The Washington times., 1922-12-10
This Sheik
Business
BY. Ike SONEERS.

II would discover that "he ain't
done right by our Nell." and he
was an unpopular guy.
sukh was the love pirate ef>the
aged and decrepit past. For
styles In love pirates change. a.
In everything else. and nowadays
no. love pirate, ID the real goods
unless he's a sheik.
'Im love the women terribly
When I'm q tsik In Araby."
- sings Jimmy Hussey. and
that's the whole idea. Not since
the days when Young Loohihvar
came out of the west has any
thing come so near knocking the
entire feminine population Of the
world for a goal as this sheik
stuff. Verify. e. M. Hull start
cd something the finish whereof
u in doubt. ....
Does lady, incautiously. or
while under the effects Of .
temporary alteration. shoot her
hubby fun of holes7
"IIe was a sheik." she cries,
and the jury let's her go.
Does a married jane skip town
and leave her family, including
little Seraphina, McDousall,
Patrick Hennessy, Kosciusko. Isl
dore. Thelma, and six or eight
others?
It's because she couldn't resist
Q sheik. - ..
Does a mild-mannered. hard
working bachelor happen to buy
candy or peanuts for two flap
pers?
That guys O sheik. He knocks
'em all cold.
sheikismus is going the rounds.
Almost anybody's likely to ket IT,
Scientists are on the hop to run
down the little sheik microbe. but
they haven't got him vet. His
devastating course may have many
years yet to run.
What is all this sheik stuff. any
way?
Listen! Here's what that good
book. the dictionary, says about It:
"Sheik-In Mohammedan coun.
tries, especially Arabia, an old or
venerable man -"
Get that strff-an "oid or ven.
cradle man?"
- hence, the head Of q fam
ily. village or tribe. also the head
of religious organization"
That sounds like far cry from
Young Lochinvar, but It isn't SO
far as 1t sounds. When Young
Lochinvar came out of the West
even in that day the abode Of
great open spaces. where men are
men--he grabbed his sweetie away
from the arms Of her prospective
bridegroom and carried her off TO
his cave. And that's what the
sheiks, are supposed to do.
Nowadays sheiks aren't supposed
to be old and venerable any more.
however. The dictionary has got
to be remodeled. The 1928 edition
will probably have something like
this:
''Sheik-A boy who Just hypnot-
ixes the James; . Rodolph vaselino
IN real life; . guy who has them
nj falling for him." That win b
b more accurate.
d. M. Hun. aforementioned
started all this stuff. She had the
heroine. Of her story ride all the
way across the Sahara, accompa.
MED only by . few dozen trunks
containing dinner gowns, ermines,
lingerie, . complete portable pal.
ace. sport clothes. . permanent
wave establishment ana beauty
parIor, an ocean liner and NY
ing machine. In the midst OF the
desert she Is grabbed off by the
sheiik, who carries her away to
his sunptuous apartments at s7s
Riverside drive. Sahara, Afr.
And after she's been there =
little while she doesnt want to
come back. Then. Of course. the
novelist discovers that the shsik
n . graduate Of Oxford. or HAT
ward. or some other place like that.
snd isn't an Arabian anyway. but
q spaniard. IT'S q rare yarn.
At any rate. it set new style in
knocking 'em dead. After the
City Chap had been superseded by
Francis x. Bushman. and Francis
x. Bushman by waliy Reid, and
wally Reid by Booi Montana and
Ben Turpin, along comes this
shefk person to put them all off
the map.
Not. only did he set a new style
In love stuff but he set a new
style In sheiks. The "oid and
venerable" stuff doesn't 10 anv
more--at least. not without In.
srai ddrnixture Of mcrsS.- slands.
p. . II