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PALESTINE: PIGMY LAND
WITH A GIANT HISTORY
The historic Holy Land where moved
the Nazarene whose birth will be com-
memorated around the world this
week. is characterized as "a tiny lit-
tle country." by Viscount James Bryce.
ln a communication to the National
Geography society:
“Though the traveler's Imnd books
prepare him to find l'aiestlne small.
he expected.
between
Taking it as the region
the Mediterranean on the
the east. from the spurs of Lebanon
and Hertnon‘on the north to the desert
at Beershcbn on the south,
110 miles long anti 50 to 60 hroad—-that
is to Say! it is smaller than Xew
Jersey.
“(if this region large parts did not
really belong to antient isracl Their
hold an illufiffllllll’m and northern dis-'
trleta was but slight, while in tilt":
the Mediterranean was occupied by
the warllke' I‘hillstincs, “ho “ere
sometimes more thap a mulch for the
Hebrew armies. Israel hail. In furl.
little more than the hill ionntry which
lay between the Jordan on the cast
and the maritime plain on the west.
looked donn from the hill cities of
leniamio, Just north of Jerusalem. up-
on I’hillstlne enemies. only 23 miles
0“,.th the one side. and looked at‘l'mle
the Jordan to Moahlte (’llt‘llllc-‘I. about
all far off, on the Olllt‘l'.
“Nearly all the events in the history
of Israel that are recorded lit the Old
Testament happened within a territory
no bigger than the slate of i‘onnecti-
and into hardly any other country has
Abraham till our own. so much history
——lhat lit to say. so many events that
have beett recorded and deserve to be
rerouted in the annals of mankind.
"Nor is it only that Palestine is
really a small country. The traveler
mnstantly feels as he moves about i ”u" ”0" the mix and waters were
that it is a small country. From the
heights. a few miles north of Jeru- i followed b, ' ‘1’" caldron of fire ant
aaient he sees looking northward. a seemed 'o 'm the m. surface and
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Damascus.
"lint llermon ls outside the
levy of lsrael altogether, standing in
the land of the Syrians; so. too. it ls‘
of Lebanon. We are apt to think of
that mountain mass as within the
country. because it also inatrequently
mentioned in the Psalms and‘ the
Prophets; but the two ranges of Leb-
anon also rise beyond the frontiers
of Israel. lying between the Syrians of
Damascus and the Phoenician: of the
“'E‘si.
“Perhaps it is because the
from which children used to
lliltle geography. \\ ere on a large scale.
that most of list have failed to realize
how narrow were the limits within.i
which took Illflt‘t". all those! great do-i
logs that an on- books of Samuel and 5
Kings. Just in the some way the'
classical scholar who \isils Greece is“
maps
surprised to tind that so small a ler-v
ritory sni‘tlccti for so many striking it).
chit-tits and for the 'carcers of so:
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“ENCHANTED ISLAND”
Cyprus. fairy land of the Mediter‘
rant-an. which tit‘ccks‘ hau- hccn urging
‘ Great Britain to turn over to them. has
it. history no less strange than the tic-Y
tlou of Shakesln‘orc‘s “Othello." for.
which the island. in part. is the setting.
Richard t‘oenr dc Lion wrcstcd it]
from a ruler who had won it by forget
big letters in his. monarch's name af<
ter that ruler. ls'attc t‘omnentu, had
refused to let the t‘rusader‘s shit»;
wrecked and seasick lady-love land
there the tirs‘t time she asked. '
Richard married let-cngarin there
and went his way. after turning over?
the island to a pennilcss adventurer.’
'luy do Lusignan. who {untitled all
“feudal state amonzst spice gardens
and silken luvnry.“ and thus establish-
ed a dynasty which has been described
as the most romantic Europlnn his-
'tory.
(‘yprus bulks large in the crotch of
Asia Minor. like a huge flat with a
lean linger pointing straight at: An-
tioeh. Historically. one may imagine.
the finger should be crooked a bit
more. in perpetual accusation of the.
sultan. the degenerate Selim ll. whose.
generals captured the island. impezled
in part. at least. by the {act that
Selim‘s favorite wine came from there.
Geographically. the promontory marks
the line of Cyprus; prehistoric connec.
tion with Asia‘s mainland.
,There too. geigned the beautiful
Queen Catherine Comaro. adopted
“daughter of Venice.” who. though .
gfletsstricken by her husband‘s death,
struggled against him that the
throne might be‘ saved for his unborn
dtlld.
Mancunian-MR.-
beset .mm -
it surprises him by being smaller than l
west and the Jordan and Dead sea on .
it I.“ only '
southwest, a wide and rich plain along '
King David. in the days of his power. '
cut. whose area is 4.800 square miles; .
there been crowded from the days of.
Is "erratum; . . l
' “l‘mm' ' group of mks. 0‘" grow— -be noted that the colonization
rivers of.
tt‘rrl- ?
. cipal exports.
lea rn t
~bc traversed for miles. and a mam-
, motlt crater with two jen'eled lakes-—
, her marriage to Philip the Good. duke
IllO \ commerce:
of A y'rtttt who 391! at Nineveh an
indexed library affinity thousands of
clay tablets received tributes from ten
Cv prian kings
Pausanlas, Benedict Arnold of
Sparta. liberated Cyprus from Persian
.domlnlon. and Evagoras. one of the
island kings. hero of the world‘s first
I llmown biography. penned by [soc-rates.
'who united the scattered principall-
’ues. is the King Arthur of island tra-
‘dltlon.
_' l Thus Cyprus reeks with composite
memories of eastern. Grecian, Roman,
and even Anglo-Saxon civilization. No
less was it a focal point for religious.
At Kouklla. where certain tides still
pile masses of foam along the shore.
lAphrodlte is supposed to have been
iborn of the waves. Here are ruins
’of a temple for her worship. where
joriginally fetes were held which. as
{one writer puts it. “were the scenes
%f a too literal worship of Venus." and
where until recentlv it was the cus-
tom to Immerse maidens in honor of
the goddess' birth
Kouklla is on the site of the an-
;cient l'aphos. The “Phobos of today
' was the one-time Ncapaphos. where St.
Paul struck blind the shrcerer. Elymas.
and converted Sergius i'auius. the Ro-
iuttn deputy.
The present—day Lamnka lit on the
gain- of ‘the biblical Phittlm. whose
iships are mentioned by Daniel. and
whose ivory is referred to by Ezekiel.
in Lainaka is the W of Lazarus.
i who after being raised from the dead.
is said to have become bishop of the
renowned eliy. "‘
The area of (‘yprus ls about equal
; to the combined arena of Delaware and
lthode Island. while Its total popula~
that is about half that of the litter
state.
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azoatts. MAY BE AERIAL
HALF-WAY HOUSE
islands. In years
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l The Azores to'
come. may be an established ntId-At-s
Iantlc rest elation for airplane flights
across the ocean.
i l-‘arthest from a continent of any
[Atlantic Island group. the Islands lle
830 miles nest of t ‘ape da Roca Portu-
gal. and more than a thousand miles
southeast of Newfoundland. nearest
-l\'orth American land.
Volcanic eruptions and‘eartbquakel.
while the former were active, made
the Atom objects of scientific Inter-
est akin to that evinced in the now
famous Mount Katmai region in Alan-
ka. Suboceanle eruptions. sometimes
piling up islands which soon disappea
ed. were characteristic phenom
tine early demlptlon of such an event
rocked for eiiht days by earthquakes.
consume the cloude. epewlnx enormous
rll antemmm
uni-”o: ytt. i .- ulin- :1 «ml “It
capti
Invariance. thesbleear- and Carnegie;
:v‘.
micard from Asia and southward
from the bleak Russian ateppea toward
the warmer aeacoast lands- Moreover.
Bessarabia is at the convergence of
these two history-beaten paths. and
many times a clash ensued to decide
which group should pass through the
“neck of the bottle“ toward Europe?!
lands of. milk and honey.
Among the most harrowing of the in-
vasions was that of the Mongols in
the fourteenth century. They came
across the Volga trade} Batu. grandson
of that Mongol Charlemagne. Jenghh:
Kuhn. and though there is no complete
story of their depredations in Bes-
sarabia. that region probably suffered
atrocities similar to others which are
recorded in harrowing detail. At
ltyazan women and children were used
as targets in hematidarrow contests:
slivers of wood were driven under the
nails of the men; then they were car-
ralled in churches to watch their wom-
len being tortured. and finally roasted
inllvc. Another city. Komlsk. was re-
named Moballg. “City of “we." and
Kiev was laid waste after her people
had been maimed and murdered.
A picture of peaceful. pastoral Bes-
sarahia prior to the, reneyved ravages
of the World war. furnish»- a pleasing
contrast. .\ delight to the few tmtr-
ists who Wen: through the region. were
the Moldavian homes.
A Moldavian interior was lmmat ulale
and \".i\id Brightlv -colored tut'ralns
iand hangings were used. An inevitable
tdet oration were rows of v’eilow
gonrds. the raising of which is one of
pcoplearo deeply religious. Patch ortho-
odox home had its altar, facing cast-
ward. sacred bread beneath the. Icon.
and cornstalks placed in the shade of
a (Tons before It. Even the altars
iwerec colorful because of their draper-
ies and candles. and many times they
lwere laden with flowers. The [less
iaarablan women are sprightly. bright—
end and pretty
.‘ioldatiane constituted about half
ithe inhabitants of lleasarabia. Rou-
mania. it will be. recalled. was formed
by the union of Moldavia and Wal-
Ilachla; hence the adjoining Bea-
nrabla. with its large Moldavian pop
ulatlon. long has been the “lrredeata”
of Roumanla.
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THE BERMUDAS
Iadrenturea of Robinson Crusoe In their
colonization and present In their later
chronology a curious parallel to United
Statee history. with the events pre-
dated by it number of years.
The Roma-on Crusoe comparison
obtrudea because the island was dis-
covered and later eettied as the direct
malt of shipwrecks. and the settlers
had to build themselves a bark to set
“‘1! min.
masses of earth and rock. Then there
lug higher and wider until an area of
several square miles was contained in?
this "no man‘s land." Later it was;
shattered. and subsided. as the result!
‘of more earthquakes.
The Aaom comprise three groups.
of islands. Thelruotal area is less:
than that of llhode Island: their popu- i
‘Iatlon about will to that of Kansas:
(‘lty. Me. Most of the inhabitants are 1
Portuguese. The rest are Flemish and
Moorish. with a few immigrants from:
the l’nlted Kingdom.
Fruits and ill: commuti- the prin-
Oraages are sttpplant-.
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lug pineapples. but the other products
Hlemou. citron. Japanese medtar. and
bananas—smalntaln tlwir popularity.
The principalnah are the mullet. tua-
by. and bonito.
Saint Michaela. largest island of the
group. has lava beds. cavemwhich may
one nature. the other emerald—at its
bottom.
(in Santa Maria is the church where i
(‘olumbus knelt. Off Tcrceria tarsal.-i
marine volcano made its appearance
as recently as half a century ago. On
Cot-v0 have been unearthed coins
which suggest Parthaginlan visits. and
an Arabian geographer of the twelfth .
ccutun dew ribed Islands of the “\Vest '
,ern Glenn" thong!” to have been the
Azores.
About the middle of the fifteenth
century the Portuguese sent expedi-
tions to settle upon them. One island.
l-‘ayal. was presented by Alphonso V
of Portugal. to his aunt. Isabella.
ditchess at Burgundy. It was upon
of Burgundy. that he founded the fa-
moms :nightly orgies e: the 561%
Fltvcc.
In 1829 supporters of 'llsria da
Gloria against Miguel. in the struggle
for the Portuguese eroti'n. established
themselves on the islands. and for the
three years following Queen Marla
lived at Anna, one of the seaports of
importance. Others are Penn Delgada
and Berta.
BESSARABIA: A COREY
ISLAND OF HISTORY
Bessarabia. recently assigned to the
sazerainty of Insomnia, has long been
a racial catch basin.
Her population was more than 2:
000.000 before the var.‘ and included
Moldavian. atrium Jews. Bub
gar-lane. Greene. 1m Tartan.
Germans. and Gypsies: but that an
1“ ho had shown themselves sympa-
As for the anticipation of American
)lstory on a miniature scale. it may
look
lplace seven years before the lilgrims
'landed at Plymouth. Mann; that witch- ‘
es were burned. Quakers were perm
ruled. and miscreants “ere ducked
before similar occurrences are recorded
in New England and that sl'avcry “as E
abolished in 1834.1‘he l’lerntudiansI
'protestcd long before 1776 against'The
mother country a rule. until the island
prisons were o\ert‘u|l; but relief
came in their case not through a dcc
titration of freedom. but by the, ac-
cesslon of Cromwell. '
But the essential point of contact of
the American With the Bermudian
arises from the ull-but-(orgotten fact
that while the immortal Lafayette gab g
Iaatly helped the colonies conclude j
their war of Independence. the Bermu- -
dlans supplied the ammunition to be- ‘
gin it.
*bo acute was the need for powder in '
1775‘ that George Washington wrote. to
the governor of Rhode island that "no 3
quantity. however small. is beneath I
notice. ' Learning that there wis a}
store in Bermuda and that the island— *
efa were anxious to have the embargo ‘
lifted upon shipment of food supplies .
{tom the colonies. \\ ashiagton address-
ed a letter to the [ample of the island
thetic with the Autcrlcun’hevolntlom
lsts: promising them ample supply of ‘
provisions and “every other mark of i
all'ection and friendship which the i
gmteful citizens of a free country can
bestow on its' brethren and benefac-
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tors" it they would make this nmmu- ,
>nitloa available for the Continental}
army. I
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‘ It so happened that the powder had
been procured before the letter was
Letting and with it the Wet
army compelled the British to evacu—
ate Boston.
Not only the sale of the powder. but
the fart that Bermuda allowed the
cobmiee to have salt. so incensed its
governor that he npbralded the clam-a:
fol-stream and feeling run so high
that be was removed. Eta successor
was a native or Salem. Mass whose
loyalty to the mother country was such
that he gave up large estates in t
colonies rathertban join the revolu-
tiontsts. He was connected. both by
blood and by marriage. with the Win
ramp fanny. Under his title he in-
Peitry‘ Promises to Be More Lux-
urious ThanEver Before.
Extraordinary Large collars Are Strik.
lno Feature; Gweoue Lining. of
Costly Materials.
Those who know any the furs of the,
coming season will be more luxurious
than ever before. eEspecially costly
and attractive are the new coats.
Of these the extraordinary large
collars are a striking feature. ()ue
oftthe smartest coats shows a deep
shawl color and panels in front and
held In place at the sides by means
back which are drawn together and i
the minor Beasarablan Industries. The “
The Bermuda islands suggest the ,
marten.
of atrds and tassels of fur.
most gorgeous as their
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inround the bottom of the cost: In
othet‘s single flowers. among which
pnnsles are favorites. are scattered
over the entire lining.
Many dyed furs. such as skunk and
are being used. Seal and
squirrel are also very popular.
use OF-BRAID As TRIMMING
Embellisbmfltt May Be Effectively Ap-
plied on Skirt, Jacket and
Chemise Drone.
So much has been mid of trimmings
that It might appear that the design- 5
ers' imagination had been taxed to the
utmost. but there are new things ap-
pearing each week. In the way of
using braids alone the developments
are most interesting. A novel way of
applying braid as a trimming is seen
, In the use of six strips sewn together
and applied lengthwise in groups all
three at the sides, of the skirt. tiring .
somewhat the appearance of plans
Again. the skirt and Jacket of a
very smart blue serge suit show live
very small zones. each edged with
black braid let in at either side of
the hip. Then there are chemise
dresses braided in conventional de—'
signs from the waistline to the hem.
A striking effect is obtained by trim.
min; a black cloth dress of this type
with flat white braid.
A truck of tobacco brown duvetyn I
has a cape back cut in one with the
sleeves. A most unusual trimming ap-
pears on this cape in the form of two-
incb bands of cutout embroidery.
through which the cape lining of crepe
georgette shows. " he cutout em-
broidery appears again down the sidea
of the skirt}
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CLOTHES THAT KIDDIES LIKE
Youngeten Appreciate Having Gar-
menu Decorated With Picture.
That Appeal t: Then.
Of course. when one is only six, one
hasn‘t a very elaborate vocabulary to
use in expressing one's love for
lathe: whose trimmings are really in-
The only thing to do is to
that: one wear the Rock with the ele
mummwmorwhatnotonlt.
And that is Just what the kiddta
do. mukethetrclotheetoexpreee
all mmmfltleelnthetorm
Many of the coats show linings al-
exteriors.
The lining: are made of costly satins
and bromides and trimmed with elab-
orate hand embroidery. in some cases
the embroidery is used as a border
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-'j I character or her figvir. '«
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. the very little woman oi. meta: to his
A , long to the (‘lltltliv :.; my. in! rum;
Who yeams to he impw mm .mi stir».
, iy. If She Insists upon new 1.: 'ht!
l garments of the Ki't'lini. w “mum vo
may spoil her rhzmws i' '. .; ins-
t-inatingly charming, I
lint between ”use mumps
I there is a very hapt \ a ‘ r .i. nir‘. all
i this idea of dressing w. ain-
' there is also a \tl\ \. " nurs-
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The popular sailor in bat
ters‘ l
with a been—ting {Inn—g of 2:.”
velvet promises to be laghzy mom:
judging from the way
been received.
ACTRESS’A ADVICE 0N DRESS
Character, Not Fugu'e San id Be Con.
sidered in Matte. (: CM.“
Stage ch‘. ,' 55,“.
Dress your cl “r
this model M.
. ’ jmur Ii:-
Ji‘t‘, is the flil\lt-' . g. , . “A...“
”-llllfl rather page I. .- min-g
seems at first l.:..i.:.;. l1.: hi... it
over well and -\ ,, (If m,
idea will appeal In .\‘ .. iji- . \' “when
has a (‘0l‘ltlln SIIIIH .' ..I~ «filer own
.—n temperament, ,' ...; xiii—Hat
makes her a lIIIIw. 1"“ :1 fund
deal, ditl‘crcni itv“ . “.4. en.
It Is this individrm l} 'I ~
‘I‘lrw Til-
ment—lhat woman \‘ .~ .
.‘lCt‘tll'llltlg to tho ill . g l"‘
make the pcrwmi: \ - . . 1.
convincing.
But an insiiinliw . ,,_, .,;- of
l Illls llthit‘t' with II'I : . .' ' I prompt.
inns of reason Ina) . » ' 4 V;«~'.-r'
For example, there I . ~ .3].
ttu who weighs L'tttl p. ‘ ~ .- 'lwp
abouts. hut aim...- i“ ;< .1,
tinr’tly kittenish. l~ .=, I‘m-n; iwr
i'in W s moo
tion. The lmportan- e I f n ih ‘ mg per-
lonal Individuality m I“ unm is till-K
predated by ntanv no a» ,, \\‘ 0 design‘
their own clothes and haw; :I w rioeirm
to tailor. dressmamu :-.
I reproduce in [lratli . .w 2 .~
‘ tress in her part is
cmnformily with Hm
portraying. but hwy .
here Is an Important i“ .I'
\ to suit her figure In.. ~ -..'
‘lng a special sort of po w...
TIMELY FASHION HWTS
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BI: plaids and i.:' - L,
galore.
‘Formal tea gown ~‘. . . : ‘2
ing lines. .
Many short jaclws " . " H 9
shoulder,
Brown net is ria: -~ . . .» rd
with gold.
Tailored costumes r .»
plain goods-
The newest form e.”
a straight jacket of \\ . \ i
made 0280\9“d|ln\01\:-W§ ,. "
{It is worn ‘ith a navy iv
skirt.
Variety Is the rule is
| of autumn hats. Til-W Ii
Tri'lver. duvetyn ft‘it :ziz-Y 'zi . ‘
gof them are trimmed prvztw a ‘ '1
i paradise. 1
‘ The newest l-‘rcmh :.;.;.~t-;e is t. w.
I toned of fine pink and 5.7m. ‘
i Another favorite note or ll o .. ”.w“ m
to be found in while Yin-w Inn-scram.
ments with appliquml desigz's .n crui—
cred linens.
Indications point the inn: slwve
‘as the popular style for the row
i blouses In spite of the fun:- shown
to the three—qusnerrlvngth sleeves at
the beginning of the season. the pens
dulum ls swinging more and more to-
ward the long sleeve.
Wique and eyelet embroidery are
two new features of the smartest fall
blouses One mode-Pshows a panel of
taupe geergette with eyelet embroido
cry posed over a foundation of Hindu
color. A second tnmtvl has tan vel-
vet apples appliqucvl on a blouse of
navy georgettc. Tan filer lace and
green satin bands glVC' a further color
contrast.
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Black Lace and White Velvet.
Some of the most striking combi-
nations of black and white are seen in
models of black lace' used in conjunc-
tion with white velvet. A favorite way
of making a dress from these mater-i-
ale is to develop a simple foundation
or black lace with long sic-even that
hang looeely‘to about the elbow tro-
where they llt tightly over the loved‘
am and wrist. The
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