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There are such stores that hold the trade for
miles around, some of them built up without
,largely increasing the capital.
The merchant buys small standardized stocks
‘ of the best sellers that are being sold in the
large cities. He is careful to display the exact
pattern that is being popularized.
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small but frequent orders placed with the J ob-
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Some interestim
conditions in the Virgin Islands have
been brought back by Mrs. Nathan-
iel L. Britten. who with Dr. Britten.
Director-in-Chiet '0! the New York
Botanical Garden.
the islands on a. botanical expedition
The travelers reported conditions
verydii‘terent from what they were
afew years ago, when the people
seemed busy and contented. St.
Thomas in the past was a free port
and there was plenty of work. Ev-
erything seemed obtainable and ev-
erything was cheap. Now prices are
high. work is scarce and
considerable unrest.
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past. and prohibition weighs heavily
St. Croix sugar al-
ways has been famous for rum.
Most of the water uéed on :‘he Isl-
Thomas is rain
caught and kept for drinking. cook-
ing. washing, watering plants
flowers, and for every other use to
which water is put.
live where water is
who take it for granted can hardly
realize what this constant scarcity
The rain water is caught on
the roofs of the solidly built. square,
stone houses, some of which
very old. _
“There is much discontent about
prohibition. income taxes and lack
of water." Mrs. Britten said. “There
‘SWREULTW ADS. and hard working. Sugar. rum ant: are no streams and the people are
. .. ...~ . . y“ " ~ bay rum were their mainstays in the idenendent entirely on rain-water. All
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plentiful
this year, so far. there
tie min.
water, down Icing ago.
and
less upon the other.
method of distillation
water or the collecting
of rain-water could be
who
and
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sistance. .- .
are “The Indian mango
St. Thomas everybody I:
including the cattle. A
comes into port at St.
hills are mango rinses.“
The hills around the town
are very. steep and almost hare of
vegetation, the trees having been cut
The pa
forestation is a. serious one and that
of the water-supply still worse. Pre-
sumably one is dependent more or
but if
the United Staiesuit would be of as!
at home in the W’est Indies. and in
few dark spots that yap see on the
be made the basis of reforestation.
As soon as youvbegin to get shade
you get moisture, and with moisture
comes the solution of the water pro—
bleni.
"A mango tree is also said; to
make good fuel. The Virgin island-
ers burn charcoal: and this grows
higher in price and harder to get
year by year as the native trees be-
come scarcer. increasing their difii-
culties."
has been ill:-
ing and kidding and telling
oblem of re-
iy playing."
some:
from sea-
and storing
financed by even when they come over he
Americans seem to have
_ Play vs. Dignity. knack of it. We don't relax
Dr. Copeland who -- broadcasts
medical 3. 'ice for newspaper read-
ers, tells o » looking on with appre-
ciation at a. picnic of foreign-born
citizens. fi‘here were music .and
Conan; and laughing and singfng"
in sun. .“They were :unching and
makes itself
so W'e can’t be children.
ate mangoes}
3 your vessel
Thomas the dignity . as an ailment.
fcl‘hey .rnixh‘.
SI:
There was speech-making and haul.
clapping and yelling. There was 5006
nature in every idhe. The 'ines of
care had gone. Everybody was real~
‘He wants to know why all of us
do rct behave that way. Europeans
he says. are good players. They have
played for ages. and they still play.
lost
work, as they do, and let ourselves
Dr. Brady. and the health-broad-
caster. has a habit '0: referring to
and
source of many other ailments. o-l
pie are just as old as their digni y,
stories.
re. Bu 1:
t he
after
the
joking and fooling. They were court-Ihe says. Dignity means age, menial.
spiritual and physical.
‘Here is something that can '9‘
learned profitably from the frorn'f-TIU:
born. It may help to explain “5.)
they often forge ahead :0 tariff
in this country. as comparfa 7““
the natives. especially natives “‘f“.
American ancestry runs in?“ ’
enough to give them a panicmnr-F
heavy handicap of dignity.
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Homer Smith, the heax’3'“‘ei8h‘f_°t
Kalamazoo, who tights Harry idm
in the star bout or twelve rountsffi
the Queensboro A. C. on Oct. 1:. “1
also right “Tiny" Herman. the “’85:;
em lighter. a teu~round6 boating:
Mimi lie on Oct. 3 - ~ ' .
eapo tch for mu:
manager accepted the ma
yeStcl-day.
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