Show Traveler Finds Islanders Still In Medieval Times Use Wooden Tools T Like in Bible Days Balearic Isles Isles' Are Original Melting Pot Cavemen Leave Interesting Relics r I By JESSIE HENDERSON The tiThe New Yorker Abroad Special Dispatch to The Standard Examiner Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Frees Association nALMA PALMA DALMA MAJORCA Oct S. S So S.-So So many Americans aro are crossing from irons Spain to the Balearic islands and returning with the smug look ot or those who have o found things unknown to the ordinary tourist that their expression is 18 at once oneo a n challenge and a promise It was wasa a challenge the writer could not resist The Tho sea between Spain and the Balearic was hardly disturbed by a ripple a point wherein It differed conspicuously from most of the passengers and when the tho boatload set foot on Palma it was with the air and appearance of or Argonauts who had traversed un unknown un- un unknown known oceans amid typhoons the like of which man had bad never known n before LIKE CONEY ISLAND But Bul Majorca island bland is worth this hazardous voyage You be- be besin begin begin gin sin to see Bee immediately why returning Americans looks so smug They have simply sailed oft off ot tho the planet altogether to a spot where nothing Is like anything anywhere else and yet where the strange strange- strangeness ness is pervaded by a subtle resemblance to Coney Island Here H re are arc wide mouthed tooth hung caves here bere are aro lumpish stone dwellings fit for tho the wild man here are people in fantas fantastic tic tit costumes here bere are scenic railways up and down amethyst mountain slopes that thal make tho the roller coaster looke like a n subway escalator It is Coney Island with a a. difference you miss the crowd and the noise USE WOODEN PLOWS Of course life isn't what it used to be bc but here you como come as near walking back into the good old oM days dars as you'll ever over get on this whirling globe g obe You walk back to Bible times limes where here men and women scratch the soil with bits of or wood wOld They never heard of or a reaping machine They never even heard of Lindbergh Every epoch from the stone age to about the year 1850 Is spread in chunks all over the landscape You need only pick out your favorite epoch and settle down in It This is because the Balearic archipelago first invented the melting pot which America improved upon and made marIe famous Among the branches on any Balearic family tree you'll find an nn Iber Iber- Iberian Iberian IberIan ian a Phoenician a a. Moor Ioor a Roman A II Vandal and a Carthaginian The Tho result humanly is a likeable fellow friendly frendly toward all the world world-as world as well as may be since hes he's related to most of or it it CAVE MENS MEN'S RELICS But Bul it is a land where no flapper should go who wants to keep her ber illusions above the caveman The signs of o him are all around and really I He lie tarried here long enough to build some foot fifty towers for his paleolithic girl chum not a n kitchenette in any of ot em and to leave a couple portraits of ot himself on a rocky hill hili top The creature wore nothing much but whiskers Whiskers and ho he placed the entrance of or his hs dwelling so far above the ground that its it's a wonder his spouse ever made it it The medieval ages weren't so much either cute cote armor of o course but terrible beards |