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tons, vital decisions and reckless emula
tons Of mountain racing hardened 1t to
the stony mask of a professional soldier
or gambler. She had broken three fingers.
Another went in for motor-car-driving.
The wind and cold had dotted her rudy
cheeks with little purple veins and she
had hammered one thumb out of shape.
and had hands like man's-but. no they
were worse than a mans. as I will ex-
plain shortly. What was the use? Most
of my portrait orders came from Ameri
can and English young women of the
athletic tendency-and so I just aban-
doned portraiture and went to paint
Prince Jerome Napoleon's chateau for
him, on Lake Geneva"
Gihon told me of a conscientious French
confrere who painted a Philadelphia mil
lionaire's bride with her hands behind
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of the valleys are being considered with
a view to the extension of their farms
AS 1t is now all Of these valleys are
producing. We took on cargo at every
port on our way down the coast, and at
each barge loads Of rice, sugar or cotton
were brought out to the steamer. At one
place we loaded a large drove OF cattle
at another about fifty hogs and at third
they transferred some tons of rice to the
hold of the steamer.
This desert region contains the bulk or
the white population of Peru. The coun-
try has altogether very close to 5.oCo.oOo
inhabitants. The average density Is about
seven to the square mile. The great bulk
of the people are Indians. of whom more
than 100000 live on the high plateaus OF
the Andes. The Amazonian region Is
populated almost entirely by Indians.
About one-fourth of the Inhabitants are
Cholos, or halfbreeds. cross between
the Indians and the whites. and there are
altogether perhaps less than a million
who are of pure Caucasian descent.
A great part of the coast population
lives in the cities and towns. Lima and
Callao have together perhaps 100000
Arequipa, the chief city of the south. has
about $4,000, and there are several cities
Of 5000 and upward in the small river
valleys. On my way here stopped at
Paita. It's population is put down at 600,
but 1t seemed to me that one-half that
number would be a generous estimate
The next port was Eten, said to contain
mayo and Salaverry. each containing
1900 or more Salaverry is the port for
Trujillo. the old town founded by Pizar-
70 in honor of his native town. 1t con-
tains about 10000 l was not able to visit
it, owing to our short stay, although it
lies only ten miles inland. 1t is said to be
a beautiful place and to be surrounded
by very rich country.
x
Pacasmayo looks like a little city of
Arabia. 1t is made up of low, white
buildings. with fat roofs. 1t lies right
on the shore with desert mountains be-
hind it; and it has steel pier which was
built by the American civil engineer and
speculator, Henry Meiggs, when he was
constructing railroads up and down the
west coast. The town is paved with cob
blestones, and it seems to be prosperous.
1t has little railroad which ruas back
into valley, through which it is said it
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richest placer deposit in the world today
1t Is credited with having produced in
gold that the Spaniards took from the ma
tives, and the total vaue Of the gold still
to be mined is said to be twice as great
that taken out by the Incas. The gold
is in dust and small nuggets. and there is
more than 100. 900. 600 cubic yards of grav-
ell above the bed rock, which. it is esu
mated. will average over 30 per cent per
cubic yard. These placers are almost
two miles above sea level. but the rainy
season makes it impossible to carry on
the hydraulic workings for more than ten
months of the year
The desert region of Peru has a large
amount of desert land that is susceptible
OF irrigation. This has been brought
forth by recent surveys. and it will prob
ably be developed when the canal is COM
pleted. / have written Of this region in a
former letter. 1t consists of a strip of
arid land, a thousand miles long and
from sixty to ninety miles wide running
from the Pacific ocean back to the noun
tafns. 1t is nearly everywhere as dry as
a bone. but there are fifty-five little rivers
fed by the SHOWS Of the Andes which give
as many valleys, where they can raise
sugar. rice and cotton. and which are
now producing millions of dollars worth
of these staples today. The amount of
sugar ALREADY grew1 ood is oo worth in the
the rice is worth more than 81, 600 600
and the cotton sells for s67 900, OOO There
are over 100000 acres in cane. and the
sugar costs to raise IA cents pound.
There are about 10000 men employed in
the cotton plantations. and in some Of the
valleys they are raising from 500 to 900
pounds to. the acre.
The government is studying the con-
servation Of the water with view to
increasing the irrigated area of the des-
ert. and it is estimated that more than
a million and a quarter acres of crops can
be grown by the building of additional
reservoirs and dams in the mountains.
Mr.. Sutton, the American civil engineer,
who is the chief of the Peruvian govern
ment irrigation survey. estimates that
the annual flow of water through this
coastal region is 100000 acre-feet, and
that 10 per cent of it wou.- give these
additional farms. The government is now
making Neurological studies all along the
coast from Ecuador to Chile, and most
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her back. And when critics insinuated
it was done because hands are difficult
to paint. the chivalrous fellow said not
a word to defend himself-the subject
had lovely face. but her hands, from
the continual shocks and grips of tennis
rackets. had developed fingers with
knobby joints.
x X
Horsewomen obtain similar knobby
joints. The grip on the reins, when the
horse is spirited, or is galloping across
country. thins the fingers below the
joints which themselves are overexer-
cised by kind of pulling massage
The shock Of the golf stick repeated con-
tinually develops the most bizarre ef-
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can feminity has caused him.
The American society girl whom he
scolded was having her portrait done.
again. in Paris-question Of "atmosphere ="
and. perhaps. Salon number She did
not worry. Complacently, she pointed to
the remains OF two dimples on her right
hand, still two traps of Cupid. what you
might call disappearing dimples. Now
You see them. now you don't.
Tn very ft'' she said, in perfect
form. Why carry fat on the hands,
Albert Gihon-it was he-threw up his
arms.
%. my country he exclaimed in con-
centrated accents. 20 unhappy land, de-
voted people. where the fairest and best
samples fall for esthetic heresies not
worthy of examination, Daniel Chester
french, you did well to sound the alarm
The American painter referred to the
recent pronouncemsnt OF the American
sculptor: which had caused a stir on
both sides of the Atlantic. French and
Gfhon are colossi Of a wider straddle
than he OF Rhodes. With consciousness
half in America, half in Paris. the wom-
en- of two hemispheres listen when they
speak. American girls. in particular. are
in danger Of discarding their beautiful
hands. says Daniel French. The practice
of outdoor sports is responsible for the
calamity.
American girls have, naturally. the
most beautiful hands in the world, adds
Gihon. They come with the whole dover
OF feminine beauty from the excellent
nutrition of American parents and the
healthy mixture OF bloods which marks
our land. We have even developed race,
that last distinction of beauty. which is
capable Of resisting decadence for.
centuries. II is a pity that such lovely
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ball-playing girls OF antique Greece?
Did the athletic goddesses Of the old
vases lack feminine grace OF beauty?
l put 1t to Gihon, the painter.
He laughed.
Our girls may safely do the training
of the nymphs Of antique Greece" he
said. They played with oranges on
marble terraces. quite ladylike Unfor-
tunately. we have nearer home the ex-
ample of an athletic race of women-I
refer to the English. Do those ungainly.
angular. sporting women make for a bet
ter racer
The painter does not think So
1t seems clear to him that the mascu-
limitation Of feminine beauty makes for
ugliness in the race, not strength. Every
woman. in her heart, knows that womans
strongest position Is to charm and please.
The boys must grow up husky-but not
the girls. not the girls.
II have refused to paint many womens
portraits said Gihon. simply because I
did not feel up to 1.-THE originals were
so uninspiring. One. 1 remember was a
bob-sled enthusiast Her face would have
been JunoesQue, had not the fierce emo
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HERE are the
dimples that were
on your handsY'
The speaker was
a famous Ameri-
can p ain ter of
Paris. who claims
that he is doing
less portraits and
more and more
landscapes because
of the artistic sor-
rows which Ameri-
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WANT to give you
a bird 's-eye view
OF this wonderful
land of Peru, that
is to be made our
next-door neighbor
by the opening of
the P a n 4 m a ca
nal. It is one of
the chief countries
of South America,
but parts of it are
as unknown as the
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fects on the delicate, heretofore unexer1
cised but perfectly healthy fingers OF TIN,
society girl. :.
AN quivalent pushing of her nose.'i
says Gihon. would evolve a hinge or
else curve ii permanently to right or left.
so that the poor child would seem to be
moving in circle.
And there you are. ~
A girls hands when abused by sports
cannot become merely masculine, and the
whole trouble lies in this fact.
The hands of a We'll bred Americale
girl before she takes 10 outdoor sports
says Gihon. ARE uneXercised. delicate
beautiful. tender and .eXquisitely cared
for. They are not like boys hands. sym
metrically hardened from childhood As
responsive they are tender. they have
only to be massaged the wrong way to-
obtain horrid effects
All. what a revenge for the feet, -
Pathetic little poor relation, lift your,
little toes and laugh.
Here the painter grew lyrical. -
Girls hands had been manicured, air.
ed, gloved, summed, reared in freedom and
honor, decorated with rings. admired,
praised. kissed and shaken when taken"
says Gihon. but not taken when shakelL
The foot, poor little Cinderella, was rele-
gated TO the dark chimney corner. so to
formed neglected II grew t1u. often. 4
pathetic monstros.ty. always "a deformeJ
little object. Toes which should have
been as tapering as the slmnest. shape,
Hest fingers became knobby. boodless or.
apoplectic, overlapping underpushlng,.
atrophied or SPRAYING"
Are you not frightened? All these
things can happen to the hands The FIN.
gers of the growing American girl are
naturally as susceptible as her toes. You
can make what you will of the material. :.
And Just when their feet We're improv-
ing!" exclaims Gihon. II know of moth
ers, in America as in France. who have.
given great care to their little daughters
feet. Never has a tight shoe or uniting
shoe compressed them. Massage and
manipulation have developed each toe as
shapely as hnger. STOCKINGS with
separate toes prevent those marvels OF
living porcelain from pressing together
and injuring each other. But what is the
use. If they knock their hands about and
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Hands Are Larger
and Less Beautiful,
Owing to Strenuous
Exercise, Says Painter
He Agrees With
Daniel French, Sculp-
tor-Gihon Says Amer
lean Girls Naturally
Have Prettiest Hands
In the World.
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industry might be developed. and that
with a view to supplying American mar
kets.
l. pom the highest plateaus are found
the llama. alpaca and vicuna. The
llamas are used as beasts of burden, but
they produce a great deal of wool, and
also are eaten. The alpacas are smaller
than the llamas. They are her ed a d
they furnish excellent wool. The vicuna
wool is even better 1t is as fine as silk
and is worth four times as much as the
alpaca Within the past few years some
of the wool growers have been trying
to cross the vicuna and alpaca. and
have developed new breed of animals
which they call "paco-vicuna''
The third zone of Peru is that which
lies east of the Andes. 1t begins about
a mile or a mile and half above the
sea on the slopes of the mountains and
runs down to the tropical forests of the
-AmaZonian headwaters- This region is
dense1y wooded, and its vast forests con-
tain rubber and other valuable trees.
1t has also some open country. and there
are lands which will produce coffee.
cacao and sugar as we'll as every sort
of tropical fruit.
1t is East Andean Peru that is almost
unknown. Many parts of it have never
been prospected, and it is still uninhab-
tied except by wild Indians. with here
and there a few rubber hunters. There
are no large towns, and Iquitos on the
Amazon is the chief port of the northern
section. 1t is 1000 miles or more from
the sea.
); *
There is doubt that East An
dean Peru wilY eventually be reached
from the Pacific. 1t is only about 400
miles from that ocean and there are
now railroads going to the tops of the
mountains that might be extended to
back of Lima is one that has already
been surveyed to the headwaters of the
Amazon. This road begins at Calao,
passes through Lima and crosses the
Andes at an altitude of more than
three miles. after which it goes down
about 1000 feet to Oroya. II is esti-
mated that the road could be extended
to the navigable Amazon system for
like fifteen or twenty mil
lions of dollars. It's altitude, however.
is too high for it to be made of practi-
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How the Andean
Highlands May Be-
come One of Uncle
Sans Meat Baskets
Placer Mines of the
1ncas to Be Reopened
They Will Yield
Hundreds of Millions
New Railroads to
Brazil That Will Affect
Our Pacific Trade of
the Future Schemes
for Irrigating That
Will Add One Million
Acres of Farms to the
Desert - The Coast
Cities and Callao. the
Chief Port-The Ride
to the Capital.
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ABOVE ALExEI

Orleans, the Ecuador line would be some
where near Minneapolis, and it would al
most fill the who valley from the Mis-
sissippi river to Pittsburgh.
The country contains about 6S0,Ou
square miles, 1t is equal to more than
one-fifth of the area of the United States
proper, is six times as large as Great
Britain and Ireland, and is larger than
Germany, France and the Spanish pen
fnsula combined. There Is enough of it
TO make fourteen states as big as New
York, fifteen as big as Pennsylvania. or
seventeen of the size of Ohio. The coun-
try has one province, the name of which
many of you have never heard, which is
larger than Texas. This is Loreto. at
the headwaters of the Amazon. The
province of CuZco is in southern Peru,
and the most of it high up in the Andes
It Is bigger than California, and there
are other provinces that would make
stable American states.
The whole of Peru is divided up into
three zones. 1t all lies in the tropics.
but the climatic influences are such that
most of 1t forms a fit home for white
men. The first zone is that of the
desert. the second that of the high
Andean valleys and plateaus. which are
upheld by the three parallel ranges of
these mighty mountains, and the third is
the country that slopes down from the
mountains and forms a part of the ANA
ION va ley. The desert zone would be
by the Antarctic current. which flows
up this coast from near the south pole.
This makes it cool and healthful ali the
year round.
The second zone is the plateaus of the
Andes. These highlands form a region
500 miles wide. They have from 1900 to
14,0oo feet elevation, and are looked down
upon by some peaks, almost four miles
in height. They are SO high that it is
cool and healthy throughout the year.
They have summers that will ripen the
hardest grains, and in the lower valleys
will grow all kinds of semi-tropical
fruits. 1t is rather cold there in the
winter and the snow often falls, but the
are not unlike those of the
Rockies.
This region is famous for live stock.
1t provides the meat and wool for the
whole of Peru. and it has large tracts
Of grazing lands where sheep and cattle
grow well. An extensive wool and meat
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Special Correspondence of TIE Star,
pARIS Fahr,,arx-
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Copyrighted, 1914, by Frank d. Carpenter
LIMA, Peru
Alma record., 1914-12-10
A. X|LSONR[COVER|NG
Underwent Operation for Appendi-
citis and is Now on Road to
Recovery

Addison Wilson, a student at the
college, and pastor of the Lafayette
and Emerson churches, was operated
on for appendicitis at Brainerd Hos
pital Tuesday afternoon and is recov-
ering very satisfactorily from the op-
GRAFTON. He will probably be confined
in the hospital for one week more but
his friends will be greatly pleased to
know that his complete recovery seems
very certain at present.
Mr.. Wilson is captain of the college
track team but will undoubtedly be
forced to give up his athletic work for
the rest of his college course. His
speciality was the two-mile run and
he was one of the best in the state.
He is the only man in college who has
won his varsity letter in track for
three years. His absence will weaken
the chances that Alma has for winning
the Nj. l. A. A. track championship for
the third year in succession next June.
Alma record., 1914-12-10
NUMEROUS CHANGES
Robinson, Slater. and A. R. Smith
Will Change Locations

Tentative plans have been made for
a wholesale changing Of business
places on the part of several Alma
business men which will be effected
before the first day of February, and
which will make conditions much
more satisfactory. Mr.. d. w. Robin
son, whose rapidly increasing trade
has compelled him to maintain two
stores, has rented the room now oc-
cupied by Mr.. A. r. Smith, the shoe
dealer, and will move his present stock
which occupies his store on East
Superior, just east of Crandell and
Scott's, to the new quarters which are
next ohis West Superior store, en-
abling him to double his floor space
at that location without lessening his
stock in the least.
The store which is to be vacated by
Mr.. Robinson will be occupied by Mr..
Fred Slater, whose business has
greatly outgrown his present cramp-
ed quarters. In his new place Mr..
Slater will provide himself with a
largely increased stock which his
trade demands. No tenant has as
yet been secured for the place which
he will vacate. Mr.. A. r. Smith has
not definitely decided just where he
will move to, though he may occupy
one Of the stores of ID. Brown.
Alma record., 1914-12-10
70 The NEST INDIES
w. A. Bahlke Left for Isle of Pines
to Oversee Plantation I'm
provements.

Mr.. William Bahlke left Tuesday
morning for Isle of Pine, sixty miles
south of Cuba. While there he will
begin the Improvements upon hun
dred acre plantation which, he has
purchased.
Upon his new farm he will build
winter home if conditions are favor
able. He will raise all kinds of cit
rous fruits, as grapefruit, etc. This
island is one of the finest of the West
Indies, and is a popular place for
Michigan people. The Bahlke plan
tation will be one quarter of a mile
from the ocean and will be near those
of several Port Huron people who are
friends of Mr.. Bahlke. The climate is
nearly perfect, while since known his
tory began on the island there has
not been a single case of contagious
disease.
Alma record., 1914-12-10
WOMEN IN COMMAND
Fair Sex Now Employed as Demon
strators of Maxwell Car

That women are becoming strong
factor i'm the automobile business is
shown by an excerpt which we make
from the Detroit Free Press of three
days ago.
Sixty-fve women from 35 different
states at the big national convention
at Nashville, Tenn, heartily indorsed
the plan of the Maxwell Motor COM
pany for engaging women demonstra-
tors. The fact that Walter f. Flan-
ders, president of the Maxwell Motor
company, promised equal pay for
equal work in this great industry,
brought flood of inquiries.
That the Maxwell Motor company
is going to engage women does not
mean that they will take the place of
men. 1t means that new field hith-
erto never explored has been opened
to the feminine world. Women will
be employed to demonstrate automo-
biles TO women.
Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, a
well-known suffragist, feminist and
lawyer, has already been placed in
charge of the women's department
with two women demonstrators and
saleswomen under her supervision.
Alma record., 1914-12-10

house committees and which vigor-
Gus attempt will be made to pass.
One of these is the senate bill to
appoint six vice-admirals of the navy,
to regulate the wages of the mechan-
les and laborers employed by the gov
ernment, to authorize the secretary
of agriculture to license cotton ware
houses, to purchase and operate mer-
chant vessels in the foreign trade of
state commerce in the products of
child labor, to control and regulate
the waters of the Niagara river, to
extend the right of suffrage to wo-
men by amendment to the federal con-
stitution.
The two bills that have passed both
houses and are in conference between
them provide for enlarged homesteads
and for the registration of the impo-
sition of special tax on all persons
who deal in opium.
The probability of one-haf of these
bills being reached in either house
is slight. The probabilities are that
the appropriation bills will take the
entire time and will without difficulty
be passed before the hour of adjourn
ment. The appropriations at this ses-
sion will take on the character of leg
islatiYe bills from the fact that a
great effort will be made to bring con-
gress to the view that the army and
navy must Immediately be strengthen
ed and developed.
The present paper strength of the
regular army is 100000. It's actual
strength is $4,000 officers and men,
The United States could not muster
for field operation to exceed single
corps of 10000 officers and men.
Some members of congress think
this totally inadequate and danger
Gus, but the chairman of the mill
tary committee in the house, Rep
Hay of Virginia, take sthe view that
the United States need not immedi-
ately enlarge its army because with
European countries exhausted, we are
in less danger than ever before anC
that we should wait to see what the
results of the European war will teacf
us.
/ Continued on page 8
Alma record., 1914-12-10
PARCEL POST NEWS

While the parcel post is still in its
infancy, its growth since its birth has
been very rapid and the benefits of
the many improvements and changes
have been readily exemplifed by the
earnest support of the people. The
"holiday" season is rapidly approach
ing and the different branches of the
postal service are being admonished
10 be alert to the discharge of their
duties that the public may benefit
therefrom.
The rates are very cheap and the
convenience of the parcel post COM
mand the admiration of every citizen.
Special plans have been perfected for
the handling of the holiday parcels at
at the local postoffice and the public
are earnestly requested to mail their
parcels early-wrap securely and ad-
dress plainly. Patrons are vitality in
terested in having parcels delivered
on or before Christmas and every eff
fort will be made to accomplish this,
and the timeliness of gifts depends
upon prompt delivery, a feat which
can only be accomplished by prompt
mailing.
Last year, through intelligent direc-
tion and the enthusiastic cooperation
of all connected with the postal SER
vice, the department successfully han
died the largest quantity of holiday
mail in its history. This year the
volume will greatly exceed anything
heretofore known and it is confident
ly believed that the same spirit will
animate the force and with the CO.
operation of the public will warrant
the best service possible.
VINCENT p. CASH,
Postmaster.