The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-29
FOREIGN LETTER
 FOR READERS OF
 EVENING FARMER
Crusoes of Karmadec Group Will Abandon Island Golden Age of Woman Is Passing.


 by five. in the Karmadec group of the Southern Pacific, is to be abandoned.
 The thirteen persons who have been living Cruso like life there have been driven to desperation by 1oneli- ness. rats, volcanic runlbling, and other afflfctfons. and the New Zealand government is to bringrthe party back to civilization.
 Thomas Bell, who was landed on the island by a whaIer in 1878 held lundisputed possession of the place. for twenty years, but the New Zealand government latter apportioned the is- land among number of settlers.
 Since then frequent attempt to col onized the place has been made, but Bell is the only one that stuck 1t out from the first Even now. though the other twelve settlers are sick of the place, Bell says he will remain if the government will recognize his owner ship.
 thrive on the isga~nd, there are no cocoanuts, and the crops the hand ful of islanders try to plant are des- rroyed by the small facific rats which infest the place. and a volcano ire quently gives the whole island a shiver.
 Tokio. Aug. 2e-.aThe golden age of the beautiful woman is passing ac- corciraes to Admiral Yashiro, minister of the navy. who with friendly pat ernalisna has been observing the choice of wives the naval officers have made.
 s.For over ten years he said, the idea has ob+ b+ained in the navy that the officers were a kind of diplomats and their wives must be pretty and charm > ing The officers were always locking for pretty nodernized women with a %-s -Socr
 How, howeykr'' he observed things are changing, The marriage able naval officers of today are look ing for women who are sober in mind and health and body. It is probably due to the object lesson furnished by Husbands taxed with pretty but lux urious, vain and uncontrol liable wives
 Admiral Yashiro said that although the number of selfish people had in creased in Japan, as witness the recent naval bribery affair. he was con vinced that the people as whole would not countenance such conduct and suchs an attitude toward life. The Japanese would, he thought return in good measure to the old prtncipa1s of loyalty. altruisn and patriotism
 Panama. Aug 29.-Owing to the great demand for quarters and the congested condition of those owned by the Panama Canal government, 2 Col. G. w. sGoethals, governor, has de- z cided to permit many of5the employees to build their own homes on the Ca- < nal Zone under certain conditions. Since the concentration of a large part of the canal force on the Pacific side of the Isthnus was begun the demand for quarters has been so great that the Quarterrnaster's department has been unable to meet it The per- nlits for these structures will be granted with the understanding that the builders are not to receive any compensation from the canal govern naent in the event Of the termination of the owners services with the ca nal
 Melbourne, Australia, Aug. D. There are 6.642 Americans in Austra- 1ia according to a report just made by the official Statistician of the Com monEvea1th.
 The Germans on the island conti- nent number s2.S9o, the Chinese 2o.- ITS, Scandinavians 14,700, Italians G. 719, and the Japanese 3,474.
 The number of Japanese is of in terest because of the suspicion often voiced in Australia regarding the Jap anese government and people.
 The number of women in Australia a in proportion to the men was 100 to 40 fifty years ago. but to-day it is 100 to 108.
 The rate of natural increase in population is high, being s2.03 per cent, and it appears from the official estimate that the total population of the island continent will soon be five millions.
 London. Aug 2s-The growing prejudice in England against color has been assublect of newspaper com ment of late in the London press. A typical letter of the kind comes from a writer, who says:
 Among the men who poured into the smoking room Of a city restaurant was a faultlessly dressed negro of dis tinguished appearance. He took 9 seat at a taabIe, which would accom- nodate four persons. All the other ta b1es in the room were quickly fill ed and there was not an inch of space to spare-e1cept at the negro's table Rather than sit in his company. pa ~ trors went out again Even the waitresses ignored the dusIy one. Il was fully twenty minutes before h: was served, and then only in response to almost pathetic appeals.
 Can it be-" asks the writer, ttthai the American color prejudice is creep ing into our midst ~
 Tokfo, Aug. 2e.--Th, first class ar rnored cruiser Tslikuba has been se lected to take part i1 the opening o, the Panama Canal instead of the crui ser Chikuma. The Tsukuba witt the cruiser Ibuk will sail for Hamp ton Roads about the middle of Oc tober, going by the Suez Canal and tn, Atlantic Ocean. The Tsukuba is much larger ship than the Chikuma being almost IA, 900 tons in dispiace rnent and having a speed of 21 knot She was built in 1905 and carried main armament of twelve six incl guns.
 Rear Admiral Isannu Takeshit will be the commander of the squad ron.
 Sydney, Australia, Aug 2s@Th, advancing cost of living in Australi; charged in part to %the nnachinati on of the American meat trust'' ha caused the state government o Queensland, where the Chicago pack ea-.. q