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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
7
Asia Magazine notes Philippines and South Sea island peoples wear large sun hats to guard against heat. Hats are palm leaf based, varied shapes, some woven flat, others peaked. Most common in the Philippines features palm leaves with a cane bandeau creating head air space, ornamentation is simple with brown hemp occasionally added.
A preliminary school exam question on senses drew a witty answer: the five senses are sneezing sobbing crying yawning and coughing. The pupil added a sixth sense for some, snoring, a playful quip cited by the Boston Transcript.
The speaker recalls hiking on heath and moor where he found constant companionship in bees flowers and pebbles. He could not pass a swamp or tuft of heather without discovering a fragmentary tale that outshines most books, save one on earth.
Norwegian fishermen employ a “species of submarine telephone” to aid fishing. A microphone lowered from a boat connects by wire to a telephone aboard. The fisherman hears disturbances on the line when fish gather, recording the activity.
The San Blas people along the Atlantic near the Colombian border are famed seamen who navigate rough Caribbean coasts in dugout sailboats and supply coconuts to Cristobal. A C R Calhoun claim notes their purported pure blood and strict social norms including sunset ashore bans and transfer courtship involving pursuit in water.
Under the Biological Survey, one man killed about 2,000 prairie dogs in a 320 acre Arizona field in a single day with 1,641 counted above ground and the rest likely in burrows. Government efforts have freed over 3.5 million acres from prairie dogs across New Mexico Arizona Colorado Utah Wyoming Montana North Dakota. Officials also combat ground squirrels jackrabbits pocket gophers and other rodents west of the Mississippi River with field parties and farmer cooperation.
Comedians Fred Stone and Dave Montgomery recounted singing a Chinese song in Washington without knowing its meaning. A box held Chinese legation members. after the performance, they learned the words meant nothing, only a count of one two three four. The story blends humor with a wartime context about global resources and debt.
Experts say the Ottoman war debt rose minimally with a single new loan of about 80 million dollars and total postwar indebtedness near 1.0003 billion. By contrast Britain, France, the United States, and Italy carried far larger war bills. The empire mobilized nearly 4 million men yet incurred expenses akin to smaller neighbors.
An exchange notes Americans claim optimism about the future despite gloom. It cites the United States holding about 6 percent of world population and 7 percent of land while producing 20 percent of gold 25 percent of wheat and a share of iron and steel.
The speaker states that only this debt has been paid while foreign nations now owe the United States ten billion dollars. It is noted that the United States holds the largest gold reserves of any nation in the world.
A provocative remark on body image asserts that no girl feels her figure can look good in tights, reflecting attitudes on dress and beauty standards. The line emphasizes self doubt and social pressure surrounding appearance in athletic wear.
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