The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
AMERICAN PARTY HAS NO TROUBLE ON PERSIAN TOUR
No Evidence Of Feeling That Led To Imbrie's
 Death Found

. PARIS. July 26.-(By Associated Press. IA party of three Ameri- cans has just returned from three months travelling in Persia, dur ing which they saw no sign of the feel ing which led to the recent fatal at tack on American Vice. Consul Imbrie. They carried no arms, not even a re- volyer, relying solely on the recom- mendation which the head of the Bank tiara tribe made in entrusting the party to the hospitality of the tribe.
 The. party included two men, and one woman. Their experiences carried them not so much to the towns as among the nomadicy tribes, whose customs they studied. They accompanied the Bank tiara tribe on its migration northwatd for almost three months, the woman us- ing tent while the men lived with the natives.
 Thus they were able to witness the battle of the nemad against nature. As the life of the nomads depends upon their animals, of which they possess horses, asses, sheep, cows and some mules, they are forced to follow the grass toward the north each year when it disappears in the south.
 7 This migration means crossing the river Karun and three mountain ranges attaining height of 12000 feet. For over 12 hours their route is over snow and they have no winter outfit for this journey. the women travelling bare footed, carrying their babies strapped to wooden cradles on their backs and re- 1snx,1ns, khAi.. sha,a aHe,, k,,, carrying their rifles. Their possessions are loaded on COWS as well as mules.
 During the northward trek, the American party crossed the Zaardhi, of Yellow mountain pass, which so far as is known, never before had been crossed by Americans or Europeans.
 Men Shy At Styles
 The doctors have disagreed again, this time as to whether men or women are more -sApid in their mission to the deerees of fashion. Marcel Provost, member of the French Academy, who is a specialist in pen analysis of women and their soul, says of afteF-the-war girls in his latest book
 The debility of the feminine judg- ment when confronted with the dieta of fashion and the strange abdication of personality in this matter is, alas, one of the strongest arguments against the equality of the sexes."
 Meantime Paul Poiret, most daring of French dressmakers who has just been decorated with the legion of honor and who has been trying to give some good ideas to men to relieve them from the trials of the traditional costumes has given up .masculinity in despair.
 He says. that all he has been able to get by trying to develop sensible and comfortable styles for men has been laughter when he wore some of the costumes. So now he concludes 'Men are such stupid sheep they don't deserve to have any other bother about their dress.Y ,.
 Educational Additions
 7 The minister of public instruction in Prenier Herriots cabinet made an en- tireAy new departure in selecting off cers for his department. He-has chosen state school teacher of Paris as as- sistant child secretary of his cabinet. This.is the first time on record in France that any teacher has been ap- pointed as direct collaborator with the minister of education. A professor in the secondary schools has also been made a member of this minister's cabi- net.
 Chimpanzees Arrive
 A dozen victims of mans egoism have just arrived in Bordeaux from French West Africa in the form of chimpanzees and a couple of baboons captured in French Guinea. Four male chimpanzees, which are five feet tall, are destined for grating laboratories while the others are doomed for experiments at the pasteur institute. Only one of the con signment, a female long tailed ape with her infant, has the good fortune to be on her way to the geological garden at Paris. Three chimpanzees died on the voyage.
 The capture of chimpanzees and the commerce in them is now strictly regu. lated in this French colony as there was danger of making them extinct when bands of hunters came and killed about 100 yearly.
 They used to surround the animals in the brush, beat them with clubs and fire shots at them with the result that the captured animals invariably sue cumbed to wounds. This hunting was by no means free from danger to the hun ters. In fact monkey hunters in Guinea may be recognized by the fact that they seldom have all their fingers.
 Chimpanzees can be hunted now only for/ scientific purposes under official permits and by means of nets similar to those used by fishermen but of stout. CT cord and with heavier weights.