Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-25
The Travellers Notebook
SeribbIings About Mexican Guide Books, Mount
Royals Foithfuness to the Horse, and
Where Comic Strip Characters Speak French
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.,
Travel Editor,

lraVel EQltor.
Scribblings: Thirteen persons with
expert eyes for feminine beauty will
select Miss America 1910" at At
lantic City, devoting four days to
the task of deciding which one
among the SO contestants is the
loveliest, talented girl. Heading the
list of judges is the extravaganza
producer, Billy Rose. Ten other
men and two women make up the
panel, including John Robert Pow
ers, head of a New York model
agency; George Petty, John Held,
jr, Hap Hadley, Robert Susan and
Vincent Trotta, artists; Walter
Reagles, art director of the General
Electric Co.; Ned Wayburn, show
producer and dramatic school head;
L. I. Altman, talent scout for a
movie studio; Vyvyan Bonner, film
fashion editor; Irma Coleman. cos
metic manufacturer, and w. w.
Forster, managing editor of the
Pittsburgh Press. Although the
beauty pageant gets under way Labor
Day. preliminary judging waits for
Wednesday. September 4. Finals
will be held the following Saturday.
Bermuda stone, in the quarry. is
soft enough to be cut with hand
saw. Fashioned into houses, the
stone hardenS.
Flowers every day in the hotel
room in Mexico City and other
towns of that "faraway land nearby
are but a fraction of the vacation
lists budget PICTURESQUE Indian
women stand before the colorful
stalls, softly, unsteady calling the
tourists attention to immense
punches of roses, gladioluses, carna-
tons, camelias, violets, gardenias
pansies, dahlias, lilacs, and even
sprays of lavendar orchids. For
peso QeSs than 90 cents the buyer
can walk away with an armful of
blooms.
Lake Placids Whiteface Mountain
never knows a MINDLESS day. cooling
in summer, bitter in winter. Since
installation of an thermometer to
record the wind velocity, it has
reached a rate of IA miles per hour
On last January IA, velocity of 108
miles an hour was recorded.
Jasper National Park, containing
1900 suare miles, was named for a
Missouri fur trader.
A five-story hotel with 100 rooms,
most of them to have view over
the Caribbean. is being constructed
at Trujillo City, Dominican Republic.
The site, between Independence and
George Washington avenues, is one
of the finest in the city. Bidding
for American tourist trade, the hotel
will have a bath with every suite,
outlets for electric razors and curl
ers, large swimming pool, sun
deck and a gymnasium.
Celebrating the reconquest of
Santa Fe following II years of In
dian occupation growing out of the
bloody Pueblo rebellion of 1880, La
Fiesta de Santa Fe will be held AL
gust 81 through September 2. Re-
plete with Spanish costumes. ma
tive orchestras, Indian dancing and
pageantry, the fiesta is opened by
burning in efigy one Zozobra (dull
care). 1t winds up with the gay and
beautiful Ell Bale de los Conquis-
tadores (ball of the conquerors) :.
Visitors virtually take over the town
for the celebration. With a popula-
ton of about 10000, Santa Fe eSti-
mated that between 10000 and
25 900 saw the pageant last year.
1t has been estimated that full
body Florida sun bath of IS min
utes about 10 am. gives the vaca-
zionist the equivalent of enough
heat to boil a gallon of water.
Little known east of the Missis-
sippi River is San Isabel aNtional
Forest. a 614.000-acre tract opened
in 1910. Described as real will