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guest house, and there she met the Prince
and his Princess-the principal wife,
whose son alone can achieve his fathers
throne. The explanation of Miss Blochs
dining always in the guest house is a re-
ligious one 1t was necessitated by rules
inally Mohammedan, has only thin veneer
Of that faiths tenets over the ancient Hin
du rites, legends and traditions which
have belonged to the islands for many CEN
turtles.
Early In the evening Miss Bloch was
taken across the courtyard into the festi-
val hall. The Prince was there to well
come her, and he stood and came forward.
Miss Bloch says she had the presence of
mind to salaam in the fashion OF greeting
Of the East Because he was pleased with
this the Prince shook hands with her.
Then he presented Miss Bloch to the
Princess--the one official wife-who inn
pressed her as being very beautiful and
charming. She was not dancing girl as
the harem inmates were, but daughter of
a neighboring potentate.
The Prince and his Princess wore the
native sarong-a long strip of batik ma
terial wrapped around the lower part of
the body. The designs of these sarongs
are significant of caste. Accordingly the
design for the royal family is the most
gorgeous in quality and color of any in the
land. The Prince wore loose fitting satin
jacket above the sarong; the Princess wore
a similar one, but hers was as IL nodded
to her body, bringing out the full, beauti-
full lines and curves to splendid advantage
She wore many large and perfect dia-
monds. Her head was bare and her glis-
tening black hair was arranged in simple
coil. The Princes head was covered by a
"kepala,' an exquisite turban, fitting
closely.
On one side of the festival hall the or
chestra was arrayed. on the other were
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danced 1t to the amazement and wonder
ment of artists and critics of Occidental
lands
Clear in Miss Blochs memory are the
events of her first night in the palace of
the Prince of Solo. She had already spent
much of year In Japan, China and India
in her effort to catch the intangible sig
nifcance of the intimatory features of the
oldest Of ceremonies In none of these
countries had she been received into the
harem. Naturally she was thrilled and
afraid when the Prince OF Solo welcomed
her with considerable warmth and offered
her the freedom of all the Kraton.
It is amazing that she had the courage
to undertake what she calls her mission in
the Orient Miss Bloch is the acme of
femininity, slight and slender and dark
and young-scarcely twenty-and yet she
has shown the high courage OF an adven-
turer, Of swashbuckler in miles and fear
full situations.
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One Of the Princes
slave girl dancers.
At left-a male
Temple dancer.

given by the master OF the dance--all
dancers practice an hour every day. From
the time they are very tiny the children
are trained, but the training is as natural
as learning to speak, for the dance as
II lives in Java is as natural and almost
as articulate as is the power OF speech.
There Is no hardship in the lessons given
the children such as attend the toe dane
ing contortions and the pure gymnastics
or Europe and America
Every posture and every gesture OF the
Javanese dancer has a definite meaning
Often this meaning is significantly at
tached to the ancient religious legends,
legends descendant from the day when
their religion was In all its ceremony the
worship of the flesh The slight influence
of the Mohammedan faith on these dances
has been rather a curious one Long ago
the ancestors were looked upon as gods
by the Javanese, and the dancers repre-
sented them undsguised. But the com.
ing of the Mohammedans changed this
They pointed out that the gods we're more
than mortal and were accordingly not to
be represented by man in the naked flesh
and feature. They decreed that any dancer
In the figure OF a god must wear mask
That is the likely origin OF mask dane
Ing. The Javanese have made no effort
to make an art Of 1t and that is why IL is
an art. The rule is now a tradition. II
Is strictly observed but the ages have made
no other change
Miss Bloch was asked whether she really
was happy in Java and in her association
with the harem women.
IF could fit into the caste life there
think I should love to make It my home"
she replied, accepting all their customs
as my own; but that could never be. Of
course since have been inoculated with
the maligned germ of our civilzation-the
germ OF ambition"
But polygamy?' she was asked-"sure-
ly you disapprove OF polygamy?"
Indeed do not" she answered Il dis
tinctly approve OF polygamy in a polyga-
nous country To be anything other than
mans one and only love here in America
Is unthnkable to woman. But In world
where custom and tradition have nurtured
a different scheme OF things and sanction
polygamy / think polygamy is all right.
ITO be one OF 300 or 400 wives does
sound awful, unless you stop to consider
and realize that each wife is treated as
very precious possession. The wives OF
harem have many servants; they are beau
tifully clothed: they have wonderful Jewels.
and fine carriages. They are free from all
responsibility and have nothing to worry
about"
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Java Still Land of
Remarkable AnachroniSms

Java is land of remarkable anachron-
isms. 1t has electric lights and railways
and motor cars, but its people and its
customs are unchanged after hundreds and
hundreds of years. The same caste feel
ings and the same contentment in their
patriarchal systems that the Javanese
must have had before the first hint of the
development of Western civilization still
prevail.
Miss Bloch was met at the Solo railway
station by one OF the automobiles OF the
Princes feet and driven over perfect roads
to the palace inclosure. Then she was
taken directly to the royal guest house
where she took all her meals during her
stay at the palace, although she lived In
the Kraton--and there suite was as
signed to her for the night and she was
left to battle, rest and dress for dinner.
Dinner was In the dining room of the
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ascendant prince inherits his fathers
harem and must support it in addition to
his own, which he begins to choose with
women who please his fancy as soon as he
becomes a monarch
Each new inmate of the harem, who may
be anywhere from Ia to IL years old, is
married to the Prince by a most elaborate
ceremony. But this ceremony fades away
to insignificance in comparison to the mar
riage service by which he Is welded to the
official Princess.
Soon after Miss Bloch's arrival at the
palace the Prince arranged a celebration
for her benefit.
Remained in the Palace
To Learn Temple Dances
Although 1t was arranged for her pleas
ure and instruction, hundreds OF people
came from all neighboring towns and com
munities. The pavilion was lighted cleo
trically that night, but the people came
with torches and stood outside to watch
the dancing. And the dances were won
derful--the light, and the cleaning colors
OF the scanty costumes draped about the
voluptuous bodies OF beautiful women.
Miss Bloch knew at once that she
had found the dances she wanted to
learn and to bring back to America with
her. The dances were impressive with
meaning In their movements and glldings
were eloquent love makings and In their
various moods bespeakments of all the
passions, Of religious worship, of lust and
purity.
Miss Bloch obtained the Princes per-
mission to remain in the palace to study
the dances. He even urged It, and after
ward took personal interest In her prog
ress. He was her critic and she danced
her interpretations OF the dances OF his
own harem women before him. lie ap-
proved. or criticized as he himself was
given reaction to her efforts.
Each morning she attended the classes
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wives-one of his lasting favorites-dance
for her the various phases of the Perfume
Dance and most ancient of the marriage
customs of most ancient land, and before
Miss Bloch had left Java she too had be-
come master of the fieeting qualities OF
frivolity, sincerity, shallow emotion and
deep passion which combine to make its
overwhelming effectiveness.
This dance-the Dance of the Five Per-
fumes-is a marriage custom OF Javanese
royalty that is thousands Of years DID,
1t is testing dance. The prospective
bride OF prince of the royal house must
be submitted to the "fragrances Of powerful
perfumes" and must withstand the four
insidious ones before the marriage can be
consummated.
First the bride must prove her WORTH
ness to be consort OF a royal prince by
submitting to the tests of the spell casting
fragrances suggested by the characters of
four insidous assailants: Vanity, Co
quetry, Envy and Hate, and by repulsing
them. And IL she withstands these four,
the test of Love is danced, to which she
must yield IL she is to be proved to have
such qualities as to be deserving OF a
princes love.
First, Vanity casts her spell, and the
suggestion,i is of all that is shallow and fu-
tile and garish. Then Coquetry weaves
her web of nuance and subtle invitation to
the bride. Envy then assails her and after
that dance is done comes the spiteful at
tack of the embodiment of Hate. II she
has stood strong and untenpted under the
stratagems and violent assaults Of these.
then Love dances her deep passion before
the tense emotions of the bride, and IL
Love conquers where the four less admir-
able embodiments have failed then the
watching woman is deemed lt and ready to
go to the charms of her prince.
This dance Miss Bloch learned in its
entirety and In Its depth, and she has
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'aren Women Most

Perfect Eastern Dancers
These harem women are the most per-
feet of the Eastern dancers. Java has long
been noted for the grace and beauty Of its
dancing women, and this Prince Of the
royal house of Solo has chosen his scores Of
wives-except one-from among the dan
GERS OF the island. And he has chosen those
with the most perfect bodies and the lowell
est faces. Indeed, each one Of them Is
literally siren, and her lure is the dance.
When the fame OF a dancing girl becomes
published by word Of mouth over Java her
name inevitably reaches the ears of some
Prince. This Prince summons her to his
palace and has her dance before him, and
IL she pleases his senses and emotions, an
well as his eyes. then she becomes one OF
his wives and takes foremost place among
the beauties of his harem-or his Kraton
as 1t is called in Java.
Her place as the foremost of the Princes
lesser wives Is short lived. Another dancing
girl comes and wins the feeting favor Of
the ruler and his late beloved steps back
into the humdrum, peaceful, unexciting life
of the Kraton women.
These must share the Princes love with
the principal wife, the true Princess, who
lives in another part of the palace who
Ia the one woman escorted publicly by the
Prince and who alone can bear his sue
cessor to the throne. The children OF the
harem women take up the professions of
their mothers. Almost invariably the chill
dren born In the harem are trained to be
dancers. It Is therefore brought about
that most OF the dancing women OF Java
are themselves OF royal blood, daughters
OF princes OF the various regions.
Miss Bloch has succeeded admirably in
catching the charming motives OF the
harem dancer. The fact is that she had the
unparalleled experience of having been
practically taught to dance by the Prince
OF Solo. He superintended her instruc-
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The Prince Of Solo end the Pretty American Girl
- EW American girls have had the op-
portunity of being the house guest
OF an Oriental prince.


Of an Oriental prince.
Miss Estelle Bloch Of New York has Just
returned to America bringing with her a
most interesting narrative of her expert
ences as the guest of the Prince and Prin-
cess of Solo in the mystic old land Of
Java. She has brought back with her an
amazing story OF her acquaintanceship
with many of the scores OF minor wives
who compose the Princes harem.
For year she was in Solo, living good
portion of the time among the Princes
harem women, in their quarters, where
she studied their dances. That was her
mission-to catch the subtle meanings Of
Oriental and Javanese dances and to bring
them back to America with her.
Her mission is interesting because Of
its unusuality, and doubly SO because OF
the experiences she had. She went to the
Orient not as a tourist merely. but as a
researcher She wanted no hearsay knowl-
edge; she wanted to learn by association
by becoming passive and trying to fit into
the environments she had sought, catching
the points of view and the attitudes of the
people among whom she lived, becoming
one among them for a time. She sue
ceeded in that.
Her research was to prove that every
gesture of the primitive dance is mean
ingful, and to interpret such meaning.
Therefore she went to the most ancient
land of the Orient, where there is still that
primitive naturalness and unconvention-
alty Of the days before civilization-where
there is yet apparent in the movements OF
the dancer some deep physical or moral
significance and asthetically executed in
sinuation such as seems to have been lost
to those representatives of the art in cul-
tured lands who merely sway to rhythm.
The sinuous women in the harem OF the
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magic of their dancing. They are not
mere slaves to the vibrance OF the
dance; their compact bodies rather
are swayed by powerful and irrepres-
sible and intense purposes and mo-
tives that find almost savage express
sions in inevitable movement.
Miss Bloch had experiences that
perhaps no other American girl has
ever had. This Prince Of a, royal
house of Java ordered out his favor
ite and most beautiful minor wives Il
to perform before her. He allowed u
her to live with and have the priv 4
ileges OF his undiscarded harem prin- s
cesses--to study their dancing and to
dance with them. She lived in that
portion of the palace assigned by the
Prince to the most lovely and there
fore the most favored Of his lesser
consorts, and Miss Bloch lived for
almost a year as one Of them In so
far as her Western scruples and con-
ventionalized circumspectness would
allow.
In her life with the harem women
she tried to find their motives and
inspirations, and their attitudes to
life as they knew 1t. BY such
methods and means she has acquir
and maintained the spirit of son
savage and on-understandable ritual s.
lived in the atmosphere Of it. She ma
herself submissive and passive to it's
fuences, and she became of her own vo
ton and with premeditated purpose pa
and subject of the little gods that gui
the beings OF harem women.
Miss Bloch Is young and beautiful.
she were not she would not have und'
taken the quest, for her aim was to ha
her own body serve as the medium whi
was to bring the expressive litheness, {
sinuous, meaningfu1 movements of t
Javanese charmers, back with her
America.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-06-08
Wanted-Seed Wheat.

. l. takes wise man t. anticipate
tie future. We all know that there
viii be some wheat soWn in Bates
county this fall, and we all know there
viii be a demand for good seed,
hight now is the time for the man
Who has soW1 pure seed and who has
4 fair prospect, to begin figuring on
the best possible manner OF market
ing his crop. Each year the Missouri
Corn Growers Association examine a
Stitct number OF fields in all parts
o. the state. II these fields are found
pure as to variety. and ii termination
tests later performed are passed Sic
ceastuly, the producers OF that crop
o; wheat are entitled to have their
names included i'll the list OF certified
wheat growers. Tbs means nice
margin to the man who can dispose
OF his wheat Tor seed.
On Tuesday, June 10, G. +. Car
ter, Secretary Missouri Corn Growers
Association and a member OF the
staff of the State Agricultural Extern
sion Service. will be in Bates county
inspecting wheat fields with view to
thei certfication. A number OF re-
quests have already come to the
County Agent and these fields will be
given precedence. Ii there are other
good fields in the county, however,
We would like to know it in order J
that the maximum amount oil suitable
seed may be provided for Bates coun-
t. wheat growers next fall. More i'm
portant than that, it means dollars and
cents TO you if you have field which
promises to be sufficiently desirable
To justify is cert,icaton as seed
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-06-08
Lievan-P rewi.t.

Mr.. Lloyd Harley prcWitt. OF Ia
mar, Colo, and Miss Gertrude Mag
dalnc Licval were married at exact
~ six o'clock at the home Of the par
cnts OF the bride two miles north OF
Butler Tuesday evening i'll the pres
ci,ce OF sew invited guests besides
relatives, To the strains OF Lohen-
grin $ wedding march the bridal
party. consisting OF Master Tom Lie
van. nephew of the bride, ring bear
c.. Rev. H. A Mitchell and the con-
tracing parties marched from up
stairs down into the parlor where the
beautiful double pledge and double
ring ceremony was used, followed by
congratulations, and sumptuous
wedding dinner was served.
The rooms were beautifully decor
a,ed in pink ramblers and daisies.
The bride bore a beautiful boquet of
yellow tea roses. Miss LoVetra
played the wedding march.
The presents were both beautiful
and useful, consisting of linen, silve,-
ware, cut glass and other things
among which were two checks OF Il
yoodly sum from the brides father
and mother.
The bride and groom depart !
" ednesday noon for Lamar. wherc
hey will make their home, after !
short honeymoon in the mountains.
They avoided the rice by departing
rom Passaic instead of Butler. Y
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-06-08

Get rid of that indigestion, stom-
ach trouble and nervousness, build up
your system ard regain that lost
weight. Take Tanlac. c. c. Rhodes.
Mrs. ]. B. Willard was called to
Nevada last week by the serious i'll
ness of her mother, Mrs. H. E. COL
Inns. Mrs. Collins has been an in
valid for some time and on account of
her advanced age there is no hope OF
her recovery.
PLENTY of Cowpeas, Cane and
German Millet for sale at the Peoples
Elevator Co.
A bad taste in the mouth comes
from a disordered stomach and slug
gish state of the bowels. Herbine
corrects the trouble Immediately. 1t
purifies the bowels, helps digestion,
and sweetens the breath. Price, Coo.
Travis Drug & Mercantile Co. June
Come to the court house Tuesday
night, June 10. and hear Hon. Brock
inridge Long.
Mems Plaid Jumpers. Blacks.
MIR. and Mrs. A. c. Coberly left the
first of the week FOR Colorado points
where they Will spend a short vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Blankenbaker !,
and daughters, Misses Fay and Mar
gle, left the first of the week overland !
for Golf, Kansas, where they are. WIS.,
ting with relatives.
Lover price loaz Black 4 Sons.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-06-08

Capt. J. E. Thompson was Jetfer-
son City visitor the first of the week.
Ice Cream Supper at Compton
school house next Saturday night,
June 10, for benefit of Sunday
school.
]. c. Vantrees, who spent several
days last week in this city with his
brother, v. Vantrees, left the. last Of
the week for his home in Kansas City.
Mems Khaki, gray and blue Work
Shirts. All sizes at Blacks.
Mrs. Arthur Waddell left the last of
the week for Auburn, Nebraska,
where she joined her husband, who
is employed fy the American express
company at that place.
Mrs. Susan Wells and little grand
daughter, OF Nevada. spent a part OF
last week in this city visiting at the
Fl. H. Wells home on East Dakota
street. Mrs. Wells made this office a
pleasant call while in town.
Mothers, dress the children in
unionalls. They're cool, easy to wash
and wear. Black & Sons.
Hon. Breckenridge Long, candi-
date for United States senator will
address the voters of Bates county
Tuesday evening, June - at the
court house in Butler. Ladies are
especially invited to hear him.
Cali II Fisher Electric Shop for
n kiads of electrical supplies.
~ Telephone sca.
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Christian Science Society.

Corner Fl Scott and Delaware
Streets.
1000 a. m. Sunday School is held
with classes foi all under twenty
Gears oil age.
100 a. M, llorning service.
Subject, June II, God, the Preserver
of Man."
7:3o p. IN. Wednesday, Testimonial
Service.
The Reading Room at the church
;-uilding is open Saturday from 200
to 500 p. m.
All are cordiafiy invited to visit the
Reading Room snd to attend the ser
vices.
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HOME DEMONSTRATION
NOTES
By Miss Kathryn Roderick.

ny tiISS NdtlEyH NOuCIlCh.
Monday, May 20, the women around
Ballard met to finish the hats started
the week before. So many women
were busy in the berry patches that
they did not get back. The hats
worked on that day were not quite
completed bat all were good looking
and the results will certainly be salts
factory. The hats were to be worn
the following Sunday. Then the hus-
bands could compare.
Wednesday, May 81, the Pleasant
Gap, Brackney and Double Branch
Sewing Clubs had their Achievement
Day program, which was postponed
from the week before. There were
not many present but a very interest
ing program was given by the girls.
All took part in some games and
races before dinner, one of which was
Threading needle" race, won by
Elsie Spain. At twelve a delicious
basket dinner was served. After din
ner the following program was held:
Contest-Making button hole.
Observation-Disclosures the pat
tern and making cap. Double
Branch Club
Song-By the Clubs.
COMMISSIONING on button.
Observation-Disclosures stitch
es. Pleasant Gap Club.
Reading of papers telling what had
been done in club.
Song-A1l the Clubs.
Contest-Making a French seam.
Demonstration-Sewing equipment.
Brackney Club.
Song-All the Clubs.
The winners of the contests were
the following:
Button hole-Mable Coffman.
Button holc-Lucy Spain.
Seam-Cleo Bassett and Kathleen
Carson.
The girls who took part in the pro-
gram were the following:
Double Branch-Mable Coffman,
Lucy and Elsie Spain, LYDIA Baker.
Brackney-Veree Nuchols, Ina
Miller, Mary Goucle.
Pleasant Gap-Cleo Bassett, Kath-
leen and Ruby Carson, Warden Wix.
This summer these folks are going
to can vegetables as hard as they
sewed this winter, Next winter they
will take the second course in sew
ing.
Centre Community Club met with
Mrs. Frank Powell Thur. day after
noon, june l. They discussed meal
planning Tor the family After this
discussion it was decided that the club
buy a tin can scalcr and tin cans to
Use in canning. They have a steam
pressure cooker. to be used by all
members OF the club The can scaler
viii go with the cooker. Aiter the
meeting delicious refreshments of
strawberry sundaes and cake we're
served.
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Notice for Bids.

The directors OF school district No.
so. Bates county. tthe Patty District
invite bids for the erection OF new
school house m that district. Plans
and specifications are on lille at the
Office OF County School Superintend-
cpt A. c. Moreland. where bids should
b. left until Saturday. June II, 1929,
when they will be opened and the con-
tract awarded.
George T. Hertz,
President of the Board, School Dis
trict No. 50.
NJ. S. White,
3s-2t Clerk of the Board.