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obtained at home. The native cooks get good results consider- 

 ing they don't have the American ingredients. But American 

 women succeed admirably in adapting some of the tropical foods 

 to the Yankee palate. The lack of raw vegetables is most felt. 

 Because of the danger of diseases everything must be cooked. 



It is necessary always to sleep in a bed protected by mosquito 

 netting or in a room that is netted. The mosquitoes are count- 

 less and very troublesome. Of course, as in all tropical coun- 



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lands and for 



temperate zone to ge'. acquainted with iheir 

 the educational facilities those lands afford. 



Members of the white staff in Sumatra are in a fortunate 

 position in one especial particular in that a few hours' inotor 

 ride into the interior will take them up on the plateau. This 

 plateau, deeply cut by rc.vincs and surrounded by mountains, has 

 an elevation of 4,300 feet. Some of the mountains are volcanoes 

 which are sornewhat active occasionally, giving off fumes. At 

 Bras Tagi the company has soinc bungalows where can be found 

 recrration and res* from the huinidity of the plains. Up there 

 the v.'getation is quite different. Some varieties of temperate 

 zone vegetables and flowers grow, notably potatoes. The tem- 

 perature goes as low as sixty at night and no higher than eighty- 

 five in the day. 



Altogether the life on the plantations is quite pleasant after 

 becoming acclimated. But always, down deep in every American's 

 mind is the thought of home, and his eyes are always turning 

 back across ibc ocean toward bom,- Most ot the F.nropeans 



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tries, the bugs of all sorts are numerous. One thing that always 

 attracts the attention of newcomers is the little lizards that crawl 

 on the walls and ceilings. They do no harm and one gets quickly 

 used to them. The ladies take longer to get accustomed to them, 

 however, than do the men. 



When a woman accompanies her husband to the plantations 

 she finds it more difficult to enjoy life than does her husband. 

 He has his business to attend to and that keeps his mind occu- 

 pied. But with the pientitude of servants the wife finds herself 

 relieved entirely of housework and of the care of her children, if 

 she desires, and she must be a person of resource if she is 

 going to be happy. The woman who desires to create interest 

 for herself can busy herself in her vegetable and flower gardens, 

 in studying native life and in such sports as golf and tennis. 



The servants are good and there are a lot of them. Each has 

 his own work to do and does it, but he must not be asked to do 

 anything out of his line. The cook is supposed to cook, and he 



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feels badly treated if he is asked to do anything else. In 

 regulated home there are usually three to five servants. 



The country is an ideal one in which to raise small cliildren 

 They live in the open until they are six or seven years old and 

 miss most of the children's diseases common in the United States. 

 The native nurses are faithful and efficient and the little tots live 

 an outdoor life untouched by trouble. When they are six or 

 seven vears old, however, most of them are taken away to the 



are Hollanders— Sumatra is a Dutch colony— and they seem to- 

 feel that in Sumatra they are on Dutch soil and consequently are 

 more content than Americans to remain indefinitely on the island. 



Bolivi.\ st.\rteu public automobile lines last May, one 

 from Sucre, the capital, to Cochabamba. another from Sucre ta 

 Potosi. Haiti, too, has established a postal automobile service 

 between Port au Prince and Miragoane. 



At St. Vincent the Sea Island cotton crop for 1918-19 

 amounted to 436,980 pounds or 1,214 bales, of which 682 bales- 

 were exported by the end of June. From Montserrat 222 bales 

 of cotton were shipped, comprising 142 bales of clean cotton and 

 80 bales of stained. 



.\zteca, S. a., 29 REviLLAGiGEno. Me.xico. has appiiintei> 

 Severino Carrera Peiia manager of the company, succeeding; 

 Ignacio Orozco, resigned. The officers are: Antonio Ixtayf, 

 president ; Rafael Orozco, treasurer ; and Ricardo Ramos Barrera,. 

 secretary. The concern manufactures tires and rubber goods. 



