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Interesting Discoveries About the South Sea Island Natives AUSTRALIA NATIVE POLICE AT SUVA, FIJI TYPICAL SOMOAN WOMAN TONGA SOUTH SEA ISLAND NATIVE BABY Illustrated Feature Section BEN DAVIS, F.L. Feature Editor AUSTRAL TYPICAL SOM OAN WOMAN By Wilton Pember If you take a world-map and study it carefully you will find that about one hundred miles to the north of Cape York, Northern Queensland, lies the island of New Guinea, probably the largest island in the world. Originally owned by fierce headhunting cannibals. Many still rove through the interior, but it is now ruled over by the Dutch and the British, who divide the island equally between them. The northeastern part was originally German New Guinea, but at the beginning of the Great War, was taken by the Australian forces and is now the Mandated Territory. The southeastern part of the island, originally called British New Guinea, is what I am about to tell you of in this chapter. The name was altered to Papua, which means fuzzy-headed, some years ago in order to avoid confusion with the northeastern part. It is about 90,000 square miles in extent, and has a population of about 250,000 natives. "Razor-Back" The country is rough and rugged, much of it being known as "razorback" formation. Some of the mountains are very high, their peaks rising some 13.000 feet, which have perpetual snow upon them, though they Washington Tribune ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION June 29, 1929 are quite close to the equator. These mountains in general are stern and savage-looking. The sides are so steep that no soil is found on them. Only "the bare rock glowers in the sun." In the valleys the vegetation is luxurious and varied; wonderfully colored crotons and coleus, sago and coconut palms, areca palms and pepper vines, and beautiful lilies flourish in rich profusion. Georgeous butterflies flit about, and the beautiful Bird of Paradise adds its luster to the scene. Papua is a land of great rivers; the Fly River is one of the largest in the world, and is navigable for about five hundred miles, and it has been said that "enough water comes down the river to provide everybody on this earth with one hundred and twenty gallons each day." Queer Life The people live in small villages. About fifteen to twenty houses generally form a village, and as very little order is preserved, the houses are built without any idea of town-planning. Sometimes they are built on hills for protection, or near a good beach, or even out above the sea. All the houses are built upon high piles as a protection against white ants, rats, and other vermin, which are numerous. These village houses are often covered with decorations and carven figures, some of which are grotesque in the extreme. Although it is a rude form of art, still it shows a striving for beautiful things inherent in all people. Eat Bees and An Their main food is the yam (somewhat like a potato), bread-fruit, taro (which is the root of a lily), bananas, sugarcane, pineapple and nuts. Sometimes they have pig, or fish, or fowl, and with every prepared food the coconut. They are not over-particular, for they often eat frogs, lizards, snakes, live bees, ants, stingaree (stinging fish), opuscom, and even rats. Their clothing consists of very little, as befts a hot country; grass skirts are worn by the womenfolk, who are quite as keen on fashions as our own people, while men and boys wear a broad leaf, fastened with a string around the waist, leaving the limbs free. Primitive Customs The Papuans still cling to their customs, rites and rituals, many of which are both strange and unique. The chief of them relate to birth, marriage, death and harvest. When a child is born the mother is the recipient of numerous presents, often from a pig down to nose-ring for the youngster; while when the baby is but a few hours old it is taken to the sea and bathed in the waves. Then comes the next process, for a few days later some black resinous mixture, much like glue, is rubbed on its head to harden the skull. The next process is to pierce holes in the child's ears, and, in some cases the nose, into which are thrust spigots of wood or grass. These holes are made bigger as the child grows older, until it reaches a stage when a large plug of wood can be thrust into the stretched lobes. One never sees a birthday feast or celebration in Papua, for at birthdays are counted as unlucky events, they are forgotten all about. Mutilation At the death of a relative the natives paint themselves with a mixture of charcoal and coconut oil, and this must not be washed off for a month or so, but must be renewed should it wear off before that time. Then again, if the relative is a near one a joint is taken off a finger as a remembrance of the death. Like most other islanders they go in for tattooing expensively, and this is done in youth with a thorn or other sharp point, which has been dipped into a strong blue dye, made from certain wild berries. "Keeps" Even from quite an early age the hair of the Papuan gets quite a lot of attention, for children are taught by their parents to comb their hair with long wooden home-made combs. Thus the fuzzy mop becomes as good as a pocket, and is more often than not the receptacle of a strange assort ment of bits of string, fish-hooks, pieces of coconut, and in fact, anything and everything that appeals to them as "keeps." It must not be misunderstood by readers that the Papuans are dissipated or derelict people. If one lives with these natives for any length of time one will find them a happy, virile race, and if treated properly, will respond in a way that will be beneficial to themselves and the world in general. It must be remembered that all races have a place in the world. The highly civilized races should help those not so blessed to realize the highest within them without imposing their civilization upon people with disastrous results, as is frequently the case. Papuans Educated Much is being done for the Papuan of late years, by the federal government of Australia. The natives are being educated and looked after from a welfare standpoint, in quite an admirable way by the Australian authorities. The children, in most cases, are not only eager, but quick to learn, and the white teachers are high in their praise for their general advancement, both from an educational and civilized standpoint—this, of course, is in the Mandated Territory, which, as has already been stated, has been under Australian administration since the opening of the Great War. New Hebrides Situation As for the various groups of islands that stud the Pacific, there is an ever-increasing attention being paid by the authorities to education. But the New Hebrides Condominium, unique in many things, is unique also in this, that alone among South Sea Island Governments it does nothing for the promotion of education. The teaching and training of the natives are left entirely to the missions. The question of education in the islands is complex and beset with difficulties. Children whose parents are emerging from the Stone Age cannot be taught on quite the same lines as Illustrated Feature Section W. B. Ziff Co., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago Foreign Advertising Representatives: boys and girls who are the product of a highly-developed civilization. The islander by nature is a tiller of the soil, and does not take kindly to any form of work other than agriculture. The trades and industries of the islands are largely in the hands of Europeans and Japanese, and are likely to remain there. The whole future of the native is bound up with the use he makes of his land. Witchcraft In bygone days the prevalence of witchcraft debarred any possibility of progress, and made it native content with his dugout canoe, his ancient implements, and backward conditions. His ideas in agriculture are still extremely primitive. For the most part the natives of today till the soil in the same fashion as their forefathers did in Captain Cook's day, merely scratching the surface with their old-fashioned hoes. Under such conditions, education of an island child can never be complete until he is taught to farm his own land and become an able and intelligent cultivator. Only within recent years have the benefits of education been understood and appreciated by the natives. In the early days of missionary enterprise schools were regarded as an unaccountable whim of the mission- (Continued on page four) IMPORTANT NOTICE! There are some very interesting opportunities offered to our reader among the classified advertisements which pear on page 7 of Illustrated Feature Se: in this issue. Why look them over? WhenIt'sHot,EatLightly By BETTY BARCLAY Nationally Known Food Writer. 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Registered Trade Mark of The Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company and its predecessor, Charles H. Phillips, since 1875. THE CREEPING THING A Story of Gruesome and Haunting Mystery June 29, 1929 WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE An eccentric old recluse, Eerna Sylwyn, has been found murdered in his octagonal tower room in his mysterious home, known as Sclwyn House. Diaron and his wife, Meme, two Haitian servants that have been with him ever since his return as a young man from a tragic stay in Haiti where his young bride was lost in the Voo-doo-ridden jungles, were the only other occupants of the house. Diaron heard a huge something creeping overhead and then heard wild shrieks, just before he found his master's body. He summoned the neighbors. The body has been left for the coroner. When he arrives, they go to the octagonal room only to find that the body has disappeared. Tom Frederick, a clever detective, is summoned to the case by his friend, Alce Jonas. Now go on with the story. CHAPTER II THE strange gauntness of Alec's brown face turned anxiously upward toward the slowly moving coach windows of the incoming train, prepared me for something more than his letter had told me. It did not save me from the shocking impact of the news his very first words carried to my consciousness, however. "It's got old Meme this time, Tom," he shot at me in a hoarse whisper without other greeting or preface. "What do you mean, Alec?" I. clutched after my vanishing composure with the question. It was not like Alec to be so agitated. His emotions had always been held as well under control as were my own. It gave me an uncanny sense of immanent fear to see him apparently so upset. It must be the effect of his physical weakness. I could tell by the gray pallor that underlay his ordinarily healthy bronze color, that he was still far from well. This thought brought me up with a jerk, and my mind automatically dropped back to normalcy. I smiled. But Alec did not return my smile. His eyes seemed to grow more anxious as he stared straightly and seriously into my face. Weird. "It's passed the smiling stage, Tom," he said, and his voice was as grave as his face. "It's weird and horrible beyond thinking about, the way this mysterious Death creeps upon its victims and takes them into oblivion. Snatches them out of life and then—consumes them, leaving no trace." I picked up my parcels that I had set down to grasp my friend's hand, and fell into step beside him. We turned toward the high boardwalk leading into the single paved Main street of Melville. "Now, tell me about it," I queried, my own voice grave as the mood demanded and my confidence in his judgment decreed. "You know old Meme wasn't afraid of anything, Tom. 'Member how us kids used to try our Hallowe'en tricks on her and how flat they fell, no matter how weirdly successful they might be on the more gullible old folks? Well she was just the same with this Thing. 11 "Spite of the fact that she had old Diaron's version of the occurrence, she scoffed at the idea of supernatural agencies." "Old Meme knew too much about the really inexplicable happenings that occur in the voodoo ceremonies of her native Haitian jungles," I threw in, "to allow a mere unexplained murder and the disappearance of the body to frighten her." "Yes?" But for once her reasoning must have been at fault." There was sadness in the conviction of Alec's voice, sadness and a thin thread of what in anyone else I would have called fear. A Plan. "In spite of all any of us could do," he continued, "she insisted that if we would let her stay in the room all night alone, she could solve the mystery of old Ezra's death and maybe—her maybe was almost sinister in its implication as she said it—produce his body, or part of it. There is no doubt that Meme suspected something that was explicable, at least to her if to none of the rest of us. "Old Diaron seemed almost as fearful of her in that mood as we were, who at length consented for her to remain for the night in that uncanny octagonal room." Alec paused and drew a long breath. The eerie mystery of this thing had gotten Alec. I could see it in the awed and baffled look of his. "Well—" I wanted to rouse him from the brief silence that seemed to grip him. He started and looked at me. The ghost of a smile touched his lips. "Yeah, it's got me, old man." Alec could almost always read my thoughts like that. He said he could see them in my eyes though no one else had ever been able to read any more than I wished them to read there. I had learned to control my features in the best and most dangerous of schools—the school of crime detecting. But, Alec Jonas and I had been boys together and, besides that, inseparable chums in pleasure and in danger. So, he, perhaps of all persons, could sense changes that others could not, and he felt the knowledge that was mine without words. He cleared his throat and shrugged as if throwing aside the incubus of puzzled fear-someness. "Well, the upshot of the whole matter was that we all thought maybe, Meme, being a woman and a bit—well, a bit uncanny—might get to the bottom of the mystery or at least get a line that we might catch hold of and she was very firm and insistent about it. Old Diaron is so completely at her bidding after forty years of henpecking, that he made only the poorest of allies in the general attempt to dissuade her. Attempted Solution. Anyhow. Meme, with Picasso "Leaning forward and bracing myself against the bulk of the man in front of me, 1 gripped the heavy iron knob in both hands and gave a great heaving turn without warning. . . . " ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION KEEPING T home and Haunting "Leaning forward and bracing gripped the heavy iron knob in ing. . . ." some liniment for her rheumatism, retired to the octagonal room about dusk and shut herself in. She was firm in her stipulation that no undue precautions should be taken. We felt it best to humor her, so, with the sole difference of our presence in the back sitting room at the left below stairs and Diaron in his usual seat at the entrance of the 'narrow hall,' she was left to deal with the occasion in her own manner." "Who besides yourself was in the sitting room?" I was a detective, and in my study of crime and criminals I knew that every detail and every individual, however remotely connected with a crime, must be accounted for. I knew that Alec Jonas was a keen witted observer and unusually well endowed with the instincts of the true detector of crime, but I saw that the weird and unusual character of the crime he was picturing out for me had blunted his ordinarily sharply analytical mind. A brief questioning glance shot across Alec's face. He looked up at me with an odd little shadow in his eyes. Garland "Oh, I forgot," he said, "I hadn't told you about the coming of old Ezra's nephew, Garland. You knew, of course, of his younger brother who died years ago—the one who married the Haitian woman and lived with her in the hinterland of the Haitian jungles. Weil, Garland is the son of that marriage and—the heir to old Ezra's wealth. "He turned up quite suddenly the day after the murder; no one seems to know just why or how. It is certain he was not in the vicinity prior to the murder, but he appeared very mysteriously the day after it." Alec seemed to be waiting for some comment from me but I made none, so he went on. "He was there with us that night and Alene Hardmore, the new woman detective that wanted to come in with us on that last case. She came into this on the invitation of young Selwyn (Garland) it seems. Then there was Jake; you know Jake is the marshal now, and the county coroner, Doctor Vantar, that was all except myself." We were at the gate of my mother's home now. I wanted to hear the rest of Alec's story. I knew mother would understand. Unlike most mothers, mine was not of the nervous, apprehensive kind. She loved bravery, and she was proud of my record as a detective, although she knew the dangerous character of my work full well. I invited Alec in. We all listened intently. "There was a dull swish such as a heavy body my dragged over an uneven sound as if some huge u tile were crawling over above our heads. The s in me a very paralysis seemed to chain us help staring at each other. seemed—the horrible T wound its slow length of width of the room in wh There was a short silence Then a dull thud t tremor through the whole—silence. Horror "In premonitory dreaders in that room rose Alene Hardmore was the us to reach the outer land Selwyn passed her six bounds was up the entrance to the par A Strange Prescience The warmth of greeting between mother and me was in no wise interfered with because of its brevity. She knew with few words of explanation that I was home to take a hand in the solution of the mystery of Selwyn house and THE CREEPING THING, and she was the kind that made everything easy for those about her. So it was only a matter of a very few minutes before Alec and I were installed in the library in comfortably deep chairs with coffee and sandwiches and our pipes and the assurance of an undisturbed hour of talk over the plans and, in my case, to gather up all the information available. "We were all talking," Alec resumed at length, "when suddenly it seemed that some strange prescience of evil fell about us like a pall. Each one looked at the others. We all fell silent. It was almost as if we were waiting for something—we knew not what. "Then, faintly at first, we sensed something unusual about the quality of that silence. It seemed to develop a new element. Something was moving above our heads—furtively. I bent forward. The faces of my companions seemed tense and breathless in the stillness so horribly disturbed. 3 By Cora Jean Moten The Well-Known Serial Writer of the man in front of me, I at heaving turn without warn- "There was a dull swushing sound such as a heavy body might make if dragged over an uneven surface—a sound as if some huge ungainly reptile were crawling over the ceiling above our heads. The sound awoke in me a very paralysis of terror. It seemed to chain us helpless as we sat staring at each other. Then—as it seemed—the horrible THING had wound its slow length across the width of the room in which we sat. There was a short silence. Then a dull thud that sent a tremor through the whole house, and—silence. Horror "In premonitory dread the listeners in that room rose as one man. Alene Hardmore was the first among us to reach the outer hall, but Garland Selwyn passed her there and in six bounds was up the stair and at the entrance to the narrow hall before old Diaron, wide-eyed and fearful, had time to gather his wits about him. I was at his elbow when he reached the door of the octagonal room. "Before he could lay his hand on the knob we heard it again. The horror was nearer now, nearer and more sinister. It was as if we could feel the undulating tremors of its body quivering through the room. Its huge bulk moving, slowly, dreadfully in such close proximity to us was like the vibrations of no earthly creatures, rather it was as if the very corridor reeled under: the dragging length of some super-human monster. "Behind us in a line, filling the narrow passage to its length, were (Continued on page six) Are You Looking for a Business Opportuni See Our CLASSIFIED on Page 7 in thi Interesting Discoveries About South Sea Island Natives (Continued from page one) aries, and the scholars attended with the idea that they were conferring a favor upon them; attendance at school though only for an hour or two daily, was regarded by the dark-skinned pupils as a service for which they were entitled to payment. Periodically, they demanded their "wages," and sometimes the children of a district would "strike" if they thought their wages were overdue. Certainly, the little islanders were not difficult to appease, and the more promising and industrious were rewarded with calico hemmants, fish hooks, pocket knives, and such trinkets. 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But to their profound dismay, the autocratic warrior chieftains found that there was no royal road to knowledge. School An Ordeal Side by side with little children, accurately adding syllable to syllable and word to word, must they take their seats, groaning, sweating, and stammering in pursuit of learning. One of the first experiments in school work the natives undertook on their own account, was made at Port Vate, in the island of Ambrim. So eager were the parents to provide educational facilities for their children that they decided, at a big palaver, to secure the services of a resident schoolmaster, who would devote his full time to the teaching of his pupils. During a visit of the district missionary, the chief announced the decision of the conference and promised, if he would secure an efficient teacher, to provide the salary. 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INTERESTING DISCOVERIES ABOUT SOUTH SEA ISLAND NATIVES June 29, 1929 The P Intern THAT one half the world does not know how the other half lives, is an old saying. But it would be truer to add: One-hundredth part of the world does not know how the other ninety-nine hundredths live. The American, for instance, can have little idea how the European passes his time. Life in Europe, while not nearly so opulent as in America, is freer and more natural. There is less restraint, and the student of life comes nearer to seeing human nature as it is. New information always relieves the monotony of existence. It takes us out of the rut and gives us new points of view; so we intend to give INTERESTING DIS SOUTH SEA IS (Continued from page four) adopting him as his man Friday, gave him the name to which he still answers, Jimmy Fletcher. Under his new tutor, Jimmy proved an apt pupil, and made excellent progress in book and field knowledge. When the author give up work in the "Isles of Illusion" to take up literary work in Australia, he left behind him a cap- able scholar and agriculturist. The New School Master Success attended the new schoolmaster at Port Vate from the outset. Though two years have gone, the wave of enthusiasm which swept over the community when the people embarked on the new venture, has not spent itself, and the children of their own accord, still troop to school. At the summons of the drum files of scholars, everyone with a bag of school books, may be seen on the tracks, converging on the schoolhouse. Even parents spare time to look in and bestow upon the school their patronage, while fond mothers beam with pride upon their children doing the strange exercises. The experience gained by the schoolmaster while in the service of the two traders eminently fits him for making instruction in agriculture a part of the school curriculum. 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They include some of the most noted persons who have visited this famous night club. In the collection are several colored persons. Another swing-door and one enters a spacious hall of fanciful ornament- SCOVERIES ABOUT LAND NATIVES constantly in demand. In the summer these cotton fields are white with the bursting bolls. The white lint, resembling snow flakes, gives the place the appearance of a snow scene The educational system of Papua is marvelous. The number of dialects one finds among the various pupils who meet at a certain school, is especially interesting. These pupils range from four to fifteen years of age, and come from many tribes, all of which have a different lingo. Some of them are exceedingly brilliant; others are good at technical work, and soon grasp the art of a trade, such as carpentering. Among the girls, it is found that they are particularly smart and clever at all handiworks in the domestic line, such as sewing and other fancy work; while rug-making is one of their chief masterpieces. Domestic science, in the way of cooking and general houskeeping is also being taught with pleasing success; hence the young Papuan in general, is gradually leaving behind the primitive ways of his forefathers, and is becoming more and more civilized day by day. don't Why don't you say goodbye to rheumatic pain? Forget you ever had rheumatic pain! It is easy enough to do with a remedy so effective and pleasant as St. Joseph's Prescription C-2223. By attacking rheumatism at its source and cleansing the system of acid poisons, C-2223 helps to drive out inflammation and pain and tends to correct the cause. It is the original formula of a reputable physician who used it in the treatment of sub-acute and chronic rheumatic aches and pains, gout and neuralgia. Ask your dealer today for the regular $1.00 bottle which is sold on a money-back guarantee. The trial size is 60c. By J. A. ROGERS ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION oper-Pot and Author. per-Pot d Author. tation. The sight is an enchanting one. Gleaming chandeliers; dainty electric lanterns, a beautiful balcony, tables with snowy cloths on carpeted tiers, a dance floor of wondrous beauty and smoothness, and a richly decorated alcove in front for the two orchestras. Music is continuous. Obsequious waiters hasten to seat one at a table. On each table is a shining automatic telephone. Over his head swings an electric lantern on which is marked the number of the table. He can speak to any table merely by turning the automatic. Such is one of many playgrounds of the rich to be found in this part of Gay Paree. Midnight. The guests begin to arrive. The orchestra has been going at full blast for some time and the "girls" or hostesses, and the gigolos or male vamps, are moving gracefully over the floor. Champagne is the order of the day, or rather, night. He begins by ordering that. But perhaps, indeed, most likely, he is "a wise one," and came out to see Gay Paree alone. The wife may be at the hotel or in far-away U.S.A. He does not intend to drink alone so he gives a "once-over" at the hostesses who are decorating the tables not in use. Picking out one, he reaches her by phone. She comes over. Most of her English is carefully memorized "naughty" words. These hostesses, as someone has described them, are affectionate, thirsty, hungry, and broke. His selection dances with him, drinks his wine, eats his lobster, and generally makes it pleasant for him. She adapts herself entirely to his mood; if he is flippant, so is she, and vice versa. On leaving her—that is, if he decides to leave her—he tips her. The minimum is 100 francs ($4). 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