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i# memoon E‘ # w ghkc 5. 08 , â€" i i like ‘chiekens ~newly nathea._ we didn‘t know how to takeâ€"care of ourâ€" serves. Should we go south into the desert, across to Marseilles and Paris, on to Tunis and Italy? At ‘last reassured and armed with inâ€" formation and tickets from Rayâ€" mond A. Whitcomb Co. three of us embarked for Tunis and Sicily. We .will never be.sorry we did, in fact it‘s one of those things which makes you catch your breath to think how nearly you didn‘t! & . I wish by some power of pen I could convey to you the charm of Taormina. Tucked off here on the southeast coast of Sicilyâ€"it was a place which a week agoâ€"we had never heard of and in which today we are old residents,. It is so litâ€" tle, so naive, so cordial, so unspoiled Getting to Sicily after Africa was in behalf thrilling. After being in a "heathen"â€"land coming back to one which has with you the: comâ€" mon batkground of Christianity, is like coming in out of the wind and weather to the shelter of a large friendly umbrella We landed i Palermo and after a day in that interesting‘ town left by private motg‘!; for a wonderful trip across the "island"around the/base of Mt. Etna toâ€"Taorminai â€"â€" _ __â€" It a ‘perfect ‘day and amidst ."Oh‘s and a?:“ of{our own delight at the painted carts,â€" the. snowy mountains, the~ sea, we wended ‘our way into the mountains through villages literally piled: building on building up to the crest of hills, through crowds of marvelling natives whom we could well beâ€" lieve fell~down and worshipped the first motorâ€"car they ever saw, and then arose and tore it into bits. We stopped to buy water and the entire village knocked off work for the day. We think they closed the schools but maybe they were closed anyway. . Our Italian vocabulary consisted of "much snow," "Sicilian cart" and "hot water" our chauffeur‘s English was:"very nice," "beooâ€" tiful" and donkey." This was allright as long as the light lasted and we could use our hards but when it got dark and we were still bounding helplessly over the now deserted roads we began toâ€"wonder if our death would be from hunger, fréezing> or bandetti. â€" + None materialized, however, we arrived safely at our charming pension and within a â€"day â€"had beenâ€"taken â€"in andâ€"made . to feel compictely at home by ~theâ€"remarkablyâ€"inâ€" teresting and cosmopolitan group of writâ€" ers, seulptors. and painters who live here. Behind these old unrevealing walls are some of the most fascinating houses one could ever imagine â€" Old ~convents â€" which have beenâ€" taken and fitted upâ€"with interesting things from all over the world, and beauâ€" tiful centuries old palaces. S One of the loveliest of these belongs to "Charlie Sugar"" we call him,. actually "Don Carlo Sucro‘ one of whose ancestors gained land and title by being .able at a critical time to supply sugar to the king. , % ‘Everyone teils us the legends and taies of Taormina, how on Christmas Eve the shepâ€" herds came_ piping down ~from ~the hills going from church to church searching for the Christ Child.â€" They tell how last year {nrinz_ Etna‘s eruption the inhabitants of he‘ neighboring town which was destroyed got out their patron saint and held him up before the lava stream. His hand was raised but the lava, all unheeding, came on. They retreated a little but still held the saint before the burnifig stream. Finally driven back inch by inch to the sea they raised the saint high above their heads and l;ltehetl him head first into the burning inâ€" ‘erno. > * Our only theatre is a marionette show which has not varied, it is said, since the thirteenth century. Sitting on boards in the smoke and garlic_scented atmosphere we witnessed probably the fiercest conflict in the memory of man, Saracens, Moors, d ms, devils, all were beheaded, one by oWMth-umdolmkrkyhtw daunted here. ‘The ropes were all visible, so were the large hands which worked them, and now and then the performance daunted hero. The ropes were all visible, Sicilian "what shall we do now?" . The only unflagging member of the troupe is the oneâ€"legged piper who murdered his wife, but she must have deserved it for he sits tme piping nm;r‘i , and looking a veritâ€" &A incarnation hn. * fl ESTHER GOULDS & TRAVEL CORNL R . *The most beautiful spot in the world" was what people told us of Taormina, and it sounded noâ€" more convincing than those "wrand prizes" that your marmalade anâ€" nounces it took in London in 1712. But now with sunlight sreaming over Etra‘s snow fields, with blue and green shadows on the ‘sea I know it is as true that this fresh honey that has gust.come with my breakfast is superior to all the marmalades in the world ! RAYMOND â€"WHITCOMEB 5 thptlee RAMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY 176 No. Michigan Avenue NORTH CAPEâ€"BALTIC SUMMER CRUISES $.S. "Carinthia‘‘â€"â€" June 26 S.S. "Funcoph”â€")m 29 Raymondâ€"Whitcomb North Cape Cruises for almost ten years have been the most popular Summer Cruises to sail from America. This year there will be TWO Rayâ€" mond â€" Whitcomb Sumâ€" mer Cruises to the Land of the Midnight Sun. The cruiseâ€"ships will be sisterâ€"shipsâ€"the newest Cunardersâ€"specially deâ€" signed for cruising. Sailâ€" ing just after the close of schools and colleges;,; these cruises have â€"conâ€" sistently attracted younger people and famâ€" ilies bound for a vacaâ€" tion together. They may be taken as a complete holiday in themselves (generous shore excurâ€" sions characterize . the. programs) or as a deâ€" lightful new way toParis. and Hammerfest, Trondâ€" hjem, the most beautiful of the Norwegian Fjords and the cities of Scanâ€" dinavia and the Balticâ€" Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Visby, Tallinn (Estho= nian capital), Helsingâ€" fors (capital of Finâ€" land) and Copenhagen. The routes include. Iceâ€" tania" ‘ 66 ", "Berengaria‘" well as the "Carinâ€" « Tel. State 8615 T HE P RES S in, leaves the question still doubt.. * y % Briefly, these facts show that: a tertain group of women taxicab drivâ€" ers in a large eastern city had three times as many accidents as the. men drivers of the same company, both groups working under essentially the same conditions. : s ~ The investigators are fair â€" and courteousâ€"enoughâ€"toâ€"makea â€"sumâ€" mary of previous studies in this same debatable field.. . Previous â€" compariâ€" sons, made in the District of Golumâ€" bia in 1927,.and in San Francisco and â€"Massachusetts and Connecticut, all have been quite favorable to women "drivers. f + â€" IS MAN OR WOMAN _ _ SAFER AS DRIVER S"u‘rvey Made by University Man and Woman Offers Interestâ€" ing Statistics Anothér question that promises to take its place in the archives of unâ€" answered quéries alongside: of "Who hit Billy Patterson?" "Why ‘is an Owl?" and "How old is Ann?" is, "Who is the safer driver, man or woman.*".â€" â€". e id on Striking Report e One of the â€"most recentâ€"and most boldâ€"reports on this question has been made in "The Personnel Jourâ€" nal" for February. +Herein Dr. Morâ€" ris S. Viteles and Helen M. Gardner of the University of Pennsylvaniaâ€" a man and â€" a~womanâ€"are daring enough to sign their names jointly to what have been called "astonishing facts." © * k % +. a 9 es _ Comparison The study of the taxicab company of the..eastern city includes a â€"comâ€" parison of an average of about 40 women cab drivers with about 2,000 miale cab drivers within the period of March 1, 1927, and February 28, 1928. But it should be added that the study included a total of about 150 women. Also, about 14 per cent of these woâ€" men drivers wereâ€"inexperienced previâ€" ously, though They all!â€"passed through a thorough training period. The woâ€" men drivers were not employed at night, but hazards of night driving are usually consideredâ€" equally or more severe.. Also, the women drivâ€" ers as a rule chose sections of the city with assumed lesser hazard. During this period the men drivers were responsible for 0.257 accidents per thousand miles. and the women drivers for 0.767 accidents per thousâ€" and miles.. Stated another way, the men drivers were charged with 1.449 accidents per $1,000 of revenue, and the women drivers with 5.063 acciâ€" dents per $1,000 of revenue. $ A more favorable comparison is the fact that for the women drivers the cost of accidents per $1,000 of revenue was only about oneâ€"half the cost for menâ€"$15.76, as compared with $31.83. One possible conclusion from the study is that women drivers, to operate as safely as men drivers, probaby demand more eareful trainâ€" ing. The back yard ball game may make a lot of noise, but anyway the playâ€" ers keep the dirt of our garden patches well stirred up. ‘or arwhile as though this While some of our statesmen are worrying about what shall be done with the exâ€"presidents, the exâ€"presiâ€" dents are usually worrying how they shall keep out,.of the public view. 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