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Show SOUTH SEA TILE MISLEADS IAN! PAPEETE, Tahiti, March (Correspondent) (Cor-respondent) Dissemination of literature litera-ture about Tahiti and the neighboring Islands falsely picturing them as Utopias of unbridled license and no work. Is beurlng fruit In the arrival here of people of little or no resources re-sources who, It Is predicted, soon vslll be bothering their respective consuls for help Most of the writings ubout Tahiti are pleasant reading for one who! would spend a winter evening by a gas log (Ire and allow his imagination imagina-tion to ramble on a holiday- It Is for these people that the books and articles are written. But the reader who takes the writ- ' ings seriously faces disappointment I when he spends several hundred dol-1 lars to get to a place where, according; to tho book, ft golden brown maiden, j possessed of hi i' nl acres of rich co-: coanut lands, will gather him to her' bosom und fish and cook for him while he reclines In the cool shade in I silk pajamas. Men arriving here without funds are, in the language of. the Islands "on the beach" and must depend upon gome chunce ship offering l.hem opportunity op-portunity to work passage to some other point, for the Tuhlliun native,! after 150 years acquaintance with the, white man has formed an opinion in .regard to that majestic being that would not look well in prim Thr hospitality of tho natives has boen' so abused In the past that now only sound coin buys his favors. To characterize tho islands as sinks, of debauchery Is not in accord with j the facte. The Islands and beautiful! nnd romantic and being In constant' communication with the outer world by wireless und steamer are well informed in-formed and civilized. The trading companies arc thoroughly organized on modern lines and economic conditions condi-tions offer little opportunity to tin outsider. |