Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1920-08-03

Now is the season when owners of gar
dens are Dragging Of what they have
raised In them, or rather what they are
raising, for IL Is too early for ripened
crops yet. What they are gathering Is
what is known as green products, and It
is a color which always suggests trouble.
Nevertheless, every body likes these
products; the farmers like to sell them,
the village folk like to eat them, the doc
tors like lowell, here is a little verse
which suggests why they like them:
"The inviting green cucumber
Gets mos. everybody's number,
While the green corn has system OF Its own.
Though radish seems nutritious
Its behavior Is quite vicious,
And a doctor win be coming to your home.
Eating lobster cooked or plain
Is only flirting with ptomaine
while an oyster some times has lot to say.
But the clans we eat In chowder
Make the angels chant the louder,
For they know that Wen be with them right
away.
"Take q slice of nice fried onion
And your &c for Dr. Munyon;
Apple dumplings kin you quicker than q train.
Chew q cheesy midnight rabbit
And the grave you'll soon inhabit-
All to eat AZ all IL such foolish game.
Eating huckleberry pie
Is pleasing way to die
while salerkrsut brings on softening Of the
brain.
When you eat banana fritters
Every undertaken filters,
And the casket makers nearly go insane.
"some little bug is going to ind you some day,
Some little bug will creep behind you some day;
With nervous little CULVER
He'll give you cirrhosis OF the liver;
Some little bug Is going to find you some day."
It is a long way from Oxford County
to the Society Islands in the midst of
the Southern Pacific Ocean, but . native
of the town Of Paris lived in Pspate, on
the Island of Tahite, for more than forty
years. This native, q woman, Mrs. Sa-
rah j. GoodiDg, q daughter of Colonel
Orison and Hannah (Msximl Ripley,
died In September, 1918. So, ID seems,
there Ia no place so remote, but what
some one, in any place, may be inter-
ested In il. Indeed, because OF some par
ticular thing. almost everybody may be
interested in some remote place. This is
true of the Society Islands. Pearls are
found there, and where IL there . place
In which women dwell that is not inter-
ested in pearls. The pearl-diving season
has just opened in this archipelago. 1t
Is big business among these islands; 90
big, they have game laws, or fish laws,
or bivalvs laws, or whatever the island
ers choose to call them. Pearl-diving Is
not permitted on any island oftener than
once In three years, so the divers are a
migratory lot. Many times they 60 to
an atoll which ordinarily will not sup
port more than one or two hundred peo-
pie, but upon their advent becomes an
encampment of two or three thousand
souls. Such an encampment 10 and has
always been q gay place. The diver
earns "big money" and be buys all the
goods the "popaas'', or white men, have
for sale there. His dusky Polynesian
wife and daugh are dressed In silks
aud wear diamonds II not pearls. This
year the divers with their families go to
the listle island of Hikneru. Not only |
will the usual number of traders 60 |
there also, but there will be "Great
White Way" with moving picture thea
tres, brass bands and motor-cars.