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Bolivia. whose southern sky is nearly
filled with the bulky SHOWS of Mount
Iilimani: Lima, Peru, surrounded by
bright green fields irrigated from the
River Rimac; Sac Paulo. Brazil. among
its tropical mountains: Santos, with its
seaside resort of Guaruja, which is the
South American Monte Carlo: Monte
video, with ocean beaches broader than
those at Palm Beach, and Buenos Aires
on its fiat prairie, where the artful hand
Of man has more than made up for the
scenic deficiencies of nature.
{ These are features along the route taken
by any business traveller. The delight
of the tour can be augmented ad libitum
by means Of side trips, according to the
whim of the traveller. 1t is worth see
ing, South America, every foot of It,
and particularly now when the two con-
tinents are confronting each other al
most with the surprise of discovery.
The travel of North Americans in South
America would be reciprocated in in
creasing measure.
When the European travel from both
continents has been diverted in greater
degree to each other. the effect will be
seen in our own foreign trade balances.
Copyright. 1915. by Robert F. wilson)
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not happy. They had lost their only
daughter They were wrapped up in
this grandson. medical student of nine
teen, but weakly. They had recently
sold out the grocery to live in this
suburb, on their money, for the youths
health. Why bulge? Quitting Paris.
they would lose the grocery business,
the boys future. Because, when the
war broke out, it mobilized the man
who bought the grocery, who had made
but one first payment.
So the grandfather returned to the
grocery-to save 1t. Half the nights
he sleeps there. The grandmother wor-
ries about the boy. When his military
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Apartment House of Par

fiat at 500, which gave the two boys
a proper sleeping room, and put the sick
man in sunny bed, where he could have
home cooking. So they lived upon their
savings. So he got worse. So the saw
ings dwindled. He died hard. the poor
man, twenty-siX years old.
Half the house went to the funeral. at
Neuilly church. around the corner All
distinctions are abolished.
Now the young wife faces the situation
AS she took her husband from the MILL
tary hospital, he did not die, technically,
in the army, wherefore she is not down
on the books for widows aid or pension.
The temporary ''allocution" would he -
cents per day for herself and 10 cents
for each child. There are good hopes
that she may get it. Meanwhile, the boys
earn, one 40 cents, one so cents, per day
And the ST. Vincent de Paul Society is
there at need. So, you see, she does
nicely.
But, admit, the thing came suddenly
upon her!
The German death spreads its black
wings over every family in the house.
The shadow of German ambition dark
ems each doorway, but it does not change
the courage of these people
AS some terrible plague let loose among
them, they bear the war. determined to
stamp out the prague tndl lt~SHdil HOi re-
turn to plague their children.
Our own janitor is forty-eight, or the
last class" He is grimly ready to go
out if called. His old mother and the
mother of his wife, where are they? lie
has no news. Perhaps dead. perhaps un-
buried in the ruins of their peasant home
stead near St. Quentin, like the others
His brother. aged forty-seven, is
civilian prisoner" that new invention of
the Germans. A nephew has been killed.
Louise, our servant, goes about her
work with brave front.
She is a good cook--it shows wars
fluctuations When the chops are burned
it means activity in Tahure When the
custards curdled we know she is wait
ing for her letter. Her son, in the
trenches at Tahure, is bad correspond
ent.
Once last week the lunch went wrong
entirely. Tell us, Louise" We said. She
fetched out letter from an army doctor
'in the zone" explaining that her son-in-
law had been grenaded in the head, but
that they hoped to save his eyes"
TT means his eyes are gone," gulped
the poor woman. Now, what will my
daughter do, with their four children ~
At last advice, it seems, the man has
one eye saved.
We'll trust in the good God" Louise
says. STERLING HEILIG.
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his sword his medal. He was killed
near Cha1ons.
mystery, the fifth floor right. 1t is full
of furniture. The door locked. No
body lives there. 1t was the fiat of a
German couple who fled France at the
their furniture is safe, for. very curl
ously, fifteen days before the war. when
no one dreamed of war-on July 10,
1914 the rent day of the July term"
pie had a hunch to pay a years rent in
advance.
Helm? Curious, curious.
Down the back stairway, very early
in the morning, comes a solemn little
tot, girl child, all in black.
She stands by the kitchen doorway,
waiting.
whats the matter?' 1 say. CTS a
game we play now.)
"Ba,'' she seems to answer.
..What?"
"Bar'
you WANT"
Louise, our servant, laughing, puts
vast loaf in the tots arms-golden
crusted, warm and fragrant white
bread. just arriving-sacred French
pain" which the tot pronounces "ba. l
could tell a story of this "boulot' bread
alone, rich, thick -crumbed, nutritious,
leaven-raised. from leaven which mas
lived in countless generations OF OF
Charlemagne. No beer yeast! No
Vienna process. 1t is the loaf of the
people, immemorial and tutelary. we
ourselves have learned to eat this
bread with joy, since early IN the waf'
when fancy bakers" lacked moment
Now we would not go back to the fluff
crust.
x
Like a venerated object, the tot takes
the great loaf-as big as herself, almost.
from head to feet. AS she toddles with it
I'D three flights Of stairs, Louise takes up
the milk behind her.
These are the trials of the people
sudden poverty, unmerited, to add to war
bereavements.
Up those back stairs in that s100 fiat
live the remains of jaunty Paris CAP
drivers family. The wife. janitress, TOOK
and gained free lodging for them. They
had this tot and another. Life smiled on
them.
Germany invaded France. The man
went out to fight. Then. piilng down
upon the wife and her two tots, came her
two brothers, aged fourteen and sixteen,
refugee boys, fleeing from the Germans
beyond Verdun- Their house Is smashed,
their father Is somewhere in the cellar
Still she held her job as tanitress. The
boys slept in a closet.
Look now! Last winter in the trenches
the cab driver went down with a gallop-
ing consumption. In Paris hospital ne
swore that he would Jump out of the
window" if his wife would not take him
home (The Paris people have a prejudice
against hospitals for mere sickness. It is
different for woundings.) Home? What
home? The janitor's lodge? He did not
reflect. He only yearned. They had good
savings So she rented this bsck-staars
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66WT


q of Egypt, the frst-born is
taken. From the first-born of Pha-
raoh sitting on his throne, even unto
the frst-born of the maidservant that
is behind the mill. there is not one
house where there is not one dead"
The house l have in mind has fourteen
fats-for fourteen families. 1t is In
the most expensive Paris suburb. The
tenants, averaging from $3.50 to s400
annual rent, are wellto o-do, because
good French economy limits ones rent
to 10 per cent of ones income BY this
you can Judge their situation. All have
serious" Investments.
The house is new, heated by the land
lord. There are twelve. fats on the
masters stairway, two by two on each
landing. Each has parlor, dining room.
kitchen, two bedrooms, bathroom. and
a large dark room for trunks and hang
ing clothes. At the top of the back
stairs. where the servants sleep in
twenty little rooms under the roof, two
small apartments have been arranged
for humber families, one at $40 per
year. one at 500. Even here. the better
nat is well inhabited" As Nine. B.
says: You ought TO see their furniture!
The daughter works in laces. She Is
elegant" The old father was employed
by an architect before the war. Now he
sells coal. The son is fighting.
And each servant girl, in her little
cold room. vibrates with France in
vaded. and sends money, clothes and
dainties to some soldier. Angelo. in the
kitchen next door. weeps-good girl
of mountain parents beyond Montau-
ban: My brother is too fat. he was
taxi chauffeur. He'll get sick in the
trenches" And she buys another postal
order She won't think of his being
killed. That is why she weeps.
So the house represents all middle
class France. How does the war affect
these people who. year ago last July.
were going on their summer vacations,
tranquil. prosperous. dreaming no dam
ger?
They're my neighbors.
On the ground floor, as you enter, the
right hand fiat is empty. But its rent
continues to be paid by an aged lady,
quite well off, who lived here with a
paid lady companion. to be near the
great park called the Bois de Bou-
logne. In the panic before the battle
of the Marine she fed. Her daughter
came and took her in an auto. The
daughter has two sons in the war. One
has been killed. Poor grandma.
On her left. more old folks.
1t is an old couple worrying about
their grandson. Why bulge? They had
held the fort in 1870. young married, in
ahe grocery business, central Paris.
+ forty years had made them prosperous
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He shot the boche down by a fluke. BY
another iuke his pilot looped the loop
against his will. They came down, al
most on top of their victim, smash,
wreck, t4Se pilot dead and this boy with
his broken arm and cross of war.
Fifth floor up is an unlucky fat.
When the war broke out young
couple, newly married, lived there. He
went to the front. lieutenant of engi-
neers. SHE went to her mother. and had
her baby. AS the baby was born the
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white. she sang and sang. 1t was the
first music in the house. But now
pianos go discreetly.
Fourth floor left, at Nine Ebrard's.
there was quite a gay time when she
had her two sons home at once. The
elder, cavalry officer, was wounded in
the leg. but he could play the piano.
The second, a sergeant, was wounded
in the arm, and he could dance. The
boy is a daredevil. Wounded at the
Marne, he came home convalescent; re-
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travel at night, or at dawn, or at twi-
light, covered with green branches
He says they have been blown up pue
once-two cars l saw the parting of
this couple when the war broke out
They were at Lausanne on vacation
I see the man still, as he strobe
through the hotel garden to his auto
mobilS. Once he turned and waved;
then off, as one distracted.
Fourth floor up, above her. she has
an example of war automobile service.
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o11th America Wonderland for Northern Tourist

. A. GREAT Recreation Place for the Stu
"a dent and Historian Wide Variety of
Peoples, Modes Of Living and Scenic Won
ders-Tnps Worth Taking g-High Up in the
Andes Mountains-A Business Tour as
Source of Pleasure-Seeing Pan-America
First.
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father was killed-the same week The
apartment remained empty eight
months. Then lady with two children
took it. "Papas at the war, but he is
coming on permission" they said. I'VE
must hurry and get settled" smiled the
mamma, ito be ready for him.
They were nicely settled, when two
officers rang the front door bell When
she saw they had a package she let out
one cry-a cry such as hope 1 shall not
hear again soon. They brought his cap.
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turned to the trenches, got pneumonia,
recovered, stayed with mamma three
weeks, and went to the aviation camp
at Chalons as mechanician. Before he
had learned a carburetor from spark
plug ne had earned the cross of war.
AS thus: One day an aeroplane came in
sight. Only one French aviator was
prepared to chase it. and he was the
pilot. He had no "observer"-the OBJ
server handles the machine gun. 'I'u
CO." said young Ebrard. Up they went.
Evening star., 1915-11-21
The Turkish Budget.

TrHE Turkish budget for 1915 recent
u ly submitted to the sitting OF the
chamber in Constantinople shows a
deficit of $1,3s5, 100000. More than one
half of this sum represents the cost OF
mobilization.
Evening star., 1915-11-21

Certain portions of the South Amer
lean routes which fall under the OBJ
servation of the ordinary business
traveller are nothing less than amazing
in their scenic effects. Such. for in
stance, is the route from Mollando.
Peru, to La Paz. Bolivia. This is one OF
the three routes which one may take
to get to the Bolivian capital, and the
average traveller takes this route either
going into Bolivia or coming from it,
depending upon the direction he is
travelling along the west coast.
1 was moving southwark and there
fore started in on this trip from the
Mollendo terminal. For the tourist
who Is seeking scenery this is the bet
ter direction of travel, since the noun
tains increase in magnificence as they
approach Lake Titicaca.
At this point on the Peruvian coast
the usual foothills are replaced by
broad shelf of elevated desert which
comes out to within four or five miles
of the beach. The altitude OF TINS sheiI
is about 5000 feet and the oesGen'
from its edge is very precipitous. DIS
embarking at Mollendo is exciting, Tor
the port is an open roadstead in which
the sea frequently runs heavily. II the
seas are breaking outside OF the snort
mole a landing is never attempted
In even ordinary weather the traveller
experiences the sensation of being low
cred into the lighter in bo's s'ns chalr.
But any discomfort of Landing IS soon
forgiven when the train pesins i.s
climb to the Peruvian mountain city
of Areuuipa No railroad trip of SIM
liar length in the United States equals
this for variety of scenic s?lendor.
For the first few miles out of MOL
1endo the train follows the beach south
ward, and the passengers observe tne
long curved lines of surf as the racine
combers bring up against TINS nieah
shore after their long journey from the
south sea islands. Presently the tram
reaches a fertile strip watered by
mountain stream which breaks through
to the sea at this point. and Immediate
ly turns inland and begins the climb TO
the floor of the first mountain sheh.
The roadbed has been constructed
along natural grade, without the use
of bridges, cuts or tunnels, ana cohse.
quently the train covers many miies OIL
lateral distance to attain each tnou-
sand feet of altitude.
At times one can look from the car
window and see as many as three ieNeis
of railroad track beneath him; Whlle, as
the train goes higher on the slope, the
view of the ocean and the silvery hem
of surf, mile upon mile of it, joining
the blue ocean and the tawny desert, Is
a noble one. -
Fifteen miles of this climbing brings
the train to the top and here there is
an abrupt change in the character of
the landscape. The moisture from the
cloudbank that continually wells the
edge of this slope has been sufficient to
sunnort vegetation, and myriads Of
bright-colored fowers-wild lavender
and heliotrope, filing the car with their
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There is a young wife up there who.
long ago. in days of peace. annoyed
the neighbors by her singing. Annoyed
by singing! Weren't we touchy? The
poor child had operatic aspirations.
When she sang again. the other day.
our hearts sang with her. In between
there is the story of man so mangled
Months he fiickered. Everything
seemed smashed up. When he came
home. finally. . wreck. SO weak and
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dia. Travel south from Buenos Aires
similar distance and you can snapshot
the cannibals Of Terra del Fuego.
Tribes of Indians which use poisoned
arrows instead of firearms live within
two days journey from La Paz. the
capital of Bolivia: and head-hunters
dwell within $50 miles of Lima. Peru,
which is more like some ancient Euro
pean municipality than any other city
of South America Within 100 miles of
Asuncion. Paraguay. the Indian tribes
run naked.
Thus it is throughout the length and
breadth of the southern continent. 1t
is dotted with cities and populated with
a civilization older than our own, and
yet 1t is constantly presenting to even
the casual traveller successive scenes of
the most primitive character while the
tourist is kept in state of constant
delight with a continuous panorama Of
scenery as sublime as anything In the
world.
Evening star., 1915-11-21
THE IMMEMoRIAL AND TUTELARY

THE IMMEMORIAL AND TUTELARY
"BOULOTss LOAF OF THE FRENCH
COMMON PEOPLE. THE BREAD
Is GOLDEN CRUSTED, THICK
CRUMBED AND NUTRITIOUS.
class was called they got him "ad-
journed" for feeble constitution. Yet
she trembles. For the young fellow.
now twenty. is bound to volunteer de-
spite them. Every night when he re-
turns, she looks. him in the eyes with
terror. Tomorrow he will get himself
up, slip through a medical inspection
Evening star., 1915-11-21
Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS. NoYember

PARIS. November 10. 1915.
OF will see," said my old
neighbor, every house is
struck. AS in the plaques
of Egypt, the first-born is
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seems to me. if the same booklet in
English, with the necessary transpo-
sitions, were distributed among busl-
ness men in this country, for certainly
all that the South American booklet
says in eulogy of the wonders of North
America can with equal truth be ap-
piled to the scenic features of South
America. y
Such natural wonders as the Andes.
the Iguazu falls and the harbor at Rio
de Janeiro certainly excel those of the
far r-famed and dearly beloved Mediter-
ranean countries: and surely the
American business man is likelyfto find
more to interest him in Rio de Janeiro
and Buenos Aires than the entire old
world could ever offer
This. then. is plea for American
travellers to see pan-America first. By
all means visit the United States be-
fore any other country; but when you
know your own country, then go to see
something of South America.
Evening star., 1915-11-21

The wonder is that American travel
ers have not long ago discovered South
America as a recreation place. 1t Of
fers attractions to appeal to the taste
of any tourist. The studious- minded
will find associations in the cathedrals
and libraries of the old Spanish settle
ments almost as venerable as those
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On her left. more old folks.
II is an old couple worrying about
their grandson. Why bulge? They had
held the fort in 1870. young married, in
abe grocery business. central Paris.
orty years had made them prosperous
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-29
SALOONS
TN TIA JUANA, WHICH
HAS 200 POPULATION

IF any Bartlefts or McGraths were
living. around the Mexican Village OF
Tia Juana we didn't have any inkling
or It." says George w. Ashley, treas
urer OF the Schuman Carriage Com
pany, who with Chester Irwin and Rob
ert McKeague of the Honolulu Plan.
tatioii Company was recently in the
border town during trip to the south.
ern end Of California
I'll admit that didn't have very
favorable impression of the place. and
did not care to stay there long. but 1t
wasn't because had heard Of any old
Honolulu people having been or be-
Ing there. we never heard word Of
either McGrath or BARTLETT says
Ashley.
Tia Juana is not e4G6tly 4 church
city. It has about 601obuiIdings, &c
cording to people who have been there
and of these SO about IS are saloons.
Gambling is rife, with bull fights. and
any other amusement which Is shut
out from the United States naturally
creeps across the border. The town
boasts 9 population OF some 200 souls.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-29
BOOK
IS COMPLETED
FOR PUNAHOU

With the completion OF the Pageant
Book for the Punahou Pageant TO be
held next June. 1916. and its accept
ance BY the anniversary COMMITTEES.
one OF the biggest tasks in connection
with the celebration OF the 18th amir
sersary Of Punahou has been success
fully accomplished. The book was
written by Miss Ethel M. Damon, a
graduate Of Punahou. and at present
q teacher at Punahou on leave of abb
sence, assisted by Miss Mary P. Winnie
and Mrs. Isaac NJ. Cox. In its repre-
sentation Of Punahou life and its pol
ished literary form the Pageant Book
will be q real contribution TO Punahou
and Hawaiian literature. Mrs. Cox,
who win have charge or its presenta-
ton, speaks Of its dramatic POSSIBLY
tiles with great enthusiasm.
The general anniversary committee.
acting under the leadership of A. F..
Judd, chairman. Is also getting busy
on other plans for the celebration. The
tentative arrangements for the cele-
bration week at Punahou include a
dignified academic program with dis
tinguished speakers. -Punahou and
Community Days on the Campus" a
Hawaiian and an Alumni evening. and,
of course, the pageant. which will be
made the chief feature OF the celebrar
ton, The dates that the committee
has definitely set aside for the cele-
bration are Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, June 90 to -, 1916.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-29
LEAVING LEGISLATION TO THE
OFFICIALS.

The defeat of the initiative and referendum
proposals as amendments to the California
constitution is significant It is quite possible
that the voters are beginning to grow wary of
plans which complicate legislation and add to
It's expense. The initiative and referendum
measures are meant for public emergencies,
Fhere the elected officials are indifferent and
fail to pass good laws, or pass laws which are
obviously inimical to public welfare. Frequent
elections, intricate ballots and the impulse Of
half baked opinion too often are the results of
This so-called direct legislation. As long
ago as 1919 a veteran Republican of Honolulu
Predicted that the pendulum was swinging
way from the progressive measures and
ultimately would discredit the direct primary.
We see no evidence Of this latter but there is
evidence that states and municipalities are
irving less encouragement to the initiative and
referendum this year than last
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-29
NORWAY AND SWEDEN HARD HIT.

Every nation at war will in the end be ire
mendous loser industrially, say the economists.
So. il appears, viii the neutral nations. Aside
from the trade in war supplies with the Allies,
Uncle Sam s European commerce is disorgan-
lied and yet the plight of the United States
seems lucky indeed compared to that of two
neutral nations of the continent Norway and
Sweden.
Associated Press advices from Christiania
cav that something very close to panic is
e6reading over both Norway and Sweden, as
!. resnN of the alarming scarcity of provisions
and the unprecedented prices which are de-
landed for the simplest kind of food. Norway
s now on the point of following Sweden's lead
g prohibiting the export of all provisions
- which there is a present shortage in order
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-29
MANY INVITATIONS OUT
FOR FRESHMEN'S BALL

Young men and women clad in cos
tunes Of all.colors. shapes and varie-
ties viii be seen at the masquerade
dance that will take place this even
ing at the Normal school,
The dance is being given by the
members of the freshman class. and
hanks to the efforts OF Miss Adeline
AfRgue, president Of the class and
als6 to the class officials, they have
everything all set and the affair is e..
pected to rank as one Of the best
dances ever staged by a school.
Several hundred invitations have
been distributed to the friends of the
freshmen, and providing It does not
rain this evening there will be ire
mendous gathering.