The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-31

y a large model shows how the forests are unti1ized for the best advantage of the people at large. Looking down upon it, as though from captive balloon, you see the trails, roads, meadows and pleasure parks, fish farms in the exact proportions that exist in the national reserves. -~ The number of people who live in them, cattle and sheep, 19sO0O,Oo of them in the pastures, the paper and lum- Der industries carried on @thereips are all set down on an accompanying chart to be taken in at a glance. A second model shows. three aspects of the Same piece of forest. In the cen ter is virgin forest. On one side the same tract ctIinproperly logged; trees cut high above the ground, wasting the stump, slivered stumpS, that ruined twenty feet of the butt log. young trees all smashed or broken comp mplete1y down by careless fel1ing, brush left scattered around, inviting fire, and all the other abuses of com
 nercial numbering. On the opposite side, the third section displays the same tract properly logged; trees cut off level with the ground, logs neatly piled on skidways, brush heaped up ready for burning with the first rains, no smashed trees: fruitful object lesson that will have its results in 8
 more intelligent ballot when forest legislation is again in question.
 Of equal interest is the display of the Public Health Service, with it's realistic models that show you and T and Neighbor Jones in our fields or houses, and the manner in which we give and take diseases to and from each other. The typhoid stcarrier'' is shown at his deadly work! likewise the careless housewife, who waited
 upon her typhoid husband and cooked between times for a. dozen boarders. Needless to state the re-, suit. Models of sanitary and insani- tary schools teach their own particu-
 lar lesson; and charts show how seepage from a sewer slid down a sIant5ug strata Of water=bearing gravel and gave typhoid to 9 whole
 community that used water from a
 cased we'll nearly a, quarter of a. mile
 away. Then there are the stuffed rats which carry feas which carry the germs that give you bubonic plague observe them with horror your glance travels on to the models of rat-proof houses. docks, ships, mills You won't get tie plague if Uncle
 Sam can help it, and forever after you will help him by casting your vote against the rat. The mosquito must not be forgottan. There are l two of them, large as hens, the
 maIaTial and yellow fever mosquito, equally repulsive. No one blames ! them upon the IsthmuH-
 l Close kin to this exhibit is ths dis play or the American Red Cross So- eiety. Here again the model is used to convey facts and figures, and drive in needed lessons with a forcs beyond
 that of printed words. A dozen mod els show the wreck and ruin of floods and famine in all parts of the world
 India, China, Europe, Africa, where the Red Cross has extended assist ance- The model of relief camp in Golden Gate Park aroused teeming fire. But what wonderful sequel 1 Within four years from the time it was swept off the face of the earth, San Francisco had made her bold bid flor the exposition on the floor of Congress. and now five years later. 1 it houses this with eighty thousand other exhibits in building that excel
 in beauty and grandeur all that have gone before. Next to the relief camp stands model of the Cherry mine, 4 showing all the shafts and levels in which two hundred and Hfty-six men were burned to death Dy explosive fires It is grisfy thing to conteTn- plate. NSo, for matter of that, are the famine camps of China But they Eteach a needed lesson, and while 4 record for the Red Cross organization I and illustrate the advance of the tWorld at large in human feeling.
 Second only in variety and extent to the U- S. government displays are
 the exhibits of Japan. In each of the sI main palaces they cover from two to i three acres. with tasteful booths in l which characteristic goods of the Orient, bronzes. inzays, lacquer and
 cninaWare. carved chests and ivory,
 silks and satins are varied by the
 cotton, woo1en and metal products of
 the Occident A glance at the wide
 range and quality of the latter proves how real is the invasion of the Orient
 upon the worlds markets From the Fl 1l7PhfHppines display one selects at Il once the beautiful hard woods, whose
 uses are illustrated by a. pair of tables
 each twelve feet in diameter, mads
 of single piece and polished to g
 Iustrous satin finish. In the Philip pine building, which is finished in- side with polished columns of the
 palma bravo and woven mating o1
 the islands, is housed a rare co1lec- ton of orchids A second colEectfoz
 now in full flower is to be found in the HordcuIturaI building, where
 also a group of Royal Palms, i'm
 ported from Cuba at ain expense o1 , feather fronds high up under the great glass dome Crouched at thei1 feet one sees distant relative. 2 dwarf palm. also from Cuba, thai grows only the thickness of leave in year, and which had passed itt green youth in the days that Chris 1 was walking the streets of Jeru. salem.
 If you would have more of the tropics. go study the rainbow dshes of Hawaii, for words may not de. scribe them One can only say thad l they stole their coIors from the sun. Rset. Through the warm waters o1 their lagoon they steal like a ross -| dawn.
 Or if you prefer industrial pro. cesses, follow the distant thunder o1
 machinery into the Palace of Manu-
 facturess where you may watch any one of hundred industries runnins just as they do in the home shops Here 9. circular loom is turning ou1