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more than traditional and even fighting ancient chief eries was a disillusionment, 



is extremely rare. But it will be long yet before modernity 



Like all Polynesians, they are won- makes any conspicuous alteration in the 



derful swimmers, and probably excel palm-fringed skylines and surf -bound 



all others as canoemen. Whereas in lagoons of Tahiti, or more than veneers 



Hawaii the canoes seen today are purely the careless kindly nature of its people, 



utilitarian, the Tahitian retains his To the traveler who wishes to see the 



navigating ancestors' love for naval tropics at their loveliest, to swim and 



architecture. Racing canoes carrying fish and idle where no newspapers and 



twenty paddlers or more are built with telegrams remind him of his troubles, it 



great ceremony and beating of drums will offer no disappointment unless he 



and carefully kept from the weather in expects to survey the primitive with 



houses constructed by the district, all the civilized luxuries of Palm Beach 



These canoes have beautiful lines and also at hand. To make the most of it 



are incredibly fast. So are also the he must leave the port and live a simple 



sailing canoes, which carry tremendous ijf e w ith many petty annoyances. If he 



canvas and are trimmed by the gym- i s w ini ng to do this, without insisting 



nasties of the crew who balance them- upon his own ways or patronizing a 

 selves on lateral spars extending from le who are as sens i tive as they are 



the sides. _ They also have outriggers, ^^ he win be excellentl treat ed. 

 but in racing these are not allowed to N( / attempt ha s been given in this 

 bury themselves and so impede progress. * 



In several visits, with intervals of article to discuss commerce, govern- 

 years between, the writer has observed ment > business opportunities, or other 

 some change in dress and customs due to like phases which might be important 

 the inroads of "civilization." Return from certain standpoints. The bom- 

 after one four years absence to find a bardment of September 22 is too recent 

 moving picture show near one of the and significant. 



BUYING HANDLES BY WEIGHT 



THROUGH new specifications for The new rules are the result of a long 

 ax, sledge, adz, pick and other study of the subject, covering exhaust- 

 hickory handles, the Panama ive strength tests, investigations of the 

 Canal authorities have recently growth of hickory in the woods, proc- 

 purchased large quantities of this class esses of manufacture, and market con- 

 of material for one-fourth less than ditions. Under the new specifications 

 formerly paid, and at the same time are handles are selected according to weight, 

 getting just as serviceable stock. as influenced by the density of the wood, 

 The war department and the navy and they now include material which 

 department, as well as the Panama may be either partly or wholly of heart- 

 Canal commission, have adopted these wood, known generally as red_hickory. 

 specifications, which were prepared by Red hickory was formerly discriminated 

 the forest service primarily for the use against in commercial grading, but it is 

 of the various branches of the federal now accepted, since it has been found 

 government. Subsequently, however, that weight for weight, it is just as 

 they have been approved by the trade, serviceable as the white hickory, 

 both manufacturers and dealers, and Handles which contain small sound 

 adopted by several of the leading rail- knots or bird pecks, so located as not to 

 roads. affect the strength, are also accepted. 



