The Coconino sun., 1925-04-24

shop" Then he wound up his piteous
appeal with "Once paid a visit comes
to know the reality of the fact"
i Why, you could get a string of
dried huckleberry beads here, war
salted to keep off rheumatism, tuber-
culosis or mumps, for about the price
of quart of ripe berries of that va
riety
Honest, this is a small world, con-
tanning many large words and queer
people. Since visiting this interesting
island, which is only few marine
miles removed from the widely adj
vertised island of Borneo (Borneo is
one of this group, whether you know
it or not) the island from which came
Barnum's famous wild man, | have
come to the conclusion that words
have much to do with their being
ostracized, as it were, by map max
ers. The islands are small and the
names of the places couldn't find room
on an enlarged map of the United
States.
For instance, how could you get
even the name of this hotel on one
small island? "Hotel en- Herstelling-
soord Nongko Djardjar." 1t would
/
to tell the driver the name of the
hotel while the machine was running.
Honest, they have to take some of
these names out of the harbor to
turn them around. 1t is too expen-
sive to advertise such places. All the
big type in the shop goes to spellin:
the name of the place. Then there is
no place to mention what the place is
good for
The menu card at Buitenzorg tuck
ed the island of Java through the
name and wrapped the following par
TALLY abbreviated spelling of it in
| type large enough to read, 'Ned. |
Ind. Hotelvereeninging," around it. |
"Ninging" is a favorite method of
rounding out the end of word.
There is no desire on my part to I
keep anything back or hide out any
thing that can be printed. We are
not from Los Angeles and don't own /
a lot down here.
Batavia is quite large gathering I
Of place, where one can see the I
Javanese at work at his favorite place I
of rest.
Really, Batavia presents, with her
deep water canals, the greatest all
around laundry ever exposed to the
eye.
For miles along these canals you
may see women sousing clothes into
the canal, then beating them on a
rock to get the dust out of 'em. | am
not sure whether these canals are
used for sewerage purposes or not,
but | saw about all kinds of stuff II
floating along in them and the water i
is about the color of the Colorado
river, only thicker looking and more 4
of a slate shade. Naturally one would 4
prefer to have his duds renovated as I
far up stream as possible.
The Javanese are very clean people n
SO far as walloping their duds in
dirty water is concerned and one
should not willfully attempt to dis
courage the women scattered along
the canal that in America Saturday 4
night is set apart for the personal
douse and early Monday all our dirty
linen, etc. should adorn our back yard
These people however, seem to be so
proud of the fact that they are at
tempting to be clean, that they scat
ter their washings all along the canal
for miles. 1t may be that different
families have different hours and
select places to pound out the old and
pound in the new dirt, with places to
scatter out the water-logged personal
equipment to let the sun bake it in
along the canal
The women washers seem to be
rather an irresponsible class. They
knot a batik around under their arms
and let it drape, stick, hang or float
as it will. 1t usually does. The tide
backs up in at times and the mountain
flood waters materially assist in keep
ing the water in the canals from
solidifying
The census enumerators claim they
have discovered 35 million of these
kind of people living on tourists and
other natural foods of these islands.
The morals of the natives here re-
mind one very much of conditions in
Hollywood, Calf, as advertised. Ex-
cept that the value Of women varies
from ten to fifty guilders, according
to taste, etc.
Divorces are much cheaper than at
Hollywood, and even men in very
moderate means can get from Is to
5O divorces without crimping their
CStotC " d1Iy cAOIDItdHL degree.
have no doubt this country will be a
strong competitor with America soon,
except as to costs, along this line.
Divorces here are merely moving pic
lures now. One wife moves in before
the other wife has time to move out.
You may have noted similaritude at
Hollywood. Many splendid moving
pictures could be taken down here un-
der existing matrimonial conditions
and the method of dress could be left
to the imagination, or whatever idea
the movie director might have-if
any.
Among the 35 million population,
the Hollanders claim some 10000.
Some kind friend said there were 100
white men to one white woman. III
wasn't around enough to prove this
statement but feel it was justified so
far as | could note.
Too many people get the idea that
Dutch and German are interchange-
able. Nix. A German is a German.
AkDutchman is Hollander Two diff
ferent kinds of people AS a distinc-