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family presses TaiiorS and dreSSmakers
will he busy reproducing the picturesque
but threatened styles of the locality.
During Christmas week when wander
ers return and hearts expand. the popula-
lions of big towns are asked to wear the
costume of the province"
Why:
Because country folks want 10 he citi-
fed II their efforts to he up-to-date
they injura tourist trade and threaten 10
plunge picturesque France into a Gull
average OF imitation city STYLES.
Yet Europe knows that p.ctures,ue!e.>s
pays. no only in money. but in AIT ro-
nance. poetry acd 2 neral culture. Aus
tria and Italy. where the peasants still
dress like the cnoruses of comic operas
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trio plants might he put in. The land on
each side might be turned to rich farms
if il could only have water. and it may
he that the good fairy of electricity will
some time bring the dead earth to life.
As to the vegetation, there are some
farms in the upper part of its course, and
the sultan has Il sugar plantation half
way between Galilee and the Dead Sea-
whore he works soldiers as laborers
There are small fields OF grain, including
millct. wheat and barley here and there,
ana / told that rice and indigo can
be grown
:, x
Down near the Dead Sea there is conSid
cradle cultivation on the Jericho plain.
The land is irrigated by a stream from
the mountains Of Judea and by the spring
of Elisha. l. Is cat up into small patches.
which are covered with orange groves.
almond orchards and vineyards Much of
the fruit goes up To Jerusalem. There
are also fields of egg plants. tomatoes
and melons, and dates could undoubtedly
be grown. All the way from here to old
Jericho. distance of three or more
miles. are orchards. vineyards and gar
dens. They are fenced with thorn bushes,
the thOrns on which are great hooks turn
ing inward. They are said to be the same
thorns as those OF which the crown of our
Savior was made
The Jordan Is not naviGable. 1t has no
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Going down TO Lake Hueh. We see
Darshy catchment basin into which other
streams rl:n and from which the Jordan
flows cut There is little activity about
the lake. A few Bedouins live near it
ana theiI only business seems to he
making mats Of the paDyrIlS reeds which
gov on tie shores. These are the wa
terS # Mernm mentioned in Joshua.
\ little farther down is the main cross
ing To Damascus. The place is known as
the Bridge of Jacobs Daughters. and the
stream is here on the level OF the sea.
1t drops $50 feet in the next nine miles,
having continuous series of cascades
from there almost to the Sea of Cialilee.
The remainder OF the Jordan's course
runs between the seas of life and death.
] refer To the Saa OF Gali!ee. at the north
and the Dead Sea. at the south. The first
i sweet, full of fish and surrounded by
Verdure. The other is Saltier than any
other water on earth and so bitter and
poisonous that no living thing can exist
within il. The distance between these
TWO seas in straight line north and
south is about SiXty-ive miles and the
slope from one to the other is al
most twelve feet to the mile or over
coo feet. Connecting them is this
treat trough Of the Jordan. from one 10
sixteen miles wide. Through ii the sacred
river runs. 1t winds about like a cork
screw, making so many turnin"S that il
covers course more than 300 miles in
its sixty miles distance. Ii goes with
great force. has twenty seven cascades.
and there are numerous falls where cleo
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often rich with real lace, often monu-
mental.
American tourist women buy them up,
and cut them up. to make rich, beautiful
insertions or whole blouses. AutomobillnS
through the villages, they think it fun to
tempt poor peasants to sell their colts
as no longer fashionable" l have seen
one with seven-inch square of rare
Marandaise lace sell it for 10 cents.
In many of the villages some specula-
tive woman makes business to buy up
these colts by hundreds from poor fami-
lies when they are short of money in win
ter. They We're family treasures-yet cost
only work. Girls embroidered them while
tending geese or chatting in the place of
evenings: women made the little squares
of lace, too small to sell, too desutory.
while they watched the pot boil. During
the snowhound winter-having the habit
they embroidered entire counterpanes. 1t
is a wonder that our tourists have not
bought them also-tO cut up.
When they have their natural old cream
color from lying fifty years packed in
drawer, the Spectator respects it. When
the colf is crumpled. torn and grass
greened from village beauty's gambols
on the Sward, she washes or repairs it.
BY summer she will have 800 colts TO
sell cheap. Sometimes l have seen one of
our tourists hesitate to profit by poor
peasants. But this woman is a Specula
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one of just about the same size which
goes by the name of Goose creek n
LOudoun county. Va. The Rhine and the
Hudson the Potomac or even the Shen-
andoah. could swallow the Jordan with
out bullying and just now 1t is so small
that in the United States it would not be
known as river.
Nevertheless. the current is swift at
this place and we hire fisherman to
take us across. He charges % cents
for the boat, and for this rows US up
and down stream for an hour. He stands
I'D as he rows and leans on the oars. We
go to the other side of the Jordan and
climb out through the willows. How
quiet it is! The only sound is the ripple
OF the stream it washes the banks
and the sweet-voiced birds which sing
We lean over and battle our hands i'll the
Jordan. The water is cold 1t looks like
weak milk when taken up in a bottle
We taste it. 1t is acrid and salty and
We spit 1T out in disgust
1t is at this spot that Christ is said to
have been baptized of John in the Jor-
dan. The place is about three miles
from the Dead Sea, where the water at
ordinary times is four or five feet deep
1t is the principal place of pilgrimages
to the Jordan. and is the scene of tens
of thousands of baptisms a year. The
chief time for baptiEing is Easter when
the Russians come by the thousands and
when other members of the Greek Church
unite with them in great caravan which
comes here and camps.
At that time the water is blessed by
the high priest of the church. and there
are many priests here to baptize the
faithful. The women and men dress in
white garments and go into the water
together. They change their clothes on
the shore. The garments they wear in
the water usually shroudS. which
they have brought from home with them
for this purpose, and which they intend
to take back TO be used at their burialS.
The scenes of these baptiSms make one
think of picnic. The men. women and
children rush about, some laughing and
screaming. and others quietly talking.
The priests dip each three times in the
Jordan and give him their blessing. After
baptism some soak other ShroudS in the
river to consecrate them that they may
carry them home to their friends. They
also drink Of the dirty water and bottle
grims are old and have to be lifted in
and out of the river The current is
swift, and men frequently drowned
leaving the Jordan. We make our way
down the valley to the Dead sea The
road goes through the thorn bushes and
winds about through dry. thirsty hills
The land is salty and alkaline and all
nature is dead How hot the sun is. and
how glaring! Our eyes smart and horrid
flies crawl with legs of glue over our
faces. We try to brush them off, but
they alight again, and bite as they crawl
Now We are on the shore of the sea.
1t is covered with pebbles and driftwood
1t looks more like lake than sea, and
it is just about the size of Lake Geneva.
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as that of the center of Nubia Dates
can he grown. and in the past Jericho
was known as the city Of palms.
But this is not the character of the
whole course Of the Jordan. Let me give
YOU bird's-cyc View OF the river, or,
bette". let suppose we have taken
I'M the Lebanon m untains to where il
loses Itself in the great of salt below.
1t rises on the foot of Mount Her
mon, whose peak is covered with snow
the greater part of the year. IT has two
CT three different sources. One is near
Dan and higher up is an ther at Banias.
near the SiCt where Christ said:
Thou art Peter. and Upon this rock
will | build my Church. and TIE gates
cf hell shall not prevail AGAINST it"
II is from RaniaS that tine Jordan has
lis chief start. 1t conc from cave in
tic limestone rock which is now "hoked
up with stones. hut out of which the
water. flows IN great volume Geld, sweet
and pure. There are trees about the cave
and the stream runs through a beautiful
park down 10 Lake Huleh, which is only
seven feet above the sea. The spring of
!;ania> has ALWAYS been noted for its
sweetness ard purity. 1t is said the
waters and cave were formerly dedicated
TO the goa Pan, and that from this the
tablets have been f. unG nearby. and ruin
ed temples and columns show tat the
place was once the sit Of Il cons darabie
city. 1t has now only mud village OF
about fifty Euts.
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on sale. showing her in a balloon Golf
that requires an entire day to starch and
iron il.
Rice starch is used. No other starch
is at once stiff and fine enough to make
these concentric films of tulle stand rigid
in five separate circles. never touching.
round the danes head.
When she starts 10 iron one of these
colts. she eats three Soft-hoiied eggs for
breakfast, locks the door and leaves one
window open for the proper quantity OF
fresh air. One of three girls taking les
sons from her stirs the starch inces-
sanity. The second carries spOonfulS of
it. scalding hot. The third-close To
graduating-helps the ancient lady rub
it in with a bone implement. She shows
the girls in, what order to starch various
sections-it being an all-day job Here
the details grow mysterious. At one mo-
ment the Golf can be handled only when
supported in a ribbon framework on
wood strips. Five irons of different
shapes and sizes are required.
In all this region three colts are ad-
mittedly great feats to iron. The lie de
Re, nearby. is noted for the second of
them, a girls Golf. at first glance ap-
parently quite simple. not being compli-
Gated by embroidery. A high pointed
cone-twice the height of a girls FACET
recalls the conical headdresses of the
middle ages.
But examine those peaked films They
are not wired. How can they bear their
cret is alleged to sbe some unknown in
gredient put into the rice starch. Now.
the Isle of Oleron Is a broad territory,
with towns, villages, farms. fishing ports.
salt marshes and vineyards. In its popu-
Iation of $4,000 souls only six wise wom-
en- concoct and retail the starch to iron
the Rethaise Golf.
Across the straits are the districts Of
Marennes La Rochelle and Rochefort. OF
their rival colts. the Marandaise. named
from a little town, is the third chef
d'oeuvre admittedly work of art to iron.
Here we are in full embroidery and lace
The concentric films Of tulle fall on each
other at the front, stand wide apart be
midland part at each side in such bold
ellipses that the girl who has ironed her
own maria ge-coif is sure her lace
shall to go along with 1.-THE town would
buy it for her. did she lack it,
Certainly this part of France is in no
danger of not being picturesque. Maren-
mes is the center of the most extensive
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into the cans. If ever have a grand
child 1t shall be baptized with this water.
The canteenS l bought at the Jordan
Hotel here al Jericho. They are kept on
hand to be sold to tourists and pilgrims.
and a vast number OF them are carried
away every year
But let us visit the river and cross it
to the land where the Moabites live. 1t
is only few miles from Jericho. and We
can drive there in a carriage. AS we start
the great white blazing sun is climbing
the blue above Mount Nebo. and the
faint streak of the Dead sea, with the
haze that hangs always over it.
can be seen down the valley
Our soldier gallopS in front to
scare off the BedOuins and we wind our
way laZily in and out through the wheat
fields. Leaving these we enter a desert
on the edge of which stands Gilgal
where the ISraelites first encamped after
crossing the Jordan, and then go on
through thorny scrub among gulies and
hills until we approach the long fringes
of thicket which border the river. There
is more vegetation as We near this and
We go through the bushes until we come
to a creek. which is no wider than the
average street Of an American city 1t
looks like many of the small streams OF
our central states. l know of such in
Indiana. Illinois and Ohio. and there is
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Selling girls hair also operates against
the Golf
At this moment. when false switches
are in greater demand than ever, Paris
dealers have their men out securing
France.
The old-style buyer half peddler. went
through Brittany, Savoy. the Limousine
and the Correze with a stock of gay
shawls and umbrellas: and by throwing
in a gold piece here and there he could
pick up standard shades and qualities Of
hair from ignorant girls, hopeless.
The new style buyer is diplomat, pre-
pared to offer a small dowery for rare
tints and natural waviness. At the same
time. prosperity and a new sense of
values makes the peasant girls more
loath to sell their hair. l heard a group
talking in an Oleron churchyard, just
after a buyer had given a sixty-seven-
year-old dame STD for her heavy head of
silvery white hair of fine quality
She will continue wearing coifs," the
girls laughed. NO one will notice that
she has sold her hair; but when one of
us goes back to the coif every one knows
we have been sheared"
"At LIE Chateau and st. Pierre, the girls
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all wear the Golf" spoke up another.
l tell YOU"
Pardon, they wear colts to please the
tourists
My own Henry says let him make it
SOD and he can get out. his scissors"
said golden blonde 1t would stock
us a barnyard. Otherwise, my hair is
just as valuable on my head-waitng for
better offer. In case we get short of
money we can mortgage it. says Henry"
mortgage your hair?" cried the bevy.
Perfectly: the money lending notary
at lie Chateau has done it often,'' said
the blonde. Meanwhile I'll wear the
coif-the whole island knows | have not
been sheared. When l am, no one will
notice."
In the Isle of Oleron. the dame ot sixty
seven, who had sold her hair for $50.
would not sell her colts for any money.
Like five others, she has her postcard"
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in Switzerland 1t is only fifty miles
long and ten miles in width. and We can
see from one end of it to the other
The sea is bounded by stony noun
tains. On the east are the desert hills
of Moab, where Ruth was born ami
Moses is buried, and on the west lie those
of Judea, where the children of Israel
came after Moses had pointed out the
Promised Land to them. There are
openings at the north and south. and
away at the southwest are works where
the Turkish government is evaporating
the water to make salt for sale.
The Dead sea has no outlet. y mist
usually hangs over 1t. which comes from
the evaporation. which is enormous. 1t
is estimated that over 6oOO.R0 tons of
water flow into 1t daily. and nevertheless
out the year, and that at the times of
the flood.
Now dip up some Of the water in
your hand ard taste it. 1t burns your
tongue and your lips. 1t is as bitter
as gall. and if you drank a glass Of
it YOU would probably die. 1t is about
the saltiest water on earth. If you
Will take gallon and boil it down you
will find that one-fourth Of the con-
tents is solid. 1t is six times as salty
as the salt of the ocean and a cubic
mile of il would contain SOC, 900, 900 tons
of mineral matter. The sum is SO enor
nous you cannot comprehend it, but
at ninety tons to the car il would take
ten million cars to carry that much. and
if your cars were a little under forty
feet long the train required for the
load would reach eighty miles.
If you would further test the water.
take an egg and drop it into the sea.
1t will float. leaving one-third of the
egg above the surface. A fresh egg
will sink in fresh water. and We break
our egg to be sure it is fresh.
Another test. Let us strip off our
clothing and go in for a swim. You
do not know how? That makes no
difference in this salty sea! The water
is so heavy you could not sink if you
tried. You can lie on your back and
float about all day long. You can
stand upright and tread; but it is al
most impossible to maintain such
pos ton. Your feet have tendency
to fly to the surface, and you bob up
and down like the monkey on the
fly out of the water. and you cannot
move on. as though the water were
fresh. Now let us wade out and let
the sun dry our skins We feel as
though we had been painted with muci-
lage. We are gummy and oily and in
crusted with salt. We have been
scratched as we came through the
thorn bushes. and the salts have got
into the sores and they are burning
like fire We shall not be happy until
we can get some fresh water to wash
off the salt.
An interesting thing about the Dead
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II + J . x u \ n,
How shall | make
you see it Is it
winds its " "A V
through this great
cash in the thirsty
f Al Q 4 Of . | d
VI 9TH er Earth ?
AL day long 7
have been travel
IN" u J. O Il its
=. akS in this, the
lower part Of its
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HIS & h ri : I m a s
week. in France. a
new thing viii D"
seen. II will he an
eX crim ent in
clothes-for patri-
Otic business mo-
tiveS.
The streets will
light with color.
Gay old suits and
gowns will be
fetched from the
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Anjou. DIXON of Burgundy. They dress.
not like Paris. but like the great world. -
If they desire to give their local styles a
boost. they have no fear to be imagin
provincial
::
Christmas week is the right time to try
it-as you will see. 1t is all worked out
If during Christmas week the big towns
will bloom out III local styles, the cOun-
trymen will cease to feel that they are
"countrytied.' This is what the Touring
Club, the Revue des DeuX-Mondes. the
Toulouse ''Depeche," NJ. Andre de
Fouqueres and the Theater de Monsieur
hope to arrive at.
Such is the ideal In any case. one de-
tail of local dress is sure to triumph. 1t
is the Golf of the women.
American tourist women have been
protitnS by the degeneracy of the Golf for
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- ACK to the Coif-Christ-
- mas Experim Mt in
Clothes to Preserve French
Customs Country Folks
Who Want to Be Gifted
Hurt Tourist Trade - VIII
Townsmen Dress in Old
Local Styles During Christ
mas Week to Make Them
Fashionable?
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w mole sections live upOn the piCtlIr-
esQueness of their land and dress Brit
tany. Savoy, Auvergne. the Pyrenees and
all the Atlantic coast change slowly. and
reap a rich tourist harvest So all over
during the tourist months, there is a
tendency to please the city folks by dom
ming local dress for local color. in har-
mony with ancient architecture land
scape and traditions.
But when the city folks have gone the
harm is done. They have excited admi-
ration, doubt and discomfort. Pretentious
women of the remote village, youths mis-
led by false ambitions bloom out in city
clothes"
1t is ridiculous. 1t is pathetic The
mass of rugged peasants laugh. Yet the
doubt grows. Some who laugh this year
Will hesitate next autumn. The depart
broadcast Local dealers struggle to
meet them \ wife pouts. A husband
Yields A mother pleads. An old man
dons a hobby sack coat to please his
married daughter. So it goes on.
The French government cannot pas.
sumptuary laws to stop it.
The Beaux-Arts commission, watching
Jfalously over every architectural relic
may not hint to voters that. just as the
city has its chic" so the country oueh.
to keep lis racy local flavor
But the powerful Touring Club-with
its half million members. called the
unofficial m:nstry''-can pull string.
everywhere 1t has given s:ch prosper
NY to the French countryside that it is
listened 10 when il tells big towns that
their patriotic duty to the local costume
accorcs with their business interest
The big towns-prefectures and sub
rrVIectures-are city to the countryside
Their populations dress in Paris styles,
yet have CROUCH against Paris. Old
provincial pride is strong in them. An
gers is still, in a way, the capital of
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course Lave visited the ford where
Joshua crossed vita his army IF Jews
wien he took possession IF Canaan,
have stood on the spot y.i.e-e il is said
that Jesus WIS baptized OF John. and
have gone Over the p!ice where TIT,
waters were parted by the cloak of
EH1ah. Here at JcriCi." am within
short sa.lop of the Dead Sea into
"! l-n the Jordan flows and sitting on
tie steps of nay hotel | can see Mount
Nebo, where Moses stCcd when lie
viewed the Promised Land, which ne
was not t. enter. In former travels
] have seen tie Jordan. ncsI The Sea
of Galllee, and have been not far from
its source in the Lebanon rDountaias
This Jordan valley - the cellar of
the world. II i a great trench, which
heSluS t Thousand or more feet above.
The sea, in tie Lebanon inourtainS and
within = distance Of IGu miles as the
crow flies cuts ItS way down 20 thirteen
hundred Yet below set level. where II
eEiS III Tie Dad sci The boItGtu II
that sea IS a half mile below ruc surface
"1 the Mediterranean. and III Jericho,
where am writing. We are almost
..u"o i"et bio" the highest point IN
Jerusalem There IS no other part Of
the earth I'm oVercd 10y water where
the land for any distance * sunken
for even 200 feet below TIE level OF the
ian MS - tit biC't'~l trough OF
The world. ANA one of the strunsest
Typical # heaven. the Valley OF the
Jordan ! cmolematic of he'll. The NEST
Of II i a. thirsty a. the Gry sand o.
tie Saha-a. and just now it, heat i az
torrid a. Tophet- TIE plain ovc. with
] rode To-Day on my Way t. the river was
covered with thorn bU:'see. The ONLY
green after leaving tie irrigated farms
about Jericho was that which b riders
the gully through which the Jordan
runs. the remainder being OF aka inc
earth thrown up 10y the floods in castles
and mounds. making 5uilieS ana Iii Is OF
AL sizes and shapes.
The mean temperature of Jerusalem
is "a Fahrenheit. IL is temperate
rcuShC vi and the snow falls there IN
the winter. The heat here is great
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copyright. 1910. l,y Frank g. Carpenter,
Special Correspondence of The Star
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS Deremher @ 1nlC
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An interesting thing about the Dead
Sea is that it's shores were once the sites
of Sodom and GOmorrah, the two towns
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OF the girls who madet the caps will
tnoneo of
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rejoice not to have made too much prog
reSS-ike 'progreEsiVe' Germany. In
France the Costume of the province
only needs encoura cement
French writer's and painters Elorify il.
In their hearts the country people love
their coored stuffS, embroidered. braided,
tagged and tabbsd with velvet gay with
buttons. their bright bodices spreading
skirts. knee breeches. tailed coats. waist
Jackets. high hats and white cOf. of the
days before the railroad began tempting
every one to dress the same.
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