Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-25

luTeu tuc ldIlCy VI western arClStS
and photographers with its lakes,
streams and 30 species of trees, all
topped by the spectacular, snow
capped Sangre de Cristo range
more than 10000 feet high.
st. Augustine, Fla, will celebrate
the 375th anniversary of its found
ing with three-day fiesta grande'
opening September 7. Plans call for
celebration of high mass in old
Fort Green on Sunday, September
8, with the Most Rev Amleto Clio
vanni Cicognani. apostolic delegate
t othe United States, presiding.
Inveterate pipe smokers have a
treat in store when they visit New
Orleans. Located on Charles street
In the French quarter Is the shop of
Emile c. Jansen, who deals soley
in pipes. Seventy years of smoking
lore clings to hte place.
Serving the tourist in Japan are
silent interpreters" put out by the
Japanese Railroad Ministry and
distributed to hotels and inns in To-
kio and other cities. They are cards,
bearing short phrases in English on
one side. japanese on the other
Pull out the proper card and the
visitor can ask for almost anything.
News-stands in French Canada
are bi-lingual. One of the oddities
for the American visitor is to pick
up a Sunday paper in Quebec and
find the familiar comic strip char
acters talking French.
Yours for orinotherapy" was the
close of a letter from a doctor to
Chief Ranger Sedergren of Mount
Rainier National Park. Puzzled.
Mr.. Sedergren consulted a medical
dictionary and found out that when
orlnotherapy is prescribed, the doc
tor suggests trip to the mountains,
not the seashore The word means
"a treatment by living in high,
mountainous regions"
Recommended guide books for the
Mexican visit: Mexico in Your
Pocket" by Jean Austin; Double
day, Doran e. Co.; compact and to
the point; special attention to Yucca
tan. Your Mexican Holiday" by
Anita Bremen; G. P. Putnam's
Sons; excellent chapters on shop
ping and f1estas. of to Mexico
by Leone and Alice Meats: Scribner:
deals in separate sections with 10
areas in Mexico. What to See and
Do in Mexico" by George Seaton:
Prentice Hall, Inc: arranged con-
ventiently in nine tourist zones.
Guide to Mexico" by T. Philip Ter
ry; Houghton Miff1in Co; the Mex
lean Boedecker, comprehensive and
detailed. Guide to Mexico" by
Frances Toor: Mcbride: revised
re-edited, compact and informative.
Faithful to the horse and buggy
days is Montreals midcity noun
tain, Mount Royal. Cabmen who
drive the city's victorias and sleighs
so far have won every battle against
the invasion of motor cars on the
streets of the commanding hill.
Cedar chests were limited by
weight to 1900 pounds under a Ber-
muda law passed in 1879.
Rising almost perpendicularly
more than $500 feet from the Yo-
semitic Valley floor is the mighty
mass of granite. Ell Captain. With
allowances for natures crude hand
in fashioning the mountain, the
visitor may see on one OF its faces
an almost complete map of North
America in black diorite, one of
the three types of granite rock COM
posing the monolith. Clearly the
map shows Alaska, Hudson Bay. the
Gulf of Lower California. Central
America and other geographical
features. Standing joke is that the
map, being in California. does not
show Florida. Ell Captain. Spanish
for The Captain" or Leader"
was known to the Indians as Tu-
tock-e-nu-la, meaning Rock Chief"
Sacred sand painting of the Ma
vajo Indians must be started after
ouiiI ioC anu ucotIOScu, Will proper
ceremonies. before the sun sets.
The tobacco market has gained
added fame on the radio. Not so
the North Carolina strawberry mar
ket, which is much the same. Auc-
tioneers chant In what to the I'M
tutored is the same gibberish.
Minnesota's 11-day deer and bear
hunting season is from November
Is to Is. inclusive.
Founded by the French In 1903.
the upper Mississippi Valley set
Element Of Kaskaskia became a
frontier metropolis. important In
trade and shipping for more than a
century. When Illinois was admitted
to the Union in 1918, it was made
the capital. But in 1920, the capital