Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1919 — Siam's Boat Life. [ARTICLE]

Siam's Boat Life.

The boat life of Siam is extremely interesting. Business and health and happiness, all center In the river or its branches. A boat and a paddle are almost as natural and indispensable possessions to a Siamese as his arms or legs. He has no notion of traveling any distance except by boat, and the idea of living in a place inaccessible by water generally strikes him as absurd. Three weeks to come down stream with a full -cargo, a week to dispose of it and indulge in the gayeties of the capital, four or five months to get back with the emptied boat, and the rest of the year for farjp work at home —such is the program of many a Siamese famny. * * -. ,