and nd fish l h diet until another crop erf oC o copra or vanilla bas matured soc or orthe the restriction hu has h bes been tak taken n oft off another pearl pe rl Island liland But In the U prosperous er era he h has bas na lived gOt gOt- sot |