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Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

Miss Ordean Spencer has return
ed from Boulder where she repres
enter the girls athletics Of the Monte
Vista high school at the state high
school athletic league. The league
is very anxious to get more sports
introduced into all the high schools
and plans for doing this were dis
cussed. Among the sports which the
league advocates besides basketball
are baseball. hockey. volley ball.
tennis hiking. aesthetic dancing and
hygiene. The league is anxious to
get athletics on a cleaner and more
sportsmanlike basis.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06
AUXILIARY APPRECIATES
LIBERAL SUPPORT GIVEN

The Ladies' Auxiliary Of the
American Legion wishes to take this
opportunity OF thanking all those
who SO literally supported our bene-
tit bridge party At the Armory last
Friday night. We are indeed crate
ful to Walter Wilson for generously
donating the use OF the dishes,
Troop A for cooperating in prepar-
Ing the Armory, and those people
who gave money that were unable
to attend. also those who so kindly
loaned their card tables. A gener.
Gus donation from one Of Monte
Vista's prominent business men
raised our receipts to almost 500.
This will enable us to remind .
great many tubercular victims Of
the World war that they are not
forgotten.
Mrs. Herbert Martin. president: !:
Mrs. Mark Watrous. chairman Of
finance committee: Mrs. r. d. Tay-
lor. chairman Of unit activities; Mrs.
Robert Macarthur: Mrs. Theodore
GARNER: Mrs. L. r. Elofson: Mrs.
Donald Shakespeare.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

Miss Marguerite Lindenmeyer who
has been absent from school ON &C.
count Of injuries received In %
auto accident has returned 70 hes
studies.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

A large crowd was present At the
concert given by the glee club of
the Colorado Women's college.
Thursday night at the Baptist
church. They also sang at several
other towns In the valley.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

DR.. c. A. Smith went to Denver
Monday night where he WAS operat-
ed upon for appendicitis.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

Stop Thief the senior play vii,
be given tonight. At the Armory.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

r. NJ. Truman. ranger At Creede
was In Monte Vista. Tuesday.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

You'll laugh steady for one hour
at Harold Lloyd In "A Sailor Made
Man" At the Iris Friday. April 18th.
10 and Is cents.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

When ekxs arr cheap b the TIM
10 save tAea. Use wsaer Glssn.
Fuller Dsng Ca
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

Now h the Season for wasesglAss
We have Il. Fuller Drug Co.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

F. B. 0ulsow has . new Chevrolet
car.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

Mrs. George Aichaels who was
operated upon at the Dsi Norte hos
pital recently. 10 getting along nice
~ 81
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

f. T.. Van AIKEN OF Creede and
J. l.. Nelson OF South Fork. forest
rangers. were In Monte Vista the
first Of the week.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

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Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

viii Headlee and wife moved
this week to the ranch Just east Of
the Soldiers home where they will
make their home the coming year.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1923-04-06

We can sapply yom with Water
Glass In nay quantity fsS'm IN osnce
IN = barr~i. Fullsr Drag 10.
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

light on peoples of whom we know almost
nothing
When the French Governments group
of experts had finished their preliminary
investigating, their knowledge amounted
briefly to this:
That from the very beginning sirens
were associated with death and destruc-
ton. Like the Harpies, they were vague
ly thought to be the souls of the dead,
and representations of them singing
dirges were placed on tombs.
They were said to be playmates of
Persephone, in Greek mythology, and
sought her all over tie world after Pluto
had stolen her. They were the daughters
of Phorcys, the sea god, or Achelous, the
river god Homer wrote of them as two
in number; later there were said to be
three or more.
In Homer's time, even, their character
as vampires had been established. In his
immortal epic he tells how Ulysses bound
himself to the mast of his ship and stop
ped the ears Of his crew with wax so that
they could not hear or follow the sirens
who tried to lure them on to the rocks
by the magic of their song.
When the Argonauts sailed the Aegean
Orpheus sang so sweetly that no one
would listen 20 the sirens They, it was
49,
hear their songs unmoyed, and thus hey
were changed into sunken rocks, still a
menace to mariners
Tiberius, the Roman Emperor, wor-
shipped sirens, the, scientists knew, and at
one time retreated to the Blue .Grotto on
Capri, where there was a subterranean
pool in which sirens played and sang in
the never-ending twilight.
The most of these myths, the French
Investigators found were placed on the
Sicilian and Jan coasts and the nearby
islands, from Naples and Surrentum to
the Straits of Messina. There was a
rumor, too, that the tomb of the Siren
Parthenope had existed at. Naples as
late as the time of Strabo, the Greek trav-
eller who lived at least until after 81 A. D.
Now, if from that early day until what
archaeologists regard as recent times,
definite, powerful belief in sirens has ex-
listed, there must be some reason for it.
1t is not enough to say that the believers
thought playful, graceful dolphins were
sirens; too many truthful, accurate OBJ
servers have thought they saw mermaids.
Granted that in later times the magma
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

be found in Gottfried's Historic Anti
podum.'
"And Theodorus GAIA, whose name is
a guarantee of good faith and intelligence
did he not write the first Greek gram
mar?-once related in large and dis
tinguished company how that, after a
great storm in the Peloponnesus, sea-
lady was cast up with other jetsam on the
beach. She was still alive and breathing
hard; her face and body were absolutely
human and not uncomely. Immediately
large concoulse of people gathered
round, but her signs and heaving breast
plainly showed how embarrassed she was
by their vulgar curiosity. Presently she
began to cry outright. The compassion
ate scholar ordered the crowd to move
to the waters edge. There, throwing her
self into the waves with a mighty splash,
she vanished from sight,
Homer's Odyssey" which sweeps
along in its current the legend-wrecks of
multitudinous races, has waited down to
us fragment of the foreign and canni-
ballStlc Old Siren-lore:
In verdant meads they sport, and wide
around
Lie human bones that whiten all the
ground;
The ground polluted floats with human
gore,
And human carnage taints the dreadful
shore
But all this is great deal later in his
tory than the facts that the French arch
aeologists sought. They knew much of the
Greek siren myths, and knew that the
Greeks got their ideas from other peoples.
But how far back did the belief go? And
who started it? And just what form did
the belief take?
The value of such knowledge lies in the
fact that it would reveal many things
about the believers. The fact that almost
all races and religions have some tradition
of the flood described in the Bible, for ex
ample, is regarded by scientists as evil,
dence that there was some such deluge.
By the same token, if the French
scientists found that scattered and unre
lated races believed in sirens, while it
might not mean that there really were
such creatures, it would surely indicate
that there was a fairly plausible reason
for believing as these ancients did, And
since mans beliefs are an index to his
life and character, it would throw much
The Washington times., 1923-01-21
to Them.

man life, and so to keep, as they thought,
their own voyages safe from shipwreck.
The temple itself is apparently i'm
mensely old. 1t far antedates the Grecian
era, or even the Cretan era, which came
before the Grecian. 1t seems, in fact, to
be prehistoric, and as such is one of the
most important discoveries made by
modern archaeological science, ranking
even with the discovery of the treasure
filled tomb of the Pharaoh Putankhamen.
which so recently thrilled the scientific
and work a-day worlds alike.
For some time archaeologists have
known certain facts about the siren
myths. They have collected the various
fables about them, and collated the refer
ences to sirens in the classic writings of
Ovid, Hyginus, Homer and others. They
suspected that the siren belief existed
long before Grecian times, for the Hell
lenes had habit of appropriating and
ornamenting she choicest possessions and
faiths of the people with whom they came
in contact-adapting rather than creating
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

age. But she never spoke: The honest
burghers had no knowledge of the
language of che sea- folk to enable them
to teach her their own language, so she
remained mute to the end of hen days
"a circumstance to be regretted, since,
excepting in the Arab tale of 'Julnar the
Sea-born,' little information has been
handed down to us regarding the conyer
sational and domestic habits of medieval
sirens"
In the Royal Archives of Portugal-now
the Republican Archives-are the records
of suit between the Crown and the Or
der of st. James which would indicate
that sirens were not scarce in those days.
"Be it enacted" reads the verdict, "that
sirens and other marine monsters elected
by the waves upon land owned by the
Grand Master (Of the Order of st. james,
shall pass into the possession of the King"
'This would Show" writes Mr.. Douglas
in his interesting book, that sirens were
then, fairly plentiful. And one of the best
authenticated cases is that recorded by the
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

OIIcAS-LIlOSS4
hrmanly beautiful sea-wor1en, whose
singing was supposed by the ancients to
lure ships and sailormen to destruction
has been uncovered at Masse Lubrense,
small village on the Gulf of Naples. near
it's southern promontory, opposite the
island of Sicily.
The Sirens, as everyone knows, are the
mothers of our more modern mermaids,
which were also long supposed to tempt
seafarers to death by the playing of their
golden harps, their wonderful singing and
other charms. They were the original
:'vamps,' and in polite society their name
has had the same significance as that
more up-to-date and slangy word.
A French expedition of archaeologists
have for months been examining the re-
gion about Masse Lubrense, seeking for
the ruins of this very temple. Legends
of the natives and scraps of references in
the works of ancient writer's have all
pointed to the existence Of such a place
in this region. There were evidences
that here the mythical women had been
worshipped as actual goddesses, and that
the worship had been accompanied by
peculiarly repulsive rites of human sacri-
flee.
The scientists after time came upon
the fragments of temple in about the
locality where they had hoped to find the
shrine of the Sirens. 1t proved, however,
to be the ruins of a Greek temple which
had nothing to do with the old charmers
of the sea.
The expedition was about to give up
the search when there came an earth
quake When the shock was over the
archaeologsts found that part of the hill
at whose foot lay the disappointing ruins
had fallen away.
And there was revealed the ruins of
another temple in far better condition of
preservation. previous shock, long
centuries ago, had buried this structure
The Greeks had come along and built
their own without ever suspecting that
the place had once been occupied by an
other.
The value and Importance of the find
was soon recognized. The quake which
had hidden the lost temple had also pre-
served its treasures. And the first glance
at these-sacrificial cups and knives, of
ferings of golden cups, jewels and other
precious objects showed that here at
last was the very place they had been
searching for-the Temple of the
Sirens.
To this temple had come rich merchants
and mariners of the dim past, bringing
things of great value to ensure a safe
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

veracious Captain John Smith
he of Pocahontas fame:
: I cannot here omit to
mention, says he, the admir-
able creature of God which in
the year 1910 / saw with these
my own eyes. happened to
be standing, at daybreak, on
the shore not far from the
harbor of st. John, when /
observed a marine monster
swiftly swimming toward me.
Lovely was her shape; eyes,
nose, ears, cheeks, mouth,
neck, forehead and the whole
face was at that of the fairest
maiden; her hair, of azure
hue, fell over her should
ers >
Altogether, a strange fish.
The rest of the quotation will
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

recent times - IN
fact, the peasantry
of Sicily still be-
lieve in them. And
in 1403, according
to Norman Doug
lass "Siren Land, ,"
published by Dut-
ton, a siren was
captured in the
Zuyder Zee.
sc S h e W a S
brought to Haar-
lem," he writes,
land being naked,
allowed herself to
b e clothed; S h e
learned to eat like
a Dutchman :.
she was gentle and
lived fo q GREAT
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

The French expedition
had pretty well established
it as a fact that long be-
fore the Greeks had won
their way down from the
north the Phoenecians,
the mysterious Cretans
and other Mediterranean
races believed in the ex-
istence of sirens. whom
they pictured as women
with the lower bodies of
birds. Their idea of
sirens correspondent some
what to the Hebrew
Christian idea of angels.
J The Greeks changed
the nature of sirens, maxi
ing them half-fish, or,
more precisely, dolphins.
The Lorelei of the fam
Gus German song were
such creatures, vampires
of the sea and river,
whose beautiful songs
lured mariners on to the
rocks. The German song
was founded on the Greek
legend.
The belief in sirens has
lasted until comparatively
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

A Medieval Print
of a Mermaid and
a Norman Which
Were Supposed
to Live OFF the
Dutch Coast.
V o y a G e. And
a $50 bringing
slaves for cruel
and bloody sacri-
flee to appease
the S u p p o S e d
hunger o f t h e
mysterious S e a.
women for hui
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

The Distinguished Artist, Herbert Draper's
Painting of the Greek Hero Ulysses, and
the~ Sirens. Ulysses, Bound to the Mast
by His Deafened Crew So That He Cannot
Be Lured to Destruction by the Sirens
Song, Strains at His Bonds to Cast Him
Self Into Their Arms.
The Washington times., 1923-01-21

(C $685. by American Weekly. Reserved
Evening star., 1923-10-07
Ernestine Jennett
Wins Scholarship

AIISS ERNESTISE JENNETT.
Itl daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. W. B.
Jennett. 7e1 Carroll avenue, Ia
koma Park, who was graduated from
Central High School on February 1 Of
this year with the highest scholastic
rating. won the scholarship offered by
the RryH Nawr alumni of this city.
She left during the past week to en-
ter upea heE college work at Bryn
Ma wE.
MISS Jennett's record is one Of un-
usual brilliance and at the time of her
graduation from Central attracted
considerable attention. The number
Of credits required for gradua ton is
thirty-two. She exceeded that num-
her,. by EeyeH, making total of
thirty nine credits, thirty-eight, Of
which were "E's." or highest grade.
During her first year OF high school
MISS Jennett was not content with
modern languages. but also studied
Greek. The only "G." or second
grade, Of her four years work was on
this difficult language.
When Miss Jennett was elected
valedictorfan of her class 1t attracted
the attention of the Baroness Serge
A. Korff, chairman of the scholastic
committee of the Washington alumni
of Brya Mawr. She wrote Miss Jen-
aett, suggesting that the latter COIN
pete for the ,Bryn Mawr scholarship.
Evening star., 1923-10-07
Y w. G. A. Week Ends
and Nav Glasses,

uoUsE parties are the vogue
i i among the. clubs, OF the Y. W.
c. A. this fall, The Premiere Club,
whose members are mostly young
women employed In the Veterans,
Bqreau. and whose president. Miss
Grace Braeme, had the distinction of
being chairman of one of the tSn<
portant committees at the Silver Bay
city conference this summer, spent
last week end at Vacation Lodge,
Cherrydale. A very beautiful candle
light initiation service around the
fireplace was one Of the features.
This week end the Bibliophilae Club
will occupy the lodge. -
At Kamp Kahlert Mr. and Mrs
Benjamin Cook directed, a house par
ty. composed Of members of the
Aiethea Club and their husbands
Oyster roasts are in season at
Kamp Kahlert and fishing is good.
Leaders of clubs are registering fo0
other week, ends this fall The young
members of the Bon Secour Club of
Central High School are planning
parties to the camp.
A new training course Of Y. W.
C. A. leaders has just been started.
This week the new rented quarters
of the Y. w. c. A.. which have been
rather quiet during the summer time.
will be buzzing with activities.
These quarters are on the fourth
floor Of the building at 1911 G street.
we'll adapted to the requirements of
the school. under the general and re-
Iigious education departments Of the
association. Glasses began last Tues
day. and large enrolment has been
made. a. :
Business women are Showing an
unusual interest in psychology, and
the school has prepared to meet this
= interest. Miss Hummer Is to act as
Instructor. A course in everyday
Marston. is meeting with great favor.
The usual courses In English. French,
Spanish, dramatic art, music, pub
lie speaking, and the ever-popHiaF
ing, poster making. basketry and
china painting viii be held. The
school is retaining the services of
Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, who has
will make her annual gift to the as.
ISOLATION in conducting an informal
organization, called the Booklovers,
on the first and third Mondays of
each month at O'clock
IN their respective fields. Miss Ruth
v. Pope, recently from Des Mofnes,
Iowa, where she was dean OF women
in the Des Moines University for sew
eral years, is director of the schooL
The committee on class work is pre-
pared, to form classes in subjects
other than those announced, provided
there is sufhcieg demand. Courses
\ in Intensive Bible study. teachers
' training and missions will be given.
The Bibliophilae Bible. class will hola
its session this year In two divisions,
on Tuesday evenings. A new begin
ners' class Is scheduled for Wednes-
day evenings at o'clock. The ex-
pository class for Sunday school
teachers will be held on "Wednesday
evenings at S:15, at the Second RAP-
tist Church southeast "A class for
chinese will be- conducted at Mount
Vernon NJ. e. Church Friday eve.
Hings. All the courses mentioned
4 will be taught by Mrs. L. Elaine
Rising, director of religious educa-
tton.
The activities of the girl reserve
department. viii be centefed this yHar
at the association residence. 1ie0 d
street. and the young employed sec
tfon held a rally meeting Hast Thurs
day evening.
Evening star., 1923-10-07
Pays Tribute to Japanese
Spirit in Face of Disaster

eral places joists have sprung,
plaster panels loosened and fireplaces
fallen out. There have been, Accord
ing to reports. about 800 shocks.
because of them. We only go into the
mousse for minute or so. was up
stairs during one of the severe ones
and never again! Weather Saturday
(the day of the disAster), hot. clear
but finally clear; on Monday, hot.
with hard rain. and Tuesday, hot and
sunny"
With Mrs. Eddy's letter has come
copy of q letter written by Mr..
professor at the Imperial University
of Toxic and one of the secretaries
attached to the league of nations. 1t
is the sons wife and children who
are mentioned in Mrs. Eddy's letter.
He writes as follows:
II was at Hoshfs pharmacy when
1t happened. i rushed out into the
street and saw a man crushed to
death beside Hoshi's building. Build
ings crashed into the street with
of dust. Women. children. servants
and decrepft old men appeared every
where and huddled together on the
car tracks. not to speak Of coolies
and the clerks and pedestrians one
usually sees on a business street.
"One sees two-thirds Of Toxic in
ruins. babies dying, old men and
women dying. twenty charred bodies
at Gofukubashi, and the people
silently bearing hunger; string OF
six men, with faces and eyes burned
out, forming, by uniting their hands.
a staggering, cropping chain of agony.
All the above gruesome details /
saw myself.
The city is all in a turmoil. Hibiya'
and Maronouchi are filled with refu-
gees. Dead horses pollute the air,
and it is said that corpses are in
creasing every day in Hibiya and
Maronouchi. with no means of dis
posal. At the Mauni building, which
collapsed, 200 or 800 perished.
Reports from Hongo and Fuka-
gawa are scarce. Crowded with
siums, the situation must be terrible.
Ushigome alone stands untouched.
and, we are thankful to say, this
part OF koishikawa."
Since these letters were written, 1t
has been definitely established that
the central administration building
of the Z. W. C. A. in Toxic, in an
other district of the city, which was
erected In 1916 with funds from
Canada. England and the United
States, was entirely wiped out by
the fire which swept the city follow
ing the first earthquake shocks. This
building served as center for classes
and clubs of all kinds among the
Japanese girls and women, and main.
tanned large dining room, which
served as many as $500 daily.
Evening star., 1923-10-07

This scholarship is offered by the
Washington alumni OF Bryp Ma~r to
thes girl, who passes the entrance
examinations creditably and who has
finished her education in the Wash
ington schools. This scholarship, has
been before the schools here for two
yeaSs.- but Miss Jennett= il the hzatsta
win it. - - +ssyt.
Beesuse the rmajeeity ,of ceMsses
are making special requirements In
United States history, Central Is re-
curing credits in that subject more
than I'm ancient and msdiAvat history,
Also, most colleges will accept credits
in chemistry, and physiography in
stead of physics But Bryn Mawr re-
quires ancient history and also re-
quires physics. To meet these re-
quirements, Miss Jennett between
March 20 and May 10, completed cred
itably q years work in both ancient
history and physics. She took eleven
examinations in four days.
Prior to entering CeRtral Miss
Jennett attended the Fair Brothers
and the Jefferson schools.
Miss Jenpett has specialized In
English and languages. having ten
years language work to her credit
one year of Greek. four of Latin and
two and half of Spanish and French.
Miss Jennett also is an ardent lover
of the out-of-doors. She Is an ex-
pert swimmer apd enjoys horseback
riding. But, best of all. she likes
books-all Kinds of them.