New Britain herald., 1930-05-20
ALL WORLD EQU|PS
 HOMES IN AMERICA
Piano Keys Come From Africa,
 Musk From Far Tibet

Washington. D. C, May 20-How Is the American home?
 American industry supplies majority of the equipment of the average American home, but ac- Cording to commerce reports, in many homes are products that orig mated in more countries than are represented in the League of Ma tons says bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic society.
 Piano Keys From Elephants
 Prom the roof which contains tin from Malay to the cellar where pipes might be covered with Canadian as- bestos, foreign articles are utilized hy builders and housewives. It is not unusual to find the American home floor covered with Turkish or Persian rugs. the rooms furnished with mahogany from Nicaraeuan forests. the tables covered with Eng fish tapestry. the mantels adorned with briC-a braC made in Japan Cor Franco. Candles and photograph records contain Brazilian vegetable wax.
 "Thc ivory piano keys once eraccd the jaws of q Central African elc- phant, and perhaps the leather bind ing on the library books once cloth cd New Zealand animals, and the supply Of glassware and carthcn- ware was molded in Czechosloyakia
 "A Uell-stocked pantry is the re- suit Of the labor of peoples of many Climes." continues the bulletin. 'On the shelves, there may he Brazilian coffee and nuts, Iraq dates. Turkish figs. Ceylon coConuts. spanish olives and olive oil. canned Japanese crab meat, Cuban sugar, nutrnCgs from the Guianas. rice from Burma or 1ndo-China. Formosa tea. citron from Palestine. Norwegian sardinos, English marmalades. Chinese ginger, Holland pickles, Spanish raisins, Ecuador cocoa and cashew nuts from Madras, India.
 south African LObstcrs
 "In the refrigerator may repose articles like Sicilian lemons. Costa Rjcan pineapples, Honduran ba- l|llIH2. | q litiIl til'l i't's - "a 4lloli grapes. fresh fish from Canada, can ned caviar from Russia. South African Holsters and Argentine meat.
 "Thc bathroom also may have foreign toucn. In the soap rack. perhaps, is 8 bar containing palm oil from Nigeria aIsl in the tooth brush holder, brushes from Japan. The curtain around the shower may contain Malay or Brazilian rubber, but an international array of sup plies IS more evident in the medi- cine cabinet: Italian cream of tar tar. Chilean iodine. Brazilian ipc- Cac. German menthol. Javanese or Peruvian quinne, Venezuelan castor oil. and cod liver oil from Iceland or Labrsdor..
 "Milady's dressing table is in complete without sweet scented per fumes, some of which. perhaps, were imported from France. Chemically snalyzed. they might be found 10 contain extracts from rose petals grown in Bulgaria. musk from oxen of Tibet and Clyet. an extract from Ethiopian civet cats. The handles Of the hair brush, mirror and the comb, may he products of Argentine CaScln.
 Ecuador Panama" Hats
 "Thc family clothes racks display silk clothing the threads Of which. perhaps were spun by silk worms in Turkey or Japan. The skins in the karakul coat on the next rack once were worn by karakul lambs on the plains Of Central Asia. The panama hat was made in Ecuador, while the felt hat contains hair that once scampered across Australian fields around rabbit Carcasses. The hides in the shoes on the shoe rack per haps originated in Chile or Argen- tina"
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