. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. First photographof Aviator Beacheylooping the loop,over the SanFrancisco FairGrounds on It was takenby E. Carl Wallen,in Christoffersonsmachine. By thetime the latter hadreached the properaltitude, Beacheyhad made six oflas loops but Wal-len managed tosnap him on theseventh and lastloop. The Curseof The Manama. It has truthfully been said that theunconscious motto of every CentralAmerican is, Never do to-day what youcan put off until to-morrow. However,instead of wasting so much perfectly goodbreath on so many utterly idle words, hemere
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. First photographof Aviator Beacheylooping the loop,over the SanFrancisco FairGrounds on It was takenby E. Carl Wallen,in Christoffersonsmachine. By thetime the latter hadreached the properaltitude, Beacheyhad made six oflas loops but Wal-len managed tosnap him on theseventh and lastloop. The Curseof The Manama. It has truthfully been said that theunconscious motto of every CentralAmerican is, Never do to-day what youcan put off until to-morrow. However,instead of wasting so much perfectly goodbreath on so many utterly idle words, hemerely extracts the thought, and says,Manana which means simply, to-morrow. And every Central Americantown is a living, glaring example of theManana habit. It is not necessary toconsider the poorly paved street, thedirty, naked child playing in the gutteror the universally depressed currency the Shadow ofthe Muttering Izalco;a Hydroelectric Planton the Banks of theRio Grande (Salva-dor) system. A mere observation of theinevitably indolent and listless attitudeof every member of the populace oneencounters is ample evidence to carrycomplete conviction of the disastrousconsequences of generations of practiceof the habit. Yet you may stroll down a street ofany typical village of Mexico, Guatemala,Salvador, Honduras or Costa Rica, andyour gaze must almost invariably se
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