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Evening star., 1922-06-04

perspective all unite in consummate
panorama effects.
In the grounds. outside. the walls of
Timbuctoo surround real African life.
backed by facsimile in staff" and
scene painting IN the distance.
Over there, away off, is Mount
Tomba Nearer is the jungle. Do
not try to walk to either. You would
never reach them. But, here. in be-
tween. are real lake dwellers. You
can visit them. primitive Africans.
who have never personally known
other residence. and whose folks lived
like this since neolithic days.
NOW, skip 10000 years. We're in
the iron age. around the corner.
Here are native smelters. here the
iron smiths who makes knives, plows,
spearheads. Here is the indigo dyer,
here the handmills Of millet.
Skip TO a-modern days. first al
ley to the left. We're up against the
motion picture theater of Tim huctoo
itself. Deserted Zone can fancy by
the natives. is the neighboring Ju-ju
house. Can It's black magic prevail
against the movies whitee
Rubbing shoulders with all this. and
more. the colony shows you its
worthy native artisans. in honorable
prominence. Look at the skill of
these men with their cunning mar
quetry work. so deft and exact in
polished handwoods, Now. this art
is all their own. And see these dyed
stuffs, not the everyday blue cotton.
Pharaoh was baby, that remain un-
fading while the tissue lasts. dyes
that have been remembered while the
world grew old.
They are not coal-tar stuff from
German factories. They are dyes for
cultured folks who love unfading
beauty!
l have called it "the most beautiful
sight since before the war" One of
the beautiful traits. surely, of this
colonial exposition is the way in
which the French administrators put
dark Africa up front. to let Its hum
BILE people show their merits.
So l have been led to trail my story
likewise.
1 could not pass Angkor. But have
neglected happier colonies and richer
exhibits, all here. spread gloriously.
in the ovation of greater France!
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Seeing in Colors.

At q meeting of the section of
cphthalmology Of the Royal society
of Medicine, held on March 10, q ais
cusston on colored vision was opened
nv p G. Doyne, F. r. c. s., who
nointed out that colored vision was
associated with a variety OF ncndl-
tions. physical and pathological the
most generally familiar form beng
perhaps, that following eXposure 10
snow, or that which may appear 10
those who have had catsrsctous
lenses removed. Work Dodd had de-
scribed a state Of green vision IN
man the subject Of tsbes dorsslls, snc
in the next volume he presented re-
cords Of thirteen cases of the condi-
tion.
In the discussion that followed M.
S. Mayon described q case of colored
vision which came to him for treat
ment. The subject was a taxicae
driver. who dared not take his cab
out at night. as he saw approaching
lights as a red wall and could not
discern whether lights were ap-
preaching or receding. Nothing
wrong was found in the fundus. but
probably there was present some
arteriosclerosis. He was about nifty
wears of age. He became much bet
ter in four months and resumed
work. Leslie Patton said tsbei!ca
seemed often 10 have had green
vision, but no cases of red vision In
subjects Of this disease were on re-
cord.
The president, rr. James Taylor
said that some patients with opuc
atrophy saw a pale blue mist in times
of twilight. Frank Juler referred TO
a case Of a medical man who hvs
months after a cataract operation
had purple vision. The patient him
self, who at one time was . professor
Of physiology. suggested that the
phenomenon was due to a change
induced in the reaction OF the visual
purple by the excess of blood which
cot in: that there might be some eis-
turbance Of the vitreous which acted
chemically upon the retina.
Evening star., 1922-06-04

game of chance at present The gov
ernor Of Lower California stopped all
the gambling except at the race track
several months ago. However the
bookies and pari-mutuels can strip
any one of all he has. Even a Mexi-
can governor cannot ask for more
than that.
CUNDAY is the biggest day of the
week here. 1t is then that one
can see Tia Juana at its best-or
worst-according to the point of
view. The most important racing
events. naturally. take place at this
time and it Is not unusual for 10000
Americans to swarm over the border
for day Of sport"
never saw SO many motors park
ed anywhere as saw the Sunday
noon I motored over from San Diego.
And as two long race trains from Los
Angeles pulled in Just as I arrived.
there was a big crowd at the track
meets-every one has to drop the
admission price in American silver
dollars in huge coin boxes at the
turnstiles-with the result that sew
eral change booths are kept busy.
Mexican money is no good in Tia
Juana except at the local post office.
And even there Mexican stamps are
sold for coins Of the L. S. A.
There were nine races the Sunday
afternoon I spent at the Tia Juana
Jockey Club. but after betting $50 on
winner and only cashing in $25
and seeing the polite way the horses
ran soon deserted the grandstand and
sought tho "old town"
The "old town" OF Tia Juana is a
mile or more from the race track.
And If one is not anxious to get
ones motor from the parking space
there are jitneys that jolt one over
for a quarter. But unless one has
a terrible thirst it's cafes offer no
attractions.
ventured in one of the most pre-
tentious establishments in the main
street. Three or four h-looking
customers were drinking with sew
eral battle SCARED members of the
fair sex. while a sad-eyed girl sang
a song hit OF before the war. A dirty
Mexican waiter brought me bottle
Of beer and asked me IL I would like
to buy drink for the singer. When
told him that I was a woman hater
he returned with a large saucer bear
ing the sign, Don't forget the kitty. "
So I obliged. But, despite the fact
that the beer was very good, I left
before the sad-eyed singer attempted
another song.
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CTRAINS of music that were waited
~ from another "honk-a-tonk" di-
rected my footsteps there. But one
look at tho motely gathering on its
dance floor was enough. The place
reeked with commingled odors Of stale
beer ana cheap perfume. In my haste
to reach the open air ! stumbled over
the unshod fest Of Z gallant soldier Of
the Msxicaa army. but hs never
noticed = 8. &. :.
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Peril in Scrubbers.

DR.. Andrew Wylie of the LONDON
Throat and Ear Hospital calls atteu-
ton in the Lancet TO a new domestic
danger. He has had several cases
lately in which pieces of wire were
found in the throat and larynx. owing
to cooks cleaning kitchen utensils
with a steel scrubber. The scrupper
consists Of steel shavines rolled into
a ball. In course of time pieces Of
steel get detached and. being very
small and almost colorless, escape the
cooks notice and are served with the
sood.
Evening star., 1922-06-04
Riches of Distant Colonial Lands Poured
Out at French Exposition.
Grateful Natives of Orient and Africa Transport Marsee Beautiful
Features of Their Own Life and France Doesn't Pay CenBoom Bus

THE most beautiful sight since be-
fore the war. So, l describe this
colonial exposition for tourists. If
there were nothing in it but the re-
production of Angkor-Wat, the
eulogy would still hold good!
Pierre Lott wrote an entire book
about the ruined temple of Angkor
riddle of Cambogia, built by lost
people in our middle ages, amid a
glorious city. In a day the Siamese
sacked the city, burned 1T. massa-
cred it's population. gutted Angkor
and the jungle swallowed up the
ruins to this day, There is fasci-
mating version of 1t in an English ro-
nance, "The Seeds of Enchantment."
Then. IL you can stand word painting,
tackle Lott.
Evening star., 1922-06-04
Rapid Tanning.

A METHOD which is said to be very
= rapid for use with all kinds of
hides has been brought out in Europe
by an Italian investigator and con-
sists in the use of a suitable tanning
solution whose strength is consider
ably higher than usual. The solution
10 brought into q chamber under pres-
sure and Is applied to one side Of the
hide to be treated while the other sidsI
Of the hide undes6oAs the action of .!
vacuum or IL simply kept ct atrnos.
pheric preEsurA
Evening star., 1922-06-04

mediately after the British colo
NAL empire. with its 393.00O.0OO in
habitanls, and ahead of the colonial
dominion of Holland. with its as
900. 900 Inhabitants.
1t is more varied and furnishes a
relatively greater market for for
eign trade. The impression that
France keeps jealously to herself
these foreign markets Is an error.
Here are exact figures:
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DEFORE the war, a little more than
half the trade OF the French colo
nies G,734 million francs of n total
of S,2c3 million francs) was with
France. For 1920 the proportion was
exactly half (5.s67 million francs out
of 1l,954 million francs). In this
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They have reproduced the cen
! trail temple. right here at Marseille.
1t is astounding. Each square foot
of its surface is nodded in exact
| facsimile from the original alas, in
| that same perishable staff f'-as
| swift-constructed, temporary ex-
| position edifices regularly must be.
But this marvel of Angkor. So won
derful so unexpected.
Already. Marseille mourns: 1T
cannot last. In a few years the
weather will ruin it"' And already
Indo-China, grateful, rich. replies:
do you desire to keep it? All right
AS if the most natural thing in the
world, the colony is putting aside
300. 900 francs which the great ex-
pertinent will cost-to coat the vast
edifce three times with q non-perish-
able paint.
4 NGKOR, in the jungle, is ruined
temple. At Marseille, it is the
Indo-China building. So, the archi-
tect has done d remarkable thing. The
original main temple being on
height (three sets of temples lead to
it by vast stairs, terraces and stone
lined lily ponds), the copy at Mar
seille respects it faithfully, up there
But, doing so, the architect has, SO
to speak, dug into the hill.
So, at Marseille, to gain interior
space for the exhibits, the main tenn
Pile rests on vast basement halls. in
the same style exact, and nodded
from a lot of minor temples!
Here are riches in the basement
(as says Albert Sarraut the while
beauty reposes on them-beauty. his
tory, poetry, mystery. resting on the
fundamental products of the land,
as should be.
With the usual artistic impulse of
the French, the exposition is ar
ranged to reproduce the most curious
and least-known monuments, art
treasures and luxury products OF the
colonies.
Mysterious architecture like that
of Anghor is put before the eyes
of citizens not likely to visit the
original site.
1t is the same for sumptuous woven
stuffs, furniture, jewels and semi
Jewels, bric-a-brac, food products
and the rest. Here are wines from
Mount Lebanon, cloth-of-gold and sill
ver-and-rose silks from Beyrouth,
and furs from the highlands of Syria!
Here is a new musical instrument
from aeascar-seasoned wood
and vaguely like a xylophone, but
giving flutelike tones-whlch bids
fair to make sensation in the west
ern world! Here-and here-but
space, space, space, space!
4 to living art. from artisans to
dancers. from strange music to
strange perfumes, not even Coney
Islands cloying triumphs in the
SHOW" line can spoil for you, by
their remembrance. the genuine
which you see at Marseilie. The
novel thing is dona for the first time.
Exotic folks and things have not
been brought: they've come.
After Angkor. the artistic triumph
comes from poor dark Africa. Didn't
1 tell you. the whole thing is sur
prise? TO compose the building of
. the colony of French West Africa,
and to inclose its grounds. the archi-
tect has take-what do you Think
the walls of Timbuctoo!
Timbuctoo the mysterious!
But here the colonists take up the
white mans burden. while pAytAg al
honor whore honor IL surely due. Just
as the negro melodies and rag have
precious native genius Al their own.
Evening star., 1922-06-04
d SUNDAY AT TIA JUANA

but never touch the heights without
development by cultured specialists,
so this strange style of.Timbuctoo. Is
used by the French architect, down
there, to build a veritable palace!
This is how 1t is done:
The great gate OF Timbuctoo IL
vastly enlarged. 1t is Wldened anu
broadened to a noble building. III
Is architectur of the men OF Mars!
folks say.
In its circling central hall, these
motives of another world repeat
themselves. Here, around all sorts
Of rich commercial exhibits (entirely
for the business mani. West Africa
appears in scenes of beauty for the
tourist. In embrasures, set like stage
scenes, light and shade and color and
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city in one of the new motor taxis-
cbeap. smart. new, green and white,
dashing everywhere.
In the shady Frado driveway you
come 10 great wooded park-and
Immediately it is a living vision OF
exotic lands!
WHY, it is Indo-China. at the re-
w constructed temple grounds of
mysterious Ankkor-Wat! 1t is west
Africa, when you stand INSIDE the
walls of Timbuctoo, whose central
tower gate is enlarged beyond scale
TO serve as the palace of the A y. r.
1t is Algiers. in the shady courts
of the Algerian building. where the
sunlight beats upon the fountains
and dark vistas open up. COOL down
long corridors. where pink SILKS snot
with gold glow under marble arches.
II is the SIOUX of Tunis-tunnels
of old masonry that date from the
crusades They are but perlsnaple
"staT." but nodded with exactness'
everv square foot. over the original
old walls of the rooted streets WHICH
make the Bazar of Tunis.
1t is Morocco. inside what appear
TO be the walls of Fez-bits of veri-
table old forbidden city which has
nothing nowadays forbidden, ana
with natives going about their ousl-
ness. yet always ready to answer
1cr{
are two great things;
l. 1t is not Coney Island. Put
avsy all ideas of a fake scene built
for posing motion pictures! Here, the
orient has done the work, and Africa.
Itself il has come on visit And
these natives are not supers, belly
dancers camel drivers. They are
business natives. smart, prosperous.
with a stake. however small, in the
venture, For
2. The French government has not
spent a cent on this magnificent show!
All has been worked out, paid for
ana put up by the general govern
m.nts of the French colonies and pro-
tectorates, and the business interests
which they foster. including important
contributions of the municipality and
chamber of commerce of Marseiile.
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business men, on the one hand'
- native and foreign, and on the
other the great rators-the
men of force and culture who run
things over there. 1t is true they
were originally appointed from Paris.
hut they have a free hand to work
out the interests of their colony, to
spend it's money (after having made
itD and enjoy the confidence. alike, of
important natives and foreigners on
tho spot. So they are able to get all
kinds of results.
No central government in Paris
could have put up a show like this.
1t would not have dared to spend the
money. Tho work would have cost
ten times a. much. Its results would
have been ten times less real.
Pshaw! This is q show. not OF one
government, but of ten governments;
Young, flushed with pride and conf
dence, palpitating with energy and
riches-the first self-revela.ion of
greater France!
Few OF .us realize this greater
France.
Hare in q single spot the tourist
dnds the exotic art and curiosities
of the $4,000. 900 Inhabitants Of French
eelonies In Africa. Madagascar, Indo-
Chj,nrkaS PsniAc and West fndies.
fnis 9fsaAAr Sfaaos tpAtts OF
WAanh, ,s1tka Aigfsrn. are quite % An
equality with France OF the main
hnnenGupga)n.sAxteuS and Donulation
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| year of the exposition 192l 1922
France bought 23.ooO,oOo tons from
her colonies and sold them only H.
100000 tons-which does not look
like dumping. does it?
France has never dumped. She has
never abused her colonies. She has
nourished them with benefits. This
is one reason why, now that they are
in luck. they return her generosity
in this splendid exposition of their
own making.
l have Just heard two little stories.
in passing conversation, which show
| how the wind blows.
We Americans in France felt rich
in 1920, when the dollar, for a short
time. touched II francs. Today it is
10 francs 20, But the plaster of
war consequence. at between 500
and 500 per cent premium, and the
same is more or less true for other
French colonies. They have been
very lucky.
The other tale concerns the won
derful hardwoods which are helping
to make French West Africa rich.
Could Americans import them
profitabIy?" 1 asked. They laughed.
Why. the Bull line steamships, out
of New York, load regularly with
'iroco,' acajou, etc. in a vast busi-
nessr' they answered.
THERE are Americans in France
who still bring up the old story
that American cotton goods lost a
market when France took over NADIA
sascar But they are careful not
to mention modern things, such as
that Frances development of moroc-
co has furnished the United States a
valuable new export field.
l know it for a fact that in the ta
| blelands of French West Africa-by
the French railroad. above the port
of Conakry-fourteen American en-
gineers a year ago were prospecting
| in every direction. and it was not for
French interests. as 1 ascertained.
My old friend, b.. Suzor, who la
bored for three years in vain to es-
tablish French war orphans in those
healthy garden highlands (Fouta
Djalon). where they would grow up
proprietors (poor little fellows to
miss the chance of itD, found capital
imm ediately tand part of it Ameri
CAM to take up a vast tract for pri-
vate money making enterprises.
America. again patronizing Liberia,
is a neighbor of this latter. Conakry
is cosmopolitan port. Dakkar is
a veritable French city. Native
Africans. in white burnous, run motor
cars, cluck k-cluck, into the jungle.
On the train up to Fouta-Djalon you
pass coauettish little stations. beauti-
full schoolhousex courthouses, pre-
lectures, hospitals, clinics. churches
and department slores of chain COM
panies!
Everywhere France has spent
money. built up. fostered education
and self-help. And this bread, long
cast upon the waters. is returning
after many days!
What fine men they send out as ad-
ministrators.
Gourdon. war hero, with one arm
and one eye, is at the head of public
instruction in Indo-China. (He
rushed home in 1914 to fight.) Gentle
patient, modest. exact and deeply
erudite. a demon for work. as he was
for fighting, Gourdon is one of the
| chief men at Marseille, in charge of
the Indo. China palace. which they
put up.
Ana what IL the Indo-China build.
ing?
why. 1t is . marvellous reproduction
las .myssszious ApSkez.WSt
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the long bar in the Casino and let
nature take fits course.
If you believe that true happiness
comes from the inside, YOU may sup
ply a happy ending to this mournful
tale. It's beyond me 10 do SO.
Evening star., 1922-06-04

One of my reasons for visiting the
old town" was to wrap myself about
some food. ! had looked forward to
delicious Spanish luncheon in a
picturesque vine-covered restaurant.
for being a dangerous optimist I had
pictured myself quaffing the bottled
laughter of Iberian peasants to the
tinkling of Spanish guitars.
The only restaurant at Tia Juana
was a lunch counter and the only
Spanish dish I could find on its n.y.
spccked menu was chile con carne.
l have often eaten chunks of rub
ber tires for lobster a la Newburgh
have had Welsh rarebits that tasted
served with salads that contained a
little of everything except coffee
grounds But never have had any
thing quite as awful as this bowl of
mouthful OF it would be casus belli
anywhere. Two mouthfuls would
make a lifelong pacifist bellicose.
How about some Tia Juana
chicken" asked the waiter And in
sheer desperation / ordered it. A
moment later / was served with a
hot dog''-a long, red frankfurter
stuck into a roll. 1t was the best
Tia Juana had to offer, so / ate it
and liked it.
Evening star., 1922-06-04

r PUSHED on to the Casino. which
its long bar. which was functioning
perfectly. it had no charms for me.
The roulette tables were deserted and
the only activity that ] could discov-
er-aside from elbow raising-was at
a postcard counter. where a score of
Americans were indulging in the fa-
vorite tourist pastime of making the
postman peevish. Here. at least, was
something Mexican the postage
stamps.
The sixth race had been run before
l returned to the Erandstand, where
met some of the officials of the
Jockey club. They gave me the usual
"You should have been here last Sun
day. line of talk and suggested that
/ return the following Sunday, when
the Governor of Lower California
would be here. One of them assured
me that any whisky bought in Tia
Juana was above suspicion, as the
jockey club had bought several thou
sand barrels of real stuff before pro-
hibition. But this good news did not
jibe with the explanation why the
price of drinks had been increased
from e5 to 35 cents.
THE duties are so high-the Mexi-
can officials are such grafters-that
we've had to raise the price of our
liquor to make any money" said a
second race track official, who had
not overheard the others story.
I was for leaving at the end Of the
seventh race-in order to avoid some
Of the heavy trafiic on the way back
to San DIEGO. But my companionf
would not hear Of IT. They insisted
that We place our Maistltues against
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-25

eighteen Ny parents seem to
think they can keep me home and
do with me Is they please. What
yould YOU advise me to do. don't
like to leave because it Is unpleas-
ant for mother, and even though !
she is cruel to me l love her. It
really isn't her fault. She doesn't
seem to realize; that's all.
100 PCT. GIRL.
Il seems 70 me it would be more
satisfactory to pay AZ much for
your board and room as you would
have to pay elsewhere and to ask
for the privilege Of having your
room alone. Probably your moth
er would have to sacrifice one OF
her roomers>but she might be glad
to do SO in order to keep you at
home. You really ought to have
more privacy, but you cannot ex-
pect it for $500 a week. I should
think it would be more satisfactory
to pay a little more and to let your
mother buy clothes for herself and
your sister.
Yes, you are old enough to make
your own decisions. Without ar
F, gument do what you think to be for
the best. OF course you need rec
reation. and il you cannot have
! that and live at home. you are JUS
titled in finding a home elsewhere
| Look for the lovable and human
side in the people you consider
trash" They too are Gods chill
dren. and just as worthy of con-
sideFation as you are. Don't be
snobbish. II you are really better
than your surroundings it will be
because you have greater love and
compassion than those around you,
not because you work in an office
and wear fine clothes.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a
girl Is years old and am consid-
cred good-looking. There is boy
I like who is about seven years MY
senior. l am staying with my sis
ter. who lives in another town ard
f. hardly ever see him. My mother
doesn't object to my going with
this fellow. but my brothers and
| sisters do, as he is Of another M
tionality. Do you think this mat
tiers much? When I am home l
am with this boy large part Of my
time. Do you think he is too old
He always treats me with respect
and kindness when / am with him.
PEGGY.
/ The fact that the boy is Of an
other nationality should not make
a difference. 1t must be remem-
bered that America has not mon
opoly on all the good people in the
world; all nations have their good
andsbad citizens. The character OF
the young man is the thing that
counts.
He is old for you and you are
cer1ainly young to go with boy
but il he calls at your home occa-
sionally, it is all right.