Evening star., 1937-10-10
The Travellers Notebook
Scribblings About Discovery of Rival of Bali,
listers "Snow tn Summer" and Dressy
Salesmanshib of Zulu Rickshaw BOYS.
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, JR.

BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, JR.
= CRIBBLINGS; Bargain driving
Americans. who have learned
never to pay what the trader in
foreign lands asks, find their
match among the native shop-keepers
of Haiti. They speak in a honeyed
dialect of French. so unusual and fas-
cinating as to disarm the bargaineer,
and caJole him into paying the price.
Some of the tradesmen, when they
finally want to close a trade. lapse
into broken English.
India caters to world travellers who
want to watch the sun rise over Mount
Everest, the worlds highest. One goes
north from Calcutta to Darjeeling. and
travels by pony or rickshaw to Tiger
Hill. where. indeed, one may see the
moon come over the mountain if he
prefers.
Barbados. discovered by the Portu-
guese in 1886. was named by them
Los Barbados, for the bearded fig trees
they found growing there. 1t is the
~NAAAOoe Va Vic w lliQN al u 1Sld nus.
Resort life in the Southwest leaped
into life with the arrival of Fall, and
practically every Southern Arizona
dude ranch is ready for guests.
NYON, where the recent Mediter-
ranean conference was held, was
founded by the Romans in 46 B. C. on
the shore of Lake Geneva. Earliest
known record of its castle, remarkably
preserved, dates it as early as the
thirteenth century.
Pennsylvania has q ghost town atom
the Alleghenies near Ebensburp
Beulah Uand of Freedom) was laid
out by Baptist minister in 1901 or
1902. and thrived until it had 300
residents, a library that was the envy
for miles around: stores, hotels and
churches. But Beulah lost its fight
Tor the county court house, pixies ran
around instead of to it, and bv 1903
the town practically was deserted
Foundations, hidden by underbrush.
remain.
Robins "The Thinker" sits (and has
since l9O6) in front of Paris Pantheon.
which, Frenchmen will tell YOU. is the
Westminster Abbey of France.
Those women bus conductors at
valparaiso are allowed an extra FEM
lnlne touch-over their uniforms they
wear white apron, trimmed with lace.
1he famous toy show at Zurich
opens November 4 and continues unt;l
Christmas.
NEARING Belfast, the visitor looks
out on the green fields to find
them suddenly white. 1t is listers
snow in Summer'-long strips of
iinen bleaching in the sun. Bleach
ing greens have been a part of the
industry since it was developed in
Northeast Ireland 25O-odd years ago
There the humidity aids in producing
the most exquisite linens. Freedom
from smoke also has doomed the
business.
or the $50 tourists q day who in
spect the 800-year-old tapestry at
bayeux, credited to the artistry and
industry of Queen Mathilde, wife of
william the Conqueror, few notice
the scenes in miniature that are de-
cldedly for adults only. The tapestry.
really an embroidery, tells the story
OF Harold and William the Con-
queror. As it is 231 feet long and 20
inches wide, presenting some So ma
lor scenes, the episodes fashioned bv
the naughty needle" form but a
small part of the whole. In spite of
It's age, the tinted yarns have re-
tanned their colors remarkably we'll.
Fort de France, cheerful and noisy
capital of Martinique, is literally one
OF the most colorful cities the south.
ern cruise tourist will see. The BRIGHT
est colors of the spectrum clash in
the bright hues of the houses as well
as the garb of the natives.
Curacao, Dutchly quaint and neat
as pin, is a free port, and exquisite
goods from the far corners of the
world may be picked up at prices
astoundingly low to Americans used
to paying tariffs.
Zulu rickshaw boys of South Africa
vie Tor the visitors patronage more
loudly and effectively in dress than
vocally. With painted Stockings" on
their feet and weighted down with
tunics of jackal skins, vests and ex-
aggerated jabots of vivid colors.
ostrich feathers, all topped with q
gaudy headdress between horns hav<
ing a spread of to feet, they RAM
ble over the hard-surfaced streets
wherever the tourist wills.
7 oU1s BROMFIELD, novelist with
a bent for seeking out the life
and lore of India, has discovered a
rival of Bali-the Malabar of India.
This strip of land along the south
west coast of the Indian Ocean is
not so difficult to reach now that the
harbor of Cochin has been reopened.
The land of the Malabari is easy on
the nerves, the eyes and the ears, says
Bromfield, adding: "The people are
far more beautiful than the Balinese,
possess great grace and beautiful
manners. There u tia most wonder.