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Evening star., 1924-06-29

T OOKING at the great profusion OF
~ food in the market it seems to me
that living among the Fflipinos must
be exceedingly cheap. My inquiries
show that Al things are compare
lively high, and that the people OBJ
ject to the profiteers and the taxes
quite as much here as we do at
home. Vegetables sent from the
United States are sold in Manila at
double the prices of the native
products, but most OF the green stuff
used by tho American residents comes
from abroad. One reason is that the
methods OF fertilization make it un-
safe to eat lettuce or anything of
that kind which has not been cooked
Nevertheless the FIlipinos have
many economies that We have not.
A large percentage of the cost of the
things We buy in the market and
stores comes from the packages and
boxes in which they are sold. The
Filipino market woman often uses no
wrapping paper whatever. and she
gets along without string. She
wraps UP meat, fruit and other
things in banana leaves. which she
cuts from her trees in the garden.
and such leaves are sold for a song
In the market. A bit of rice straw
takes the place of a string, and q
thorn may fasten the leaves together
in place of q pin.
Out in the country some of the
homes of the poor, built of bamboo
Evening star., 1924-06-29

There are scores, however, who have
their long locks flying loose in the
breeze 1t is thick and glossy and
it often reaches to below the waist
T CAN'T give you all the varieties
of fish we have in the islands, but
they are numbered by the hundreds.
sizes from that Of a pea to as big as
a man. A choice nsh is the lapu
lapu. One was sold while I waited: !:
it was as big as q two-year-old baby
and the woman peddier told me 1t
weighed thirty pounds. Near 1t on
the floor, tied to the iron fence by its
tail, was a live turtle as big as
washtub, Mapping the stones with its
nippers and rolling its eyes in a rage.
AS l snapped my camera at it, 1t
opened it's mouth and snapped its
jaws at me, and 1 was thankful I was
not barefooted, for my toes were in
reach. 1 priced the turtle and the
was twenty-five pesos. 1t must have
weighed seventy-five pounds.
Think of eating octopuses. They
have little ones here which would fill
q quart measure, with bodies about as
big as my fist and eight long, Shiny,
transparent taions that hang down
from their jellylike forms making
one think Of a tangle OF snakes on a
limb. There are Holsters in the same
Evening star., 1924-06-29

TN past ages, though it was not
known at the time, many Of the
principal troubles of the world
= arose from indigestion. We read
of the deep melancholy OF Dants
and of how he would sit brooding
for hours. This was indigestion
We read OF the terrible restlessne0
ell over Europe which led TO the
first crusade; again Indigestion; II
Peter the hermit and his followers
had known how to take q few suit
able exerotSes on the door OF the
bathroom overy morning they would
mover have started for Jerusalem
In other words. the secret OF digoo-
ton lies in exercise; not taken In
tho rude fashion OF earlier times on
horseback and with hounds and In
such ways, but taken on the moor Of
the bathroom while lying on the
stomach. In ten minutes = person
sets himself In energy for the day
without wishing to inture the sale oc
any OF the numerous methods OF
exercises already on the market,
venture here to put in my own sy4-
tenn, merely as = sample, moro or
loss typical, OF what 10 being achieved
in this respect.
Daily Exercise ON the Floor
C0uFse No. 1.
This course is specially designed
for persons in middle life anxious to
get rid of obesity, melancholy and
taciturnity.
Movement No. I. Standing on the
ball Of the left foot, wave the right
foot three times s1nartly round the
head. at tho Same time shouting.
Hoorah! Hoorah! Hoorah!
Movement No. 2. Do It again
Movement No. 3. Again
Movement No 4. ONCE more. this
time shouting ha! ha! ha!
Movement No. 5.-Standtng In an
easy attitude. pass tho right arm
below and behind tho right knee so
as to bring it round abovs and be-
yond the loft shoulder, at the same
time rapidly revolving the body to
the right and elevating the left foot
so as to pivot on the right heel.
Movement No. s. Keep on spin
ming.
Movement No. z. Reverse.
Movement No. s. Go into low gear
Movement No. 9. Stop.
Movement No. 10. Turn . couple
Of handsprings downstairs to break
fast.
Ten minutes of this kind of play
taken every day will keep obesity at
arms length indefinitely.
Course No. : (business men).
This course is so designed that 1t
can be taken in the ONCE itself ut in
tervals between signing checks. clos-
ing deals and taking in money. There
is no need, in short. for the business
man to get out OF his swivel chair
while doing these movements.
Movement No. Move the ears
gently back and forward.
Movement No. 2-Light q large
cigar and breathe very deeply in such
a way as alternately to draw the
smoke into the cavity Of the mouth
and expel 1t.
Evening star., 1924-06-29
A Radiurn KeyhoIe.

TT appears that the use of radium
or its salts makes 1t possible to
light UP keyhole permanently with
little trouble or expense. The sur
face of the plate containing the key
hole is covered with this iIluminat-
ing preparation. 1t does not throw
out any great degree of light, Of
course, but does give illumination
sufficient to reveal the dark outline Of
the keyhole very clearly. Thus there
Is afforded enough light to enable one
to see where the key should be in
serted.
The marvellous persistence Of ra-
dunn il very convenient for such q
purpose. 1t is not necessary to re-
new the light, since it never goes
out" Radium Is comparatively a new
discovery, SO that there has not yet
been sufficient opportunity to meas
ure the actual time that it will con-
tinue to emit light. 1t has been cal
culated, however. by scientists that
1T will continue effective for several
thousand years at least.
Evening star., 1924-06-29

stall, sharks with skins as thick As a
blanket, ready to be cut into steaks
and chops, and little round sinners
which look like twenty-five.cent
pieces fresh from the mint, and other
fishes of red, yellow and blue. The
crabs and prawns have place Of
their own.
But let US go back to the menu
They have here a dainty which is
sometimes described as both soup and
meat in one course. We shall find 1t
among the poultry and eggs. It is, in
fact, q spring chicken or duckling
that blooms in the spring Of the
states. 1t consists Of duck eggs
which have been Matched almost to
breaking the shell, and then cooked
and sold as delicacy. The eggs are
kept for two weeks or more in rice
straw, kept warm on the principle of
the fireless cooker, and then taken
out and prepared for an al fresco
luncheon. / bought ono for a nickel
and peeled off the shell. The en-
bryonic duckling inside was crowded
together in a little round ball of yell
low and white, with faint streaks of
blue, and. contrary to what people
have told me. it did not smell bad.
In the minds of some of our
people at home the only chickens
known in the Philippines are game
roosters. They have read Of the
cockdghts. and cannot realize that
Evening star., 1924-06-29
LARDNER OFFERS TAX BILL.

but neither side will give out any
figures except to say that terms was
amicable to both.
II got what I was after" is what
Mr.. Siegel told some of his friends in
strict confidence.
We'll, a year from March they will
half to build = new post ofice in Tet-
ter to accommodate the crowd that
have come from all parts OF the
did get and 1t may surprise some to
fnd out that his former salary was
$4,000 and he was raised to $3.50
with tho understanding that he lay
off the home made beer.
Now, it must be remembered that
when Congress put this publicity
clause over they wasn't betraying no
secrets in regards to themselfs. II
you don't know what salary a con-
gresham gets you can look it up in
the almanac. Whatever else he gets
wouldn't be on his return anyway. as
1t Is technically known as gift or
loan. So all in all it seems to me
like it amt quite fair to make we
boys tell what we are getting without
wheedling some kind of secrets out
Of the boys that passed the law and
for that reason 1 suggest that vile
we arc prying into peoples affairs,
why let's go ahead and pass some
more publicity measures to include
congressman and everybody alike and
make them hang up In the post office
or some other public place their
sworn answers to the following
questionnaire:
1. How many baths do you take
per week?
2. Did you ever dirt?
3. Do you ever get tired of your
wife (husband)?
4. was you ever stewed?
Evening star., 1924-06-29

disease such as badness, mango and
sinking Of tho stomach. What we
want to know is how long can life
be thus sustained and prolonged" II
they do ask this, our readers will re-
ceive a shock Of surprise-in fact, we
have been keeping this shock for
them-when we say that there is no
reason why they should not live as
long as they care to. (This offer is
restricted, Of course, to readers of
these papers; others must die as
usual)
In other words, We must now know
so much about longevity that we have
practically arrived At the secret of
living for ever-or at any rate until
death.
It may be Of interest to show the
way in which modern science has ar
rived at this conclusion. In the first
place, a great many actual cases of
longevity have been examined and
useful conclusions drawn from each
Case No. Gas reported in the Daily
Annalist, Cedar Corners, Iowa):
william Waterson celebrated his
1o1st birthday anniversary at his resi-
dence here at Cedar Corners The
old gentleman is still hale and hearty,
and celebrated the day by splitting
Evening star., 1924-06-29
THE URGE OF EXERCISE
HadB Benin Vooue;n the Dauso of GeatMo

two cords OF wood. Mr.. waterson
has been a water drinker all his life.
having never tasted alcoholic spirits
or tobacco"
The inference here is obvious.
Mr.. Waterson's life has been pre-
served for the plain and evident rea-
son that he drinks only water and
never smokes
We put beside this, however, d
rather puzsling item. which appears
in the Weekly News and Inteiligencer,
GeorEina Township, Ontario:
"Mr Edward Easiest celebrated his
1o1st birthday anniversary here at the
home Of his son, surrounded by his
grandchildren. in the presence OF a
representative Of the Weekly Intelli-
gencer, devoutly giving thanks for
hts continued health and strength.
Mr.. Easiest has been = heavy smoker
all his days, and stin reHshes his
glass Of hot toddy, compounded OF
rum, spices and sugar"
GOOD old man! Can we blame him?
And in any case it is clear that
he owes his life to rum and tobacco.
Indeed, what looks simple at frst
begins to appear more complicated.
Compare this:
Llanfydd. Wales. (F'rom the Liam
rydd F'yddist)
Mrs. LIewellyn Owen, a resident
Of this town, celebrated her 105th
birthday anniversary yesterday. Mrs.
Owen, who has lived in Wales since
her childhood, 100 years ago. still
retains all her faculties and maintains
a keen interest in English politics.
especially in the doings of former
Premier Lloyd George, whom she re-
members eighty years ago as a pupil
in her fathers school.
Mrs Owen talks Interestingly of
the great IRE Of London (Which she
remembers as girD and of the sail
ing Of the Pilgrim Fathers, many of
whom she knew. She doubts whether
the cabinet Of the Labor party In
England contains men Of the same
caliber as the greatest men in his
tory
In this case. without a doubt, Mrs
owen owes her life to her interest in
English politics.
From examples such as these we
see at once that there are certain
things which conduce to perpetual
youth, such as drinking nothing else
throughout life but water or nothing
but rum, as the case may be. Total
abstinence from tobacco undoubtedly
prolongs life. and so does excessive
smoking.
But modern science has recently
recognized that in the main what we
call old age is a condition brought
on by an insuffciency of sour milk in
the system. The discoveries of DR..
Menschnikoff have shown that sour
milk is full of minute poIyglots,
which, when let loose in the human
body, effect a general restoration. 1t
Is now proven beyond doubt that
anybody who takes a gallon of sour
milk night and morning can live for
ever. The only question isis il
worth It?
tCopyright, 1a24A
Evening star., 1924-06-29

or course on the other hand 1t
may be necessary to spend some
money building bigger and better
post offices in the ! pine towns of
people like star ball players. movie
actors and pugilists, hose salary. as
reported in the publ prints. amt al
ways exactly equivalent TO che figures on
their pay check. Like for inst. we
will say that they's q ball player
named Gus Siegel that lives in Tet-
ter, Ohio. and when the winter time
comes around Gus gives out the news
that he amt going to sign up again
with the Browns unless they come
acrost with q S2.80e raise.
'I wasn't only getting $4,000 last
season." said Mr.. Siegel, and I led
the league in fouls SO it seems to me
like / am entitled to $4,000 and II
don't get 1t will quit base ball
and go into the owl trapping busi-
ness"
Well, they's a lot of persihage back
and 4th between Mr.. Siegea and the
owner of the Browns and finely II is
give out that Mr.. Siegel has signed
up and the league is saved at the ex-
pense Of the ow1-trappinR bushes
Evening star., 1924-06-29

and mixed with lime before being put
into the mouth. 1t has an effect some
what like tobacco. I am told that
the habit came from the Malays who
overran these islands centuries ago
and intermarried with the aborigines,
forming large part Of the Filipinos
as we know them. Chewing the beteI
often stains the teeth black, and the
Burmese have q saying that reads:
ANY dog can have white teeth, but
only those who are able to afford the
betel nut can have beautiful black
ones"
Going on, take a piece OF white
root out Of a basket that stands on q
counter. and bite into IT. 1t makes
my tongue smart, ana I fnd it is
ginger. The root grows In the woods,
and SO far mono has been exported
The natives make a weak tea from 1t
which they drink with their rice and
fish.
Another thing that grows wild al
most everywhere throughout the
Philippines is the castor bean, from
which comes castor oil. and they have
nuts here so oleaginous that you can
touch a match to them and they will
burn like a candle. This is so of the
pill nut, which is served, as we like
salted almonds, throughout meal.
It's texture Is fioury, and It Is sweet
fsh to taste.
Evening star., 1924-06-29

Movement No. awhile still con-
tinuing No. ., place the feet upon a
stool or chair within easy distance,
fold the hands across the stomach
and close the eyes.
Movement No. Keep on.
Movement No. 5-Let the cigar fall
sideways into an ash tray, place the
head in a dropping position. draw a
handkerchief over the Uranium and
remain in the posture for half an
hour.
Movement No. 6-Pretend to snore.
Movement No. Come smartly to
an attitude OF a1acrity, remove the
handkerchief, pick the cigar up out
OF the ash tray, whiri around three
times on the swivel chair, ring for
the stenographer and start new
deal, At the same time moving the
ears back and forward with rapidity.
Perpetual Yoafh.
OUR readers-those Of them who
have arrived at this point OF our
discussion. and we are really not con-
cerned with the others-will naturally
interpose and say, You have told US
how the body may be sustained, reno
waited and upholstered by means of
systematic exercise, and how it can
be restored from vital or wasting
Evening star., 1924-06-29

this country has some fowls almost
as good as their own. The chickens
are brought in by the truckload and
boatload, In open work, bamboo
baskets. twice as big as a washtub.
They are set out for sale in the
market, and with them are ducks and
geese, and great bowls Of fresh eggs
had been told that the eggs were
small but some saw today were
half as big as my fist. They were as
white as snow, and was told that
none was from cold storage.
There are many kinds Of birds
sold, from tiny little singers. no
bigger than my thumb, to wild ducks
of fairly. good size. As I write
have two of these little birds inside
a cage which is not as big as an
ordinary sized inkwell As I look at
the two little birds poking their
bills out through the Stats think
Of the price. Tho cage and the birds
cost me exactly five copper cents
The cage Is made Of fine splits Of
bamboo about as wide as q shoe
string and as thick as the paper on
which this letter is printed.
4 X i X
0MITTING the large section Of the
~ market devoted to meat, which
is largely run by Chinese, who sell
all cuts of pork from the snout to
the tip sof the tail. as we'll as cara
Evening star., 1924-06-29
Shells That Build Rocks.

WITH respect to tho marvellous
" capacities that even the lowest
forms of life possess, a scientist at
tached to one of the government bu-
reaus has described the wonderful
shells that the radiolarian organisms
and their allies make Each of the
animals is a minute speck Of col
loidal compound. or geaetinous slime.
without visible structure of any kind.
vet each constructs for itself a tiny
casket Of exquisite beauty. The ma
terial that they use is either lime
or silica and 1t is extracted from
seawater.
The shells of Polycystina are 50
tiny that a woman's thimble would
hold at least a million Of them. They
were made long ago in Barbados,
where they form the chief part Of
a layer Of rock 400 feet thick.
Countless billions Of similar rock
builders still live in the sea and
their shells accumulate in the form
OF soft, gray mud, or ooze, on the
bottom Of the ocean: Eventually II
becomes rock.
Evening star., 1924-06-29

poles with nipa palm leaves for roofs,
cost less than twenty-five dollars, al
though there are, Of course, many ex-
pensive buildings. the homes of the
well-to-do and the rich. The whole
scale Of living seems low as compar-
ed with ours. The floors are often of
bamboo poles and the climate is go
warm that no carpets are needed. |
was offered a kitchen stove in this
market for less than a dollar. wish
you could see it. 1t was a bowl OF
red clay upon legs which raised it
three or four inches from the table on
which it will sit. The fuel will be
charcoal, and a cooking pot will rest
over the bowl.
The ordinary range is a ledge OF
bricks and mortar which runs along
on one side of the room. On the ton
of this are four or more holes, and
under them stove uoxes of stone
which get a draught from the front
Much Of the cooking is done in clay
bowls. and each bowl will have some
food which is cooked by charcoal.
In one kitchen I saw beans and fish
thus boiled together, and in another
was a stew Of pork and vegetables.
The beans and fish are mashed and
mixed after they are cooked; they are
delicious eaten with salt. Fish is
also boiled with the ginger root, but
in that case it is served whole.
Rice is eaten with fruit 1t is made
into bread and cakes and steamed so
that each grain stands alone. They
cook it better than we do. A favorite
dish among the children is rico fiour,
sweetened and put into a short BAN
boo tube plugged at the ends. It is
then thrown into boiling water. and
after short time taken out and
served hot
Evening star., 1924-06-29

bao beef and foreign meats brought
in cold storage. I shall treat Of the
vegetables and fruits. There are 50
many Of each of these that to men
tion their names would hll more
than a column. One of the dainties
Is the great flower that grows at the
and OF a bunch Of bananas. It is the
blossom which foreshadows the fruit,
a huge purple bud that looks like an
ear OF corn in the husk. This Is cut
up and served as a salad.
There arc other flowers ana greens
used the same way. There arc tur-
nips and carrots unlike ours, green
watermelons. and scores Of tropical
fruits not generally known In the
United States. One OF these is the
papaya. which looks like a green
squash on tho outside, but within is
as yellow as gold. It is said to con-
tain pepsin. ana taken before break
fast win help one digest buckWheat
cakea 1t grows on top of . slender
tree about twenty or thirty feet tall.
the only leaves Of the tree sprouting
out over the fruit
And then there IL the mango, a
delicious golden fruit which is called
the gem Of the Philippines There
.sre oranges OF every description,
and breadfruit. which has . green
wrrty outside but is soft and mushy
within. 1t Is az big As peck
measure and larger. There are
purple mangosteens which have a
crimson and snow white deah that
tastes like ice cream. There are
beans long and short, peas which I
have never seen before, and Gin
comas, a sweet turnip As big as q
base ball. which the natives eat a
we eat an apple. Another fruit ia
that Of the chicle, from whose bark
comes the sap of our chewing gum.
There are also roasting ears which
are, cooked and sold in the markets
ready to eat. You can buy q lunch
hero for ten cents.
Leaving the rice bazaar and the spa
ghetti. which is as fine as spun silk
and made by the Chinese, we 60 ON to
where they sell cigars and tobacco,
stopping awhile at the betel stands
where is ssid q nut which forms the
i chew Of millions In this part OF the
world. Every one smokes tobacco, and
! 1t fs safe to say that large ma
/ jority Of the common people chew the
beteI either In public or in private. It
is custom which prevails through
out Endo-Chfna, Malaysia and an the
4 islands Of this part Of the world. The
/ nut comes from the Areca palm, and
lit looks not unlike an English wal
nut. Thsre is a pile In front Of that
women peddler, and on the same
counter q mass of wet lime with some
palm lesves beside 1t. A girl has
stopped to buy. and an I look she
uicks up one Of the nuts and bites
nrto. ft. She opens her mouth and her
gums seem to be bleeding; her tongue
Isl bright red and her teeth seem to
dEfp blood Now and then she stops
and chews bit as she bargains. She
haA a qzrfd inside her cheek. See. she
seems to spit bloodt The gtrf is
cheavvinx the same kind of nut she ID
bu,Nng. The nut Is ground or cut %