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trouble is that everybody is screaming at
once for drink. Poor Joe and his steam
ing assistants are laundering into each
other filing orders. 1t is one of the won
ders of the place the way they hear all
calls. and eventually obey them.
Here's fearful mess over in this corner.
A fight? Not at all. Some one has inno-
Gently preempted the space that the politi-
clans are wont to occupy, and it amounts
to sacrilege. Every night the politicians
gather here to discuss sugar and the mar
ket rate of Government pay vouchers.
Have these Americans no respect for in.
stitutions? Are these statesmen to be
barred from their favorite corner by crazy
Yankees? Sure they are. Joe takes a
minute off to shoe the politicians into an
other corner and then Lorenza Medina
starts riot on her own behalf.
1t is her corner. For years II has been
her corner. She is there every night sip
ping her Bacardi and smoking her ciga-
rettes. She is still beautiful woman
great, deep, smoldering eyes, delicately
arched nose and the sweetest smile in the
world. Her face is oval and despite the
little harshness that age has brought, her
skin is clear olive.
What a sensation she must have been
when she came to Havana from Seville at
the head of her own troup of players! That
was back before the war for Cuban inde-
pendence. She Is about 55 now and lives
in a room just around the corner. Her
voice too is worth listening to. A clear,
melodious contralto. Once 1t must have
suggested a lovely old cello.
But now it is somewhat strident with
passion. She will not be crowded from
her corner stool by these pigs of poll
ticians. She tells them she is Spanish
lady and that they are Cubans-far, far
beneath her. She would not spit upon a
Cuban. Bah But they are used to her.
They iostle her aside and set up a ter
rifle clatter of this and that
But there! Forcing his old frame
through the mob comes Teniente, and the
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acter. All the luridness we saw. we sought
Moreover we found Americans on all sides
of us. The Cubans and Spanish trailed
along, probably laughing in their sleeves,
and offered to act as guides. And as guides
they would provide as pure brand of
hokum as ever one ring circus provided
And then to those dreadful. dreadful
movies. The man on the train had warned
us not to miss this.
We're only running them twice a week
now," explained the big American negro
who stood guard at the door.
why? The crowd would suggest this
to be paying enterprise"
"Sure, but 1t costs us too much. These
birds drag down too big a percentage"
He pointed to the police station across
the street. The police station was wide
open, and brilliantly lighted. An officer
and four men were standing on the curb.
They have man go over our receipts
every night we run these pictures" the
negro said. I'VE charge what we can get.
The man who knows pays 40 cents or may
be dollar IL we have an added attraction.
But good many Americans come down
here in cars-riien and women too--and
they look like money. Sometimes we
charge man with a party of men and
women five or ten dollars a head.
"The cops know about how much we take
in. They knock down about so per cent.
Of the gross receipts. That's too much.
So we only run the pictures twice week
80 that we can be sure of two big nights"
did understand you to say women
come here?"
Sure. They don't seem to mind it."
We emerged from the movie theater
wondering about these women; wondering
what must lurk in the mind of woman
who, In the presence OF men, can witness
such things.
And that was one night In Havana. After
we left the Plaza Roof 1t had ceased to be
pleasant. But sordid as Yas the expert.
ence thereafter there is this to be said
we sought 1t.
1t didn't bother us until we insisted
upon 1t.
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long distance swimmers and suddenly dart
out ahead of them and finish first. During
the war, when she was quite young indeed,
Miss Peggy earned a commission as a
lieutenant in the emergency aid of Phila-
delphia and took up course in nursing
at dispensary. When the war was over
her friends were tired of their work and
were glad to get out of their stiff uniforms
and back into frills and furbelows. The
novelty of the khaki had worn off, Miss
Peggy, however, had become interested in
medicine and took a two year course in
hospital service.
Some of her friends declare they would
rather she would compound their prescrip-
tions for them at the corner drug store, or
nurse them through the influenza, or pre-
scribe for them in sudden illness than
almost any pharmacist or nurse or physician
they know-for Miss Thayer became dur.
ing her two years of study and close appli-
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just willing fighting men who never came
near to being champions. Wong Yung
conducts a restaurant in the rear of
OLeary's, and If Wong is in good humor
he will recite Excelsior" for you In pidgin
English:
That mighty time he come chop chop,
One young man walkee-no can stop;
Maskee snow maskee ice.
He cally flag wi chop so nice
Topside gallow!
Anselmo Meana greets us on the Plaza
Roof. Here is an American jazz orches-
ira, imported from Cincinnati, and here
you see real rivalry Meana, one of the
proprietors, explains that the Americans
brought the camel walk the collegiate. the
toddle and all the rest of the jazz steps to
Cuba, but that the Cuban and Spanish girls
added to these capers a touch of the old
fandango and-well, as dancing goes. this
is worth coming down to see. There is
one slim beauty with bobbed hair and
clinging red gown who dances better than
any girl in the States. She shakes her
mop of bobbed hair and winks
''1t would be just as WE'LL" warns Fausto.
mot to wink back The men are unreason-
able. You look at things differently in the
States. Here It is the girls privilege to
firt with an American, but the American
is taking chances IL he responds. Nothing
would happen to you here because since
Meana and his partners have had the Plaza
1t is really one of the nice places of Havana
But two or three Of her men friends might
follow you into the street and-well--"
At midnight, Fausto suggested we move
on.
We pause to reflect. At the beginning Of
this story It was said that seeing Havana
at night differs in no generality from seeing
New York at night. And that includes see.
ing New York before the city went dry.
It's much the same the world over. One
sees or hears what one seeks to see and
hear. Now and then the unusual is thrust
upon one but not so often as to challenge
the rule. 1t is so in Havana.
We rambled up and down and not once
were we accosted by an Objectionable char
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hour or so every morning, for instance,
with proper seasonal change of ridint "'s-
tunes. 1t soon became apparent. though,
when Miss Peggy went a-riding there were
no grooms to be seen-only dust She rode
as If she had some place to go and wanted
to get there. That is not always the custom
nowadays among those who take up ding
for the satisfaction there is in appearing
in smart riding breeches.
Last summer Miss Peggy went West for
n visit. She did not write often to her
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Of recognition in his eyes and little CLINT
of determination to give me good time. I
know ! saw in him at once something Of
the spirit I admire. He did his best to
pitch me up to the clouds and / know
cut him terribly with my whip. But when
the race was over he looked at me with a
twinkle in his eye and I fed him sugar.
We were just matching spirits and we both
enjoyed it."
venture on the stage-as a player in an
amateur film play produced by society for
charity. Unlike the majority of young
women of the better families, Miss Thayer
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Father Was Once Noted in World
OF Finance and Railroads

Miss Peggy Is the daughter of the late
John b. Thayer, who was a vicepresident
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad, a widely
known fnancier and one of the most active
Of the country's constructive men. Her
home is in the fashionable and exclusive
suburb of Philadelphia, the palatial Red.
wood" mansion of HSverford. Being an
heiress to a considerable fortune, there was
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friends. They were some
what startled to learn one
day through the newspapers
that IAN Eastern girl, Miss
Peggy Thayer, had partici-
pated in the free for all race
for cowgirls at the Frontier
Days celebration at Jackson's
Hole, Wyo., and had walked
away with the silver cup be-
slowed season. after season
upon the winner of this wild,
bucking broncho race"
One may we'll imagine the
excitement among her friends
when they were assured that
this Western cowgirl who had
stuck to the back of one OF
the most vicious steeds just
brought in from the plains,
and who had also whipped
him into the lead in a race of
the best riders of the West
and kept him there until the
end of the homestretch, was
none other than Philadel-
phia's own Peggy.
There's nothing in the
world so satisfying to me or
so much akin to my own dis
position as a wiry, deter
mined, outrageous, bucking
broncho," said Miss Thayer
when she explained her feat.
THAT animal looked at me
when I got ready to mount
him and I know saw a gleam
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Other Girls of Society
May Follow Her Lead

Since IL became known in the fashionable
Philadelphia circles that the charming
Miss Peggy really was serious about ner
determination to go behind the footlights
several of her friends have given way to
the same impulse. AS a result whenever
Miss Peggy signs her contracts there will
be others OF the Philadelphia heiresses in
her company.
Mr.. Dillingham; also has been listened to
with a willing ear by the Misses Balloch
and Wayne Richards, who appeared in the
society musical comedy with Miss Thayer
a. pair of tomboys" Both are promin,
debutantes In the Quaker City. Both are
considering the offer made by Mr.. Dilling
ham to have them appear as a sister team
H. the production he plans for Miss Peggy
In the amateur play these girls appeared
without lines of any kind and all their
stunts" were more or less impromptu
They brought down the house by demon
stration of rolling the dice during some OF
their dances. Most assuredly first
night" with Miss Peggy, "one of the Thay-
ers, you know" as the star and the "Rich.
ard Sisters" as supporting condolences,
will be a social as well as theatrical sen.
sation.
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Pretty Miss Thayer
TO Try Stage for
New Excitement

filmed" well. And she seemed to know
the principles of the silent Drama" as the
movie folk like to call it. She was a splen-
did success. So much so that little later
she was seen leading the chorus of So
ciety musical comedy, an amateur produc-
tion with her friends in the cast, also
staged for charity.
1t was the dash and verve put into her
chorus girl work by the patrician Miss
Thayer that attracted the attention of
Charles Dillingham; the famous theatrical
after while. by offering her her own play.
lavish production, stars contract and
long run on Broadway.
At first Miss Thayer was ready to accept
at once. She wanted excitement and an
outlet for her energies, as she said. But
her family was Mortified.
"A Thayer on the stage! Why 1t might
as well be Presidents daughter in the
movies!"
So Miss Peggy withdrew her agreement
to accept the theatrical mans contract and
decided she'd go into some sort of business
to keep her mind busy.
She opened a little perfume shop on Rit-
tenhouse Square, in the very midst Of the
city's most fashionable section. Here were
delicate triumphs of the scent makers art
fresh from Normandy and the flower fields
of Brittany. Society could not keep away
from Peggys shop. She made arrange
ments with Mrs. Marjorie Oelrichs, one "of
the Oelrichses" who had amused herself by
opening a similar shop at Newport, and be-
came the Philadelphia agent for the ex-
quisite beaded bags and imported toilet
novelties with which Mrs. Oelrichs had
stocked her Newport shop
And there were face powders that could
be had no place else, and fans that seemed
to be worthy of museum, and other things
appreciate.
Even Had Imported Cheese,
Much Sought as Titbit
She even heard that epicures were hav-
ing trouble obtaining the best quality of
Holland cheese-which seemed no longer
to be coming to this country. So Miss
Thayer sent an agent to Holland and ar
ranged for regular shipments of this deli
cacy and added it to the stock of her per-
fumery shop.
"Why shouldn't cheese and perfume go
together?" she asked. "One has to have a
sense of smell to appreciate either or both"
While other young women of her set
were making the rounds of the afternoon
teas, Miss Peggy usually went out for
round of tennis. She has met nearly all
the world famous stars and has defeated
many of them. The others admit she would
be Americas champion If she should give
serious attention to her game.
1t is one of her delights to enter a swim
ming contest with group Of champion
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cation pharmacist, nurse and physi
clan. That is, of course, she almost became
all three. She didn't care for the diplomas
themselves-just the satisfaction of know
ing. -
II suppose have spoiled myself for
society" says Miss Thayer to her friends.
Society is quite all right you know--but
it doesn't get the opportunity to really do
things. Every girl know wants to do
something's just aching for the oppor-
tunity. But unfortunately the opportunity
doesn't seem to come. If they try to assert
themselves their families raise fuss If
they talk about anything that is real and
deep and constructive most of their friends
look at them like white paper on wall
just that degree Of blankness. If they whip
up their riding horses for gallop some
one Is afraid they'll tumble off and spoil
their Paquin gowns or muss up their
mothers plans for that afternoons recep-
tion by getting blue spot on their knees.
II have very sweet little friend whom
/ like to scare sometimes, much as one
child scares another by saying 'boo!' When
such mood comes over me / don't say
boo to her, but 1 say, why don't you go
on the stage?' The very thought of it
scares her stiff.
II think it was when I saw what effect
this had on my friend that l decided I'd
really like to go on the stage myself. 1t
seems the only way to get niche in the
world all for myself, with plenty of room
in 1t to stir things up a bit--be emotional
and ambitious and a hard worker, and all
that sort of thing"
Which doesn't mean at all that Miss
Thayer doesn't know just what she would
be worth to a great theatrical manager.
There is no authoritative knowledge to
quote, but 1t Is rumored and said quite
freely that Mr.. Dillingham; offered her $500
a week, with a long contract, IL she would
let him make her star overnight.
And II is just as freely rumoroJ that
Miss Thayer replied: "Come back again
when you've learned to count up to ten"
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yet it is almost the same as it would be
to say that Princess Mary of Great Britain
or the beautiful Yolande, Princess of Italy,
was going to join the chorus of musical
comedy.
In Philadelphia, in New York, in Wash
ington, in Newport there is even more to
be startled about in the announcement
that the versatile many sided Miss Peggy,
heiress and daughter of one of the "tradi-
tionaP' families of the Quaker City, has
decided to go on the stage or is thinking
about it than there would be if either one
of the young Princesses came to the same
decision.
For Miss Thayer is representative of all
that is august and conservative and patri.
clan in the most elect of Philadelphia's
social life, and she has been also more in
the limelight as one of this circle than has
any other young woman of her particular
set
Interesting, too, are the reasons Miss
Thayer has given her intimate friends for
her disposition to listen with some favor
to the offer of great New York theatrical
impresario to have a play written for he',
with chorus of pretty girls and famous
comedians to support her. and to put her
name in bright electric lights as the star.
People of the society set seem to bore
me. They seem never to have anything to
do-that is, a great many of them seem
not to-" Miss Thayer is quoted as having
said to some of her most intimate friends
1t does not seem to me as il young girl
with real, jumping pulsing blood in her
veins, emotions lurking in her soul and
ideas futtering about her head can afford
to waste her life just being a society girl
I've got to do something to give my
surplus energy an avenue OF escape-and /
know of nothing that is so promiseful of
opportunity for a young woman with
energy to do things as the stage.
so there you are--Im really going to
dc it, think, no matter what great many
folk will think about it,
Ana then there is something about Miss
Thayer besides her being bored by society
people and their ways that makes her in
tention to go behind the footlights even
more interesting. That is the strange Sc
1uence Of experiences and activities of
which this young debutante of staid Phila.
delphia's proudest family has been the
heroine during the few short years of her
grown up life.
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In addition to her regular duties, Miss Allison is assistant edtor of the Imola Times, tri-monthly paper issued by the Napa Hospital, T have tion yet" she will tell you. Some day l am going to strike out for a job in the news rooms of a paper. have always loved to write, and one of my chief aims is to become a eWspaperWoman."
 In the evenings the blind girl visits the Veterans Home at Napa to teach and entertain the helpless inmates of that place. Her happy philosophy of life has been instilled in the hearts of many of the old veterans at the institution, and she is constantly finding some new source of enter taisment for them. One of her most prized possessions is watch-a spe- cial watch adapted to the use of the blind
 The timepiece has no crystal, and at each hour there is small raised point by which the blind girl marks off the time of day. The watch was given her by the veterans as a token of their appreciation of her work.
 During her summer vacations Miss nt "Blindness is not an affliction, but an opportunity" to blind girls all over the state.
 In lectures before clubs and civic organizations she always stresses the point that what the blind need is not charity, but practical education training which will fit them for ac- tual work.
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BLIND GIRL IS
 A SUCCESS AS
 STEN0CRAPHER

SARAMENTO, July 12.-"A heart | to resolve, a head to contrive and a hand to execute"
 In this old but familiar quotation might be summed up the extraordi- nary capabilities of Miss Matilda Allison, California's first blind steno- grapher.
 Miss Allison is stenographer at the Napa State Hospital, a position in which an intimate knowledge of med ical terms is quite as important as fast and accurate typing. Her rou- tine consists of taking clinical, path ological and meteorological dicta- tion from nine physicians. There are many sighted stenographers who probably would shy at such an as signment, you may observe. Then, how did a girl who is totally blind prepare herself for such exacting employment? Here is the story in brief:
 When she was only seven years of age an accident which occurred at her home in Lincoln, Placer County, made Matilda Allison totally blind. Even then, although only child, she was possessed of an indomitable will which recognized no affliction too great to overcame. Determined to achieve independence and conft- dent in her ability to do so, she. en- tered the California School for the Deaf and Blind, in Berkeley. Here she became accustomed to the new life which she must live. In 1909 she was graduated from high school valedictorian of her class. 'But even then" she says, q did not know how to make a living"
 The young blind girl took a posi- tion as a telephone operator and studied stenography in her spare time. Her friends offered sympathy but no encouragement. "How can al blind girl take shorthand and per form the many other duties of a stenographer?" they asked her.
 But, in addition to having ca heart to resolve" Matilda Allison pos sessed "a head to contrive," and she forced her way past one difficulty
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after another, undaunted and stead fast in her determination to become a stenographer. And then, when she felt equipped to take the State Civil Service examination, the real strug- gle began. There was no clause in the law permitting a blind person to Service commissioners advised her to try some other type of work. But even laws can be changed and at this juncture Miss Allison brought her hand to execute" into play. After steadily besieging the doors of the commission for more than two years she finally convinced them of the practicabiIity of new classifica- tion of blind dictaphone operators, typists and stenographers."
 When the examination was over it was announced that Matilda Allison was the first on the eligible list. "Only one who has struggled under some similar affliction can know how proud I was on that day" the blind girl said in commenting on her rating. "In securing a new Civil Ser vice classification I opened the way for countless other blind girls, and it is this for which I am most thank full
 Miss Allison for the most part takes all dictation directly on the typewriter. The dictaphone also is a great help and there is a system of shorthand especially for the use of the blind. She is one of the fastest typists in the state service and re- ceives the same salary as sighted stenographers in similar work.
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Best Board and Room in Town, $50.OO per
 Month LAKEVIEW HOTEL MRS. J. LEEDY, Prop,
MRS. J. LEEDY, Prop.

mons in said action by publication, duly and regularly dated filed and en- tered in the above named District Court in said action on the l0tn day of April, 1922.
 Plaintiff in said action demands judgment against defendant f r de- cree of absolute divorce upon the grounds of cruelty. And you are fur ther notified that if you fail 10 appear in answer to plaintiffs complain as herein required, plaintiff will take judgment against you as herein stat ed for want of said answer.
 Date of first publication of this summons is April 25, 1922.
 Date of last publication is June 6. 1922.
 Witness the Hon. E. E. Ritchie, Judge of said Court and the seal of said court hereto affixed this 10th day of April, 1922.
 (SeaD w. N. CUDDY, " Clerk ofthe District Court for
 the Territory of Alaska, Third
 Division. A FRANK H. FOSTER,
 Attorney for Plaintiff,
 Cordova, Alaska.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE Junea, Alaska.
 SERIAL 04739.

JuHO GU, I5l1
 Notice is hereby given that Chilcat Oil Company, a corporation organ ized under the laws of the State of Delaware, having it's prin- cipal office in the Territory of Alaska, at Cordova, Alaska, has ap- piled for an oil and gas permit under Section 22 of the Act of February 25, 1920 (Public No. 146) for the follow ing described oil claims located on unsurveyed government land and de- scribed as follows, to-wit:
 BARRETT OIL CLAIM NO.
 This claim is located about ten
 miles, by wagon road, east of Ka-
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
 TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
 DIVISION,
 Anna Nigro, Plaintiff, vs. Vincent
 Nigro, Defendant
 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
 The President of the United States to the above named defendant, Greet ing:
 You are hereby required to appear in the District Court of the Territory of Alaska, Third Division, within thir- ty days after the completion of the period of publication of this summons, to-wit: Within thirty days after the 9th day of June, 1922, to answer the complaint of the above named plaintiff in the above entitled action, pursuant to an order for the service of sum-