The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

wise steamer Aurora Borealis for
Sitka. had a, delightful trip, too,
meeting numerous buds and =. de-
butantes just returning from their
spring shopping iif Frisco to jump
into the socia swim among the Esqu1-
mau -four hundred $50
Judge, tell US, were they good
looking?' demanded Mr.. Griffin Of the
art museum. -
THAT all depends answered Judge
Mandell, whether you prefer box of
instead of decorating themselves with
cosmetics and rouge, these EsQuimau
bellies pull balls of walrus grease out
of their sealskin socks and literally
dedaub their sdimpled faces all over.
They call it fashionable. but the aroma
Of the grease is somewhat like that of
prehistoric BUTTER
why, don't they use renovated wal
rus grease?" asked Lawrence w.
Smell. who sells milk and knows a
thing or two about the pure food ana
sweet face act.
Judge Mandeu made a deprecatory
body to be silent. They all obeyed
and his honor related how he went by
dog train from Sitka to Dawson City
and then took sled to Nome and
quimau house with his bed actually
straddling the Arctic circle.
ooh, say, judge" and Karl D. Dd-
vies waved both hands and the club
thought he had "a good one. ''Did lit
.sWhat break?" asked the impress
sive judge.
"Why, the Arctic circle and the bed,
with you on top of them both
The - sergeant-at-arns ri collected
from Mr.. Davies. the price OF ,ons
round of sChartreuse, and the Judge
resumed. -. "a
AFTER I'd been there couple of
weeks, fishing through holes in half.
mile thick ice and spearing seals. and
rapping walruses over the heads ana
enjoying tea with the ladies on the
iceberg lawn asoe the Polar Region
Country club, L was, aroused from my
beauty sleep at about 27:4 a. NJ"
Whoa, back up the takers shout
ed, but the stately jurist tipped his
apologeaic chartreuse and nodded af-
Tentatively. 500 .'~~
'sYeu see, up there they have one
day and one, night. each. being six
months long. Up where I was they
| have 1880 hours a. m. and the same
number p. m. ~'1:.ffT Hs.1 --..
my host hitched up his canine
auto, cracked his long whalebone whip
gorges, crevasses. arctic peaks and
| down awful 7ra1ines, but the sure
footed beasts neverfes faltered and at
last, from the s;toprof lofty iceberg,
\ ny ot-pduSeo anu pOllll0Q Out TO me,
far ahead on the sparkling horizon, a
| dome-shaped object that glistened like
| a diamond in the sunshine.
| That said mine host, is where
| they serve the finest lager beer in the
whole polar regions. The fellows who
| are really particular, don't you know,
| travel all the way from Spitzenbergen
and Vladivostok and Baff1n's Bay My
host pulled OF one reindeer mitten and
| reached inside his fur shirt, pulling out
large plug Of Jolly Walrus chewing
| grease. He gnawedp off an enormous
| piece and, then offered it to me, but
/ couldn't no, ;sirez-sscot1dn't nerve myself
/ TO deprive that Splendid man Of even
chunk of compressed fat.
| I'VE drove for miles and miles, see
ing many dog trains, evidently making
| for the same place we sought, and at
last. with cry to the dogs. my host
| refined up beside a low, squat dome OF
! ice cake, snow filling the interstices
and the whole beautifully coated with
| crystalline ice all decorated with en-
bossed stems, drinking bouts and such
i appropriate phrases as Here's bumps!
| Here's to you! We'll. here's a goI' and
| lions preceding a drink Only, OF
4 course, lit was all IN Esouimau.
4 1--WE got down on our hands and
knees and crawIed in-not by the la
dies entrance either. The men are
afraid of that place because the ladies
play. bridge and penny ante all da,
| long and they do say the consumption
| of whale Oil and blubber is enough to
| bankrupt even the gayest spark OF
j them all, so the men keep out and
leave the heiresses to gamble among
themselves.
I'VE stood up when we got inside and
| my host, leaning up against the glis-
| tening bar carved out Of a solid block
of ice. asked, 'What'n it be, judge?''
| It'll take a small beer-I hear It's
| famous I said.
1.-The barkeeper blushed until he
| melted all the grease off his face, but
| he was greatly pleased and drew me a
| splendid draught in cup made Of the
| rarest of cut ice. AS he passed the
| beer to me, the glass, foaming at just
! the proper rate. left a thin, creamy
| trail across the top of the bar.
! "I do not know how long We remain
| ed there. 1t may have been half after
| 3d. 5 a. M, but we were recalled to the
! serious side of life first by a muff1ed
| grunt, a flash of white, the smash Of a
| stein against the mirror back of the
! bar, falling glass. bowls of glee-and
| then by wild despairing cry Of 'Bru-
| no! Brunei
1.-The ,barkeeper fell senseless, a
| bump as big as walnut back Of his
ear where a heavy ice stein had struck
| him, and 1t looked for a moment as
though the end had come.
| But Bruno was still to be reckoned
| with. He was great white polar
/ bear, and he came slip slippety-s slap In
through the long passageway from the
womar1's cafe. where he'd been keeping