The Western Outlook. (San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif.), Vol. 21, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 27, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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The Western Outlook.
▲ JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP THE NBORO ON TUB PACIFIC COAST AND THE BETTERMBN1
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VOL. XXI
SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1915
NO. 27
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FOOD FOR STRANGER
TAHITI, the largest island of the
Society group, and by many
travelers believed the most
beautiful in any sea. lies nearly
south of Hawaii and about sev-
enteen degrees south of the equator,
writes E. T. Allen in American For-
estry. First touched by Portuguese
and Spanish navigators, it was de-
scribed to Europe by Wallis (1767)
and Bougainville (1768). They gave
such a lively account of the beauty of
both island and .people, and of what
they considered the idyllic perfection
of its semiwild, semideveioped society,
that much was written, especially in
philosophical France, to argue that
here was proof of the necessity for re-
turn to nature by the human race.
Bougainville named it New Cy-
therea. His companion, the naturalist
Commerson, called it Utopia and wrote
extravagantly of the virtues which he
said flourished because the natives
had no conventional restraint.
Cook and Forster's visits soon fol-
lowed (176? to 1774), bringing fuller
information," and in 1788 England sent
Lieutenant Bligh in the Bounty to get
breadfruit for introduction into her
tropical colonies. How his crew mu-
tinied later, pat back to Tahiti, sailed
from there again with a party of na-
tive men and women, and disappeared
from the world until found long after
on Pitcairn island, where they found-
ed an isolated colony that exists to-
day, is perhaps better known than
any other episode in Polynesian his-
tory.
Of Aryan ancestry, practically or
wholly escaping Mongol or Negroid in-
fusion by tlieir exodus from the main-
land in the remote past, the Tahiiians
were and are still about what would
be expected of a people much like
southern Europeans, but who have
been isolated for ages under all the
passionate influences of the tropics.
"The Garden of Eden."
Rainbow colored fish play through
the coral along the sea wall at your
feet, the placid green lagoon meets a
skyline of palms on either hand, and
seaward, beyond a tiny palm covered
islet where a queen once had her
fortress, the surf rolls creaming on
the barrier reef from the blue trop-
ical ocean, rippling in the soft fresh
trades. Behind the town, itself hid-
was parried with the offer as riposte.
The answer to this was unanswer-
able and final: "I don't need any dol-
lar."
Such is Island philosophy. The sea
will always provide fish, the land all
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES HAVE
A HUMANE CUSTOM.
Field Is Set Aside on Which Supplies
Are Grown and Stored in Readi-
ness to Appease Hunger of
Chance Visitor.
In South Africa, among the natives,
there is a custom which has never
been mentioned by any traveler in <!is
tales. In the Transkei, Basutoland and
Bechuanaland, nearly every fair-sized
village has a field set aside for strang-
ers. In a village where the king re-
sides, usually his chief wife is told off
to cultivate this field and store away
all the product in the upper part of
her hut, and if in any adjacent village
some chief woman is saddled with the
other actual requirements, and since ; ^ork, no man of the tribe is permitted
this will be as true in the future as to touch any food thus stored.
today, why trouble to lay up for one's
children? Even tobacco and coffee
are homegrown, so only imported lux-
uries require effort to obtain. Most
of the real work of the island, such
as curing vanilla, is done by Chinese
who value money for its own sake.
They bake the bread, run the restau-
rants, asd own most of the small
stores.
Nevertheless the natives are splen-
did people physically, no doubt an in-
heritance from their warlike and ath-
letic past. Tht jien are often well
over six feet and tremendously mus-
cular. The women are erect, grace-
ful, beautifully formed, and often very
handsome. Their brown eyes are un-
usually fine. Their black hair is long
and waving.
Polynesian races differ slightly in
color, that of pure Tahitians varying
also with caste and exposure, but the
commonest type is an olive gold not
darker in shade than the skins of
Chinese and Japanese, but warmer and
less yellowish. Their features are
pleasing and contain nothing Negroid
or Mongolian.
The typical native dress is the pa-
reu, a bright colored patterned'cotton
cloth much like the Burmese sarong,
twisted by the men around the waist
and by the women around the breast.
The latter, however, rarely wear it
away from home, except bathing or
fishing, without a loose over dress.
The men also are more and more com-
ing to regard the pareu as informal,
comfortable for home and work wear,
but to be replaced by coat and pants
on dress occasions. These customs
vary much with the distance from
town. Flowers constitute the chief
adornment, worn in wreaths and singly
over the ear. Carriers come in from
the mountain valleys with loads of
plantain, naked except for a loin
cloth but with garlands of ferns and
flowers.
Are a Social People.
The chief Tahitian characteristics
The king's wife, or whoever culti-
vates the land, takes her share of the
product and makes her living out of
it, but all over and above the amount
actually consumed must be set aside
and preserved. She may not trade
with any other wife of the king.
This field is known as the "Strang-
ers' Field." Whenever a stranger
comes to the village he makes known
&is wants to the king and he is im-
mediately relieved. The best hut in
the village is set apart for him, he
eats the food of the stranger's field,
and the wife of the king prepares the
food for him with her own hand. He
remains a week, or a month, or any
xeasonable length of time, and his de-
parture is never hastened. Sometimes
he stays long enough to become a
members of the tribe.
An amusing feature of this custom
is the fact that indigent members of
the tribe occasionally leave the village
and go to other villages and become
strangers, so that very often when a
familiar face has been missed from a
certain village and anyone asks where
So-and-So went or what became of
him, the inquirer has been gravely in-
formed that So-and-So was poor and
became a stranger. Some lazy men
go around from village to village, and
when they return to their original kraal
they spin the yarn that they have
been working in the mines! Then
again one often can run across So-and-
So In a distant village living on the
fat of the land as a stranger and be-
ing treated to royal hospitality.
There are no beggars in Africa.
When a man becomes too poor to get
along comfortably he makes a circuit
of the adjacent villages as a stranger.
HER FINAL EFFORT
Outdid All Her Former Successes
as Matchmaker Ex-
traordinary,
linunumimiionuicauinifniminuji
Fair Tahitian Women
den in verdure, green slopes rise quick-
ly to splintered volcanic peaks nearly
eight thousand feet high, carved by
precipitous valleys with countless
flashing waterfalls. Melville wrote
that the ineffable repose and beauty
of the Tahitian landscape was such
that every object struck him like
something seen in a dream, and he
could scarcely oelieve such scenes had
real existence. "Often," said Bou-
gainville, "I thought I was walking in
the Garden of Eden."
Papeete is the only town, but the
fertile level shores of the island are
so thickly populated as to form almost
a continuous village^ along the road
that skirts the beach for its circumfer-
ence of nearly one nundred miles. Yet
there is practically no open land ex-
cept in the uninhabited mountains.
Houses and villages are beneath end-
less groves of cocoanuts, breadfruit,
mangoes, oranges, banyans and bam-
boo, with occasional ornamental exot-
ica from other tropical lands. Alligator
pe^rs, native "chestnuts," mummy ap-
ples and bananas, are-ln almost every
doorway. Except for two small sugar
plantations, a few half hearted cotton
patches, and small clearings for taro,
yams and other vegetables, there is
no farming as we know it. Copra and
vanilla are the island crops.
Work Is Not a Worry.
On the whole, however, industry has
small part in the daily life of the in-
habitants. Very little work suffices
to procure all that Is essential wnere
nature supplies food and shelter. The
writer once asked a native to bring
him some fish. |t \
"Why don't you catch your own
fish?" was the response.
"That isn't the question. IH give
you a dollar for a good string ot fish,"
are social. Feasting, dancing and sing-
ing are always in progress, usually on
a wholesale scale. The entire village
participates on the slightest excuse.
Anything that can be done alone is un-
popular. Even in fishing, the single
venturer is regarded as a pothunter
and no sportsman, the gentlemanly way
being to set a net in the lagoon and
invite the neighbors to a drive, afford-
ing much noise and frolic, or to or-
ganize a deep-sea expedition for al-
bicore.
In several stays on the island the
writer was never allowed to fish with
hook and line from a single canoe be-
cause, while all right for a commoner
who needs fish, it is not the thing for
"quality" to do. The visitor is struck
with the invariable good nature of the
people. They rarely quarrel, drunk
or sober. Violence is practically un-
known. Murders are so infrequent as
to be little more than traditional 'and
even fighting is extremely rare.
Like all Polynesians, they are won-
derful swimmers, and probably excel
all others as canoemen. Whereas, in
Hawaii the canoes seen today are pure-
Saved Victoria's Life.
Lieut. Col. Gordon Wilson, who was,
killed at the front near Ypres recent-
ly, was, when he was a bey at Eton,
instrumental in saving the life of
Queen Victoria in March, 1882. When
a young man named Roderick Mac-
lean attempted to fire a pistol at the
queen on the platform of Windsor sta-
tion, Wilson, with his umbrella, struck
up the assailant's arm, for which act
he wras summoned to Windsor castle
and personally thanked by the queen.
The boy's act gave rise to a clever
pun. It was suggested that he re-
ceive a peerage, and Basil Young, the
engineer, remarked that if this were
done his coat-of-arms ought to be an
umbrella, with the motto: "Pour la
Reine." As a subaltern he rode in
famous midnight steeplechase at Mel-
ton. He served with distinction in
the South African war, and was an
aide-de-camp of General Baden-Powell
throughout the siege of Mafeking,
being several times mentioned in dis-
patches.
Activities of Women.
New Mexico is the only state in the
Union which has no suffrage organiza
tion.
Less than 10 per cent of the young
women in a large city have normal
bodies.
Approximately 6,200 women are em-
ployed in the garment factories of In-
diana.
Fifteen women to every 100 men in
Minneapolis earn their living by labor
France has 18 women inspectors of
labor, while Austria has five and Bel
gium one.
Mrs. E. J. Clinton of Portland, Ore.
Is considered an expert on card filing
systems.
Women very often do farm work in
Sweden while their husbands sit back
and smoke.
If New York state grants equal suf-
frage nearly 3,000,000 women will
share in the franchise.
Missouri has over 60,000 women
workers, of whom about 10,000 live
away from home.
Crocodiles Live Long.
Crocodiles are very interesting be-
cause they are survivals of an ancient
and vanished epoch They resemble
closely some of the saurians that
walked on the earth and swam in the
ocean during that age of reptiles
which, according to the geologists,
ly utilitarian, the Tahitian retains his ( cam® to an end many millions of years
navigating ancestors* love for naval "
architecture. Racing canoes carrying
20 paddlers or more are built with
great ceremony and beating of drums
and carefully kept from the weather
in houses constructed by the districL
These canoes have beautiful lines
and are incredibly fast So are also
the sailing canoes, which carry tremen-
dous canvas and are trimmed by the
gymnastics of the crew, who balance
themselves on lateral spars extending
from the side. They also have out-
riggers, but in racing these are not
allowed to bury themselves and so im-
pede progress.
ago. It is probable that these crea-
tures live longer than any other ani-
mal in the world. There is a crocodile
in the embassy garden at Mutwal, in
Ceylon, wnich is known to be 155 years
old, though its age when first captured
could not be ascertained.
Domestic Paradise.
Mother—Does that young lady you
intend to marry know anything about
housekeeping?
Son—Not a thing. I'll be the hap-
piest man alive. I don't believe she'll
clean house once in ten years.—New
York Weekly.
By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY.
(Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
It was said of Aunt Mary Baker
of Wellsvllle, shortly before she died
at %food old age, that she had made
more matrimonial matches than' any
fhre women in the state combined.
She was only thirty-five years of
aj|e when her hashftnij, died, and in-
stead of looking solemn f^r a year
and then marrying again, which she
could have done, she said to herself:
"No, no. There is work to be done
and my mission shall be to do it."
Did she mean that she was going
into the cause of temperance? That
she was going to smash show win-
dows and set houses afire in the
cause of woman's rights? That she
was going to work up a taste for
mutton instead of missionary in the
cannibal islands? That she was go-
ing to furnish a hundred bucksaws
and a like number of sawbuks and
coax the tramps of America to take
off their coats and get up a sweat?
Nothing of the sort. She wasn't
even going to give a turkey dinner to
one hundred poor families and give
half of them a colic from overeating.
Aunt Mary's mission was to be the
bringing together of loving hearts and
Btand by them until a minister had
made one heart out of the two. The
hearts wouldn't be loving hearts ex-
actly until brought face to face, as
it were. They would first be lonely
and discouraged hearts.
She didn't propose to meddle with
the male and female who stood a
fair chance with their natural attrac-
tions, but to search out those on
whom nature had vented her spite by
giving them homely faces, lop shoul-
ders, protruding teeth, bowlegs and
other handicaps. It was not only a
merciful mission, but a glorious one.
Aunt Mary was called home at the
age of seventy-two, and the number
of matches she had arranged since
she took up the business averaged two
per year. She lived with relatives,
who found no fault with her whim,
and she drove about the country with
an old horse and buggy looking for
despairing hearts, Many a widow
would have been glad of .her assist-
ance, but she would not give it. When
she had heard of a homeless old maid,
living from five to twenty miles away,
Aunt Mary would drive to the address
and introduce herself.
I have come to arrange a marriage
for you."
But I am so homely that no man
ever even walked home from prayer
meeting with me," might be the re-
ply.
Yes, you are very, very homely,
but I hope to find a husband for you.
He will be as homely as you are, but
you must expect that. Homely men
and women make the best husbands
and wives. You look to me to be a
good-hearted woman."
"They say I am."
"Are you quick-tempered?"
"No."
"Good at housework?"
"I am told so."
"How about romance?"
"I've got over expecting a prince to
come along."
"And the age is about thirty-five?"
"About that, but this is making a
business of getting married, isn't it?"
"My dear," replied Aunt Mary, "ii
you were only eighteen you would fall
in love with a young man because he
wore a cute necktie. A youth of twen-
ty would fall in love with you because
you sang alto. To make a sensible
marriage you must mingle business
with it, at least enough to know how
the first month's rent is to be paid."
"But who is the man?" would be
asked.
"I don't know yet, but I shall find
one for you."
And good Aunt Mary would go driv-
ing about the country asking: "Do
you happen to know of a homely wid-
ower or old batch?"
"How homely must he be?"
"Well, homely enough to scare a
cow out of the road. If he isn't so
very homely in the face then he must
have bowlegs and be humpbacked."
And she would hear of a man that
might fill the bill, and she would trail
him down and talk to him, and it gen-
erally ended in a marriage. It was
said that she had only three failures
in all those years, and one of them
because an old maid fell into a well
and froze to death.
At length Aunt Mary set out to
make her last match. She didn't know
that it was to be her last, but she
realized that she had grown old. She
had run across an old forty-year-old
that for homeliness beat all who had
gone before. She took a sensible view
of the situation, however. *"
"With my homely face I could not
expect a man to marry me unless he
wanted to exhibit me as a side show
freak," the maid admitted.
"Then you are aware of your
looks?"
"When I can drive the pigs out of
the garden by merely showing my face
at a broken window pane, hadn't I
ought to be aware?"
"But it isn't the handsomest wife
that makes home the happiest. Na-
ture gives every man and woman a
feeling that they want a home Even
the birds have that feeling—-a Homely
bird as well as a handsome one. Some
man is waiting for you to help make
a home."
"Then he'd better hurry up before
the Judgment day arrives!" laughed
the old maid. x
As Aunt Mary had about resolved
that this should be her last case, and
as her eyes told her that this was
the homeliest woman in the United
States, her pride as a match-maker
was aroused. She had heard of an
extraordinarily homely man fifty miles
away, and started to drive there. When
twenty miles from home she met a
man in a buggy and he called out to
her:
"Hello, Aunt Mary—I was bound for
your house."
"Wanted to see me, eh?"
"I did and do. Two years ago I
married a girl for her good looks. She
didn't know as much as a cat about
housework, and she was bad tempered
and lazy. In six months she eloped
with a drummer."
"And you pursued them and killed
him?" queried Aunt Mary.
"Well, I never heard that I did. If
I had pursued it would have been to
thank them both! I applied for a di-
vorce instead and got it."
"And now you want another wife?"
"Yes, but not a good-looking one.
I don't want her even plain looking.
Indeed, I want her homely."
"My mission, as you know, has been
to bring two homely people together,
but—"
"I want you to make an exception
in my case. I am a farmer, and live
at the crossing of two prominent high-
ways. There is not an hour in the
day that a tin peddler, chicken buyer
or agent of some sort or other is not
calling to chin with the wife. I know
that the one who ran away with the
drummer had sixteen offers to elope
before he came along."
"And you want a wife that will scare
everybody away?"
"That's it."
"Well, I have on hand and ready
for immediate delivery an old maid
that will either delight your heart or
scare you out of the county. 1 have
seen the homeliest in the land, and
she takes the medal over all."
"Has she lost a leg or an arm?"
"No."
"Good-tempered ?"
"A homely woman invariably is."
"Know how to bake beans,"
"I am sure she is a good house-
keeper."
"One more question," said the man.
"Does she snore?"
"I will guarantee that she does not."
"He then told Aunt Mary all she
wanted to know and repeat to the
other party, and a date was arranged
for the meeting.
"Remember, if she isn't mightly
homely it's no marriage!" warned the
man as they parted.
"You'll have to go to Africa to find
a homelier one!" laughed Aunt Mary.
The date came for the meeting. The
man was on time. Aunt Mary was
there to make the introduction. The
couple shook hands and then stood
back and looked at each other. A
shade of disappointment settled on
each face. Aunt Mary was quick to
observe it.
"Well, isn't she homely enough?"
'Why, she's a good-looking woman,
was the reply. "You led me to be-
lieve that she was a fright to see."
"And she led me to believe that you
were a fine looking man!" added the
old maid.
Aunt Mary sat down from the weak-
ness of her knees. She had never met
such a case before. Three or four
minutes went past and then she loos-
ened a bit of pink ribbon pinned to a
curtain and held it up.
"What's the color?"
"Green!" was the prompt reply of
one.
"Blue!" was promptly replied by the
other.
Aunt».Mary was saved. They were
color blind.
"Well, I did want a fine looking
husband," said the old maid, "but they
say a man with a face like a squash
is always a good man."
"And I didn't want another hand-
some wife, but I'm no kicker," added
the man. "I'll get a shotgun and
bulldog, and I guess we can keep the
fellers away."
They had the thing turned about,
but they married and have lived very
happily, but the husband wonders now
and then why even a chicken buyer
never calls at the house.
Oakland Bank of Savings
the oldest and largest bank "
in Alameda county
Resources over - - - - &2 4,000,000.00
SAVINGS. COMMERCIAL AND TRUST
Sate Deposit Vaults
-4*% Interest paid, on Savings Accounts
Broadway and Twelfth Street
Branch 1240 Seventh St.
Central National Bank of Oakland
[Largest National Bank in Alameda County]
AND
Central Savings Bank of Oakland
("Affiliated Institutions.]
Capital, Surplus &. Undivided Profits $2,227,000.00
Deposits, over 13,OOO.OOO.oo
Total Resources, over 16,000,000.oo
Accounts of banks, firms and individuals solicited and received
on the most favorable terms consistent with prudent banking.
The largest and finest safe deposit vaults in Oakland.
Boxes for rent—$4.00 per year and up.
FOURTEENTH AND BROADWAY,
Phone, Oakland 594
Wastage and the Consumer.
Oversupply cuts prices, especially
when the product is perishable. But
the glutting of city markets with
country produce does not lower the
cost of living. On the contrary, the
consumer pays for the necessary wast-
age. Co-operation among farmers and
co-ordination in distribution is there-
fore as much to the advantage of the
city dweller as of the producer. This
is the moral pointed by Doctor Meeker
before the American Economic associ-
ation. The unorganized condition of
the farming industry is one of the
causes of the high cost of living. The
agricultural departments of nation and
state are busy teaching the farmer
how to raise bigger crops, how to se-
cure better yields of garden truck
This alone is teaching him how to lose
more money and how to increase the
cost of living in the city. WheD these
governmental agencies teach the farm-
ers how to market their crops we will
have the apparent contradiction of
higher profits for the farmer and lower
cost of living for the city folk.—New
York Evening Mail.
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Lawyer—So you want to start di-
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Client—Incompatibility, artistic tem-
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Lawyer—In other words, your hus-
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