Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1920 — Australians Well Off. [ARTICLE]

Australians Well Off.

In no part of the world is there a population' apparently better fed and better provided with the ordinary necessaries of life than In Australia and New Zealand. -There is an absence of indications of poverty, and in the cities slums ase rare. On the streets there is a healthy, bustling population of a type more like the dwellers in the cities of the middle West than those of London or Liverpool. The visitor recognizes the selfreliant spirit of a people detached from the rest of the world who have their own problems to solve, and are peculiarly ready to accept innovations. There is a great fondness for sports, football, tennis, surf bathing, which is possible all the year round In portions of Australia, and, most of all, for horse‘racing, Ih connection with which there is a great amount of gambling, which the state sanctions by taking a certain percentage of the sales in the pool rooms—Exchange. ,—