SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1925.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SPANISH
SAN SEBASTIAN, HOME OF ROYALTY
Summer
hot. of Spanish royalty Lovely location on the Bay of Biseny, close to the Pyreneca. Very ancient fishing village now fasalonaba resort. Bull-fights, enchanting scenery, a gorgentes gusino winery much - bling freista Tove and anjo fort inches of The Brew and furnish mUINO PUT
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Antiquity Of The Banque People. Totally different, both in langusre and customs, are the Busques" from other races. It has been an engrossing study for selehtists to penetrate the mystery surrounding the origin of this peralier and strongly markel race who are no different from the peoples aur,
It is a sparkling Soyour, molin tamer lend akin to the bruce Easyur daher bonday with magn leent shops all. bede, u rival of the French Biary12.
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Kom her agere out of Leif pen Prame that it has been bi latq centuries strings fortified and he yet been taken veral times by Prunch armies. The Bewish us have fought for its pession and just before the downfill of Napoleon they enpure it from the French who at the time held it. Through many centuries there was gwat rivalry between the fishermen of Spain and England, as there was bt- tween the carly American colonists and the English, and strange to relate it was about the very same large fish, the while. The Bay of Biseny was favourite haunt of whales who came there to pass certain ousons of the year, otal were relentlessly pursued by both English and Basque fishermen. The warfare over the poor whales was o persistent that the latter finally migrated to win! they fondly dreamed Weald be more pinceful resorts, but they had not counted upon the zen of the dweilers in recoily disenvored
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Amerien. New Bedford and Nantucket gainst the wealth and prestige that San Sebastian and Biarritz bermen kost. These American shermen pursuel the winde eten to its remotest qphiters in the far north and south. England's frangie command to her independent chukhen to let English Arhermen do all
unding them. Spain is decidedly a compoate nation, The people of Aragon, Castile, Andalucia, Chinluna and the Baeque peintred are as differ ent as dwellers in remote corners of the world could be. The Basques are hard workers and very thrifty, while other Spaniards are rotoriously indolent and extravagant. The Fauques are said to be the oldest race in all of Europe and are said to resemble somewhat the Celts of Ireland and in other ways the Japanese.
stards or speaks 1.
water the cliff on what used to be an island, but is now connected with the main land.
It is really upon this con- nesting land that the fashionable modern town is built, The bay is almost land-locked, the two extremities being formed by Monte Urgell and Monte Igueldo, and between these high promontories. fies the pretty island of, Santa Clara.
benches divide the high headlands from wach other. To the chat and south rise the majestic. Pranean and to the west the
ery is of the most churcler,
Cantabrian aid and scen-
and beautiful
The automobilo rends through the muntainous region are among the best in Europe because the Spanish sovereign drivce his car over them connfantly in coming to his mayn- mer home, Miramar in San Sebastia, from Madrid. They were made for him, and the public benefits.
QUEENS CARRIAGE
eggs, omelets and all meats and many vegetables cooked in olive oil Meats are even noaked in olive oil before cooking and I assure you it makes them delicious. The chocolate one is aup- posed to drink cannot be drunk. It in so thick that a spoon atands upright in it and one must eat it as one would eat a custard.
One te
dually kivan little roll very thin and long, that one din in the cup and eata. There is tiny long cake also which used as spoon and then eaten.
There is a large chocolate factory at San Sebastian. We relished the delightful wines of Spain and the appetizing salads without which no, meal is com plete. At the theatres there is always on the back of the sent in front of you a smalt hinged shelf on which to place It seems odd to Americans to find your little" cup of thick chocolate
The language is unique,
མ་ར་་་་ unlike all others and they pride them- There are several bathing bouches, selves upon it and speak timph-One can have MUIT stil-water, parted, is to one but themselves under antly, sure of being safe and unre-
shallow or deep, warm or cold at will. There are places where high waves
In the modern town are immensely break continuously
wide, shaded boulevards, picturesone and little enves where the shallow, quiet water basks in urendes and lovely gardens. The little the southern san until it is wurm, bay of Palajes, irom which Lafayette There are points where cocks clits rice mailed to our aid in revolutionary days. perpendicularly out of deep water. T is not far away. L is a rock-bound const like our own New i England shore where little curving
The Capital.
San Sebastian is the capital of the Busque province. Ita beautiful harbour is tilted the shell. La Coocha, from its shape, The new town follows the curve of ti ley. The old town huddled
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Spanish Food.
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THE CASINO and tiny cakes. These are always served during the play. The far-famed Mazapan is a compound of candy and cake and tastes better than either.
The Bathing Pavilions. On all European beaches are the peculiar bathing pavilions which seem
range an American, uscitis private property and the owners very often spend erge part of the day in summer sitting in them or on the
These are
porch sewing or reading. The pavilion geheeled down into the water when onu
on in bathing and the person dresses and undresses in them
ectly in
bathing beach in a wet bathing dress without some fancy cape thrown over one. In many places there are merz with horses or mules on the beach to draw the pavilions down into the water for a few cents when a small flag signis tying that one is ready is put through
window. At San Sebastian the royal pavilion runs down the beach on its own track. It is large and quite elaborate
All around San Sebastian' in the fort hills are greasy, flower-starred mar and cattle grazing. Farra kos the landscape and steopr precipitously. There are app
brawn-eyed shildren in Braque i
every
and climbs down some stan the deep water. On account of hi d bathing costumes are often even more days and always And something! seanty than our own."fappers" wear,pected and interesting and the s One never promenades upon a Europian "mild, and yet invigorating.
FROOD*CO/ZAOSED
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OF BUND BOYS - ST, EDUIS, PR
Blind Scouts, Tubercular Scouts, Lepers, Paralytic and Lame Scouts, They All Make Good-Oath and Law An Inspiration To Good Deeds.
Sturdy, sun-borned, strong. That le tite picture most pwople have of a Boy Scout.
Plaster casts and iron Graces, sight- less eyes and unbearing cars do not usually figure in the picture. But Scoutdom is a broad land, and some of its best Scouts, are inds who with courage and grit have fought desperate physical odds and have risen in the
rank
At the State Home for the Blind at Overbrook, Pa., lives a plucky troop rising fast in rank and kill. Theso sightless, boys go on hikes, camping trips, play games, cook, fell-trees- and, according to their Scoutmaster who himself is partially blind-do everything that sighted boys do.
HANDICAPPED BOY SCOUTS
bays found the hidden treasure--K pocitet knife."
Independent too are these blind lads. Uniforms are paid for, and pocket moncy earned by them through their own efforts. Caning chairs. making baskets, shovelling snow, delivering packages and cutting lengths of tre wood for the residents of Overbrook, are some of the moans by which this. boys. earn money.
They Fight Tuberculosis. "Every inch a Scout and every minute a troop" in a fitting slogan for Troop 4 of the Underelift Sanitarium, at, The boys live Mariden, Connecticut,
24 hours a day as a troop. From rising bell to tops, they keep, together in their work and play. In the successful fight waged by so many former members of Scouting, it is stated, with its Hearing, smell, taste culosis good cheer, thoughtfulness
GOOD FURN
the history of Scouting was the forma tion of a troop of lepers who had been. pronounced incurable at the Kalihi Recalving Station Honolulu, -- und Jose isle of Molokai, home of hopeless
registered as a troop under their bene- factor's name.
The Scouts have worked a miracle at
Self-reliance and courage are the the troop against the grim tuber 1. their ready and brava departure to the in- -stimulating interest" "and"
results of the 'Beout training thess lads have received.
and touch have, too, all become sharpen- for others; and its lessons of out-of- ad according to the length of time a doors activity, has-been-playing an lad had been blind.
The way the boys feel their way play out-of-doom and on
important part. The boys work. and over rough country absolutely new to hikes, even in coldest weather: them, is beyond comprehension, statosurilorm" on their outdoor excursions one account. "Three and four camping || is a meagra bub-health-producing vas, trips happen at least once #year. consisting only of shorts and shoes. Swimming, cross country trots, and The Boonta enthuainem, food Turns, Athletic specta work wonders in riving for
for other sick. folke
at the institution, the boys...confidence. In themselves.- and that program in Scouter than Even treasure hunts are enjoyed by „made them a source of desperi 'Interest thane alert lads. On a recent trip the to everyone at the Sanitarium, boys found their ag with the help of the boys are prenounced cured and Braile direction that and bear tacked i, returp, home, they enter a neighbour. klong the route, at intervals on the bood Scout troop and so continge the trees. After trapping through falda, bakedcial cubicors activity, over fences and streams, they at last
- ronched aʼama}} cavi;:Where one bf the
CAICR.
local report, knowing that their going The boys went willingly," states a
would ever get started, in that tack was probably the only way Scouting bound settlement."
intendent here to the superd Their activities are watched with pleasure by all the inmates Their
the sick w-bred they have ideared good cheer is contagious, and by their daily good tur, 60-th
to those who are on themselves and
PIDER, COINS
through the benevolence of Henryetta, Okla., Rotarians. The club men legally adopted the boy, and gave tim a chance for education and ling provement. Cameron was placed in th State Home for the Blind. He became
Boy Scout, His rise in
in the movement was phenomenal, To-day be Eagle Scout, having owed his way to the highest ranks which Scouting offers.
The boy is now a handsome lach: ne 17: He is an excellent all arounit atulent, and is also a qualified li
At one time when his troopway swimming, a boy cut his head.. Cameron promptly cleaned the wound, and bandaged it so efficiently that when physician arrived there was but Hit? work for bini to do.
In addition to his regular schoo work, the biind lad is studying dairylic and broom making, so that after he h completed school, he will be able support himself.
Crippled, But A Hero. Berecs, too, are not missing from th lists of these determined, though handi capped, boys,
it was but a few months ago. Scout Harrypkins, of New York, cripple but m .xcellent swimmer, dov from the shu.. at Lake Creek,
Beacon, N. Y., and swam to the read
1-year old Llmer Murphy, as
spectators
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Bed
going down the second
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The lame Stout quickly reached half-drowned boy, who in a panicici fright, drew his rescuer beneath water which is very deep at this poli "Suddenly Hopkins rose, to the face with the half-dead boy held. *** -strange... grip,”-aaya-a-witness of
courageous dead.. "The grip probably saved the lives of both. was learned by Hopkins few m previons to His vacation when be studying "to" pass a Boy Scout With the helpless bather, grasped | that he could not interfere withs reachs work, the Scouts dragend. Lon to shore amild the acclamatioria, of t spectators
position some 20 miles from the station, the Tenderfoot tests. Joe studied up
Scout Oath Amf Law, sy but be has not forgotten his.boys. Each for the tests, and soon was able to pass One of the biggest helps these "week" he goes "to see them, and to the tender-foot requirements. dagsous lads haravín fighting their encourage them in their Scout work A special, investiture ceremony WIN to useful manhood 14 contained in Although he must-loss half day held at the boy's bedalda odreves Boy Scout teachings the Scout O pay," states a Honolulu journal, “maust) member of Troop & was in attendance. and Law. In a number of cases de travel an hour by train, and then walk the last four miles to the Station, the by means of lamarrellow house spermae regard to Meat Yar Later foe expressed As appreciation ed "teps towards cure, have rem
through the Bach is the spirit of Scouting masi
opt-of-doors life and på former lender does n hot fall his friends.",
The Ind, cut out of paper. Van kontire eirens, which the presented foil the tests for advancemeat.
The Scout Calk DAT
hot co Atlanta Scout Headquarters, cput The various troops and scout leaders Among individual-Beouts, too, there Jones, by the way, was offered a hand- much. It is as followspek in Honolulu taka kuens, in visiting at") are numerous Inspiring examples of
Honour some sum for his bandiwork,' by an
I will do my best Those lads had been members of the the Station. Through the netting which courage and-stick-to-itive-ness
To do my duty ta- God. and? ontalder, but refused to sell his models well established troop at the Kalihi separates: the #isitors from the pati. Scout Joe Jones, of Atlanta, Ga., ts which had been made expressly for his country; and to obey the Scout Leper Receiving Station-the Maurice ente, the Kalibi boys watch demonstra. one. The fact that he has been. Berat friends, the key pa
2-o help other people at sil 2" Dietebe Troop it is called, named after Hons of Scout activities by their paralyzed and, strapped to a board for f
3-To keep mypoll payalantly a wealthy New York business in Wheating trades and no incefve number of years to "E" during a visit to Honolula, through
instraction which helps them advance in within three favourite hobblest Scouts
The Law: "which further guides. local is heard of the little band at
whittling and cutting out beautiful
good cows inayowes'12 obligations i Kalihi and its ampleations to become Practically all thas, boys at Kalibi, aurolled as a Bount, tzsop, Mr. Diatches | it is expected, will be aurei aditha diy
dread asked if ha Re
the top whom he dhe mohyund the bori In acknowledgment of his Hüpport and
One of the most touching stories ins♬ interest,
the
Ewww.den;" thegro be 3 savarniɔmonths agoộ
Blind Scout "An Beslo? Botary Club d hands with Scouting in bringing
Cluby slady: Els joined" hope to a darkened life
The transformation, Camaron, four" "Yuars ago.
Elace to place”, was