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VOL. LV. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY OCTOBER 3, 1929. NO. 35.
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HAPPENNINGS OF THE WEEK |
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Chairman Legge Makes
Plain to Senators His
Farm Board Policy.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Alexander i.eijge, chairman of
the federal farm board, Intend*
that the money put nt the disposal of
the board shall be handled "with a
reasimable measure of safety," and he
doesn't wish his appointment to be
confirmed under the mistaken Impres
sion that any other policy will be fol
lowed. If the senate does not approve
of this policy, Mr. Legge Is perfectly
willing to give up his office and return
to his home In Chicago and Ills private
business.
So much, and a lot more to the
same purpose, the chairman told the
senate committee on agriculture which
was considering his appointment The
Democratic ipid radical Republican
members of the committee questioned
Mr. Legge sharply for many hours
and made plain their displeasure be
cause the board In the two months
of Its existence had not more rapidly
organized stabilization corporations
and placed at their disposal large
funds with which to enhance the
prices of farm products. Senators
Brookhnrt of Iowa and Wheeler of
Montana were especially vexed by the
failure of the farm board to take
steps assuring the stabilization of
wheat prices during the present crop
season. Senator Wheeler said that
I f thn hnn rrl hoH n r? nnn nr?<vi thflt II
stabilization corporation would be-pre
pared to operate the farmers would
have held their wheat. Senator Frazler
of North Dakota said the farmers of
Ms state had lost from 25 to 40 cents
a bushel on wheat because of the fail
ure of the board to take action.
Mr. l.egge explained that stabiliza
tion corporations would be organized
as rapidly us it is possible to deter
mine thnt they can operate with a
reasonable prospect of success. It Is
Intended, lie said, that the grain
marketing corporation, which wos
organized at Chicago conferences,
shall net as a stabilization corpora
tion. He explained that steps toward
the formation of this corporation were
taken within nine days after the board
, organized.
Wheeler Intimated that the board's
loan to the Sun Maid Raisin Growers'
association was made for the benefit
of a Wail street bouse that floated the
bonds of the Sun Maid Raisin corpora
tion, but Mr. Legge effectively scotched
that idea by explaining that the loan
prevented the financiers from fore
closing on the company's property. He
also took the wind out of the sails of
those who sought to attack htm per
sonally In the matter of Ills connec
tion with the International Harvester
company by a detailed statement of
earnings and market values of that
concern's stock and of bis financial
Interest in It.
SHIPBUILDING company officials
for whom William B. Shearer at
tended the Geneva arms limitation
conference In 1927 all virtually dis
owned him In their testimony before
the senate Investigating committee,
agreeing In stating that they attached
small Importance to his reports and
none at all to his claims of Influence
there. In his flnal report to his em
ployers Shearer asserted his work In
Geneva resulted In the collapse of the
conference. He said: "This advance
campaign and .the accuracy and au
thentic data released by me automat
ically made me leader of the unoffi
cial f.ght to the extent that the Amer
-lean officials referred the press to me,
as they were bound to secrecy, with
the result that the attempt to deliver
the United States was defeated by a
complete expose, which Is now ac
knowledged."
SENATOR HOWELL of Nebraska
stirred up a hornet's neat when
In the senate he declared the liquor
laws could be enforced In Washing
ton If the President desired It, since
be Is "all powerful In the capital"
and could oust the district commls
sloners If they neglected their duty.
Mr. Hoover responded promptly with
a statement that Mr. Howell had Im
pugned the Integrity of the district
officials, and called on the senator for
"definite facts" supporting his charges
of prohibition violations In the dis
trict
Itelteratlng his charges Tuesday,
Senator Howell admitted he waa un
able to give the time and place of
violations but said It wns "unfair to
expect a senator so to do." Senator
Brook hart then came to Ids rescue by
telling of a convivial party he said
was given In Washington by a New
York stock broker In honor of newly
elected senators and others some time
ago. He declared there was a flask
of liquor for each guest, and later he
said he would gladly face a grand Jury
and tell all about the party, giving the
names of those present?which caused
considerable alarm. There was Indi
cation that this function might be In
vestigated by those who are probing
the doings of lobbyists, for, according
to Brookhart, there was much dis
cussion of pending railroad legisla
tion.
Mr, Howell, In continuing his at
tacks, charged as one Instance of the
failure of local enforcers that the
Carlton club, one of the most exclu
sive night clubs In the capital, has
never been raided or closed up, al
though four dry agents reported wit
nessing Volstead violations at numer
ous tables. I-ater he sold he would
seek to have Oen. Smedley D. But
ler, commandant of the marine corps
base at Quantlco, detailed to Washing
ton for a "clean-up Job." General
Butler recently compelled the town au
thorities of Quantlco to enforce the
prohibition Ihw by ordering the ma
rines not to enter the town until the
speakeasies and bootleggers were
driven out
Harry f. Sinclair's appeal to
the President for commutation
of sentence having been denied on
recommendation of Attorney General
Mitchell, the Imprisoned oil magnate
Issued a statement calling on Mr.
Mitchell to make, public all of the
record In his plea. Bis principal rea
son for asking for freedom, Sinclair
declared, was that he had been JalleJ
for Jury shadowing?which had not
before been prohibited by statute or
rule of the court. "Observation of a
Jury became contempt of court only
when I engaged In It." he declared.
"In efTect," Sinclair said, "the state
ment of the attorney general can be
summed up to mean that I should re
main In Jnll because I was acquitted
of an alleged offense for which be
feels I should have been convicted."
FOR the first time President Hoover
took a hand In the tariff fight when
he Issned a statement urging the re
tention of the flexible tariff, which he
asserted Is "a protection for the sound
progress In our economic system and
for the future protection of our farm
ers and our Industries and consum
ers." Ho gave at considerable length
his reasons for this assertion, taking
direct Issue with the Democrats and
radical Republicans who seek the re
peal of the flexible tariff. Senator
Pat Harrison of Mississippi predicted
the President would be defeated on
this proposition.
EVERY American was Interested In
the wedding of MaJ. John Cool
Idge, sin of former President and
Mrs. Coolldge, and Florence Trumbull,
daughter of Governor Trumbull of
Connecticut. The ceremony took place"
In the bride's home town, Plalnvllle,
Conn., and though the families tried to
make It a simple affair, it was at
tended by a number of distinguished
persons and the details were read with
avidity throughout the land. The
wedding gifts nearly filled one half of
the second floor of the Trumbull home
and Included a big silver bowl and
candlesticks from the foreign envoys
In Washington. Mr. Coolldge gave "a
substantial check" and Mrs. Coolldge
presented a solid mahogany bedroom
suite of colonial design and a check
for $2S0, whloh ahe received for her
poem, "The Open Door," Inspired by
the fifth anniversary of the death of
her other son, Calvin Coolldge, Jr.
Jackson Reynolds, president of
the First National bank of New
York, and Melvln a. Traylor, presi
dent of the First National bank of
Chicago, American representatives on
the commission that Is to set up the
bank for International settlements pro
vided for In the Young reparations
plan, have sailed for Europe, where
they will meet their Europenn col
leagues. The effort to put the bank
under complete control of the League
of Nations failed for the time being
In Geneva, but something In that line
ma.v come up at loter sessions of the
league assembly. Since It was speci
fied by the Young commission that
the hunk should he dominated by
financial and not political Interests,
Messrs. Reynolds and Traylor did not
confer with President lloovcr before
departing.
Ramsay mac donai.d, prime
minister of Great Britain, occupy
ing the Imperial suite on the liner
Gerengurla, sailed for the United
States for his conference with Presi
dent Hoover. He Is bringing no staff
of experts with hlra becuuse, as he
told the English, the technical points
of the proposed plan for n five-power
naval limitation conference have al
ready been settled and all that Is
needed Is a diplomatic agreement. In
the conversations with Mr. Hoover,
besides the naval conference, other
matters entering Into Anglo-American
relations will be (discussed, one of
them possibly being certain changes
in the ship liquor treaty negotiated
In 1923.
LAST, week It was Russia's turn to
Issue an ultimatum, so the Soviet
government warned the Chinese Na
tionalist government that any further
Chinese attacks on the Russian popu
lation along the Manchurian border
would result In Immediate and decisive
action by the Red army.
Gen. Chang Fak-wel, reactionary
commander of the Cantonese "Iron
sides" division, who was dismissed by
the Nanking government, led his
troops In s rebellion that for some
days looked very serious. But toward
the end of the week the Nationalist
authorities announced the revolt was
broken and Chang's soldiers surround
ed at Llchow.
Letters from missionaries tell of
the massacre, late In August, of
3,000 rebellious Moslems In the remote
Kansu province. The victims were
gathered at Taochow under a pretext
and all males between the ages ft fif
teen and fifty were slaughtered.
POLITICAL quarrels In Austria,
which for some weeks have been
threatening dvll wnr, were further
complicated by the resignation of
Chancellor Streeruwltz and his Chris
tian Socialist cabinet because certain
elements In their party could no long
er be restrained. Johan Schober, head
of the Vienna police, was made chan
cellor and he selected as minister of
war Gen. Karl Vaugoln, Who has made
the army a powerful conservative
force. Both these inen are bitter foes
of the Socialists.
The coalition government of Czecho
slovakia which had held office since
last February also resigned. Parlia
ment was dissolved nnd new elections
were called for October 27.
According to report* from c?i
cuttn. Amir Hablbullah, otherwise
Baclia Sakao, the water carrier and
bandit who made himself king of Af
ghanistan, was assassinated. Recent
advices from reshnwar stated unrest
was Increasing In Afghanistan, owing
to Bablbullah's inability to raise
money, and a counter revolution was
threatened.
COLONEL LINDBERGH'S latest
feat was a flight from Miami (n
Cuba, Trinidad, British Gnlana and
Dutch Gaiana for the purpose of open
ing a new aerial route. He was ac
companied by Mrs. Lindbergh and sev
eral others nnd the trip was without
undue Incident. Coming back from
Paramaribo to Port of Spain, the col
onel turned hla plane westward for
flight to Maracay, Venezuela. From
there his homeward course Included
Curncao, Maracalbo, Barranqullla, the
Canal Zone and again Cuba.
PROMINENT among those whom
death claimed were Cardinal Du
bois, archbishop of Paris; Gen. Harry
F. Hodges, builder cf the Pansmn
canal locka, and Miller Hugglns, man
ager of the New York Yankees of the
American league.
Inmates Not "Coddled"
in Canadian Prisons
Canadian prisons ore dreaded by the
convicts who have known the "cod
dling" of the penal Inatltntlons In the
United States. Thomas S. nice, mem
ber of the crime commission of New
fork state, declared at the American
Prison congress at Toronto.
Because of the rigorous discipline
and hard work, Canada's system was
far ahead of that In vogue In the
Unltad States, ha declared, although
he acknowledged that the ten honn'
work In gammer and eight honn In
winter were not popular with Inmates.
"We found It was harder to super
rise matrons In the women's detention
homes than prisoners," said Miss Mary
Breen. superintendent, Detroit, to the
Prison association. Of the ten ma
trons only three Were fitted by tem
perament and natire ability. Two of
the seTen others weighed more than
290 pounds and 'passed most of their 1
time In rocking chairs. Firs wen be- i
twaea the ages of sixty and aerdsty." |
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"Though New York atate prlaom
hare a dally average of 5,000 prlaon
era In the 18 penal Inatltntlona It haa
conaletently Ignored the human prob
lem Inherent In the 00,000 criminate
and peraona charged with crime, who
paaa through Its bonaea of correction
every year," declared Joaeph F. Flab
man of the New York city department
of correction.
"For yeara New York'a priaona have
been the damping ground for mentally
and phyaically elck who do not belong
In a penitentiary," ha aald.
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I? by D. J. Wallh )
CON NY Glade, glancing dp from
ber late rosea, saw a discon
solate little figure Id blue mur
ing In tbe adjoining yard and
beckoned.
"Come on over, llortense, and gel
one of my sunbursts," she called.
llortense Gray came slowly across
the grass. She wns a sweet-faced girl
whose pallor, usually becoming, today
gave her a baggtrd Intensity of ex
pression.
"Dancet too much last night at the
mldmonth party?" Inquired Conny. "I
didn't go myself, Junior Is teething."
"I didn't go, either."
"You didn't?" Conny nearly dropped
the marrelously tinted rose she was
handing to llortense. "I thought you
and Norman never missed a chance
to dance. Was be out of town?"
"No." Hortense pressed the rosea to
her lips to hide their trembling. Con
ny, glancing at ber left hand, started
and spoke before she thought:
"Why, Hortense I Your ring I Have
you lost Itr
Hortense looked up with such
piteous, dim lift to her blue eyes that
Conny Instinctively put an arm about
ber.
"You don't?you can't mean that?"
Conny could go no further.
Hortense nodded.
UTS -II ?? M. ??
ai ii? an uvn. mirmun? sue khtc
a little sob. "I thick be doesn't care
any more. And?and I dont .want
anybody who doesn't care. So I gave
him back his ring. We're unengaged
you see." Her laugh hroke Into tears.
"You poor little darling I" was all
Conny could say.
"It's all right," Hortense said. "But
I can't think what changed him. I
haven't done anything. Weill I shnll
live through It some way." And be
cause she was afraid of breaking
down she marched away with her
poor, quivering chin held high In the
air.
"So that's that!" Conny confided to
her roses. "Why, It will spoil Hor
tense's whole life. She has had show
ers and her hope chest Is fall, Nor
man Is a One fellow. I can't think
what has happened, and I can see that
poor Hortense does not know."
Conny was troubled. Her own mar
ried life was so beautifully serene that
she would have had all her friends
happy In a like fashion. Hortense and
Norman had seemed particularly well
suited to each other, and she had
looked forward to having them for
neighbors. Another young married pair
In the neighborhood would be so
pleasant
"How's your roses coming on?"
Conny, Interrupted In thought,
turned to see a tall dark old woman
crossing the grass.
"Oh, good morning, Miss Flopper I"
she sold, bnt <t was as If a dark shad
ow had obscured the sun. Conny did
not like Miss Plopper.
Now, however, with patler.t desire
to be neighborly, she broke s ravish
ing rose from Its stem and gave It to
her visitor. Miss l'lopper sniffed and
BilUVK liCl llt'UU.
"No smell to It," she commented.
"That la because It Is a tea," Connjp
smiled. "How Is the world with you
this morning, Miss Hopper?"
"Just as good as It Is with others, I
guess." Miss Plopper looked across at
the Gray house. "How's Hortense tak
ing her broken engagement?*' she
asked.
Conny jumped. The uncanny old
thing! She simply know everything.
"I knew that wouldn't go through,"
went on Miss Hopper. "Norman's my
great nephew, yon know."
"So he Is," murmured Conny. ,
"He don't want to marry yet for
fire or six years, till he's made his
way. It's a mistake for folks to marry
so young." She moved awqy, home
ward.
Conny sat down on the bench un
der the borse-cbestnut taae. She was
surprised, bewildered, suspicious.
Snatches of talk came to her, things
she had seen with her own eyes.
There had been a perfect train of
broken engagements during the past
year. There were Ivan Howe and
Hilda Tucker, ready to be married and
yet parted. There were Joe Van Cott
and Lillian Rhodes, there were?Conny
knew tbem all. Her own engagement
bad wavered for a time; Miss Hopper
had told her something about Jack and
she had foolishly believed It Miss
Plopper had gone to Lillian Rhodes
with a story. Miss Plopper?why. It
was Miss Plopper all tbe way through I
She knew everybody, her tongue was
like a needle, she had Influence, she
was related to the Howes and the
Rhodes and to Norman Wilcox; ber
opinions carried weight because she
was extremely wealthy and some day
Norman snd Ivan and Lillian would
be her heirs, to soy nothing of many
more whom Conny could not name
upon tbe Instant
"The .old match marrerl" Conny
breathed. "I >ee through hei now. I
wonder what I can do!"
Nothing It teemed, and yet Conny
thought hard. She could not bear to
>ee llttla Hortense's blue eyea full of
that allent pain. Darling Unrtensel
Horrid old Miss I'lopperl Rut she
must Inquire lnt? Ihe matter a little
more 11 rat
Hurrying to the telephone the In
vited Norman to supper, after which
she told Jack that his friend was
coming. Then she prepared to bait
her little trap with a thick. Juicy
steak flavored with onions. None bet
ter than Conny knew that the wny to
a man's heart Is through his stomach.
It was a perfect men! and Imth men
praised the dnlnty ccck. Afterward
while Jack did a bit cl writing t'onny
sat with N rman on the porch In the
moonlight and by every wile she knew
coaxed the story of the broken en
gagement out of her guest. Norman
was frank; he was hurt, his dignity
was threatened. Hortense had gone
riding with Leland Yates In that red
sport enr of his, anil Leland Yates
was anathema. He couldn't stand for
It, his girl parading before Ihe public
eye with Inland Yates! No he hadn't
given her a chance to explain, he had
Just told her they better call things
off. And she had. No, he hadn't been
unduly suspicious; of course lie hadn't
seen her with l.elnnd, hut he had
heard ubout It, every detail; how they
had stopped nt the Willow Tree Inn
for lunch. At that Norman snorted.
"I wonder," Conny Inquired very
softly. "If It could have been your
Aunt Horn who suw Inland and Hor
tense together?"
'en, it whs, eA|jiuueu j^uriiiuii.
"She happened to be passing the Inn
In Mrs. Bank's car when llortense and
that man came out to get Into that
speedster."
"But," purred Conny. "1 wonder If
?he told .vou flint Uelen Wnrnjr was
with them and that Behind tlfis been
trying for three years to get Helen to
marry him and that she has only Just
now made up her mind that?she will,
for the sake of reforming him."
"No I Is that so?" shouted Nor
man. At that Instant s sweet sound
rose on the air. It was Hortense's
violin. She was playing "Con
Amore."
"Vou better go and ask Hortcnse.
She'll tell you the truth," Connie sold
firmly. "If she never forgives you re
member It Is your fault becnuse you
didn't go to her like a man In the
llrst place."
Norman went And as lie departed
Connie llew to Miss 1'lopper's. She
bounced In upon the spinster with fire
In her eyes.
"Norman's gone back to llorlense,"
she blazed. "Now I am going to tell
you something."
The commotion that ensued was ter
ribly exciting. But Conny, keyed up
to do her best, had the match marrer
beaten forty ways. She had gathered
more than one scrap of Information
from Norman.
"Just becnuse your Ill-nature sent
the man you loved from you and etn
bltiered your whole life you've >io
business to want to make everybody
else os miserable is yourself," was
her final shot as she departed.
Then she ran home to cry on Jack's
shoulder, leaving the match mnrrer to
her own reflections.
American Indian Songs
Indians of North America hnve
songs for almost ever; phose of life,
not only for public ceremonies. htil
nNo for Important acta In nn Individ
ual'a career, aa for selling trnpa. hunt
ing. court Ins nnd ploying gainea. Finch
haa Its peculiar rhythm. an thai with
out hearing an; worda an Indian la
able to recognize the classification of
a strange song. Some of the snngs.
In fact, convey their meanings entire
ly without words.
Apple Statistics
The Baldwin pple was raised neat
tawell, Mass., about 1750. The Jon
nthan nnd Northern 8py were grown
In New York, the Grimes Golden in
West Virginia and the Maiden D'osh
In various places before 18UU. Tin
lied Attmchan was Imported from
Russia In 183.1, the Rome Beauty was
grown In Ohio hy 1848, the 8tnymnr
Wlnesap appeared In Kansas In 1800
and the Delicious In Iowa In 18H5.
Airplane Designations
The letters on the wings of airplanes
b: e the following significance: N Is
an International tyrobol which deslg
nates that the plane is from the Unit
ed Stales; X designates that It Is an
experimental plane; C designates that
it Is a licensed plane. The numbers
have no apeclnl significance aside from
the fact that they show the number of
registration of the plane.
Tnanels la Washington
There ore tunnels to both the sen
ate ami house office buildings In the
National Capital. In the one leading
to the senate office building there It
a monorail electric car system. Thli
convenience has not been Installed la
the tunnel leading to the house office
building. A tunnel for transmission
of books connects the Mbrnry of Con
gress with the Capitol.
MQS2OTE>V
& (iTOTOIffl&a
Courtyard off an Inn, Jerusalem.
(PrtptraS by ths National Gaoaraphle |
Society, Watblngton. D. C.) (
MORE Is known In general of ,
Palestine, perhaps, than of
any other Eastern country,
because of the wide reading
of the Bible. Few, however, realise |
that the manners and customs which i
prevailed there In Biblical days are i
still In large part unchanged even |
after an Interval of 3.000 years. In |
addition to the native and Immigrant i
Jews and the relatively few ChrfS- i
tlans, the land today Is Inhabited by
three distinct clashes of Arabs, the
Bedouins, or nomads, a wandering,
war-loving race; the Fellaheen, who
are the agriculturists, shepherds, and
rlllnge dwellers; and the Uedanlyeh,
who live In the towns and cities and
are artisans.
With the advent of civilisation the
townspeople are fast losing their an
clent customs and quaint costumes,
but the villagers adhere to both far
more tenaciously.
The present-day villages are lo
cated, as o rule, either on the tope of
hills, originally for protection, or near
some spring or source of water. Many
are built upon the foundations of
dwellings whose origin dates back
thousands of years. There does not
exist r single example of a peasant
village that has been founded In mod
ern times. This does not apply, of
course, to the small Jewish towns.
With almost every village or dis
trict there are, to a greater or lesser
extent, variations In the dialect of the
Arabs, their style of dress, and the
homes they live In.
On the Plain of Sharon, where stone
Is rare or non-existent, the houses
nre made of sun-dried brick, the roofs
thatched and cove?-d with clay to
shed the rain, while In the mountains
they are built of stone, since of lhar
material there Is an Inexhaustible
supply.
Many have pictured In their minds
Mary and Joseph, after arriving at the
"Inn" at Rethlehem and finding no
room, being forced to tarn Into some
barn hullt of limber, with lofty roof,
hay mows, wooden mangers, and stalls
for cattle and sheep. Such a stable
has been the subject of many medieval
and modern ortlsts, but It does not
present s really true picture. Let us
consider the old-style village home
that Is most common In the districts
around Jerusalem and Bethlehem, for
that will give us a better Idea of wbat
happened on that first Christmas day.
In An Old Village.
The village streets are crooked, nar
row, ond unpnved. As In many of the
countries of the Orient, farmers live
close together for protection, and not
on their lands; therefore In the vil
lages there are no open fields or gar
dens, but house Is next to bouse, ex
cept for the small walled-ln Inclosurea
or sheepfolds through which one gen
erally passes when going Into the
dwelling.
The house Itself consists of one
large room, usually square. The walls,
from three to four feet thick, are built
of blocks of stone roughly dressed and
laid In mortar, roofed over with a
dome, also of stone.
Entering the door we find that
about two-thirds of the space Is de
voted to s raised masonry plqtfonn.
some eight or ten feet above the
ground, and supported by low-domed
arches. This raised space, called el
mostaby. Is the part occupied by the
family, while the lower part Is used
for'the cattle and flocks A few nar
i row stone steps lead up to the mnst
aby. and a couple of small windows
pierce the wall, high up from the
ground. On one side Is an open Ore
place. with a chimney running through
the wall and terminating on the roof
often In aa otd water tar wbnaa hot
om hat been knocked out, and to he
cornet a tort of smokestack. The fur
niture It very simple. f
What the Stab!* It Like.
Below the mastaby, or raised plat
rorm, Just described, among arches
10 low that a mnn cnti scmcely walk
erect, are the winter quarters of the
Eoats and sheep. To shut the (locks
In, these nrched entrances are oh
Itructed with bundle* of brush used
as flrewood for the winter. The ret*
of the floor space, which Is open to
the celltnc. It devoted to the tew work
rattle and perhspa a donkey or camel.
Around the walls are primitive man*
gers for the cattle, built of rough slahe
of stone placed on edge and plastered
up with mortar.
Often the owner makes e small
raised place on which he sleeps at
night to enable him to keep better
watch over the newly born lambs, lest
In the crowded quurters some set
crushed or trodden down by the older
ones. Here he often sleeps by prefer
ence on a cold night, for he says the
breatb of the animals keeps blm warm.
One cannot become even tolerably
acquainted with Palestine without
perceiving ftiat It It tbe land that has
preserved the ancient customs. Its
present-day Inhabitants, most of whom
hare nothing In common with the
modern Jews who crowd Jerusalem,
are still perpetuating the life of
Abraham and the customs and ways
of the people who Uved here si the
time of Christ.
To liave learned (he hospitality of
Ita people, which la always offered, no
matter how primitive or simple, makes
It easy to picture klnry and Joseph
returning from the tun, already ailed
with guests, and turning aside Into a
home such "as we have descrilied, the
regular dwelling portion of which may
hare been none too large for the fam
ily which occupied It. It may have
been crowded with other guests, hat
they And a welcome and a resting
place for the habe In a manger.
Such a use of the rowyeh. or stable
portion of the house, by human beings
Is not the exception, but an erery-day
occurrence. You can occasionally hod
men working their primitive looms
there or the mother preparing the
food or doing her little sewing near
the door, where there Is more light
on a dark winter's day.
Costumes of the Women.
The costumes of the women differ
sufficiently In each district to enable
one to distinguish readily where the
wearer comes from. From the varia
tions of the headgear one can tell
whether a woman be single or mar
ried; but, although differing from one
another In the details, the costumes
bave much In common.
The dress, called a tobe, Is like
a long loose shirt, the sleeves narrow
nt the shoulders and widening out
something like the Japanese pattern.
The front and back are made each of
one width of cloth, with a gore on
each side to widen the skirt. A girdle
either of white linen or bright striped
silk Is wound around the waist and
the tobe Is polled up a little to pro
duce a full bosom. This tobe, when
for common use. Is dark-blue cloth,
the bosom Is covered with cross-stitch
embroidery and perhaps a little an
the sleeves and skirt
The shoes are crude affairs, the tops
being of bright red or sometimes yel
low sheepskin, with soles of*raw cow,
camel, or buffalo bide.
The headgear Is of two parts: flrst,
what we shall for convenience sake
call a cap, and over It a veil. The
Bethlehem women wear a high cap.
In shape something like a man's fes,
called sbatweh, on the front of which
are sewn rows of gold and silver cplaa.
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