Evening star., 1938-02-27
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr

for each year of the child's life or a
fraction. Thus transportation for a
child of ~ years costs five-sixteenths
and youth going on 16 pays the full
| rate.
The annual show of the Kennel
Club Of Atlantic City is set for April
and for the horse show May 10 to
IA. Approximately 900 dogs are ex-
pected for the Steel Pier exhibit.
Some changes will made this year in
the Convention Hall course. for
! hunters.
Residents Of Cologne will tell you,
and so will many others, that the
bones of the Three Wise Men of the
East repose in the city's magnificent
Gothic cathedral The popular story
even names the man who is supposed
| to have brought their remains from
Milan-Frederick I. Barbarossa The
Three Wise Men shrine in the Ca
thedral is decorated with gold and
rare stones.
Keeping alive the traditions of
their countries, residents of the Ybor
City section of Tampa, Fla, offer a
| concentrated foreign atmosphere on
! American soil. The famed cigar pro-
| ducing center was formed in 1885 on
l5-acre plot east of Tampa. To-
| day Ybor City, named for one of its
founders, has a population of some
5000 Spanish people, 10000 Cubans
and 5000 Italians. Their Eayety
reaches crescendo in the annual
La Verbena de Tabaco," or tobacco
festival, to be celebrated March 10.
Clgar-smoking contests are but one
OF the features. Here one sees folk
dances-the Cuban comparsa, mod
ernlzed in today's rumba, the Span
ish fandango and the ensemble fam
tasia. classical dancing creation Of
the State Of Asturias in Spain. Fa-
nous cafes Of Ybor City include the
Columbia, Las Novedades, La America
and Ell Boulevard, and unusual dishes
to try are grilled red snapper steak,
Key West crawf1sh, crab con harina
chicken and yellow rice, Spanish Gus
tards and spaghetti.
A MONG the most important ski
events Of the year, the United
States national down. mountain and
slalom championship races will be
held March and on Mount Mans
field. near Stowe, VT. The ladies'
| down-mountain and slalom races will
be held there April and 10.
One OF the interesting jaunts in
Bermuda is to the perfume factory,
set In an ocean of lilies at Easter
time, between ST George and Hamil-
ton. Picked IN full bloom, the flow
ers are placed in glass; covered trays,
the sides of which are covered with
waxllke preparation. In a few hours
this plastic substance soaks up the
odors OF the flowers, the essences then
being dissolved in alcohol or some
similar fluid.
You get your coffee black in Spanish
countries of the Caribbean unless or
dering cafe con leche"
Tourist-minded Mexico is develop
| ing scouting system to find pic
turesque spots and make them &C
cessible. In Monterrey, a group Of
city leaders recently formed branch
Of the National Tourist Department
to work out program of roads to
outlying places Of beauty, to supervise
guides and inspect night clubs and
other places to insure pleasurab BILE
visits by Americans
flQcS.inr1nSnI ~ l.
Gated "amidships" in railroad coaches,
have been introduced as an attractive
solution to the question of smoking
In the body Of the car In this lounge
men and women sit in easy chairs to
smoke, with card tables at hand and
magazines on the rack.
A FTER having been stolen from his
body by a group of phrenologists
and inspiring a lengthy legal battle,
the skull of the great master. Josef
Haydn. has been placed on display
in the Museum of the Society of
Lovers Of Music, in Vienna
After the American has mastered
the parlor game of naming the 48
States and their capitals, he might
shift his talents to more difficult
pastlme-naming a dozen or more
cities and towns in France and what
their residents are called Parisienne
provides an easy starting point To
cover every ones taste, three designa-
tions should be given for LIE Puy, ia
nous lace-making town in the Upper
Loire Valley. whose natives are
Ponots, Podots or Aniciens. Aquisex-
tains hail from mAix-en-Provence, near
| Marseilles; Dionysiens from the Paris
ian suburb of St. Denis. The man
from Montdidier is a Montdidierien,
and from Rochechouart, a Roche
| chouart. Easy enough, but what
about Angouleme, the city with it's
medieval walls and unique cathedral,
and what of Tours, Bordeaux, Dax
and Biarritz? The answers are. re-
spectively Angoumois, Tourangeaux,
Borgelais, Dacquois and Biarrots. The
girl from Romorantin is a Romoran-
tinoise the man who takes daily walks
in Fontainebleu Park is either a Fon-
tainebleen or a Bellefontain, besides
being a pedestrian. Briochins come
from st. Brieuc and lie Mans is in
habited by Manceaux. With these ex-
amples, Mont st. Michel threatens to
produce phonetic gymnastics. On the
contrary, its residents are designated
by a simple seven-letter word, Mon
tots.
Breakfast in Miami and luncheon
in Mexico is among the latest now
elites In travel. Swift, new baby
clippers" of Pan-American Airways
operate on weekly schedule, leaving
Miami at 8 am, touching Havana
and continuing on to Merida. Yucatan,
home of the remarkable and now lost
Maya race, which it reaches at 2 pm.
|ONLY 1882 people flew from Miami
~ to Havana in 1928. More than
ZOO made the air trip last year.
Ten-car and fifteen-car ski trains,