The Cordova daily times., 1920-02-21

of the kaiser Either of these utter ances of the super-autocrats of his . tory might justifiably be adopted by an American, a man prominent for years. pasf>in Alaska annals-the captain of. the United States revenue cutter Bear. This famous craft, which for3 more than forty years has bucked the . ice of the polar seas, at the very top of the world, is the one link connects ing the farthest north of North Amer7s ica with civilization. To the few Es7s kimos who inhabit that desolate ress zion the master of the Bear is a1-s mighty He is law; he is governs ment; he is civilization. :.
 One of the minor duties of this poten-i tate is the bestowal of names. The, Akimos are childishly eager tozoWn. real, civilized, white-men's names. During the last visit of the Bear to Icy cape, in an unsuccessful attempt to reach Point Barrow, young Els kimo girl, in parka and mukluks, climbed on board, with discontent written all over her round, fat face. She was much dissatisfied with her name, 'Ki-puk' "big fish and had come to beg the captain for another Imagine, then, the skipper, whose stock of names was almost ex- 1lausted running his hands through his hair and otherwise registering per plexity. Suddenly he exclaimed Eureka, California! I have it!'' or words to that effect. You are Big Fish no longer" he announced. Your name is Genevieve" Then he taught the girl to spell and write her new name, whereupon she waddled off, proud and happy, repeating, for fear she would forget it, "G-e-n-e-v-ie-v-e."
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 "Camoufage' was the keynote at the Northland Clubs dance Tuesday night, and things were not what they seemed. A most formidable super dreadnaught, for instance, turned out to be our mild and peaceful fellow townsman, "Bill' Nye; a beautiful California poppy was really Mrs. Ca 1eb Corser: and a snow-bank, so real istic that it sent a chill through all who looked at it. finally stood revealed as Dr. w. Darcy Chace, in complete Palm Beach suit. The impressive rebes of high priest of Something brother concealed Edward F. Medley, Mrs: George Harmon wore the garb of an Indian maiden in a well-su5Lained character, and Mrs. James L.. GalA's black braids helped to make her, for the time, into a be-ringed and bandana-ed gypsy uueen-a real "seventh daughter of a seventh daughter" with X-ray eyes which looked right through your past, present and future. Lacking only a banjo, J. V. Lydick was capital darkv of ante-bellum days Mrs. Furs- man and Mrs. Kelly Robinson ap- Reared as Turkish girls, and Dr. Won 'Zesch as a Spanish dancer. Roy De Leo made a good sailor for MT. Yves hattleship, while Mrs. DeLeo's bru- nette beauty was set off by yellow tarletan costume with large picture hat About Il o'clock the dancing stopped, and in the large front parlor sandwiches, olives, cake and coffee were served to the rry-makers, who were: Mr. and Mrs. George liar mon. MT. and Mrs Walter Gatfney, MT. and Mrs. Kelly Robinson, Rev and Mrs. E. P. Ziegler, MT. and Mrs. Caleb Corser, Mr. and Mrs. w. L.. Furs- man, MT. and Mrs. Bartley Howard MT, and Mrs. William Crooker, MT and Mrs. Roy DeLeo, MT. and Mrs. D e. Fairman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Auer: Mrs. Leach, Mrs. Lambert, Miss Church. Miss Edelbrock, Miss Adams Miss Jarvis (of Seward); Messrs. w H. Caswell, A. J. Adams, Harry Atchi son. H. E. Nye, Harry Steel, G. K Belts, R. H. L. Noaks, Brady Howard Tom Scott, John Muller, Rex Swartz W. D'Arcy Chace, l.. A. Counts Charles Rogers, Charles A. Derry. Ed ward F. Medley and Homer Blyth (o1 Seward). Mrs. Fursman, Mrs. Galer and Mrs. Gaffney were the hostessef for the evening.
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 Miss Katharine Boyce entertained { few friends at her home in the Lath rop building Friday evening. Mis-: