The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-19

DtB 8huc DetW6ou tne two teams and some fellows put up every cent they had themselves and as much more as they could borrow. One fellow from Culebra borrowed from every friend he had, and when the game vas over he was such | winner that he took six months' vacation in the States without pay. The ciassic sport the semi-occasional game between the "has-beens" and the 'never-w vases" ]" Everybody turns out to see that.
 Patriotism runs high on the Isthmus on the Fourth. The ceiebrations held here last week were of high order, ! and for fireworks and fun there was nothing in the States that could out something to talk about. They had band concerts. foot races. sack races. potato races. catching the greased pig, and every other sort of sport that funmaI<ers can conjure up for Fourth of July. The Panama Railroad ran free trains the whole day long. and for once you could go from the Att iantic to the Pacific without price. And almost everybody went After 1t was ali over men who had taken part in some of the greateet Fourth of July celebrations in recent years in the States would tell you without hesita- ton that they had had one of the
 
 up by dance at the Tivoli, where ail of the youth and beauty of the Isth- mus gathered.
 The Fourth Of July fever even spread 10 the Jafnaicans the Hsrbadians. the Martiniques. the 6paniavds. the Itsi- ians and the Panarpanians. Cock ! fighting. bull lighting. and hundred diversions. Any one who has seen . | Fourth of July on the Isthmus of Pan- anna knows that patriotism Is an in- fectioue sentiment. and. ss when soi- diars singing Annie Laurfes each think o "a different girl. 90, while all the | fifty-two natiopaiites on the IEthnus joined n the carnval of nose and fun. they each thought of diffeFent home | beyond tho seas
 1 Dancing Is one fthe great pastirnes of the Canal Zone The influence Of q tropicai moon is Bgriethir9 no one can understand who has never been seuth of Cancer. It calls men and women alike to the court of Terpsichors. Ev- erybody dances The thing starts with the little home affair, then comes the club house idance, and finally the fort nightly dance at the Tfvoli. These Tivcii functions are the culminatlng events of the Isthmus. and potblHg I short of sickness can keep the soetsl- | iy inclined away from them. The Tf- xolis Hotel cost in the neighborhood of a haIf million dollars and makes you I think of the bigger hotels at Atlantic City. It was deytgned as the social 1 headquarters of the Isthmusa and like most things down here 1t Is admirably answering the purpose for which it was designed.
 Some writer's who hava visited the | Isthmus have made much of the al- l legged social distinctions which are said to he based on the salaries of the dif- | ferent members of the force. But they have sadly overdrawn the picture. As I-digtinctaons here than anywhere else you may go. The right kind of man or woman is always ip demand. if he or she has any social qualifications which will add something to the pleasure of the occasion. They do not ask wheth- q CT you are getting ti.0o0 or sk.oo0 6 Il year. What they want to know is and can do something to iiven up a party Tn locking over the list of I guests invited Co a social function you
 will see narnea that are signed to the
 payroll for s1 200 6 year. besides names q that draw i've times as much.
 Fhb members of the Commission have 1now a pet dream. They hope some day
 soon to see a tea room or rest room for women in every one of the towns
 in the zone. They claim that the wo- men need social centers where they can
 gather for amusement and recreation
 as the men do, and where they can
 have a bit of interesting gossip over a
 social cup of tea These tea-rocEns may eventually come from the wo- . men's clubs which have already gone a long way toward giving stability
 to the working force on the rsthmus.
 There is a club at every American
 settlement, and these are all members
 of the local Federation of Women's
 Clubs, which holds regular meetings
 at the TIvoli Hotel. Literature and the
 live questions of canal fife form the
 topics discussed at the club meetings.
 Like their sister club women In the States, the ciub-women of the Canal
 Zone are eliminating all social lines
 that have been built solely on basis
 of monetary worth, and are consider- ing only such foundations as mental
 and moral worth. As result they are instrumental in promoting happier so-
 cial. conditions, happier home life and
 more general community amusement (Copyright, 1908, by Frederic J. Has IE kin.)
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