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-A ! **************** Keep dotted 01 / ROM! NATTIM • By Reading Tour » LOCAL NIWSPAPSR ******** A YEAR TERMS, $1JO ESTABLISHED 1S87 PUBLISHED BY ADIRONDACK NEWS PUBLISHING CO. VOL XLVI ST, REGIS FALLS, N. Y. f DECEMBER 19,1931 THE MEEKER GIRLS A Broken Dream Restored By Fannie Hunt (ft br MoOott NMWPW Syadloate.) (WNU ttrvloft.) E VEN with inch terms as \old- matd,** and \maiden-lady prac¬ tically gone out of the language, there was something about the five unmarried Meeker sisters that did suggest them. . The Meeker girls were so apologet¬ ically unmarried. Bach and every one of them met you on the supposition that you questioned her standing. The old homestead, Inherited • from their parents, was filled with twitting• among themselves and to their friends, when they •Tailed, of opportunities that might hare been. Tf Lily h«d cared to accept Tom White! It was knonn, among the Meeker girls, that In 18)9, during a two weeks' trip to the Adirondack*, Edith had three times refused a young Canadian trader from Quebec who had since be¬ come a coal baron. Meta, long and affectionately In¬ dicted by her i sisters as the flirt of the family, had \turned down\ right and left r After the battle of Vlmy Ridge, Ella confessed to a secret fiance who had fallen. , ; Teena, the youngest, although non¬ committal, gave you the feeling that life had n«t passed her by. Besides, It was a fact that Nicholas Lang, a widower of standing In the town, was calling on her. j Every girl, at one time or another In her life, has a chance to marry, the Meeker girls were forever protesting, perhaps too loudly. Thank goodness, not one of us has ever felt the need to marry Just for the sake of being married. Naturally we've had chances. Not that it's the. sort of thing we discuss . . . . Strangely, thli defense-mechanism was not one which the girls employed solely with the friends outside the home, who as tftne went on began to refer to them collectively as **The Meeker Girls.** It was something they practiced assiduously among them¬ selves, keeping their spirits agog, on the buoyancy of a self-Induced state of mind. •'Meta, It's an outrage the way you treat men I* After all, no one expects you to feel called upon to marry every one who asks you, but surely you might let one or two of them call at the house.** > , \If I were to let every man call who drops Into the office to ask me, we*d have the neighbors all talking. Just because I happen to be a stenog¬ rapher In a law office doesn't give them the right to presume, and they might as well know It**. With Lily now, It was different. After all, the affair with Tom White was one to leave Us Imprint across a lifetime. The world thought Tom White had died of Influensa following the World war. The Meeker sisters knew better. Tom White, Just as sure¬ ty as If they had seen It disintegrate, had taken to his bed of a broken heart, after Lily had spoken her tor- rowful refusal It was somehow fit¬ ting that Illy should continue to keep her heart flocked In Its tower. . . . Kilt, too, for that matter. Poor Ella, whom secret garden had been blasted in full bloom. • • • And so It went among themselves. And life, In the Meeker homestead, If It appeared monotonous to the be* holder, was far from that to the girls. There was Meta. Evening after eve¬ ning, around the pleasont sitting room fire. Lily, seated as usual, Turkish fanhton on the sofa, Ella stitching away at handiwork, the girls would Ilsttn to Mtta. Oh. but she was a naughty, darling, ittfirtiMS sinner t No wonder, even with her equal share In the comfort¬ able little estate shared by the sisters, Meta had decided to venture out Into the business world. She was Just the type to make contacts, or rather, as the airls giggled among themselves, to avoid them. , The way Meta handled the difficult situation of the men about her In the office was masterful,! Naturally they swarmed about h*r. Even at thirty- eight, there was a sparrow prettlness to Meta, but lots of good It did the men. Evening after evening, filled with drolleries, mirdless In her high¬ handedness and oil, so comical In her world pictures of the luckless crea¬ tures who wooed I er, Meta recited her days. ii M And he comes into the office where I am sitting pretending to be bent over my typewriter and says: 'Miss 1 \You don't let him call you Meta, do you darling V\ , \That's what 1 f m coming to, honeys, tf you'll let me. the boys tell me you're Just the coyest young girl In th s the flappers look up with me. Oh, Meta,* he says, office and make all like prayer meat- Ing.* \ \Nerve I\ •Nerve ddttn*t express It Nothing la the world on Ms mind but dating you have to be In business to know; what It means to keep a man In Ills place.\ \Wogld he propose, Mttar ••Would hi propose? Give a man like tbtt an inch tnd he'd be ealllng her every night I\ 'That's right, darling, keep them la their places.* 1 If it percolated through at alj, to the Meeker girls, who In the forties and fifties, were lean tnd rather plucked-looklag, that pathos tnd amusement were blended la the atti¬ tude of their friends, certainly that consciousness was slow to reach the dote little Inner circle. * Romance brushed this circle night after night, tat In flushes on the dry flushed cheeks of the sisters, warmed the recesses of the draughty old houte. Then came the time when, outside that inner sanctum, tbe amusement of friends became laughter and the laugh¬ ter, derision. Man-crasy at tht Meeker girls. That sounds like a Meeker pipe-dream. Hear the latest T Another secret lover has sued for Lily Meeker'* hand. Ac¬ cent on the secret 1 That was the beginning of a strange and deadening thing that began to happen to the Meeker girls. Delicate¬ ly bred, sensitive to the Intonation or the suppressed laugh, there teemed to seep slowly into that home, at the girls wore on in years, awareness that the cat of pretense wtt out of tht btg. More tnd mort silently the girls gathered about their little circle, eve¬ nings ; less and less they came to dis¬ cuss, with friends, tht repudiated amours and wooing*. Even Meta, at time wort on, came more tnd mort to maintain silence concerning tbt many overtures of the men about the office. It wat during the period of those silent, rather dreadful years In the great old house that had used to ring to the tales of conquest, that Nicholas Lang, seventy-one, took Teena Meeker, fifty-three, oft? one day to tbe town of Greenwich, Conn., tnd married her I A Meeker sister had succumbed. A Meeker sister, marrying, had proved to an all too cynical world that the wat desirable In tbe eyes of t man. It gave authenticity, it s^ave reality, It gave authority, not only to Teena, but to the Meeker sisters. Something flowed back Into the eyes of the remaining four. The old light of conquest The old vistas of ro¬ mance. The old air of desirability. The Meeker sisters art once more reciting with authority the sagaa of the suitors who have sued In vain. There Is even about Teena, the wife, a slight air of theeplshness toward her sisters, for the human- ness of not only having permitted herself to be wooed, but won, .. Roal Boauty Matte* of Form, Color and Taste) Many persons believe that to be beautiful and artistic the work of man must be expensive. Cheap things are considered tawdry and even vulgar. Articles that are useful are also barred by some individuals who con¬ sider themselves capable of Judging. Edward P. Richardson, educational director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, holds different Ideas. He de¬ clares beauty to be a matter of form and color and that good design need not be expensive. To prove that his theory Is correct Mr. Richardson start¬ ed oat with a reasonable sum of money provided by the Junior league to buy useful articles that would conform to the requirements of artistic beauty. By;visiting department stores, hard¬ ware establishments, chlnaware em¬ poriums, Mr. Richardson collected 188 different articles, not one of which cost more than 00 cents and most of them! much less, and assembled them In a corridor of the art Institute where an exhibition of American painting was on view. They Included table¬ ware, glassware, curtain materials, ta¬ ble covers and napkins. The exhi¬ bition attracted much attention and there was no dispute regarding the claim that the expert had proved his contention. Pepper and salt shakers need not offend the lover of the beautiful, and cups and saucers can be decorative and at the same time have the element of utility. By keeping this fact In mind housewives can make life more pleasant Manufacturers would do well to examine the collection made by Mr. Richardson, and If they will learn the lesson he set about to teach they will Improve the standard of taste and find It profitable.—Miami Herald. Ptrsats of Presides!* The parents of Washington and Adams were of English descent; those of Jefferson, Welsh; those of Madison, Monroe and J. Q. Adams, English; those of Jackson, Scotch-Irish; of Vaa Bureu, Dutch; of Harrison and Tyler, English; of Polk, Scotch-Irish; of Tay¬ lor, Fill more and Pierce, English; of Buchanan, Irish; of Lincoln, Johnson and Grant, English; of Hayes, Scotch; of Garfleld, English, though his moth¬ er was of Huguenot descent; of Ar¬ thur, Scotch-Irish; of Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, English; of Me- Klnley, Scotch-Irish; of Roosevelt Dutch; of Taft, English; of Wilson, Scotch-Irish; of yarding and Ooolidge, English; of Hoover, Swiss. Odorless Skaaks The much maligned polecat mophl- tls mephitis, to give bis scientific name, Is on the way td losing Its one claim (o notoriety. Thanks to Intensive breeding experiments, the odorless skunk has come to stay. Not only has careful breeding, supplemented by veterinary surgery, removed the objec¬ tionable feature of close companion¬ ship with the wood \pussy but the animals also are stripeless. Although experiments are not fully concluded, It Is felt that these hygienic polecats have reached a stage of envelopment where they may be offered to the world's fur market American Baseball Players at the Meiji Members of the squad of ODoul, walking from the Me May Ui Seeking Practical Use f |r Its Surplus Crop, Washington.—Coffee, not coa , may soon haul passengers and freight on Braiilian trains. After dumpln tons of coffee into the ocean and b irning other tons to avert a* crash in tl e cof¬ fee market Braiilian governmei t offi¬ cials announce that coffee wll be pressed Into bricks and tried ut as fuel In locomotives. \Coffee is a prolific stepchild o I Bra- stl, for the original home of the coffee plant Is Ethiopia,*' says a bulletli from the National Geographic society. \But coffee has by no meani been given the proverbial treatment of a stepchild,** continues the bulletin \Its beans have been fondled to bu Id up enormous fortunes, cities, town and railroads. The coffee bean start id its world-wide rambling from the I Ethi¬ opian hills centuries ago. Tra lltlon has It that Its stimulating effec was' discovered by a priest when he nves- tlgated the plants consumed b r his herd of goats because the anlnu Is re¬ fused to take their proper rest. His tests led to the cultivation o the coffee plant \Shortly after Its discovery, boffee •jumped* the Red sea and >egan sprouting along the southern coi st of Arabia, home of the famous 1 ocha coffee. In the Fifteenth centurj, the aroma of coffee rose from Eun pean coffee pots and when colonlsatio WINNER IN KENTUCKY American baseball stars, Including Lou Gebrlg, Al Simmons, Lefty Grove and Lefty shrine at Tokyo, which they visited during their barnstorming tour of Japan. e Coffee to Haul Trains i got Circuit Judge Ruby Laffoon, Demo¬ crat who was elected governor of Ken¬ tucky, defeating Mayor W. B. Hankson of Louisville, Republican. Animal Rescue League Upset on Cat Question Grand Rapids, Mich.—From < Cod to the Catsktlls, a cat catastn is sweeping the East, according to ert B. Sellar, managing director of ape phe lob- the Animal Rescue league, Boston, Ma s. Before t session of the Amer can Humane association, here for its 1 fty- flfth annual meeting, Sellar declared the cat menace In the Bast \amounts to a catastrophe.\ He said city dwell¬ ers are leaving their pets when they return from vacations In their slim¬ mer cottages. \Cats Sellar said, \torn wild hind kill our songster and game birds wien they are allowed to run free, TJhey become as fierce as catamounts/* Woman Works Alongsid Husband as Platt Los Angeles.—Here's t mother) of two husky boys, who cleans themlup, sends them to school and then accom¬ panies her contractor-husband to bne of his Jobs and for eight hours a pay labors as a plasterer. 8he Is Mrs. Llda Janca'r, who times of adversity for her family, [de¬ cided to labor by the aide of her Ifus- band to recoup their fortunes. So, dally she works along with khe aura on a Job. She mixes mortar, tilps along the scaffolding and to en brandishes her trowel with a dextoqlty that shows years of practice. under way in the West Indies and South America, coffee beans were among some of the early cargoes from Europe. ' \There are about eighty species of coffee but only a few are cultivated for commerce. The cinchona tree, from the bark of which quinine is pro¬ duced, is one of cj>ffee*s botanic rel¬ atives. 8o is gambler, which fur* nlshes tanning material and dyes that bear the same name. \In its meteoric rise coffee has had Its ups and downs. Its first use was in the form of a paste which was eat¬ en. Moslems, prohibited from drink¬ ing wine, took to coffee. Moslem lead¬ ers, upon learning coffee's stimulating effect called a meeting at Mecca fend banned Its use in 1511. Fanatics burned the coffee warehouses, raided the coffee houses and beat the shop proprietors with their brewing utensils. \The ban lasted only thirteen years In Egypt where Sultan Sellm de¬ nounced it tnd further impressed his/ feeling upon his tabjects by executing two Persian doctors who warned against coffee drinking. Egypt now is among the world's leading coffee con¬ sumers. Some Egyptian peoples area use the beverage la connection with religious rites. \The world's leading coffee-produc¬ ing region Is a pear-shaped district on the Atlantic coast of Braiil la the •backyard' of Rio de Janeiro. The prosperity of Sao Paulo state rises and falls with the rise and fall of the cp» fee industry. Coffee built its fine mod- era capital which bears the name of the state, its excellent railroad sys¬ tem and its good roads. The railroad leading from Sao Paulo, the so-called coffee capital of the world, to Santos, the world's greatest coffee port i» one of the richest steel highways la the world because it is literally a coffee funnel with the small end of the fun¬ nel set In ships* holds.at Santos.\ GIANT HOWITZERS NOW TRAVEL FAST WhoWi Who? By Loui$4 M.Xomt* db MOTHER-GOOSE HO wrote the famous Joose Nursery Rhymes* never know. Some of them. W \Ride a Oock Horse td Gross,\ \Little Jack Boratr,\ aad •London Bridge Is Falling D< wa,\ art obviously of English folk origin; others have been borrowed ft &m a fa¬ mous collection of French f ilk tal< called \Tales of My Holier the Goose,\ edited la 1097 by Cat ies Per- act that a real i these indispensable nonsense dittlfes were first Introduced to the children of America, rault It is nevertheless a our own country can clal Mother Goose, through wh< Mother Vtrgoott, her gran NO. 47 \Mother we wtU such at Banbury children Army Dorelopt New Transport Ution for Guns* Washington.—A picture of giant mo¬ torized howltscft some, of 8-lnch cal¬ iber—dashing over highways at - 40 miles per hour, was painted in the an¬ nual report of MaJ. Gen. Samuel Hoff, chief of army ordnance. Quns of such weight have In past wars had to be moved slowly by mules or crawling tractors. Now, apparently, It will be possible to transfer them between fronts 200 miles apart in five hours. The first of these large mobile guns, Hoff reported, was completed last year at Rock Island arsenal. It is now at Aberdeen (Md.) proving ground, un¬ dergoing tests*-*. . \Preliminary firing tests,** Hoff said, \Indicate that it Is satisfactory as a firing unit In road tests it has been transported at 40 miles an hour, this being made possible by the use of pneumatic tlies and spring supports provided in tjie carriage and limber.\ Development of a semiautomatic shoulder rifle] to Increase the firing power of lnfaptry is being carried out by the ordnance department Hoff Cuba Planning Law to Out* 'Tag 19 Lighters Havana.—The lowly cigarette light¬ er, butt of many a stage Joke, is to be legislated out of existence in Cuba. Congress in its wisdom believes it has eaten far enough into the profits of the match business. The proposed law,'which Is expect¬ ed to be passed shortly by congress, will Impose a penalty or fine on any person found using a lighter. At the same time the price of matches, with an Increased tax, will retail for seven cents as against live cents now. Dress Failed to Fit, So Wife Misses Boat San Francisco.—Failure of a dress to fit delayed the liner Santa Ana, dis¬ tracted a husband and three children and caused a search of the ship. After her son, Luis, had swung ashore and frantically telephoned police, Mrs. Pe¬ dro Escalon arrived at the pier half an hour after the vessel departed. She had trouble getting the proper fitting for a new dress, she calmly told offi¬ cials. 95-Year-Old Man Sleeps Days, Reads at Night Evansvllle, Ind.—The time-honored advising \early to bed,** etc., doesn't apply in the case of Dr. Ct P. Bacon, ninety-five, a resident here. * Dpctor Bacon stays up most of the night Be often reads until 8 or 4 a* m., then sleeps until late in the afternoon. He said he formed a habit of remaining awake late while a med¬ ical student. Doctor Bacon has used tobacco most of his life. said. Three types, of .276-caliber rifles —the Garand, Pederson aad Whitt guns—are now being tested. During the last year the army la- creased Its artillery by 10 75-mm. pack howitzers, 10 8-inch antiaircraft guns, 1187-mm. guns, 12 75-mm. mortars tad 4 100-mm. howltsers. • Cavalry Radio Found Practicable in Tests Washington.—Use of radio within mounted organisations has been found practicable, Majr Gen. Guy V. Henry, chief of cavalry* stated in his aanual report He added that during recent cavalry division maneuvers receding sets were Installed la airplanes, la armored cars and carried oa horse¬ back, accompanying widely separated columns of mounted troops. \In these maneuvers,** Major Gen¬ eral Henry said, \the importance of quick and reliable radio communica¬ tion between cavalry columns, while they were actually marching and la combat, was clearly demonstrated. The radius of action of a cavalry com¬ mand Is being greatly increased and its ability to disperse safely into to* eral columns on a wide front Is being Insured by Improved radio communica¬ tion. | \Intensive study Is being given to proper radio communication within mounted organisations, within meet* anised units and to {he problem of Intercommunication between totb of them.** = ' \ Shakespeare's Glower Placed in U. S. Museum Philadelphia,—More than 800 years ago there was a maa named Will la London. • And he had a pair of soft giyly fringed buckskin gloves. Ht was a well known figure In the taverns aad around the courts where the strolling players congregated. He wasn't a very important feUow then, so that when he died no oat was especially interested la bit soft buckskin gloves. But now his gloves have been placed on exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania. • For Will of old London was nont other than William Shakespeare* tin mi minimi mm :; Baby's Cries Save ; Family From Death Hopewell Junction, N. T.— ' There wat ta occasion whea ; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Harvey of Pawling actually were happy ; whea their baby cried during the night For the Infant saved ! • | their lives. , \ ! Coal gas had flooded the house ;; and the baby's cries awoke his ; • » parents, who managed to stum- ;; ble outside to safety. ; I'liiiiiiiiiiiiiitimin called her. Her name wat Elisabeth Vergoose, tad she made her home with her daughter aad son-in-law, Thomt* Fleet la Boston, early la the Eighteenth century. Ltyw many grand¬ mothers tbt held active, tf doting away la the Fleet nursery, an.d stag her charges to sleep nightly with the well- known rhymes. Thomas Fleet wat t printer by trade, «nd Important at the editor of Boston's first newspaper, the Boston Newt Letter. Recognising the value of Mother Vergoose's rhymes, he wrote them down tnd in 1710 pub¬ lished t printed copy which told, tnd told well, at two coppers etch. Elisabeth Vergoott must be given credit at collector, not as originator of thete poems. But In spirit the wat t real Mother Goose, \—whose mel¬ odies than never die, while nurses ting and babies cry.\ ROBIN ADAIR j V j Whafts this dull town to met, Robin'a not b«r«l Who Is't I wished to see? \ Robla •dalrl . T HUS wrote the love-lorn Lady Car¬ oline Keppel about the famous English watering place, Bath, to which the had beta banished by her father la the vain hope that \out of tight** might prove \out of mind.** For young Robin Adair, however well ht may found at the hero of Lady Caroline's ballad, wat at a. real person no great match for an estri's daughter. Adair wat a young medical student who, after some youthful scrape, left hit native Dublin to walk penniless to London and was on the way run down tnd injured by t coach belonging to t London society woman. She took him home with her, superintended hit re¬ covery, established him In society and Introduced him to Lady Caroline.; Set to an old Irish air, Lady Caro¬ line's little poem became Immediately popular, much to the chagrin of her father. Since, however, it failed to soften bis heart she took advantage of t prerogative of her generation, went Into a \Recline* tnd thus won her point In t recent London auction there wat put up for tale an exquisite miniature of Robin Adair, Lady Caro* Unt and their three children* { LITTLE LORD FAUNTLERO V IVIAN BDBNETT In all proba¬ bility wat never guilty of wearing a thert-troutered, bltck velvet suit with t big white collar, tnd surely ht detested long curls tnd wide brimmed hats with streamers as much as any of the numerous seven-year olds who did wear them. Nevertheless, It wat Vivian Burnett who wat responsible for this amtslng Juvenile fashion some years ago. For It was he who In¬ spired hit mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett to write the book that set tblt style, \Little Lord Ftuntleroy,** tnd the quaint ways, the sweetly candid eyes, the friendly, kind little heart that endeared ltt small hero to til readers, were Vivian's, Mr. Burnett tells the story tn alt own book, The Romantic Lady,\ t biography of bit famous mother. 1 thai! write t book about ta Ameri¬ can boy with aristocratic English connections,\ Mrs. Burnett exclaimed one day, \and Vivian shall be he. Little Lord Something or other. What a pretty title! Little Lord —, what Lord — wbttr A day later the had written on t slip of paper still preserved, 4l Llttle Lord Ftuntleroy** ten times In t column, as though test¬ ing out Its appearance tnd sound. Nobody knows Just why she chose Ftuntleroy, though It Is a common enough English name. Indeed, shortly after the book was published, ont man, quite unknown to her, wrote Mrs, Bur¬ nett asking Just why she bad chosen hit namel , (A. lltt, WMUTB MfWtPApw PaJoa.) Hlstorle Book Book plates are ancient Some of the small tablets found in Assyrian li¬ braries must have been book plate*. Jtptn bad them in the Tenth century. Modern book plates are nearly contem¬ poraneous with printing. The earliest actually known It t hand-colored her¬ aldic wood cut of about 1480. Country Well Named Not more than one-fourth of tee- land It inhabitable. The feet of the country It composed of elevated det» erts, Itva streams tnd glaciers. It waa for this reason, unflpubtedly, that tat lta* wv nUtd Iceland. It Ttket Two Months to Dry a Codfish In the Faeroes. bert chests. This It pared off, etch man using tbt knife which bo carries constantly. The highly toned meat 1 beneath tbt crust tbt natives eat raw. Similarly, whale blubber most sea¬ son for t sfoatswor more, before tbt family makes high feast Other tot* food, however, receives dnTertnt treat¬ ment Newly caught fish are cleaned tnd dried tnd dried tnd dried—until they become to hard tbtt ono*s teeth can make no impression. Bat with t stout hammer the Islander will powder alt durable codfish on a stone tad oat ltt dust, to to speak. ; No oat goet to Myggentet, tbt West¬ ernmost island of tbe Faeroes, unless tbe trip St necessary, for It bat tbt most violent surf. Myggenass consist* tt t main Island, supporting about 125 Inhabitants who raise sheep tnd eatch fltb. Cursed It is by winds tnd waves, for tbe storms that leave Newfound¬ land tnd Greenland gather all their forcet tad loose them bert. Tbt rest of the Faeroes tnd Europe get tbo storms later; Myggtnaet gets them 7 first tnd worst 4£ tbe very western end of tbe Is¬ land It t holm, or Islet, separated from tbe main block by t crevice 75 feet wide. At tbe outer point of the detached piece stands tbt western¬ most lighthouse of tbe Faeroes. Its beacon biases out 418 feet above tbt tot, At the foot of the lighthouse cliff, their foundttioat melting year by year m tbo tossing waters, are two pinnacles of rock on which in stumer tbe gannets rest \ . Life In the UflMtittito. Tbo lighthouse It operated by a Dane, who livet with hit family in a house sheltered behind tht lighthouse rock. Tbe keeper tolls of tbo awe¬ some storms of winter, when t scream¬ ing, whistling blackness descends on tbe Island an<f the sea lifts up higher, higher, and higher on their rock; when tbe suffocating blast of stinging salt spray that no living creature eta stand against rtgtt merdletsty. But mort telling oven than hit de¬ scriptions Is tbe kerosene lamp which bangs from tbe ceiling of hit living room. It bat t large globe with a bole on either side, as If t tbot bad passed through. During one winter storm a wave that root up tbo cliff dashed over the precipice t pebble, which broke hit. window, pasted through his lamp, tnd struck tjtintt the walL Re shows visitors tbe wa¬ ter-worn stone, which be retains tt Tbo farmer-fishermen of the north Islands like Myggenttt and Vldero art self-supporting, living on tbo fltb of tbe tea tnd tbe sheep on their barrens, almost Independent of what the world has to sell or wishes to buy. Different conditions obtain, however, In tbe southern tnd more populout Island*, where extensive fisheries have long been operated. A decline In this ma¬ jor Industry has boon occasioned by many factors. Tbo modern equipment used by steam trtwlert elsewhere, newer tnd quicker methods of pack¬ ing used In Newfoundland tnd Nor way, tnd t reduced world demand ne¬ cessitated t recent extensive program of aid by the Danish government Fl#> nrtt show t tragic loss of trade; but to t newcomer, Sydero appesrs to have til tbt fish any Island could possibly with. On bright dtyt tht rocky tbore It white with tbe codfish which are Sydero'! chief stock In trade. ;. Acres of fish lie everywhere, soak¬ ing up tbe fitful Faeroe aaashlnc. Fltb follow the. short line tt If they bad been cast up by tbe set, They cover a slope like slates on t roof thousands of oval slabs of white fltb meat—a thirsty sight! A Mao, two books, tnd some flsh or bird Intes¬ tines for bait are all tbe gear t na¬ tive needs. Whoa bis float has been anchored, over go tht linos, tnd In come tbo fish. For tbt novice, there It t thrill In pulling la t flve-to-twso- ty-flve pound fish, but it It ta oid story to tbt islander. , Fltb are cleaned tt once tnd ttlted down. Often t ship will return ta port with 280,000 pound! of hand- caught flsh. Again tt will go oat tnd never return tt tU. These are bravo men who go to tot for cod. Bach year Bombers of Island fishermen lost their livet tt their trade. Each grim <Uff it tbt tombstone of tome schooner tnd her crew. Once safely back In port, tbt schoon¬ ers unload their flab, which are ftttted on to women out on tbt piers, who bend over huge vats of water, tcrab- Mng tbt cod dean. Pictures of these arduous workers tro obtained only with groat difficulty, for in tbe Faeroes, tt elsewhere, women do not want their pictures taken unless they are dressed in their best clothes. C*rtpar*ft fcr KattaMl . Waihlngtwy IX a>—WKU ttnrto* T HE bleak, wind-swept Faeroes toon will boar tbt drone of reg¬ ular mall planet, for t now land¬ ing field it planned for accommo¬ dation of planet which will fly tbe pro¬ posed America-Denmark sir null route. Tbe Faeroos, numbering twenty-one •mill islands sprinkled over a small ares about 260 miles off tbe northern tip of Scotland have remained practi¬ cally unchanged since Viking dtyt. Modern civilisation can find no foot- bold on their windy dills; there life can exist only when modeled oa an¬ cient primitive patterns. And to tbo islanders, forever wrestling with wares tnd winds, have little time for tfto tourist or bis money. Stcb of tbe island! rises from tbe tea with flanks at sheer tt t snip 1 ! sides tnd with t plateau top, flat like a ship'! deck. In ail the Faeroes there It only ont small sandy beach of t hundreds <eet or so, a beach which It considered such t remarkable gift of nature tbtt tbt big Island of Sando takes ltt name from tbe tiny strand. Basalt cliffs rise mtjettlcally on an tbo islands. Some tower nearly 2,000 feet above tbe restless set, tnd against these black barriers tbe Atlantic tends her mighty waves, to break with ex¬ plosive force tnd burst Into probshlly tbo most remarkable doudt dt spray tnd surf to be found In til tbo world. Tidero It probably the Weakest Is¬ land of them til tnd therefore visitors seldom land there. But the effort pays, for there tbe dwellings tro Of tbo most ancient type, customs nave been banded down unmodified, tnd it It such a colony tt Leif Ericsson might have planted. There la no town; not oven t store. Low stone farmhouses, half sunk in tbe ground tnd girded by outer stone wails to escape tbe violent winds, cling to tbt barrens. •Sheep grate at will Live In \Smoke Rooms.\ ^ So poor It Vldero that only ont house, that belonging to tht school¬ master, t Tory great man indeed, has t \glass room.\ Such an extravagance It not for the average Vldero dweller, who livet with bit family in a \smoke room,** or t converted smoke room. Tbe smoke room, which wat once typ-' leal of all rursi homes in tbe Faeroes tnd still survive* in many, hark! back to tht feast halls of the Vikings. Usu¬ ally It It large, since It It often tbe only room In the houte, except tbt stable below It for bones tnd cows,' tnd mutt servo for tbe entertainment of tbe neighbor! tt well tt for til family uses. Around the room there tro no window!; only tbo entrance door and those tbtt open on tbe orig¬ inal \pullman beds,\ which may be single—or double-deck. In the center of tbe room stands t low stone forge on which bums peat or, rarely, brown coal, and above tbe fire hangs t wooden chimney, which carriet tome, but not tn, of tbo smoke to the outside air. Converted smoke rooms with modem Improvement! boast t stove where once, tbe open fire gleamed, tnd t skylight glass window where once tn aperture In tbo roof, uncovered in good weather, suffered to admit light While tbt schoolmaster has bit ••stove room** tnd it tbo only man of Tidero with t glttt room, nearly til tbt farmhouses on Stromo island have glttt rooms, tad la Tbortbtva, tbt capital Itselt tbt ^communal stove room bat beta left out In tbo new, graceless concrete houses. A glttt room It tn appendage of tbe smoke or stove room, baring glttt windows* Usually It It a parlor and, like parlors of an earlier day, can be used only on state occasions—for t funeral, for a marriage, or t reception of t special guest Generally tbt un¬ used parlor containt tbt family's only furniture, such tt a table, t few chairs, t vast with paper flowers, tad religious pictures on tbt wall. Frequently tbo glttt room It opened for travelers but the stranger usually prefere tbe family living room, with Its warm stove, to these parlors, which give forth tbe cold, ninety .odor of a cellar doted for many years. Like Their Food \High. 19 . Tbe stove room serves, of count, tt tbe dining room. Sheep, fltb tnd whale art staples with tbt islanders. Tht first two tro common enough to most people. Tht method of prepar¬ ing the food for tbo table la tbt Faeroes scarcely recommends It to tbo fastidious* Like most primitive north¬ ern peoples, the islanders prefer \high** meat tud to satisfy this desire they hang t skinned sheep in tn open tbed for about t year before eating it Tht carcass acquires a crust like camem- 1
