SUCH IS LIFE ? Mistaken Identity
By CHARLES SUGHROE
Guatemalan Indians Have
Just Learned About U. S.
Primitive Tribe Adheres to
Pre-Conquest Customs.
New York. ? The 1,000 Indians in
the Guatemalan village of Santiago
Chimaltenango, living by a calendar
which dates from the ancient Mayan
civilization, have just learned of the
existence of the United States, ac
cording to a report of a rield study
sponsored by the department of an
thropology of Columbia university.
The report was submitted by
Charles Wagley of Kansas City, Mo.,
a graduate student in the depart
ment, who returned recently from
five months spent in this village,
situated high in the Andean Cordil
lera. There he studied the econom
ic and social customs of one of
Central America's most primitive
tribes.
Santiago Chimaltenango, a section
of the department of Huehuetenango
in northwestern Guatemala, is a
three-day trip on horseback from
the nearest town with passable
roads. It is located on a shelf 8,000
feet high, cut into the side of a peak
in the Cuchumatanes mountains,
highest range in Central America.
Follow Old Customs.
Touched very slightly by the in
roads of "civilized" culture, the na
tives of this community lead a life
which perpetuates the traditions of
ancestors who lived before the Span
ish conquest of Guatemala 400 years
ago, Mr. Wagley reports. The 40
FORMAL GOWN
This is a formal gown of pleasant
inspiration made of ivory-colored
satin, splashed with water lilies. It
also features a square neckline and
cummerbund of dark brown velvet.
Posed by Olivia de Haviland.
separate villages which comprise
the department are autonomous
units, although all come under the
central government of the Guate
malan republic. With its own may
or and council, each village ob
serves its peculiar customs and
dresses according to its own cen
turies-old style. Until the arrival of
Mr. Wagley last summer, no one in
Santiago Chimaltenango had ever
heard of the United States.
The Mayan calendar by which
these Guatemalan Indians figure the
passage of time is based on a year
of 18 months of 20 days each. Since
this system is shorter than the solar
year, a five-day period in March
separates the end of one year from
the beginning of the next. These
five days, which are considered very
unlucky, are spent by the entire vil
lage in fast, abstinence, and prayer.
Corn is the exclusive crop at San
tiago Chimaltenango, where the
cornfields lie at 45-degree angles
along the mountainside. With the
crop surplus as barter, trading is
carried on with other groups in the
department.
The men in the tribes travel ex
tensively in the course of their mar
keting, Mr. Wagley says, but the
women have never seen an auto
mobile, a silk stocking, or a modern
building. They refuse to believe the
tales of the men who have seen
and heard radios in the depart
ment's capital, Huehuetenango.
Start Work Early.
Education in Santiago Chimalte
nango is a family affair, with the
father responsible for the upbring
ing of the sons and the mother for
the instruction of the daughters. At
the age of eight or nine, boys start
to work in the cornfields, learning to
sow and harvest. Later they are ini
tiated into the intricacies of market
ing. At the same age, the Indian
girls learn to weave, to carry fire
wood, and perform all the household
tasks.
The ideal ages for marriage range
from twelve to thirteen for girls
and from thirteen to fourteen for
boys. No romance is involved, Mr.
Wagley points out, since the entire
affair is arranged by the parents of
the boy and girl.
The life of the entire population of
Santiago Chimaltenango is charac
terized by striking simplicity, Mr.
Wagley says. Black Mexican beans,
fruit, and an occasional hog or
chicken supplement the varieties of
corn which make up the chief food
staple.
"Through the study of these mod
em Indians, archaeologists may
learn much about the mode of liv
ing in pre-conquest times," the re
port concludes. "Ethnologically, the
Guatemalan area is absolutely un
touched and affords great opportu
nity in the social study of an an
cient people who have survived
and are gaining strength in the
Twentieth century."
Money Designs Changed
Prior to 1890 designs for paper
money issued by the United States
Treasury were changed frequently.
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THE END OF A BAMBOO POLE.
Countin6"with
FINGERS/
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AGO PINGER COUNTING WAS SO
PREVALENT THAT NO MANUAL OF
ARITHMETIC OMITTED INSTRUCTIONS!
IN THE METHOD
"Peace Without
Victory"
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
When Woodrow Wilson coined the
phrase "peace without victory"
mnnv npnnlp hA.
j X- ? ?
came cynical and
some received
the statement
with contempt.
They felt that it
was impossible, a
mere pipe dream,
a visionary
phrase with no
special signifi
cance. Many
years have now
passed since then.
The treaty of
Versailles has
been signed and
sealed. It signaled a glorious peace
to a large group, perhaps a major
ity of the people. But was peace
finally achieved? A cursory view
of the internal condition of Europe
today replies emphatically in the
negative. Whether Europe is at
present on the verge of war is not
the question. Actual war may be
postponed for many years, but the
NOT EVEN CARNERA!
A fair young miss tries on the
huge replica of a shoe, which is on
exhibition at the shoe and leather
fair in Agricultural hall, London,
Eng. The shoe weighs in the neigh
borhood of 100 pounds.
hatred, mistrust, and malice ram
pant today clearly indicates that
some day there may be a "show
down." Peace does not reign in
spite of a much boasted victory.
We recognize different kinds of
peace. Perhaps the most peaceful
place in the world is a cemetery,
but it is the peace of death.
"Reqniescat in pace," may be in
scribed over the tomb of those who
fought life's battles victoriously, bat
peace, like rest, is not found "in
quitting one's busy career" but
rather in "fitting one's self to his
sphere."
The peace of neutrality is like
the golden rule of Confucius, strict
ly negative. Let every man alone,
and he will let you alone: inaction,
isolation, retrogression, stagnation.
"To put to silence" is defined as
"to oblige to hold the peace," to
restrain, to quiet: a process of
force, compulsion and coercion.
Is it not true that a problem is
not settled until it is settled right?
No problem can be settled by brutal
force or repressed will power. That
something else needed is to many
an unknown quantity like the "x"
in mathematics which must be
found. We may silence a child by
fear of punishment but that does not
alter the current of its wrong de
sire. We may force into subjection
through hunger and suffering those
who oppose our will, but the
smoldering fires of hatred are
all the more intensified. The treaty
of Versailles was an expression of
the will of the victor without due
consideration of the reaction of the
victim. Heroism is greater than re
venge.
We may be a long way from
beating our swords into plowshares
and our spears into pruning hooks,
but the distance which separates us
from the realization of that ideal is
the measure of the distance of the
time when nation lifts not up sword
against another nation. It is a long,
long way we still have to travel be
fore we are willing to have peace
without victory. The peace of a
home is maintained by mutual shar
ing of blessings and mutual bear
ing of the burdens. Victory over
one's greed, selfishness and misdi
rected purposes ' is essential to an
inner peace of mind and heart.
So with nations. So long as hatred
rales the heart, we will have wars
r7~fouse,fiofd r7~fints
J ' By BETTY WELLS J
COMETIMES we get awfully
^ wrought up over the (act that
everybody can't have a palace in
town and a castle in the country.
On second thought, maybe the sim
ple life of the lady with a plain
everyday house does have its points.
When we see how very attractive
rooms in average homes can be,
we're quite content to preserve the
status quo. Below are the recipes
for some of the smartly small
rooms we've seen lately and liked.
These rooms were successful first
because the furniture was scaled to
the size of the room and because
the colorings were tranquil.
With Gray-Green Walls ? Eight
eenth century living-room furni
ture with gray-green walls; light
How Would Too Like to Have to
Think About Cortains tor a Castle?
taupe carpet; sofa and chair in
chintz with a plum ground and pat
tern in gTeens and white; drap
eries of a rough diagonal weave in
off-white; side chairs in a striped
yellow and gray and also in green
and beige; built-in book shelves;
accessories in green tole, white por
celain, bamboo, highlighted by a
pair of porcelain zebras on the
mantel piece.
Silver and White Stripes ? A bed
room with mahogany furniture; sil
ver and white striped wall paper;
a light neutral taupe rug; brilliant
red satin draperies ; a red satin slip
per chair; side chair and bench in
gray, red and white ombre striped
covering; an easy chair with a flo
ral covering in gray, rose and green
on white; a white candlewick
spread; accessories in crystal and
white porcelain.
Dusty Plum Walls ? Deep toned
walls for a small living room with
a carpet in the same dusty plum
shade; Eighteenth century mahog
any furniture; draperies in a dusty
rose taffeta with wide ruffles all
around; a pair of arm chairs in
chintz with a dull olive green ground
and a shell design in gray.
A Regency Note? A dining room
in Regency mahogany; deep pow
dery blue-green walls; rug in the
same tone; draperies in the same
blue-green over white; white wood
work with door trim in blue-green;
yellow striped damask chair seats.
? ? ?
^ Fastidious.
"It was really the closet that
sold me thi?* house," admitted Mil
lie. "Aren't they huge and impos
ing? I've been having an elegant
and rumors of wars. So long as dis
trust molds popular opinion, there
can be no peace.
The way to a victorious peace
must come through an understand
ing of responsibility one for another.
When we emphasize peace more
than victory we shall achieve the
ideal of Alexander Hamilton who
said: "It is ours either to be a
grave in which the hopes of the
world shall be entombed or a pillar
of fire mat shall pilot the race on
ward to its milennial glory."
C Western Newspaper Union.
time doing them over and I don't
mind admitting that they're my
pride atiti joy. Make me (eel so
fastidious!"
"I did them mostly with wall
paper because you can go so flam
boyant in a closet without really
committing yourself to anything so
irreparable in the Interior decora
tions of the place.
"My own closet is big and has a
little window. That certainly called
for a dressing table and it has one.
I papered the room in a big ram
bling flowered paper on a white
ground, then painted the dressing
table shelf pink and hung a pink or
gandy skirt on it (made from an
old dress, one of those full billowy
kind). Then papered some of the
closet boxes in blue moire wall pa
per and others in pink moire paper
. . . you know that kind they used
to use so much on ceilings. Closet
bags are in pinks and blues of
course, very shimmering ones, you
may be sure.
"My husband's closet is papered
in a very deep- green paper and his
closet boxes are all papered in a
pine-board patterned paper ....
quite something! Beige closet bags
and natural waxed woodwork finish
off the job to suit his proud high
ness.
"My young daughter thinks she's
a sophisticate and will have no traf
fic with anything but modem, so
her closet is papered in a very con
temporary design in white and
silver and her boxes are all papered
in brilliant red paper with tiny
silver motifs.
"For my little boy, who is at the
collecting age, I've used ? wall pa
per with a tattoo design, quite frisky
and jolly looking. I painted shelves
and inside of door in bright blue
and dispensed with boxes for him
for the simple reason that I knew
he'd never use them ? yet."
e By Betty WelU ? WNU S?rvte?.
STATUE OF PEARY
A view of a sculpture of Admiral
Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the
North pole, by Joseph P. Pollia,
which was unveiled at Cresson, Pa.,
the reputed home of the explorer.
Dof-Bird
In Chile they have a species of
bird that barks like a dog.
Speedy Greyhounds in Action
A remarkable picture showing two racing greyhounds in fierce,
leaping action as they pursue the elusive mechanical rabbit during the
first heat for the Victoria Derby at Epsom, near Melbourne, Australia.
The picture is remarkable for its clarity despite the terrific speed of the
hounds passing the camera's lens. "Night Steps" is closer to the cam
era, with "Inverurie" in the background.
Waiting to Be Sewn
^OW we ask you isn't this the
*? ' layout supreme for Young
America Miss Modern and
Mother Meticulous? Childish glee
sophisticated gusto and maternal
satisfaction will be the order of
the day when you have run-up
these swank wardrobe assets. Re
member it's the natural thing to
Sew-Your-Own!
For Master or Miss.
It's grand to be young in the
wintertime; there's so much fun
to be had. Mother, to be sure
your edition of Young America
has his share of outdoor fun this
winter make this smart and com
plete ski ensemble. (For either
boy or girl.) It is styled after a
real ski champion's outfit and
makes an instant hit with every
young husky.
Sophomore Sensation.
Here's a dress after your own
heart, Milady!? I betcha. Sew
Your-Own calls it its Sophomore
Sensation. From gay Paris comes
its concave silhouette; from S-Y-O
its concise, easy to follow sewing
instructions. Make your version
in thin wool or velvet for Ace oc
casions this winter.
Carefully Planned.
Mothers are sweet in almost
any kind of dress, but in the trim
new model, above right, they're
superbly sweet. There's some
thing genteel about its styling. It
was carefully planned to bring
you the best in style, the most in
comfort. A glance at the dia
gram will convince the woman
who sews of its simplicity. Two
versions will be better than one
of this charming fashion. Any
thing from percale to sheer wool
will do nicely as the material.
The Patterns.
Pattern 1963 is designed for
sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 years. Size
6 requires 2H yards of 54-inch
Boys of America
/~\F COURSE what we have a
right to expect from the
American boy is that he shall
turn out to be a good American
man. Now, the chances are strong
that he won't be much of a man
unless he is a good deal of a boy.
He must not be a coward or a
weakling, a bully, a shirk or a
prig. He must work hard and
play hard. He must be clean
minded and clean-lived, and able
to hold his own under all circum
stances and against all comers.
It is only on these conditions that
he will grow into the kind of a
man of whom America can really
be proud. ? Theodore Roosevelt.
material for the ensemble plus %
yard knitted fabric for hat, sleeve
and trouser bands and % yard
zipper fastener for blouse front.
Pattern 1359 is designed far
sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 40 bust). Six*
14 requires 4Vt yards of 39-inch
material. With three - quarter
sleeves 4Vi yards are required.
The bows and belt require life
yards ribbon.
Pattern 1402 is designed far
sizes 34 to 40. Size 36 requires 4%
yards of 35-inch material. The
collar in contrast requires %
yard.
Send your order to The Gtmiug
Circle Pattern Dept., 247 W.
Forty-Third Street, New York, N.
Y. Price of patterns, 15 cents (ia
coins) each.
New Patten Seek.
Send 15 cents for the Barber*
Bell Fall and Winter Patten
Book. Make yourself attractive
practical and becoming clothes;
selecting designs from the Bal?
bara Bell well-planned, ttjy-to
make patterns.
Advertising Reduced Cosf*
A third of a century ago the
price of the cheapest automobile
was about $5,000. Today a much
better car can be bought far
around $700. Advertising created
demand, demand created mess
production, with many times (he
number of jobs, and mass pro
duction improved the quality and
reduced the price.
CONSTIPATED
INSIST ON GENUINE NUJC -
The Story of Habits
The moving finger of one's hab
its writes their story on his face.
CCD MALARIA
ODD coldS
LIQUID. TMLETt _ .
UMl MM MOnlMNtt, M bMhl.
Are Women Better
Shoppers than Men ?
GRANTING * woman's reputation for wise buying, let's tract the
methods by which she has earned it. Where does she find oat about
the advantages and details of electrical refrigeration? What tells her
how to keep the whole household clean ? rags, floors, bathroom
tiling ? and bare energy left orer for golf and parties? How does
she learn about new and delicious entrees and desserts that surprise
and delight ber family? Where does (he discover those subtleties
of dress and make-up that a man appreciates but never understands?
Why, she reads the advertisements She is a consistent, thought
ful reader of advertisements, because she has found that ahe can
believe them ? and profit thereby. Overlooking the advertisements
would be depriving herself of data continuously useful in ber fob
of Purchasing Agent to the Family.
For that matter, watch a wise man buy a car or a suit or an insur
ance policy. Not a bad shopper him self! He reads advertisements, tool
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