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For Classified Ad Results BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1937 Telephone MAin 4-6000 Holiday Events Are Arranged by Many Organizations Benefits Planned L. I. Debutante Miss Ethel Sloan is the debutante daughter of Col. and Mrs. T.

Donaldson Sloan of Lawrence. (Bachrach photo.) SILVER ANNIVERSARY A surprise party was given to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Garrett by their two children on their 25th wedding anniversary last night in the rose room of the Midwood Restaurant, 1145 Flatbush Ave. Mr.

and Mrs. Garrett reside at 172-14 144th Springfield Gardens. Both came from Belfast, Ireland, about 29 years ago and their courtship started on the ship and were married four years later in the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. Mrs. Garrett was Miss Anne Boggs.

They have two children, Samuel Garrett Jr. and William Garrett. Mr. Garrett has been employed for many years as assistant service manager of the Nachman Motors, Jamaica. Robert McIlwrath, who was best man at the wedding, was 8 guest at the affair.

About 100 were present. DEMOCRATIC CLUB EVENTS The Democratic Club of Forest Hills and Kew Gardens will have a bridge and card party on Wednesday night. Final arrangements were made at a meeting at headquarters last week. May Travis, executive of the women's division, spoke of the Christmas baskets to be distributed. An open forum will be held by the men's division, William J.

Drake, executive. "The New Housing Laws and What They Mean to the Development of New Homes in Queens" will be the subject, and Thomas sully will speak. 12TH A. D. PARTY The evening party of the season the 12th D.

Regular first, Democratic Club, 911 8th was held last week, with more than 50 tables of bridge in play. The coexecutives, James J. Heffernan and Miss Mary F. Shea, congratulated the committee, of which Miss Kathryn Farrell was chairman and Mrs. Nora O'Neill, co-chairman of arrangements.

The hospitality committee served refreshments. In charge of activities with Miss Farrell and Mrs. O'Neill were the Misses Thecla Clements, Miss Mollie Crowe and Miss Kathryn Carey; Mrs. Mary Kerwin, Mrs. Julia O'Connor, Mrs.

Julia Bernard, Mrs. Delia Leary, Mrs. Anna Rock, Mrs. Mary Sager, Mrs. Mary Saunders.

Mrs. Rebecca Galvin, Mrs. Mary Kelly, Mrs. Josephine Kelly, Mrs. Josephine Clements and Mrs.

Anna M. Brierton. The Glen Head Democratic Club held their first meeting Tuesday following their successful presentation "Tons of Money." The new officers are: President, Edna Ostuni; secretary, John Plum; treasurer, Gilbert Kohl. A check was sent to the community hospital of Glen Cove. Miss Edna Le More of Brooklyn has been at the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada.

ENGAGED Miss Florence Amelia Slater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Slater of Cedarhurst is engaged to J. Stanley Halperin of Brooklyn. (Carmen Photo), HADASSAH NEWS A board meeting was held by the Brooklyn Hadassah Chapter, presided over by Mrs.

Joseph Horowitz, president, last week at the Johnston Building. Reports were given by the officers and activity chairmen. Mrs. Z. H.

Rubinstein, membership chairman, reported that 550 new members were enrolled on Hadassah Day. Mrs. David Sobel, vice president, announced that the Annual $25 Donor Luncheon will take place on March 21 at the Waldorf -Astoria and preparations are under way for an elaborate program. Due to the large increase membership, about 1,500 guests are expected to attend. Mrs.

Joseph Horowitz is chairman of the luncheon and Mrs. David Sobel is editor of the journal. Miss Rachel Natelson, one of the founders of the Brooklyn Chapter of Hadassah, gave a detailed report on the political aspect of the recent Hadassah convention. Mrs. Boris Orgayevsky, treasurer of the chapter, reported on the financial phase.

Mrs. Louis J. Moss, education and program chairman, spoke on the cultural activities of the groups and announced that a regional meeting will be held tomorrow. The parliamentary class meets the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 10:30 a.m, at the chapter's office, 26 Court St. The speakers group will meet Wednesday evening.

Mrs. Nachman Ebin, chairman of Youth Aliyah for the Brooklyn Division, announced a meeting will be held at the chapter's office Dec. 20. Youth Aliyah movement is Hadassah's newest project which is concerned with the transfer of Jewish children from Germany and Poland to Palestine, and their education maintenance in the agricultural and trade centers of the latter country. On Dec.

Henrietta Szold, founder and leader of Hadassah, will celebrate her 77th birthday. The groups of the Brooklyn chapter will celebrate this occasion with birthday parties, meetings and Oneg Shabat gatherings. The Bensonhurst group will hold an Oneg Shabat gathering on Saturday afternoon at the Educational Center and another Oneg Shabat will be held by the Henrietta Szold Group at the Temple Petach Tikvah on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 25. A joint Oneg Shabat gathering in honor of Miss Szold will be held by Bedford and Ziona groups on Saturday afternoon at the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

A program has been arranged. Shalom Group, of which Mrs. Nettie Gardner is president, the youngest group of the chapter, has oversubscribed the Jewish National Fund and Infant Welfare quotas. Mrs. Gertrude Fertig, president of the Judith Group, reported that an induction tea was held at the home of Mrs.

Gazelle Joblin and 13 new members were enrolled. Mrs. Isidor Taub, past president of the chapter, guest speaker. Others who spoke were Siegmund Spier, Mrs. George Offin, Mrs.

Wilma Schwabacher and Mrs. Jacob Klein. The Kings Highway Group, Mrs. Blanche Aronstein, president, will hold a theater party on Monday, Dec. 20, to see "The Star Wagon" at the Empire Theater, Manhattan, CAMPAIGN BENEFIT More than a dozen Brooklyn Jewish Women's Organizations are engaged in the sale of tickets for a musicale and entertainment to be held Wednesday afternoon at the Livingston, 301 Schermerhorn St.

The musicale is being sponsored by the United Women's Organizations of Bensonhurst and Mapleton, in behalf of the Greater New York Campaign of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which is seeking to raise $1,860,000 of a national quota of $4,650,000 for the relief and rehabilitation of Jews abroad. Heading the distinguished group of artists to be featured on the program will be Harry Braun, American violinist. Appearing with Mr. Braun will be Miss Henrietta Schumann, pianist; Miss Mary Louise Raymond, soloist; David Sapirro, concert pianist and monologist, and Irma Fischer, South African pianist. In charge of arrangements for the program are Mrs.

Nachman H. Ebin and Mrs. Philip Weinstock. SLATER-HALPERIN Thursday, Dec. 30, has been selected by Miss Florence Amelia Slater, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Slater of Cedarhurst, as the date for her marriage to J. Stanley Halperin, son of Mrs. Alice Gilman of Brooklyn. Both the ceremony and reception will be held at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Slater. Invitations are being limited to members of the two families and close friends. BURG-WOOD Announcement has been made by Mrs. Lillian Burg of Woodmere of the engagement of her daughter, Miss Virginia Burg, to Thomas W.

Wood, son of Mrs. Catherine Wood of Little Falls, N. Y. CELEBRATES Young Arthur Huneke son of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Huneke of Merrick, formerly of Brooklyn, celebrated his first birthday yesterday, Way Pearly photo.) Dining in Manhattan Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Collette of Brooklyn photographed in the Orangerie at the Hotel Astor, Manhattan.

(Empire Photo.) News of Women's Clubs Garden City Clubs Officers of Associates of St. Giles Home for the Crippled chosen to conduct the affairs of the organization for the coming year are: Mrs. W. Wallace Frazier, president; Mrs Charles W. Gleason, first vice president; Mrs.

Clifford M. Bishop, second vice president; Mrs. John W. Riedell, treasurer; Alfred T. Davison, recording secretary; Mrs.

C. Walter Ulsh, corresponding secretary, The Women's Auxiliary of the Garden City Community Church, ot which the Rev. Dr. John Gardner is pastor, held a benefit bridge party on Wednesday evening in the church house. Mrs.

Edward M. Biggs was chairman. The Garden City Delphians met at the home of the president, Mrs. Page Northington of Washington Ave. on Thursday.

The Garden City-Hempstead Community Club held another of its current events meetings in the Cherry Valley School auditorium Friday afternoon with Prof. William Starr Myers as guest speaker. The Garden City Chapter of the Nassau Animal League held a benefit bridge luncheon at the Garden City Country Club on Friday. The committee of arrangements was Miss Lillian S. Kay, president; Mrs.

Alvah W. Seeler, Mrs. Carl F. Maesel and Mrs. Frank Houlihan.

The second monthly bridge tournament of the Woman's Club of Garden City was held Monday afternoon in the Casino under the direction of Mrs. Charles G. Bishop, chairman of the bridge committee, Dessert, was Gein served at and 2 Mrs. o'clock Bernard with W. Rorke presiding at the tea table which was decorated with holly and red candles.

A combined dramatic and musical program will be given by the club's drama and choral departments at the Casino on Dec. 20. An original comedy, "A Thimble for Christmas," written by Mrs. Andrew H. man, drama chairman, will be sented with a cast including Mrs Royal Toner, Mrs.

Charles G. Bishop, Mrs. Joseph K. Ryan, Mrs. Frank V.

Braun, Mrs. Francis W. Rauhe and an unnamed club member to depict Santa, John Claus. H. The Mears, morning chairman, choral assisted by Mrs.

Henry F. Haemer, and directed by Mrs. Louis Dutton, will render a group of Christmas num. bers. The Junior League of the Woman's Club will meet this afternoon at the home of Miss Betty Zabriskie of Wellington Road.

Miss Elise Behrer, president, will conduct the meeting. The Guild of the Cathedral of the Incarnation held its annual Christbazar on Tuesday afternoon and evening in the Garden City Casino, under the general chairmanship of Mrs. Arthur B. Kinsolving 2d, with Mrs. John F.

Faber and Miss Anne Webb as vice chairmen. The Junior Auxiliary of the Garden City League for Mercy Hospital held a social meeting and tea day afternoon at the home of Miss Jean Kohlberger of Wickham Road The Misses 3 Jane Calcagno, Shirley Snyder and Florence Noland were co-hostesses with Miss Kohlberger. Poetry Circle The Brooklyn Poetry Circle will hold their Christmas luncheon at Chaplin's tea room Saturday. Mrs. R.

I. Deniston of Freeport, former chairman of poetry and pageants of the Federation of Women's Clubs of the State of New York; Judge Raphael Murphey of Manhattan, City Magistrate and poet, and Dr. Robert MacGowan of Hudson, the poet philosopher the Irvingtonair and lecturer, who has just been elected to honorary membership to the club, will be the speakers. Members and guests will bring and read a poem suitable for the occasion. The next meeting will be held Jan.

21, Mrs. Laura S. W. Lake, president; Mrs. Lillian Everts, vice president; Mrs.

Pauline M. Taylor, secretary; Mrs. Carolyn Wood, librarian; Mrs. Olivia Kelsey, radio chairman, and Miss Marie-Louise d'Esternaux comprise the welcoming committee. All of these officers are residents of Brooklyn.

Books and poems of the members will be on display. Froebel Society Froebel Society, Mrs. Robert Starr Allyn, president, will have a civic education committee meeting at the home of Mrs. Elmer H. Sammis in the Hotel Mohawk on Tuesday afternoon.

On Dec. 21 the home committee will meet at the home of Mrs. W. J. Taylor, 732 St.

Mark's Avenue. club held its annual bridge party at the home of Mrs. Charles A. Decker, 169 Lefferts Place, on Monday. There were 20 tables in play.

There were also games for non -players. The proceeds are devoted to philanthropic work. Tea was poured by Mrs. Ronald Taylor and Mrs. Adelbert G.

Fradenburgh. A meeting of the literature committee was held on Wednesday at the home of Mrs. T. D. Beatty at 38 Livingston St, Lawrence P.

T. A. Dr. Fritz Redel of Vienna will discuss "The Adolescent Child" at the monthly meeting of the Lawrence Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, to be held Tuesday night, Dec. 14, in the school auditorium.

Cedarhurst A. Warren Sims, magician, will entertain at a Christmas party for pupils of School 3, Cedarhurst, Thursday afternoon. The party will supplant the regular monthly meeting of the parent-teacher association. Mrs. Elsa Goldsmith is president.

Mrs. Sidney Spero is vice president. Adelphi Academy Junior Alumnae to Have Tea-Dance The Junior Alumnae Group of Adelphi Academy, 282 Lafayette will hold their annual teadance on Christmas Day from 4 to 8 o'clock at the Hotel Belmont Plaza, Manhattan. Miss Grace Moult is general chair. man for dance.

Other committee chairmen are Mrs. W. Steiner, Mrs. H. G.

Skidmore, Mrs. Robert Tait, Miss Cecile Castor, Miss Doris Whelan, Miss Katherine Borndollar and Miss Juanita Alminoll. The floor committee includes Edgar Hitchings, John Pullman, Wilson Merrill, Allen Craig, Norman Marten, John Olcott. Jerome Bates, Chester Hawkins, William Mogk and Robert Platt. Berkeley to Have Christmas Tea Dance Wednesday, Dec.

22 Under the auspices of the Student Association the annual Christmas of the Berkeley Institute, 181 Lincoln Place, be tea held in the Don Pedro Room of the Towers Hotel on, Wednesday, Dec. until o'clock. "Receiving will be Miss Ina Clayton Atwood, principal; Miss Marion A. Reid, vice principal; Miss Dorothy Bell, Student Association vert; Miss Margaret Wallace Arnold, Mrs. Vernon Jarboe and Mrs.

Bessie M. Marclay. Mrs. Elisha P. Cronkhite, who has been at the Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, several months, left last week for her home in San Marino, Cal, Rockville Centre League Plans for Benefit Dance The Rockville Center Junior League for Mercy Hospital has completed its plans for the dance on Dec.

29 at the South Shore Yacht Club in Freeport. Miss Agnes Winters, general chairman of the affair, held a committee meeting at her house last evening. Present at the committee meeting were the members of the Junior League, who have as their head Miss Madeleine Murray as chairman of the arrangements. Her assistants are the Misses Jeanne-Marie Macken, Grace Harvey, Rosemary Cramer, Peggy Britt, Eileen Cantwell and Janet Lillistrale. TUBY-MENKEN Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Menken, 25 Eastern Parkway, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Evelyn Menken, to Dr. Robert Tuby, also of Brooklyn, on Dec. 5 at the Towers Hotel, Dr. Sidney Tedesche officiating.

The couple is in Florida. They will reside in the Betsy Ross Apartments, St. Mark's and New York Aves. Miss Sylvia Menken was maid of honor for her sister, and Dr. Martin Tuby, brother of the bridegroom, was best man.

The bride wore a white velvet gown with a net veil caught with lilies of the valley, and carried calla lilies. A luncheon in the Breuckelen Room of The Towers followed the wedding. The bride attended Hunter College. Dr. Tuby is a graduate of New York University and of Bellevue Medical College.

He is on the surgical staff of Kings County and Midwood Hospitals. He is chairman of the welfare committee of the Association for Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, treasurer of the Swedish Hospital Scientific Committee, member of the Kings County Medical Society, Ocean Medical Society, American Medical Association, and American Regional Anaesthetists. Auxiliary President Prospect Club Prospect Club, Mrs. Robert Huse Brown, president, will hold its monthly study meeting on Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Louis M.

Mowbray, 538 3d St. The Rev. Arthur B. Mors will speak on Palestine. Flora Wald Society SYRIAN LEAGUE PARTY The Syrian Junior League will hold its first large affair of the Winter season this evening at the Hotel St.

George Roof, when more than 200 members of the Syrian younger set will gather for a cocktail party and dance. The Junior League, by a series of benefits held throughout the season, raised funds to provide fresh air camp vacations for Syrian children and to contribute to the care of charity cases in five New York and Brooklyn hospitals. Muriel Subt, party chairman, is being assisted by the officers of the league: the Misses Lyla Mabarak, president; Daisy Amoury, vice president; Najla Macsoud, secretary; Jean Koury, corresponding secretary; Mary Milkie, treasurer, and Blanche Kisbany, vice treasurer. The Junior League is affiliated with the Syrian Ladies' Aid Society, which dispenses monthly stipends to needy homes. ZALOOM-KAYDOUGH Mr.

and Mrs. George B. Zaloom of 19 Prospect Park West announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Vivian Marie Zaloom, to George Michael Kaydough, son of Mrs. Michael Kaydough of 8705 Fort Hamilton Parkway. Miss Zaloom attended Mt.

St. Vincent Academy and Marymount College. Mr. Kaydough is a graduate of Polytechnic Preparatory School and Williams College. FLYNN-DAVENPORT Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Anne Elizabeth Flynn, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Andrew Flynn of Plainfield, N. to Martin Warren Davenport of Port Washington, son of Mrs. Herbert Davenport of Ithaca, N. and the late Professor Davenport.

Miss Flynn attended Laselle Junior College at Auburndale, and was graduated in the medical assistant's course from Edgewood Park Junior College in 1936. Mr. Davenport ions graduated in 1934 from Cornell University, where his father was professor of economics. He is with the Standard Statistics Company, New York. The wedding will take place next Spring.

ALUMNAE BENEFIT Miss Margaret Spohn and Miss Dorothy Lane are conducting a benefit for the Alumnae Association of St. Francis Xavier Academy. They are assisted by the following members: Mrs. Raymond McLeer, Mrs. John Nash, Mrs.

James Charron, Mrs. David Haggerty, Mrs. Thomas Seele, Mrs. Howard Fenn, Mrs. Alfred Holmes, Mrs.

Russell Harring, Mrs. Clarence Peterson and the Misses Marjorie Willimin, Irma Veltry, Ann McGovern, Grace Moller, Rose Coughlin, Margaret Coughlin, Eulolia Bolen, Kay Bolger, Eleanor McCullough, Margaret Sanderson, Margaret Canning, Rose Sullivan, Helen Brown, Mary Magee, Cathleen Farrell, Mildred Monahan, Dolores Marguet, Clare Rustland, Doris Rivoire, Peggy Keenan, Lysbeth Farrell, Betty McGuire, Dorothy Mathews, Helen Geoghan, Josephine Coyle, Jeannette Wynne, Rose Crowley, Elizabeth Magilligan, Katherine Slosilo, Helen McKeown, Helen Rustland, Marie McGahan, Sally Todd. Ruth Kramer, Marion Shevlin, Elizabeth McCaffrey, Margaret Nolan. Eileen McCarthy, Mary O'Brien, Adelaide Daley, Mary Concannon, Louise Daversa, Ella Sullivan, Margaret Macklin, Mary Hehir, Ethel Hunter, Agnes Garneau, Eleanor Casey, Christine Barton, Virginia St. Armour, Kay Mitchell, Helen Tremari, Loretta Trottner, Miriam Magilligan, Angela Donaldson, Elizabeth Hoffschmidt, Marie Gru, Patricia Fitzgerald, Mrs.

S. Shannon, Mrs. L. DeDeyn, Mrs. G.

Connor. The winner will be announced at the alumnae meeting Thursday evening at the Knights of Columbus Club. REED-COLES Miss Martha Louise Reed. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur B. Reed of Port Washington, is engaged to be married to James Stacy Coles. son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S.

Coles of Mansfield, Pa. Miss Reed was graduated from Barnard College last June. Mr. Coles graduated from Columbia, 1936, Mrs. Alexander Laufer was 1 reelected president of the Flora Wald Aid Society at the annual business meeting held Friday at Temple Israel, Lawrence.

Other officers chosen were Mrs. Barney Marks, re-elected first vice president; Mrs. David Goodkind, second president; Mrs. William Dreifus, third vice president; Mrs. Garson Studley, financial secretary; Mrs.

Arthur Goldstein, treasurer Mrs. James Feldman, recording secretary; Mrs. Irving J. Abrams, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Louis Elias, social secretary.

Barnard-in-Brooklyn An executive meeting of the nard-in-Brooklyn Club was held at the home of Mrs. Ernest M. Garbe, 531 3d last week. Mrs. Paul V.

Welch, president; Dr. Sondra F. Bakal, Mrs. Harold O. Douglass, Mrs.

Edward Hamilton, Miss Edith Hardwick, Miss Gretchen Hermann, Miss Isabel Jacobs, Miss Ethel T. Klinkenberg, Miss Helen Mayer and Mrs. Emil H. Schneider were present to discuss details of the next regular meeting of the club. A social evening wil lbe held at 1140 Pacific St.

tomorrow. Dramatic Readers Miramatie Clark Readers Tharp of New president, York, will have a Christmas party on Friday afternoon at the Fique Studios, S. Portland Ave. An interesting program has been arranged by the chairman, Mrs. Margot Bruce LeCompte.

An old-fashioned Christmas party will follow and gifts will be exchanged. The hostesses are Mrs. E. Foelix, Mrs. J.

W. Scott and Mrs. Isabel Lepke. Home Auxiliary The Long Island Women's iary of the Hebrew Kindergarten and Infants Home, Far Rockaway, and its Junior League will sponsor a bridge and mah jongg at Temple Beth El, Cedarhurst, on Tuesday. Mrs.

Joseph Finkelstein is chairman. The parent-organization of the Hebrew Kindergarten and Infants Home will celebrate the 38th anniversary of its founding with a dinner dance on Sunday night, Dec. 19, on the roof of the Hotel Astor. A reception and cocktail party will preface dinner at 6 p.m. Peninsula Council Mrs.

Samuel Golding, Hempstead attorney and national chairman of legislation of the Council of Jewish Women, will be the guest speaker Friday at the meeting of Peninsula Section of Council at Temple Israel, Lawrence. She will discuss "New Marriage Laws and Other Important Legislation." A new project to be known as the Opera Study Group has been formed by peninsula section under the direction of Mrs. Benjamin Spitzer and Mrs. Lester Miller of Brooklyn. The first meeting will be held Monday, Jan.

16, at the home of Mrs. Charles Kaplan, chairman, at 28 Cedarhurst Cedarhurst. ENGAGED Mrs. Francis Young is president of the St. Angela Hall Auxiliary which sponsored its annual musical at the Academy of Music recently.

(Jay Pearly Photo.) Bahamas Goal of Carinthia's Cruises; Visited Every 9 Days By JOHN MacINTYRE The Bahamas, opened up to the outside world by Samuel Cunard in 1851, and now visited every nine days on the Carinthia's short cruises to Nassau and Havana, lies across the tropic of cancer, a short distance to the east of the Gulf Stream, this location giving them the chimate of perpetual June. Although not the largest island, New Providence, about the size of Staten Island, in New York Harbor, is the most important, as it contains the capital, the famous pleasure resort, Nassau. The following paragraphs about the Bahamas are taken from Helen Barns Higgs' book "Presenting sau." The islands number approximately 700. The group is one of Great Britain's three self -governing colonies, sharing this distinction with Bermuda and Barbados. San Salvador, or Watling Island, is generally accepted as the landfall of Columbus.

It is a small island 12 miles long and 7 miles in width, much of the area of which is covered with a lake. The island of New Providence, on which the capital city of Nassau 1s located, is about 21 miles in length from east to west and 7 miles from north to south. This island is mostly flat, though a range of rocky hills makes its appearance in several parts of the island. The Bahama Islands have a population of about 60,000. The city of Nassau represents 20,000, of which two-thirds are colored.

Next to New Providence the island of Eleuthera is the largest in population, having about 7,500 natives. The lowest recorded temperature in the annals of the Weather Bureau is 53 degrees. The separation of the Bahamas group from the mainland of the United States by An Easy Way To Solve Your CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEMS The Classified Pages of The Eagle contain a vast assortment of practical Christmas gift suggestions for each and every member of your household. Turn to these pages regularly. You will solve your gift problems easily with a saving in both time and money to you.

the warm Gulf Stream accounts for the high average Winter temperature. The cold winds from the north are warmed by' the Gulf Stream before reaching the Bahamas. This accounts for the great difference in temperature between Florida, where frosts are not infrequent, and the Bahamas, where they are unknown. The flora of the Bahamas is rich in native flowering plants and ferns. Over 950 varieties of plants have been identified in the islands.

Thirty species of orchids and several indigenous palms have been found. The most important industry in the islands is the gathering of sponges. The sponge 1s a submarine animal with a porous body. The skeleton of elastic fiber that remains after the removal of the living matter is the commercial product. More than $100,000 worth of fish is brought to the market in Nassau annually.

Paradise Beach is one of the finest in the world. The long curve of sand is unusually free of stones and bare rock. Most of it sheltered from the surf, but if surf bathing is desired it is only a short walk down the beach to the unprotected area where the combers roll in. The temperature of the water is posted daily and is rarely below 70 degrees in the winter months. The beauty of white coral sand and unbelievably clear water is unsurpassed.

The Queen's Staircase is but a few minutes' walk from the postoffice and is worth a visit. It is a flight of 66 steps cut from the solid rock. The purpose and date of its construction are obscure. Though sidewalks are not everywhere be found, many visitors enjoy walking about the picturesque streets of Nassau. Vistas of pink walls, gardens and interesting gateways greet one along the way.

Glimpses over the walls or through gateways reveal views of quaint gardens..