Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-25
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

think to employ his frequent periods
of enforced idleness to make 1t better.
A Corsican or q Mallorcan drifts into
Porto Rico as pennilesS as any Of the
natives and In q few years Is occupy
ing q cottage with garden and Is
surrounded with all the essentials Of
simple, rustic comfort. Strangely
enough, what the jibaro cannot do at
home he accomplishes when he emf
crates to a country where the standard
Of living Is higher He strives to make
himself the social equal of his more
well-to-do and educated neighborS.
Foot Ball Season
In Uruguay at Height.
impartial, Montevideo-The foot ball
season Is in full swing in Uruguay.
Clad in heavy sweaters and wooden
trousers, the candidates for the national
team at their camp of concentration
are going through every day their heavy
road work with ZeSt and enthusiasm
inspired by the recent chilly weather.
The wonderful team we had last season
will be still further strengthened and
improved, and an even more sensa-
tional showing Is expected, especially
mony and q grand optimism prevail
among all those who have shown their
willingness to participate with skill and
muscle in this patriotic activity. We
have no doubt that when the final
selections are made, those unfortunates
eliminated as the country's defenders
on the foot ball field will yield with
out demur to the superiority, however
slight, Of those chosen to stand the
onslaught Of alien and invading teams.
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Ladies Who Excel
In Greek Are Superior.
LIE Matin, Paris.-It is with due re-
gard and pride that we must consider
the successes attained by women in the
intellectual world. And 1t Is true we
contemplate the achievement Of Mile.
David, the youthful student of II, who
has Just carried off the first and Secood
prizes In a general competition, open
to all, for compositions respectively In
Latin and Greek poetry.
If there is to be any way In the
future of reconciling the excessive
physical and social activities Of the
modern young woman with the demure
studiousness and domesticity that char
acterized her sister of former times, 1t
is In the glory and reputation attaching
to intellectual conqueStS like that OF
Mile. David, which prove conclusively
that there are victories and triumphs
in life quite apart from the transitory
fame that comes from plotting an air
ship or swimming the Channel. In the
masculine domain of sport; a chess
masters reputation survives longer than
pugilist'S, and so ladies who excel In
Greek are superior to those that win
the plaudits of the tennis court. To
sing and rock the cradle is good, but
the women Of tomorrow will rock the
cradle while they study to scale the
heights of divine philosophy beside
which conquestS of the air and held
and food are vain indeed.
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Ministers Exchange
Letters on Fruit Fly.
FL TELEGRAPH, Guayaquil.-The Min
lister Of Agriculture has sent note TO
the Minister Of Ecuador in Chile, ad-
vising him that the fruit fly has APP
peared in the valleys of the AZapa and
Lluta Rivers and in the province OF
africa. The plague first became notice
able in May last and appears to have
been introduced in shipments Of citrouS
fruit, such as pomeloS, tangelos and
lines from Chile. The Ecuadortan
Minister at Santiago has been urged to
take up the matter with the proper
authorities In Chile, to see that sub
sequent shipments Of these and other
fruitS are free Of all menace from the
fruit ny before released to any destina-
tim in this country