Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
TUDY Boston from the high
tower of the customhouse. It
looks down on that cobweb
maze of narrow, crooked
streets which marks the “city lim-
its’ of bygone days, when cows
grazed on the Common and clipper
ships traded with China and Bom-
bay.
In the shadow of modern struc-
tures squat many old-style shops
and “countinghouses,”’ already
weather-beaten when John Hancock
was governor. To Boston these are
more than obsolete architecture;
they are symbols of her busy, au-
dacious youth when she built and
sailed our first merchant fleet.
Modern Boston sprawls over more
than 1,000 square miles and counts
some 2,300,000 people in her metro-
politan district. Much of that is in
the pattern of other American cities.
But the old Boston, so like parts of
ancient London, is unique in the
United States.
Come down from the tower now
and see how certain of these streets
are devoted to a particular enter-
prise. This one smells of hides and
leather; along that one you see only
the gilded signs of shoe manufactu-
turers. One section smells of fish,
another of wool, and here is a wharf
fragrant with bananas.
Turn up the hill toward the vener-
able Transcript, with its columns of
genealogy, and you smell newsprint,
fresh ink, roasting coffee, and sec-
ond-hand books stacked in the open
air—any book from Gray's “Elegy”
to “Anthony Adverse.”
Even the odd wording of sign-
boards harks back to earlier days.
““Victualers License,” “Spa,” ‘“Pro-
tection Department,” not fire depart-
ment and street-car signs in quaint,
stilted English.
Old trades cling to old places. The
Old Oyster House, live lobsters wrig-
gling in its window tanks, stands
just as it was a hundred years ago.
Aged Carver of Pipes.
Before a window at 30 Court street
carve pipes. At eighty-seven, wear-
ing no glasses, he works as skill-
fully as when he began, seventy
makes them all.
Give him your picture and he
will cut its likeness on a meer-
schaum bowl. For a Kentucky horse-
man he carved the image of that
rider's favorite mount; he even
carved the ‘‘Battle of Bunker Hill”
with 50 brier figures on one big
pipe!
Five workmen in pipe stores here-
abouts have a total service of more
than 200 years. "A man is on trial
a favorite joke in one shop.
Quietly another old sculptor
works, making “ancient” idols, rel-
ics of the Stone Age, even a ‘‘petri-
fied man’’ for a circus in Australia!
Turn back and walk through the
cathedral-like First National bank
and look at its compelling murals,
with their dramatic themes of
merchant adventures by land and
sea; or study the fascinating exhibit
of historic ships’ models in the
State Street Trust company.
Then talk with men whose fam-
flies for generations have helped
shape Boston's destiny, and you be-
gin to sense what significant events,
affecting all America, are packed
in her 300 years of history.
Boston cash and engineering skill
built several of the great railway
systems of America. Chicago stock-
yards, to a large degree, were built
by men from Boston. She founded
the great copper-mining industry in
our West; she was the early home
of many corporations, famous now
in the annals of finance, foreign
trade, construction, and manufac-
turing.
It was Boston brains and money
that started the great telegraph and
telephone systems that now girdle
the globe. Miraculously, almost,
she turned the jungles of Central
America and the Caribbean isles
into vast banana plantations, and
built up the greatest fruit industry
the world knows.
From Boston went groups of
thrifty, energetic men to share in
the conquest of the West. To Kansas,
especially, many colonists were sent
by the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid
company to circumvent the rise of
another slave state under the Kan-
sas-Nebraska act.
Lawrence, Kansas, is named for
an old Boston family, and many a
budding Midwest factory town drew
its first artisans from that national
training school for skilled mechan-
ics which is New England.
Descendants of these pioneers
form part of the army of 2.000,000
visitors, more or less,
swarm out to the historic towns
about it. They want to see the old
sacre; the sacred codfish
the Witch House at Salem.
than when she was pre-eminently a
Eskimo, are shipped from here, of-
dad.
Great Place for Book Printing.
Her Golden Age of letters, when
Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow,
Whittier, Holmes and Lowell used
to frequent the Old Corner Book
Store, passed with the rise of New
York as a market for manuscripts.
But curious visitors still seek out
Emerson's old home at Concord;
they prowl through the country
house of Louisa M. Alcott—admis-
sion 25 cents—and drop a tear for
‘Little Women.” For another 25
cents they see the ‘‘House of Seven
Gables’ at Salem.
In American letters Dana's “Two
Years Before the Mast,” Melville's
“Moby Dick” or “Typee,”” and the
brilliant historical work of Prescott,
Parkman, Fiske, and Bancroft must
long endure, as will other names,
from Edward Everett Hale, author
of “The Man Without a Country,”
and Julia Ward Howe, who wrote
"
to Thoreau and John Boyle O'Re
From Boston
for
ut it is
of
still come important
both adults and
the stupendous
textbooks which as-
youths.
You can imagine the volume when
and 30 million American children
alone are enrolled in schools; that
they must have some 70,000,000
books when schools open each Sep-
tember, and that Boston is one of
the chief textbook-producing cen-
ters in the world.
World Center for Textbooks.
“There are many schoolbooks,”
said an official of a publishing com-
pany,
a popular novel look diminutive.
boxes,
pounds each.
“While some of our novels, ‘Uncle
sold more than half a million each,
our little school pamphlets such
as ‘Evangeline’ and ‘The Courtship
of Miles Standish’ have sold at the
rate of a million a year.
“The task of getting sufficient
schoolbooks ready to meet the sud-
den demand every September, when
orders come in at the last minute by
wire, means that publishers usually
begin printing these books as long
as ten months ahead.”
everywhere that English is used in
schools,” said another publisher.
ways in Science.’ Arabic transla-
tions of Breasted’'s ‘Ancient Times’
and a number of our other books
are used in the schools of Iraq. Not
long ago we granted the govern-
ment of Iraq permission to translate
Caldwell and Curtis’ ‘Introduction to
Science’ into Arabic.
“You know that the British Isles
are a citadel of the classics. We
feel gratified, therefore, that our
series, ‘Latin for Today’ is now in
wide use in Scotland and England.
These volumes are the authorized
books in New Zealand and at least
one of the states of Australia, be-
sides being much used in South Af-
rica.
“Latin America is today using
carloads of Boston textbooks. They
are Spanish readers, geographies,
arithmetics, hygiene books, al
gebras, geometries, and others.
“In Ottawa I saw a wall map
with tiny flags that marked the
sites of Indian schools; many were
up within the Arctic Circle. All these
schools use our books. This summer
we had to hurry one new book
through for publication early in Av
gust so we might get it to th-
schools before ice closed r-
tion to the Far North.”
EXPERIENCED
The pickpocket had been acting
to whether he had
“You will be fined one pound,” he
“But your worship,” protested the
“Very well,” replied the magis-
half-crown.” London Answers
Magazine.
A REAL WEAPON
“Well, in your hands it sure is an
instrument of death.”
Humanitarian
“Why don’t you go home?’ asked
Farmer Corntossel.
“I am afraid to,” ansv. ered S: Sim-
lin. “The wife is waitin’ for me
with a stove lifter and a rollin’ pin.”
“We Americans are too lenient. In
some parts of Europe they send a
woman into the field harnessed to a
horse!"
Si looked pensively into the dis
tance and then exclaimed:
“What a way to treat a horse!”
Made a Record
A man returned
from a trout-fishing expedition, and
his wife said to him in some sur-
prise: ‘Didn't you catch any trout
at all, George?"
“Oh, ves.” said he. *I caught 25
fine large trout but they were stol-
en from me in the train.”
“Well, never mind.” said his wife
“You've brought home a brand-new
fishing story, anyhow.”
Stories Magazine
- Stray
Vowels
Married Daughter—l1 do wish
you'd learn not to drop your asp
rates, father. You never hear Claude
doing it
Self-Made Man-—-Pity ‘e isn't as
careful with ‘is vowels—'es got I.
O. U's lying about all over the
place.—London Opinion.
Near the Throne
Lady-—0O, so you've been in touch
with royalty, have you?
Tramp-—Yes, ma'am. | was once
stung by a queen
Stories Magazine.
Enlightening
li'l home.
Mose—Jes tem’'rarily, honey, ‘til
de mortgage am foreclosed.
Actor
the actor who fell off a ship passing
a lighthouse. He drowned swim-
ming circles td keep in the spot
light.—Judge.
Mr. R.—Money isn’t everything in
this life.
Mrs. R.—Try to convince
meat-n.en of that, will rou?
the
Study in Seriousness
“That ponderous person takes
himself very seriously.”
“No,” replied Miss Cayenne. “He
doesn’t take himself seriously. He
is merely trying to persuade others
to do so.”
Safe
“Better protect your overcoat
from the moths.”
“1 don’t think moths will bother
Tog
“Oh! How about boll-weevils?" =
Chemistry and You.
Nearly!
Teacher (showing picture of ze-
bra)—What is this called, Mary?
Five year old Mary thinks very
hara, but remains silent.
Teacher (helpfuily)—Z-2-g——
Mary (brilliantly )—Zorse?—Pear-
son's Weekly.
Omament and Use
“You have two callers whom you
seem inclined to encourage.”
“Yes,” said Miss Cayenne. “One
dances well to the radio and the
other knows how to repair it.”
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Sch
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A Yes-Man’'s Paradise.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—If,
as, and when the President
puts over his scheme for recon-
structing the Supreme court
nearer to his heart’s desire, the
question arises—in fact, has al-
going to find members who will
keep step with the New Deal's
march of triumph.
Might this earnest well-wisher
make a suggestion? Let the Presi-
dent look Hollywood
over before making
selections, for
this is yes-man’'s
land. Some of the
studios out here are
s0 crowded with
yes-men that big
have to
little yes-men
in their arms.
There's only one
two drawbacks
to this plan, as I see y.vin 8. Cobb
It's going to be
those long silken robes. And they'll
Domestic Pets.
BROOKLYN judge has decid
ed that for a couple to keep
eighty-two various animal pets in
one apartment is too many—maybe
not for the couple, but for the neigh-
bors—yes!
That reminds me that
a hotel in the Middle West—
a large hotel either—I found
any pets in my bed
assorted enougl
in
not such
n
fully
once,
They
weren't ugh: they all
belonged to one standard variety.
I shall not name the hotel, but it
was the worst hotel in the world, as
of that year. If bad hotels go where
bad folks do, it's now the worst hotel
in Hades.
But the point I'm getting at is
that, though eighty-two animals
may make a surplus in a city flat,
they couldn't possibly upset a home
so much as one overstuffed husband
who's puny and has had to go on a
strict diet such as would be suitable
for a canary—if the canary wasn't
very hungry.
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Literary Legerdemain.
(CULTURAL circles along sun-
4 kissed coast of California are
still all excited over the
ment of a local literary figur
after years of concentrated effort,
turned out a 500,000-word novel with-
out once using a word containing
the letter "“E.” If the fashion
spreads to the point where the cap-
ital “I” also should be stricken out,
it's going to leave a lot of actors
and statesmen practically mute.
But that's not what I started out
to say when I began this squib. What
I started out to say was that I know
of much longer novels which have
been produced without a single idea
in them. Sold pretty well, too, some
of ‘em did.
achieve-
|
who,
Holding World's Fairs.
T'S customary, before
great event in history and then
in the excitement
customers, or have to fall back once
fan dancers and strip-teasers.
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Coronation Souvenirs.
SINCE previous engagements pre-
vented me from going over to
the coronation, I trust some friend
will bring me back a spécimen of
that new variety of pygmy fish
which some patriotic and enterpris-
ing Englishman has imported from
Africa as an appropriate living sou-
venir of the occasion. It's a fish
having a red tail, a white stomach,
and a blue back, thus effectively
combining the colors of the Union
Jack. And it's selling like hot
cakes, the dispatches say.
Now if only this engaging little
creature could be trained to stand
on its tail when the band plays
“God Save the King" what an ad-
dition it would make for any house-
hold in the British domain! (Note—
Households in the south of Ireland
the HOUSE:
Butterscotch—Two cups brown
sugar, four tablespoons molasses,
four tablespoons water, two table
spoons butter, three
vinegar. Mix ingredients in sauce
pan. Stir until it boils and cook
until brittle when tested in coid
water, Pour in greased pan. Cut
into squares before cool.
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tablespoons
Jelly Sauce—One
(crab-apple, red curran
etc), quarter cup hot w
tablespoon butter, one
flour. Add hot water
let melt
in saucepan, add flour and grad.
ually hot jelly liquid. Cook until
smooth and serve hot over almost
any pudaing.
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Boiling Old Potatoes—Old pota-
boiling. To prevent this add a
squeeze of lemon juice to the wa-
ter in which they are boiled
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Hanging Pictures—Is your pic-
ture hanging on a nail which
keeps breaking the plaster and so
falling out? Before you put
nail in next time, fill the hole with
glue, the plaster will not crumble
- . *
Melting Chocolate—Chocolate is
easy to burn, and for that reason
should be melted directly
over a Melt it in the oven
or over a pan of hot water,
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Left-Over Liver—Liver
left over can be converted
excellent sandwich fiil
rubbed through
soned, and moistened
tle lemon
ed.
never
fire
that is
nto an
ig if it is
a siev well sea-
juice and melted butter.
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Stuffed Orange Salad — Allow
one orange for each pers
served. Cut
three-q
juarters «
inch strips, being
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f each salad and garnish with a
maraschino cherry. Another good
| mixture for stuffing the orange
is a combination of orange
sections, dates stuffed with cream
Mask with
cheese and nut meats
mayonnaise.
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To Remove Threads — When
basting sewing material, try plac-
the of the thread on
the right side, They will be easier
to pull out when the garment ig
finished
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| Washing Table Silver—Much of
| the work of polishing table silver
{can be saved if the silver is
| placed in hot soapsuds immedi-
| ately after being used and dried
with a soft clean cloth.
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Cleaning Wood-Work—To clean
| badly soiled wood, use a mixture
| consisting of one quart of hot wa-
| tablespoons of boiled
| linseed oil and one tablespoon of
turpentine this and use
while
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