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Evening star., 1946-12-02

@. What was the average length OF
life in Roman times?-H. C. r.
A. IN ancient Rome, the average
life span was about % years. II
rose but slowly in the following 1s
centuries.
Evening star., 1946-12-02

@. What oils are used in making
margarine?-J. Y.
A. About SO per cent cottonseed,
40 per cent soybean, the rest corn
and peanut oils. Skim milk Is the
next most important ingredient.
Evening star., 1946-12-02

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
COON AND SHELTERS

Anyone who has seen the gray
squirrels on Key Largo will be
surprised at their tufted white
ears. You can tell at once that
they are different from those on
the mainland but a few miles
away. There is skin of young
black panther from Matecumbe
Key in the Charleston Museum D..
For some time to come the Keys
will be, | imagine, a worthwhile
hunting ground for some gorous
fellow who doesn't mind mos
quitoes. / mind once seeing a
coon walking along just back of
the beach On, / think, either Ram
rod or Torch Key, acconlp panied
By a moving cluster of mosquitoes
so compact that only occasional
~ did enough coen show to in
dictate the cause of the perarnbu-
lating gwarn1 of these Adliainous,
pestiiential little -i1seSts, which
are as bad at tines in the Keys as
they ever are in Labrador in the
summer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04

bird unframed are deposited
hither and yon by chance. Some
seeds fall on branches near the
trunks of other trees growing in
the forest. Its roots creep about
the host, anastomose, thicken,
and gradually reach to the ground
while the branches push upward
as they seek the light. With the
passage of years the tree forms
a basket of heavy, strong bands
around the tree. Finally, the host
so choked sickens and dies and it
is not uncommon to see the fig
remain as a column-like network
of intermingled branches sur
rounded by a tail growth OF
boughs with glistening, leathery,
oval leaves. Strangers often grow
orl<walls, on roofs of houses and
on rocks. In the beginning the
fig is true epiphyte, having no
connection with, the. ground. I'M
mediately theSroots being geo
tropic tend to grow downward.
The tree is beginning to ''ban-
yam" as a localisn1 has it. It's
strange behaviour is explained by
need for light. Ficus is large
genus comprising more than six
hundred species. Some cousins
are the edible fig and the Banyan
tree of India.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
CONTINENTAL
SHELFNARROW

Mr.. Barbour states that the
continental shelf of Florida does
not exist too far offshore, usually
only few miles from the beach
es. Florida has tilted from north
to south, he says, so that large
parts of it have been under water
for very long periods of time. He
says he doubts that all of it has
ever been under water at any time
since 40 million years ago. Most
of the fossils were recovered at
a farm about 40 miles from
Gainesville, Florida, down to
West Palm Beach and Melbourne
and at Vero Beach. T.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04

tasted a baked turtle as the dish
is served at Key West? You be-
gin with a young green turtle;
the savory meat is diced and mix
ed with cut-up "calipash" and
'calipee', the fat and the lean,
preferably with plenty of turtle
eggs mixed in; the delicious mix
ture is put back in the animals
shell, covered with piecrust, and
baked in a hot oven. Since Key
West has always been half Gu
ban town, many of the savory
creole dishes handed down from
Old Spain add their spice to the
table. The queer little implanted
houses, many of them said to
have been brought from the Ba-
hamas, with their typical West
Indian JEALOUSY blinds, and the
tales of old wrecking days, make
this town to me a center of real
charm I -
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BARBOUR CHARMED
WITH KEY WEST

Barbour writes. key West has
a spirit and distinctive at
mosphere; more than that, it is
one of those rare places in the
United States which, like Charles
ton or New Orleans, has produced
cuisine with traditions all its
owfIs Who would not bless the
kindly soul who first introduced
himto a perfectly prepared
Hopping John" dinner. This, il
you, don't happen to know, is q
richly-flavored mealt Ipade, pre-:
ferably, of pigebn peas or cow
peas, cooked up with rice and bits
of white bacon, Have you ever
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
CORAL GARDENS

Mr.. Barbour states in his book
that the Florida Keys have q
beautiful underwater coral bot
tom, and that a glass bottom trip
would be fascinating THE
ehaihssof what appear to be.minia-
ture castellated mountains will be
there. These little mountains are
surmounted by forests of stiff,
branching structures, which are
stony ,corals. Indeed, the noun
tains themselves will be built of
coral, too, with excrescances
which are sponges, tunicates and
masses of Corallinaceae-stony
encrusting marine algae, often of
bright and varied colors. Then,
waving and swaying back and
forth in the currents of the sea,
the long, flexible colonies of horny
corals or alcyonarians called sea
whips and sea fans appear at first
sight to the born professional OBJ
server to be plants, not the ami
mails that they really are. The
reefs themselves are brightly col
ored; the apemones, the Crus-
tacea, and the molluskS associated
with coral reefs are brilliant and
beautiful, too; but the prime dec
Grafton is added by the fish, Mr..
Barbour continues pointing out
the butterfly fish, angelfish, surgz
eeon fish, triggers. parrot fish, and
.the innqnerabIe 'mernbefg of the
wrasse Or Iabroid family. Hetells
of the great brain corals which
provide Shelter for ifinuinerable
tubeworms which make a gay gar
den of animated flowers. Many
starfish are on the sand but the
myriad brittle stars will be. less
conspicuous.
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to Montreal deep inland water
way too costly to be undertaken.
1889 - President Roosevelt'S
message to Congress calling for
increased ornaments.
1942-Japs make new landings
in North Borneo.
1943-American motor torpedo
boats attack Jap destroyers off
Guadecanal.
1945-U. S. First Army pushes
Germans back 8 miles on
northern flank of the Bulge in
Belgium in raging blizzard.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
Today's Horoscope

The keynote of this day is
Aspiration. There is a DISPOSE
ton to adventure. Artistic in
taste, these natures sometimes
become easily corrupted and
guarding against this they are
well minded. There is a ten
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
Today In History

187O-Telegraph operators in
countrywide strike.
1883-First successful appen-
dicitis operation on record per-
formed in Davenport, Iowa.
1883-The Pendleton Act puts
Civil Service on sure foundation.
1889-The American Historical
Society Incorporated.
1860 years ago-Utah adj
mitted to statehood-45th state.
1936-Attorney General Cum
mings asks Congress for greater
power to fight crime.
1888 International Joint
Commission reports New York
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and beat them to get oat sand
and remains of the little mollusks
and crustacea which live in the
cavities of the sponges, and they
are finally ready for the auction
which is an exciting event." Bar
bour concludes.
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STRANGLER FIG

Stranger fig has a traditional
cruelty, Barbour says. 1t is Ficus
Aurea, of which the fruit is eat
en- by birds and the seeds press
ing through the intestines of the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
PECULIAR SMELL.

CLEVELAND. - Fleabane is
the name of a plant which emits
a peculiar aromatic smell and is
said to be efffcacious in driving
away fleas and other insects.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
FRANK1NG PRIVILEGE

MILWAUKEE.-The ranking
privilege, right of sending mail
free of charge, was first granted
in the United States to soldiers
in the Revolutionary War.
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FOUR KINDS OF spoNcEs

Talking OF sponges. Mr.. Barbour
says there are four kinds fished
for commercially. Two best high
grade and highly priced forms be-
long to the genus Hippospongia.
The coarse, relatively hard, and
more cheaply priced types repre-
sent forms belonging to the same
genus as that to which commercial
sponges of the Mediterranean re-
gion belong. The spongers' abil-
ity to see down to the bottom
where others can see only blue is
uncanny, Barbour says. .ll.u.4
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CORAL ROCKETS
BY L. p. ARTMAN, JR.

fruits, to groups of these trees of
considerable size.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04

Bolivia has network of $3.50
square miles.
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dency toward Oriental customs
and travel.
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FISH KNOWLEDGE

Continuing on the review of
Thomas Barbour's That Vanish
ing Eden, in which liberal and
interesting material on Key West
IS presented:
The Key Westers are members
Of an industrious and hardwork-
ing community, hospitable to a
degree l know of no group Of
fishermen anywhere with d more
completely detailed knowledge of
more different kinds of fish," Mr..
Barbour says. He points to the
Shedd Aquarium of Chicago send
ing d collector here each year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-01-04
BLACK TO BROWN

1" "Sponges, when they come % to
the surface, are disgusting black
objects. They are left on deck
until the animal matter coating
the horny skeleton, which is the
sponge of commerce, dies; and ]
may adds, stinks with vile, re-
voting and utterly snauseating
stencil. Then the sppnges q are
thrown into a crawl a little area
of shoal water. FENCED with.cup-
rightc poles BHsreu the current
washes away the Sponge curry,
After this the, sponges- are strung
up in strings hung in the rigging
to dry Skilled women then clip
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FRANGIPANI

Several species of Towering
frangipani grow better in Key
West than l have ever seen them
growing anywhere else in the
world. There is no evidence that
they are native to the Keys, al
though they abound in the Ba-
hamas in wild state. The plant
is a low tree, perhaps twenty feet
high, with a closely clustered
head of heavy, thick, fleshy
branches. If you break one,
white sap pours forth The trees
are brittle and do not stand the
hurricanes at all we'll. Frangi-
PAM leaves are large and rather
handsomely veined. The flowers
are borne in punches on the end
of each branch in a round, flat
head, called a cymef py# botan-
lists. The blooms are. Maryland
the petals are tilted slightly, 3 so
that one border of each petal is
tucked under the edge of its
neighbor. Some species are pure
white, some white suffused with
rose, others lemon yellow, others
reddish, and one a purple, paler
than royal purple, but with no
tint of magenta. These folwers
are exceptionally fragrant, and as
the cymes carry an enormous
number of buds which keep open
ing in turn the tree is in bloom for
q very long time" Mr.. Barbour
saws.
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Caribbean Basin. These flowers
reached the Orient from Mexico.
b
LOWER KEYS ONCE ISLAND
Mr.. Barbour praises Charles
TC.rey Simpsons In Lower Flor
ida Wilds. He disagreeS with
Simpsons uplifting of the land in
Florida and the Keys and be-
heves it more likely that it was
a lowering of the surface of the
water. Mr.. Barbour calls atten-
lion TO the difference between the
upper and lower Keys. In the
upper keys there are several
plants and one snake peculiar to
them. The Lower Keys give
every evidence SfIbefhg Fan5isiand
Of considerable SIZE Mr.. Barbour
says, and points to the water
gap" from Bahia Honda Channel
TO Lower Matecumbe. He states
that the Lower Keys have many
peculiar plants of West Indian
origin. a considerable number of
which are not found on the Upper
Keys. These plants did not suf-
fer in the storm of 1885, which
struck the Upper Keys. mo
heavy blow has left it's impact on
the Lower Keys" He praises the
fine mangrove forests on these
Lower Keys and says there is an
opportunity to study all stages of
Fav formation. from the first. lit
tie tuft of green resulting from
the termination of one of the
euriously weighted mangreve
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cOLoRFUL REEFS

The Transplant belongs to the
genus Plumeria, Mr. Barbour
adds. There are fifty species of
this genus, all found around the
Caribbean Basin. These flowers
reached the Orient from Mexico.
Evening star., 1946-09-02

September. The cars are going
the other way now-back toward the
city. They are piled high with bag
gage, the boat tied atop, bags and
bundles strapped on behind, the, dog
hanging out of the window taking
his last shifts of the tantalizing
country air while his anxious little
mistress holds hard to his tail.
Father is driving the car and mother,
in the back seat, guards the young
est and liveliest of the family. The
whole family wears an air Of content
and satisfaction. This is Labor Day
and they are going back to work and
school after vacation days.
Labor Day is a symbol Of some
thing we in these United States hold
precious, the right to work, the need
to work, the dignity Of labor. This
land of ours was built with hands.
1t was brought to its present high
place by the hands OF workers
Scientists may discover new truths.
poets build air castles, ambitious
folk dream of things to come, but
only the skilled, well-trained hands
OF the worker can bring the dream
to actuality, build the structure OF
steel and stone.
These we honor today: The early
settlers who hewed out q home and
habitation from a wilderness with
an ak in their hands, courage in
their stout hearts; the men who laid
the rails across the plains, through
the valley and under the mountains;
the workers who strung the wires for
the telegraph and telephone, for the
Evening star., 1946-09-02
So You Are Going to College

Any day now the train will
whistle and you'll be on your way
Your beautiful new wardrobe, with
its skirts, sweaters, prom dress and
dress-up clothes, is already packed
But what about your college
room? Have you saved some time
thought and money to make it at
tractive and livable?
The rooms in college dormitories
have never offered much, and there
has been increased deterioration
during the war.
What do college girls need for
their room?
Well this varies with the colleges
and all new students should check
the catalogues or talk to students
who attended the same school last
semester.
Generally speaking most colleges
provide a bed and mattress (often
the mattress Is not too good, a
desk and straight chair. Many
furnishings may be bought second
hand from outgoing students, but
these have seen their best days.
However, the desire for individ-
uality creeps in and many q girl
has bridged the unknown into pop
ularity because she had fair for
making room home.
Sheets, blankets. bsdspreads and
pillows are the first essentials. All
bedding should be marked, but Why
not do it with real showmanship?
Write your name in 2-inch letters
in the center or across the corner of
each sheet. Then embroider your
Evening star., 1946-09-02

with a map Of the world and ther
have a sheet of window glass GU
to fit? Don't economic on you
desk lamp. Get a good-sized ont
so that you can study with ease
Painted metal lamps are practica
and also very attractive.
Your true nature will be expressed
in the choice Of an easy chair. Thi:
may be q boudoir chair, a Bal
Harbor chair, or a small lounge
chair. One girl wisely selected 6
well-made steamer chair and wa.
envied by all her friends. She ther
added an exercise or beach pad fol
softness and comfort.
BY this time you are old enough
to know that it's the little things
that count pictures, ash trays
waste-paper baskets, book shelves
or cases, roll-away sweater box
good clothes hangers, and suitable
entertaining things. A large tray
placed on a luggage rack, a small
teapot, plates, cups and saucers
spoons, forks and good cake
knife make a box from home q
shared experience.
I doubt that any college girl evel
had enough closet space. A rea
boon is three-paneled screen
Hooks on the back may take car,
Of the overflow. II the front /.
covered with chicken wire. monk.
cloth, cork or some porous material
1t can be used as q bulletin boare
as well as a decorative center oi
interest for the room. It can be ,
real conversation piece.
Evening star., 1946-09-02
Labor Day
By Aneelo Pafri

/ light and power that have done sc
much to lift the burden from the
backs of working men and women;
the women who helped build the
soddies in which their children were
born, children who were born, chill
dren who were to become the core oi
a great nation; the farmers who
toiled from dawn far into the night
tending their crops, minding thu
hocks and herds, that the people
might be fed. All these and the
countless others who, inobscurity
and silence raised the hands of the
leaders.
In honoring labor today we honor
ourselves, our way of life; we honor
our way Of taking what comes to oul
hands and shaping it into something
useful and lovely; the way we have
Of doing job in. a thorough anc
workmanlike manner. We find JOY
in work knowing that mans spirit
must be freed by his own hands. Ir
a free spirit, with skilled hands, We
have created the greatest nation ir
the world, and the happiest.
We have cheered for the Army, fol
the Navy, for the air forces. Now
this day, we cheer three times fol
the workers who maintained thos.
forces. We salute the good men ans
women who, with their hands have
built, produced, maintained tn,
great riches of materials and powel
that go into the making of tn,
American way Of life. We prais.
those who hold so much of what ".
love in their hands. This is Labol
Day.
Evening star., 1946-09-02
By Gladys Miller

signature with bright-colored wash
able threads, using a feather or a
chain stitch. And don't think this
is just a decorative feature. It's
insurance. Loaning and loosing
sheets is standard college practice
Bedspreads are problem. Every
one sits on the bed and it takes a
real beating. So a fairly good quail
ity bedSpread Is recommended, one
that is colorful and woven so that
it doesn't wrinkle easily. If you
can do buy two alike, SO that you
always have clean one in reserve
How to cover the floor is another
poser. It is practical to use a large
room-size fiber rug, so popular in
the summer. This softenS the sound
is easy to clean, and is available in
very good colors. Using a room m-size
rug will make the room seem larger
Your windows will need a good
roller shade or Venetian blind to
assure privacy. Some girls also have
used the Slated porch blind effec-
lively. Draperies matching the bed
spread or contrasting with it are
popular, as we'll as permanent fin
ished organdie curtains, tied back
in some unusual fashion. If you can
find good carpenter and won't
break dormitory rules, a jigsaw
shadow box painted an attractive
color and framing a window Is
decorative and practical.
AS the top of the desk may have
seen better days, why not cover II
Evening star., 1946-09-02
Dorothy Dix Says

Dear Miss Dix: We are three
sisters. I am 20, the oldest. The
others are close to my age. Our par
ents have laid down for us the fol-
lowing rules of behavior:
Never date stranger. Never stay
out later than IL o'clock. Date all
boy friends at home until We feel we
know them well enough to know
they are proper company. Never
trust boy out of sight. Don't
throw ourselves at boy. Never
let boy know we care for him until
we are sure he cares for us. Let him
know we can always get some one
else. Never park and make love in
a car. Never go to dance. Make
sure the boy comes from respect
able family.
Now we have plenty OF dates, but
never the same one twice because
the boys don't want to sit at home
and look at the family album and
have nom and dad listening in to
everything they say Nor do they
want to take girl to party when
they know they will have to leave at
II o'clock. We cannot have friends
in for a while at night to make
fudge and sing and play games be-
cause it makes mother and father
lose little sleep.
Do you think our parents are be-
ing fair to us, and should we con-
tinue to follow their rules?
/ LONELY GIRLS.
/ Answer.-In the main, your
parents rules are good, but your
father and mother overlook the fact
that customs have changed since
they were young, and that If girls
are to have dates and a chance to
|get husbands, they have to have
more liberty Of action than they did
when every maiden was tied to hel
mothers apron strings.
i For instance, In mothers and
fathers time, parties began at or
8 o'clock, so Sally and Mamie might
be expected to get home by II;
but now the party doesn't get
going before that time, so natur-
ally boy isn't going to take q
girl who will drag him away from
the fun when he is just beginning te
|enjoy himself.
i Nor is any boy going to pay re-
turn engagement II, when he calls
ion a girl, her mother and father sil
within earshot OF everything thai
lis being said, not because the con-
versation needs censoring, but be.
Evening star., 1946-09-02
What's YOUR Hobby?
By Betty Miles

Perhaps you've been thinking OF
hobbies in terms of stamp collecting
and autographing hunting. and have
found In neither one the thing that
sparks your interest. You may have
an artistic bent; you may want q
hobby that will widen your social
contacts; you may want something
that challenges your mind. Once
you scratch the surface. you'll find
the opportunities lmitless.
For example-how much do you
know about textile decoration? One
form Of it, stenciling. can be used
effectively on blouses. bed spreads.
window curtains, luncheon sets, and
so forth. It's done by . method with
which you may be familiar-a stem
Gil is cut out, placed on the material,
and the desired part Of tho pattern
"a leaf, a flower, and so forth--is
painted in. Silk screening Is some
thing else that can be used In tex
tile decoration. We understand this
produces attractive effects also on
Christmas cards and stationery.
lending itself to mass production" !"
Or. you might try finger painting.
Sounds like child's play-but you'd
be amazed at the designs that are
produced, and you can use it to
decorate endless household objects.
You wet the paper first, then paint,
producing free, flowing design.
Moreover, it's claimed that the hobby
is a relaxing one.
Mothers occasionally react to a
dollhouse in much the same man.
ner as fathers deal with electric
trains. The parents have all the fun,
and there's little left for the off,
spring to work at. We've heard
Of q dollhouse book-one that en-
ables the child to have the fun of
making her own house. The book
shows how this can be done with
easily obtainable materials, such as
waste material around the home.
The child can make the house, fin
ger paint the walls. braid the rugs,
crochet the bedspread, etc.
A charming lady who manages a
suburban hobby shop-where ma
terials for the aforementioned
hobbies, and for numerous others,
are obtainable-has her own ideas
on the scope Of hobbies. She claims
it all began with squirrels scouting
for nuts, and we humans have been
taking it from there ever since. She
defines hobbies as falling into three
classes-collecting, making and do
ing.
In the realm of collecting, you
might develop yen for foreign