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Monastery On Sinai

The Monastery of St. Catherine, jon the slopes of Mount Sinai, for more than 1000 years housed, the manuscript of the Bible which the British Museum is now seeking to buy. It is one of the oldest Chris- tiau foundations in the world.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1934,

WORLD'S CHEAPEST

HOUSES

IGLOOS OF SNOW BLOCKS FOR THE ESKIMO

(By D. Michell Pierce.)

No housing problem arises among outside walls, where the dogs can-

It stands in a bleak and barres the Eskimo. Nomada fil the year not get at them:

desert, and is entirely surrounded|round, they have no dwellings save In the Arctic man is dependent by a 50 ft. high granite wall, dating the snow-house and the tent made on his dogs. Before the family cat, from the time of Justinian.

from the skins of the caribou the team is fed. The day's work

over, the man turns to the light and'

Inside the wall is a delightful| (deer).· garden, 'watered by a mountala spring.

there.

Hospitable Monks

ago states

excellent liqueur brandy.

that the monks

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"In the early winter the Eskimo

In the autumn, so soon as thoro warmth of the new home, heaving is sufficient show for the purpose, a sigh that all the world over hute go up like magic. The first bespeaks that satisfaction which Very few Englishmen have been thing necessary is to select the comes from a day's toll well ended.

right kind of snow-firm, not A man who visited it some years laminated, soft, or "sugary," and arrive on the coast and set out their trap lines. When the abort, deep enough to cut good blocks. WOTE very hospitable and gave him some! If a good drift of snow be found dark days of mid-winter come, the an hour is sufficient for two men man makos holiday, and his days They are peaceable people and to put up a snow house 12ft. In are full of visiting, dancing, and live on good terms with their Arab diameter.

feasting. Nothing will Induce him neighbours, who never molest them When

to labour, even if thereqhould be many families were to. nowadays. In its time the monas-gether in a permanent sealing camp

much fur running. After this sea- tery has withstood many raids and I have seen houses built that were spent standing over the heal-hole, of sociability the hys are at least 16ft, in height and even up harpoon in hand, waiting for the Incidentally he says it is most to 201t. in diameter. Sometimes seal to come up to breathe. And improbable that there are any un- large central hut is used, with thus the winter passes into spring.

Įsieges.

discovered manuscripts of the several smaller ones joined to it, Bible in monastic libraries In each hut being occupied by IL either Europe or Asia.

family.

of

The only remaining source new biblical texts is the mass of still uncatalogued and unde- ciphered papyri from Egypt.

Making The Igfoo

Early In May the seal appear on the ice, and the Eskimo finds atr casier harvest, as he can then crawl up and shoot them until the in-

The only tool necessary is a knife, creasing warmth of the sun renders

20in deep, and 4in, or 5in. In thick-

Fashions In Wear

an alarming weapon like a large the ice unsafe. butcher's knife. With this the Your Daily Smile. Eskimo quickly slashes out his

snow blocks-roughly 30in long Buddenly awakened into life. He Then he turns to a land that has This One Business

journeys inland, even as far as the lare based on the British draft one-and it's the wife.

Husband and wife are, of course.

Mesa, Then comes the building,

woodland edge, for The China Mail

and in this there is really some-

the time of Convention, and have already!

thing of marvellous craftsmanship.will engage his attention

caribou hunting has come, and this been adopted in principle by the

The man begins by laying the the spring and summer. The deer- for all Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 30, 1934. Conference. What he does not Old Friends

touch at all is the central difti- Smith and Brown owned adjoin-blocks end to end in the circumferment will provide food for the pro- culty created by Germany's de ing farms. Brown had just moved once of a circle. and inclining sent, and, when dried, a store for

He continues the coming winter.

Dollar Devaluation.

mand for equality in armaments In, and did not know his neighbour, slightly inwards. und France's demand for guar-Going over his farm, he discovered until the building has become a

The Eskimo seamstress security-a

is the demand crow eating the corn, and not dome, when he simply cuts a door finest in the world, turning out Congress having passed the anteed

Smith's pet at the bottom and crawls out. Gold Bill it seems that Mr. which could be to a great extent knowing that it was

marvellously neat and workmanlike Roosevelt is resolved to con-met if American policy were to crow, he shot it.

While the man has been building clothing, Bown Smith, hearing the shot, rushed from the inside his wife has been stitches. All cutting is done with the with microscopic vince the American public that modify its attitude of resolute

the practical out and, upon discovered his dead busy chinking up all the gaps on "ooloo," a short half-moon shaped devaluation and stabilisaton, na-detachment from

As for crow, picked up Brown's gun and the outside and strewing a layer knife. A thimble and copper or tional and international, are real-organisation of peace.

the President's meditations on forced him to eat a few of the of fine snow over the walls as they steel needles complete the kit. ly on the way. The measure

American

the United he had punished Brown sufficiently woman-enters, with her snow shovel most of the

a

summer

now approved has for its object the fallibility, or worse, of states- bird's feathers. When he thought rise When the man crawls out the In some sections of the Aretic of the whole stock of gold now States, and his suggestion that he put down the gun and said they and knife. She levels the front made from the skins of the seal, the drawing into the Treasurymanship outside

clothing is remaining in private hands. It the peoples are not behind their would call it square. has always been clear that, if leaders when those leaders find Brown immediately picked up the half of the igloo, as the completed and in winter bear-ekin is utilised anowhouse is called, shovelling the as well as deer-skin. The Copper devaluation of the dollar in terms the establishment of world-peace gua and compelled Smith to eat a

snow back to form the sleeping Eskimo, however, use nothing but of gold is not to operate to the difficult task, they are indica-similar quantity of feathers.

platform-2ft. or more above the deerskin, except for summer foot- tions of a curious simplicity of The next day the two met at the benefit of that unpopular per-

floor level. home of a third neighbour, who re-

wear, when seal-skin replaces the son, the hoarder, he must be in-mind in the political head of

The new home is now ready to carlbou. The clothing consists of duced to surrender his gold he great nation. After all, it was an marked: "I suppose you two fel-

two sulta President who atlows are acquainted?"

receive the furniture, and the man

outer and inner fore-hand: The amount so held

The Inner lend the American "Oh, yes," replied Brown; "we goca to the sled, piled high with

worn with the is reckoned at £120,000,000. The tempted to

all the household belongings. A hair next to the body, "fur-lined President was in April authoris-people into a great international dined together yesterday."

underwear," and mat of willow withes

the top-coat and ed by Congress to devalue the enterprise of world-peace, and it dollar, whenever he may so de- was the American people who re- Closing Time Version

gether with raw hide is passed pants have the hair outsida.

The "artig!" (cost) is simply pudiated him and that enterprise (cide, even to the extent of 50 per

"I'm knocking back the last through the small entrance of the together.

igloo, and the wife lays it on the pulled over the head and the hood cent.

round—hup!" A less sweeping measure

aleeping platform of snow.

fits snugly to the face-it has no than that would go far to solve (the crushing difficulties of the

comes a bundle of deer-skins--the fastenings, buttons, or strings of any kind. The woman's artigi is vast multitude of those hopeless-

made with ample room at the back, ly indebted in America to-day,

to provide a snug next for her naked baby.

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Popularising The Telephone

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MORNING EXERCISE "My wife starts to nag me every morning regularly about eight| o'clock," a man complained to a

"mattress."

Simple Furnishing

woven to

Next

It is essential that each article

more particularly among the farming population. It would Notable developments of that magistrate. The timing of the as it is passed into the house immediately raise prices. It nerve-system of a civilised com- shrew. would bring to the Government. munity, the telephone service, assuming all gold stocks to be in have been announced by the Bri-Our Comedians its hands, an immense profit to tish Postmaster-General.

The We

be applied to the reduction of British telephone has already Gracie Fields

are reminded that Miss intense suffering, perhaps death.

earns $150,000

Budget deficit or the redemption passed out of the stage in which year, while the Prime Minister's "duster" stick like of public debt.

Such is the its faultiness and unreliability as salary is £5,000; but in spite of this beater-and she popular case for devaluation.a means of communication were Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has not yet article Little effect has been produced the subject of unavailing pro-decided to go on the stage.

Facts You Did Not Know.

(Continued on Page 21).

N.S.W. APPEAL FOR PRIVY COUNCIL Sydney Depositions Sent By Air.

should be beaten to free it from snow. If bedding or clothing be- comes wet it will freeze, causing

The woman is armed with a snow a carpet- threshes every free from snow with by the arguments of those who test. As it stands to-day, the

meticulous care. She then makes dwell on the principle of the system is a good one. This year

the bed by laying the first skins sanctity of contracts, who doubt it is to be better in some all

with the hair down, and the others the power of the Government to important respects. The change

FAMOUS K.C. TO ARGUE with the hair uppermost, thus avoid further and rainous depre- to be made in the party-line ser

forming a perfect insulation from ciation, and who point to the loss vice has been made possible by As hard abbercontainer has cold and wet, and Incidentally

Sydney, N.S.W. that would be inflicted on multi-ja triumph of purely technical been invented to feed measured making a soft mattress.

An attempt is being made to tudes of legitimate investors in ingenuity on the part of British amounts of ink to draftsmen's pers]

Then the "kitchen" table is pass brought before the Privy Coun- have the Upper House appeal fixed interest securities.. These Post Office engineers, the patent without spilling, the device also ed in plank, hewn from a log of eil in, London at the Hilary Sit- are matters for American de- rights of which in other coun- preventing the ink from drying, driftwood, resting on snow blocks tings. Accordingly, 40 bond cision. There is little cause for tries, incidentally, may well

: In front of the sleeping platform, copies of the proceedings before anxiety outside the United prove a source of not inconsider Paris is experimenting with Two poles are placed beyond I, to the NS.W. Supreme Court were States in the prospect of a de-jable revenue. The subscriber illuminated crossings for pedes support the soapstone lamp, valued dollar, with a return to to a party line will no longer trians on poorly lighted, streets,

sent to London by air mali' at 'a the gold standard and a stabili- have the disturbing conscious specially designed lamps profert supplying heat and light. The fuel The appeal that of T,

This affords the only means of cost of £40.0.0. sation of "the international ex-ness that any of the other subing beams of light on the pave-is oil from the blubber of the seal Doyle against the Attorney- |change rato. M. Poincare describers to that line may be listeri-iments.. valued the frame to an extent faring-in to his conversations. Injur

The wick is from the Arctic cotton General and. others will bo greater than anyone contem a few months' time the renam- Experiments at a New Jersey tained without matches from two K.C, who travelled to London by ("Eriophorum") Fire can be ob-argued by Mr. A. B. Piddington, plates for the dollar; and what ed group service, will ensure college revealed The could do without ultimately absolute privacy; this should ful-action reaches its height about half into a little skin case full of dry Mr. Piddington will submit that

that digestive lumps of pyrites, by striking sparks the Orontes. disastrous consequences might fil at last the hopes that were an hour after dinner and is at its moss. Then a small stick in lighted, the vote on the Referendum Act not prove to be beyond the power built upon a system that offered lowest polat just before breakfast. and this is passed along the pre was invalid, as each clector" was of Mr. Roosevelt. The President's telephone facilities at reduced to thoughts--for they amount to cost to those making only a

pared wick of the lamp, leaving a uniformed as to the contents of

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little more on the subject of sparing use of them. Higher from his own house or office, any beautiful, even blue flame, that the Bill, which was not personal- disarmament were recently ex-organisation rather than actual number, in each of the principal burns without smoke and without ly served upon him. A pressed. The substance of them invention. As the secret of other European capitals. These are smell. vamo

If the appeal is not heard at was conveyed in his message of forthcoming improvements. The the chief of the new facilities

Two poles, thrust into the wall the Hilary Sittings it cannot bo last May to the Kings, irritating delays of the long- that 1984 has in store for the above the lamp, support a small heard before April. Potentates and Presidents" of all distance call are to disappear. telephone user. Taking the small rack which serves to dry articles of Mr. Farrer, who has appeared nations; and if they did not ap-The subscriber will be put with the great, they represent a clothing, and from which hangs as Junior to Mr. Piddington In pear then to contribute anything through to Edinburgh or vast improvement of corvice the cooking pot, reating an inch, or the Supreme Court, has left for

England.app of the problem then facing the own exchange, without the nece degree of efficiency, and bring ® Finally, Bleeping-bara?" of "un-} Geneva Conference, they make essity of holding/ parlay nearer the time when Britain tanned deer skin arrive. They are tinguished by the name of Hilary nb greater impression now. The trunks. Further, it will soon shall stand in the frat rank of soft, comfortable, and warm Bur- begins on January 11 and ends, en better part of his suggestions be possible for him

the telephone-conscious Pations, plus good are stored against the January 81-Beuter,

of practical value to the solution Aberystwith directly from his that has achieved already's high so above the lamp, The English law term 'diam.