New-York tribune., 1922-11-02
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4 Copr.. New York Tribune Ine 1879
| General Leonard Wood advises
woman's suffrage for the Philip.
| pines. DR.. Walter E. Traprock, the
well known explorer and missionary
/ who introduced monogamy and two
piece bathing suits into the South
Sea Islands,. told us yesterday that
woman's suffrage had been Of the
greatest assistance to him in accom-
plishing his reforms there.
when | arrived" he said, "poly-
andry and no bathing suits at all
were the vogue. / Immediately gave
the women the ballot. Within year
the moral tone of the Islands had
risen to polygamy and one-piece
bathing suits. This in itself was a
great advance. But I was not salts
fed. kept the good work up, and
| within another twelve-month mon
ogamy and two-piece bathing suits
were the rule"
Synopsis of the seasons football
reports: "But the husky yostng men
from, So-dnd-So aoere not to be
denied"
Boxing classes for women have
been added to the curriculum of the
University Of Illinois, and it is a
darned good thing. A man naturally
wants a wife who is able to protect
him from insult.
Captain Fitzurse and Glenn Haw-
ley, the Old Soak, met in our office
the other day. The Captain always
treats the Old Soak with a great deal
Of condescension, which is, we fear,
entirely lost upon Mr.. Hawley. We
showed to the two Of them clipping
from a newspaper the heading of
which is: Sixteen Elephants, Armed
to Tusks, To Be Used in Stalking
Pink Duck"
And the story told of an expedi-
tion to India planned by the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History.
No specimen of this pink duck is
now in captivity, it seems, and it
lives where the great man-eating
tigers live; therefore the hunters
must go out upon elephants, as the
duck hunt may turn into a tiger
hunt.
"In 1857 said Captain Fitzurse,
after reading the clipping, "just
few weeks before the sepoy Rebel
lion broke out, set out from Luck
now with Major Arthur Pendragon,
an English officer, and we captured
thirty or forty of these ducks.
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"Our main interest, however, was
not in duck hunting. We wanted
the ducks for bait. We were after
tigers. The tiger of that region is
very fond of these pink ducks, and,
curiously enough, he likes them
cooked. Probably the first tiger
that ever tasted a pink duck tasted
cooked one.
"The tiger stalks duck and
catches him much in the manner
in which a kitten stalks a water
bug or cockroach. Then, with the
duck in his mouth, he enters one Of
the native villages.
"He hunts through the village
until he finds a fire burning, the
villagers. Of course, fleeing before
him. Sometimes he finds a fire
burning in the open, as the natives
of that section do a great deal Of
their cooking out of doors; some
times he finds the fire in hut. He
drops the duck on the fire and waits
until it is cooked, then he scatters
the fire with his giant paws and
devours his prey.
"The fondness Of the tiger for
broiled pink duck is extraordinary.
! know more of the habits of the
tiger, perhaps, than any other man
living. And it is only for the sake
of broiled pink duck that he is will
ing to face flames. No other con-
slderation in the world will move
him to approach fire.
'In the season when the tiger is
hungriest, and therefore most like
Is to eat human beings if he can
not get pink ducks, the natives of
that region usually build Gordon
Of fires around their villages and
keep pink ducks continually broil-
ing on them. In this way they pur-
chase immunity from attack for
themselves.
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"If tiger has captured pink
duck and cannot find native ham
let with any fire burning in it he
will squat in the jungle for days
with the duck in his mouth waiting
fol fire to be lighted, whimpering
and .groaning and mewing and
carrying on.
Captain pendragon and myself,
as | have said, started out with our
elephants and with between thirty
and forty pink ducks. When we
came to the tiger country we be-
gan to broil the ducks, and the
aroma brought in the tigers in
swarms. Killing them when thew