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When you feel the c luiplications of
a nearest island to Tris*
fociety bearing too heavily and, the
ttin Cunha Is nhabHe era This x• -
ug
cear of civilization too grievous to be
;sed bit of earth is 1200 miles the
borne, pack Your luggage and hie to
coast.
nearest . art of the African Cga,9t. Xie -
p
Baker's' Island, There, 3,725 miles out
,tore the days of the Suez Canal it heal
from San Francisco, you'll find soli-
some commercial importance, but to
fade such as even Robinson, Crusoe'
day its excellent harbor shelters ves-
failed to enjoy, for there will not be
eels only while they are coaling, Its
even a Man lnriday to bother you, ,As
10;000 inhabitants enjoy a most
a matter of fact there is little of any-
equable climate, the mean tempera -
thing on or off the Island but gulls
ture ranging throughout the whole.
and rock,
year from 66 to 71 degrees•,
Out in the mid -Pacific fs another is-
land, Fanning, which will appeal to
Nauru, though only twelve. miles Ili
the person of more sociable habits. It
circumference, with its many beauti-
Is of atoll formation inhabited by some
ful lagooti,s which mirror its tall coral
200 persons, who doze and eat and
pinnacles and cocoanut palms in life- '
doze again In the equable climate and
like perfection, is a treasure. house of
only bestir themselves.when the lard-
millions, of•tons of rich phosphate of
er is empty. Fish are plentiful and
13me, It is perhaps one of the most
duck and snipe abound, which, taken
livable of the Pacific islands; as the
with tropical fruits, go to make up the
promoters of the phosphate industry
native's menu,have
established free laundries, ice,
In the British Empire the ,loneliest
electric lights and refrigerators, for
spot is said to be Tristan da Cunha, a
the preservation of fresh foods. Em -
volcano -formed island in the South At-
ployees have their own lrotnes and
lantle which rises to an altitude of
there Is an almost endless, succession
B000,
of social functions to keep them alive
There are only, 119 inhabitants on
and happy,
the island living in its twenty-two
If there Is. a skeleton in your 'closet,
stone thatched -roofed houses. Their
rest assured that the few inhabitants
wood is that which drifts in to them
of Easter island, 2300 miles off the
on the tide, they raise potatoes as the
coast of Chile and the eastermost •in-
food staple, they make their moccas-
habited Polynesian island, will make
Ins of soft bullock hide, they obtain a
no effort to bring it forth into the
fete clothes from an occasional ship
light, as one traveller says of 4hem
which calls there in exchange for
that they are not curious enough to
geese, fowls, milk sheep, eggs and
turn around on the dock to look at
cured albatross and penguin, skins, and
the boat that calls there about once
ter months in succession they do with-
in eighteen months. Gigantic statues,
out bread, tea, coffee and sugar. The
stone houses and sculptured rocks, re-
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Patching . all tubesevery. threw ,and cracked . , often chalky white in
months, removdilg•- wilt igasoline all :appearance.
olld 'patches, anti sbiekdnig on um The Rubric in ,an old tire gradually
fabrie patches, on all vents', add -beco¢nes. brittle -and, hard, so that it
dollars' worth of service to the:easing, ,break's easily. Like the bones of
as well ass to the tube. c•ld people, it is difficult to lai t. The
It cost me $7,255 'in cash; for brake' tire surgeon's work iancreases In di;f-
lining, and'a half -day's time putting ficulty With the age of the °caving.'
the lining'whrure it beloil;g d, to learn Those whoze.strength is coRnsery#1'
that in stopping a truck it is not ab-; do not -so re'a:dily`•show their :age: The
solutely necessary. to apply the brakeJiest..way to preserve their usefulness
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