Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-08
IN THE DAYS NEWS
Mauorca


 Amid the trials of heat, H. c. of L. and politics it may be restful to read of a place where cool breezes blow, and the scenery is magic, where people are peaceable and honest and there are no profteers, where women are pretty, charming and easily entertained, and life moves along with song p says a bulletin from Washington, D. C., head quarters of the National Geographic So- ciety
 Therfe is such a spot Ten hours out from continental Spain on a fairly fast and quite comfortable steamer lies a lit tie archipelago-the Balearic Islands whose largest island called Mallorco, or Majorica, is perhaps the most enchant- ing corner, one of the most interesting forgotten islands of the Mediterraneans. The following account of it's attractions is summarized from the description of an eyewitness, Col Ernesto de March y de Garcia Mesa. Spanish Army.
 "A great painter and writer called it the island of calm" for there everyone moves, rests, talks, walks and conducts his courtships as if the day had forty eight hours, the mile about 16,000 feet and the span of human life oven hun dred years, so little haste do they make | in living and enjoying life. One Mallor- | quin of noble family is said to have waited forty-five years in determining to i lead his sweetheart to the altar, with no protest from her, and without having been slain in evaporation by his moth l er-in-law.
 ] Last summer during the latter eart 1 of July when the thermometer in Wash 1 ington and New York stood around 90 | degrees in the shade and in Madrid ran l to blood heat the breezes famed these island folk to the tune of 76 degrees.
 The surface of the island is extreme ly varied. The fiat lands. admirably cul- | tivated and covered almost entirely with l orange, lemon, almond, and olive trees, spread out beyond mountains four or five thousand feet high Upon the sides of these peaks snug little villages seem | to hang. Like many of the Mediterran- 1 can islands whose names are suggestive l of mythlogical lore, Mallorca's littoral, | especially that extending from Dragonera to Pollensa and from Soller to the ex- tremity of Formentor is indeed pictur- esque. The natural beauty of it's huge cliffs, seeming to be touched by hot wave and cloud at the same moment, is awe-inspiring and mysterious. Visitors are apt to feel reasonably sure that i nymphs, undines, sirens and tritons once peopled it's grottos and that Ligea csomber her lovely haid with heE .lld. en comb on some of the queer juttine rocks at their entrances.
 Nor is this wonderful island an i'm. practical place to spend a few months There are about 120 miles of railroad: on the island, and a system of loca roads which permit of travellers visit ing many places of the chief points of in terest with ease and comfort
 '"These pAcnlA who tnke life so leis urelyq are not lazy, shiftess ,or unpleas
 ant in personal dppearnce or mnnner They are intelligent, honest, capable O
 work, sober and economical Thes, characteristics preserved throughout tht
 centuries of uninterrupted peace ant
 tranquility have made them peaceable
 trusting and home-loving. The men ar,
 of medium height, strong, and agile. The!
 have competed brilliantly in many of th championship sporting events held il Spain, and wherever they have gone or the continent their undertakings ha z
 been marked with success. And as fo
 the women, Col. March in writing O
 them says:
 'They lovely slSir the women of North America, feature as if scu l., or Praxiteles and they walk l. he goddesses' But ht laments in the next breath that the, ) know nothing of the joy of living du, partially to ancestral Arabic influences
 and to the fact that their island has fo
 so long been under strict religious re pression He calls MalloEa the love , Hest cage on the planet, it's wonderful, in telligent and gracious women being al bored as lodalisks in harem without
 sultan
 Like many of the regions and cities 0 : Italy, this island of Balearic group los amid the waters of the Mediterranean f has many interesting treasures in art history, archaeology and architecture ' Its cathedral and the palaces of some O
 the nobility are truly enchanting Q And an all important feature, Tn s cost of living is cheap in Mallorca Wh 6 would not be astonished to know tha = he could become member of the Roya
 Cub of Regottas," fully and comfortabl,
 equipped for about 20 cents month il
 dues? Though prices have risen here a
 elsewhere during the war the aforemcn Q tioned Spanish colonel, says that it is tn = spot of all F3'ro1e and America where on ' 1uld have lived the most reasonabl during these past five years
 ''The Balearic group, belonging t Il Spain, consists of five main islands an , several islets. It is ruled as a nilitar
 district. but the mother country has bee wise enough to recruit the soldiers sh Q needed for discipline from among the is
 flanders themselves thus insurng a sat
 isfactory rule"