Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-12-24
WOMEN IN MARTINIQUE
Sleep Seems 10 Be the Chief Industry
 There.

there till she was fifteen, IS remember ed perhaps, by very few who have read of the current disorders among the people of that French West Indian is. land, but by the residents thereof it is never lost sight f for moment. It was in Martinique that Josephine ac- quired those qualities which later made her so much trouble-passion, indo- lence and indulgence The conditions that nodded Josephine's character still exist, unchanged and apparently un- ehGngeable. If there has been any change in recent years the movement has been retrogressive rather than forward. Everything tends toward al. most continuous stumber in the French West Indies, from the climate to the rum, and, to speak truth, no one seems in the least to strive against the slumberous influence. To the out sider sleep seems to be the chief in dustry Of the islands; the people ap- pear to sleep, sleep, sleep, from morn ing till night. Of course there are times ot the day when the sleeping is more nearly general than at other times, just after the midday breakfast, for instance, and again just after din- ner; then no one remains awake. The attempt to Christianize the harmless and peaceful saVages who originally peOpled the islands, now French West Indian, began 400 years ago, resulted tn practical eXtermination, and tho place of the carlos was taken by the negroes Little by little since ther the influence of tke negro blood has increased; since emancipation in 184S the white population has decreased, the influence and interest of the whites have grown less year by year, home and social life has grown nar- rower, prejudices have grown stronger and more numerous, and there is little likelihood of lasting improvement in any direction. Washerwomen in Mar tinique are made. not born. The strength, health and constitution re- quired for their calling is not neees- sary in any other. A habit of standing for days in the cold river is cultivated from ehildhood.-G Chicago News.
 Whale Disturber.
 LAst year the sardine fishery on the Biscayan coasts was a good deal spoin by the presence of a large whale, which seemed to have got itself "eor- nered9 in the wedge of the bay of which the Bidassoa's estuary makes the apex. All the sea here, for some tEing like 200 miles out, is shallow, SO one can imagine the commotion that 8 rather badly fustered whale would make on finding himself threat ened by stranding among the sardine population Naturally enough she fishery did not prosper with sueh large disturbing influence about. But it is not little singular that this year again, so far as the season has gone, little has been doing, and surely this cannot he oecasioned by fear of last years whale. But whatever the reason. the fact is too true that the sound of the lookout mans horn has been seldom heard (they post a man on watch for sardines in the bay whose duty it is to sound his horn on their appearance, to summon the fish, eYmen to the boats1, even though the ceremony of the "'Interlo a los sar- dinos" has taken place, with all it's childish pageantry, in all the Biseayap villages that the sardine fishery con- cerns. Luckily the Basques are not wholly dependent upon their fisher- les; but, of course, their degree of sue cess makes a difference to them.~. Chicago New&
 Sitting Erect
 Very many persons, in taking seat, use the edge of 1t only, with the result that in very short time they seem to be doubling up, the head bending forward over the chest The easiest method of sitting erect, and in a grace ful ooaisioa- !s 6 essss eeassssssy sssAAe eAs4= D sueh way that tho lowest paYs oe SAe spine or backbone touches the back of the seat; then, by causing the shoul- ders also to touch the back, the whole body is erect and maintains itself, not only without an effort, but with feel- ing of support, relief and rest, and that, too, without any appreciable eff fort. Any position maintained by the aid of brace is forced. and is secured by an injury done to some other part, which not only has to support itself but aid in supporting parts not intend ed, hence must in time itself need aid from other sources, ana thus the mis. ehief goes on.
 Rays Find False Teeth.
 Albert Brown, all aged and paralytie citizen of Paterson, N. J., was out and