The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-27

he is is said to be the animal upon which
was founded the myth about mermaids.
Yes, he's an animal all right, although
he does not look like fish and lives in
| the water. He belongs to the whale
family, and, like the giant, is really an
animal. Here are the giraffe, moose,
musk OK, bats, jaugar, polar bear, gorilla,
buffalo, grizzly bear and cinnamon bear.
Here is Marco Polos sheep. l guess
Marco didn't exactly own and sheer
! him, but the sheep was named for him
because of discovery. Marco was a
great traveller out of Venice back $50
years ago.
The gazelle is noted for it's lovely
eyes, but these are glass. Am | what?
On, see you're reading the name of an
animal -"aru." That's a new one to
NEEDN'T him at all. Here's the Fill
pino "horse' ! spoke of some time ago
the water buffalo.
This gallery is around the section of
stones and contains more stones, SO
we'll not take the trouble to walk
around it.
"Hstoric Religion This gallery
shows, by objects of worship, costumes,
affairs, etc, the history of religion. Here
is the figure of Miseri cordia Ia beggar)
Notice his dress wears rubber coat
and hood so you can see nothing but his
eyes. Some kind person has dropped
a penny is his cup. Here is model of
the Wat Chang pagoda Great Monas-
terry at Bangkok, the Capital Of Siam.
| This is a statue of Biddha, one of the
beings worshiped by the people of cen
trail and eastern Asia. Here are a lot
of temple masks of the Japs. How ugly
they are. Some are horseheads and
some are devils any Of them enough to
scare away any kind of evil spirit. This
is Catholic altar formerly belonging
to the Roman Catholic Church at
Rildesheim, Germany. These are house
hold gods and images of the Malaysian
This fellow is Swiss guard of the
Vatican, the home and seat of govern
ment of the Pope Of Rome.
This gallery has some more Ethnology,
that of the Indo-Pacifc. That fellow
there looks like the Wild Man of Rorneo
| just come to town; he's Papaun man,
with bone through the partition of his
nose and big rings in his ears. Looky
there! Looky there! il that fellow isn't
a Missourian; look at his whskers. Oh,
pshaw, it's only bushman from Aus
tralia. Wouldn't some of these fellows
scare the wits out of kid on a country
road on dark night? Say, this fellow
here is dressed up like Leon girl on
Easter Sunday. Oh, of course they'd
have more clothes on than he has,
but those feathers he is wearing around
his belt and in his cap certainly would
set off bonnet real swell.
This gentleman here is from New
Zealand He's a Maori, and the Maoris
are said to be the most perfect speci-
mems of man, physically. But l know
of one man right here in Washington
that has better figure than this Indian
Here's Filipino dwelling house made
of bamboo wood with roof of grass. 1t
looks like fourth-class barn of fourth.
class Iowa farmer. These knives are the
J kind used by the Filipinos. Some OF
them look like the knife mother cuts
bread with, all wavy along the edge
: but | guess they'd carve up MAJ
some.
Here is basket work and pottery from
: Mexico, and there is a nice looking fel
! low. He's Seri Indian from the Gul
of California. This lovely young thing
here they have neglected to name, bu
she is evidently a water carrier. Nov
, watch Madam Wood get jealous if
: stand here by this damsel.
} Hello! There's another corner we've
| skipped downstairs. There's cast o
; the tower of Babylon, the coffin of ;
) paamen, burial casket of the Egyptian!
/ and other gruesome objects.
And here's another corner we've
! missed, the Ethnology of the Pueblo
} Region. That is family group o
Tehuelche Indians. See, the old lad.
, is riding horseback, the little boy il
7 leading pet rhea mot the Billy kind
8 Here is some prehistoric pottery. Thes,
Navaj 10 Indians are making silver orna
ments, and the Zunis over there ar,
! making pottery and weaving. Here
, the idol and para phernalia of the Zun
2 elder god of war, 'Ahainto,' nothing
/, but small post of wood, painted whit,
and blue, and decorated with CHECKER
!; feathers. Here's Hopi lady grinding
1 corn. That tall thing there at the side
. and reaching to the roof is totem pole
5 which the Indians of the northwes
carve and set up in front of their homes
r Here is a Maya Indian making goo-gJ
: eyes at Maxi basket worker. AS WE
r go down the stairs here we see a cas-
, Of big meteorite dug from the plains
: of Arizona. You know what meteorit,
, is, of course. 1t is what you would cal
t a falling star, and is nothing but hi.
4 mass of metal that has gotten ava,
: from some star or planet and is making
f tour Of the heavens on it's own hook
: When it comes within certain distanc,
. of the earth it is attracted to the large
r body and makes a straight shoot ant
| dives into the ground. l wonder how
: many Aztec lads and lassies, thousand
Of years ago, saw this very same sta
, fall and made their wishes for candy o.
r money or circus tickets or sweethearts
: just as you kids do these nights whel
! you catch sight of a shooting Star.
Well, here we are back at the mail
/. entrance again. Have you any ide:
: how long you have been in there? No
: Well, we've been busy exactly four ant
3 a half hours, and while you think thai
, you have walked a long way and are
, pretty tired, want to say that you
: haven't yet begun to know anything al
/ all about the wonderful wonders of this
) wonderful building. 1t would take
| weeks and weeks to absorb one section
alone. But we've seen enough for one