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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-15

monuments in Cleveland to Gar
field and in Washington to our
first president and also to the i'm
mortal Lincoln and we are better.
men and women after we see these
places aud recall the work all
these mighty men have done. No
one ever visited Mount Vernon
without loving the name OF Wash
ington better. No one will ever
visit "Monticello" and the home
Of Jefferson without recalling the
man who declared that all men
we're created free and equal. May
the movement Of these good wo-
men succeed.
%*ss#ss>
Apropos of Monticello is the big,
new, Tacoma hotel recently de
dicated in the heart of the City
! of Destiny. Named the "Win-
throp" after the man who wrote
a book entitled: "The Canoe and
Saddle" and which shows the
heart of a great poet as well as
one who loved dearly this section
of Puget Sound. Theodore Win
throp travelled over this section
rs years ago, and added to the
prosey recorded facts of George
| Vancouver the touch of the po-
etc which thrills the reader as he
peruses page after page of the
book. While Vancouver named
the mountain, Mt. Rainier, Win.
throp gave it the indian name Of
| Tacoma. This was a number of
years befor the city of Tacoma
was started. Nearly all of the
names of things and places in this
Pacific Northwest bear the names
of persons-Mt. Baker, after Van
couver's third mate, Puget's
lsound after his friend Peter Puget,
Vashon after James Vashon, a
thigh naval official, Mt. Rainier
after a British rear admiral, and
Whidby's island after Joseph
WILDLY, who was the first of the
Vancouver party to circumnavi-
tgate the same. 1t is proper that
Vashon island people should OBJ
serve Discovery Day this
month in memory of the daring
linen who explored, charted and
mapped this section 1873 years ago.
(! %s#s@&&e
The News-Record never knocks
but takes this opportunity of pro
testing against the turning of the
paved highway into racing
course for automobiles and motor
cycles. After some one has been
killed by such recklessness, the
island will hold up hands in
holy horror. Better protest now
and stop 1T, before such a tragedy
occurs. Another protest is the
event that occurred on Mother s
day at Cove. A bunch Of some
/ thing like 25 young men and wo-
| linen came over on a launch from
Seattle and took up their site near
| the Cove dock. We are informed
it was booze guiding, puppy
Smuggling affair, with all kinds OF
profanity and indecency thrown
lin for good measure. The Cove
neighborhood is made up of God
fearing men and women and if the
reports phoned into the News-Rec-
ord office are correct, and we be-
lieve they are, the next time such
a party is started the sheriff
should be called in to sober these
smart alecs up.
MsM#mzxa
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-15
vAsHoN ISLAND NEws-REcoRD

merton runs three regular trips
each way from the north end oil
the island into the heart OF Seattle
One can get on and off the island
every day by at least five differ
ent routes and al least l6 different
schedules. The highest rate is
SIS cents and the lowest rate is 10
cents We are nearer Seattle and
Tacoma, so far as either time or
distance is concerned, than many
of the r. r. ID. patrons Of the post
offices at Tacoma and Seattle.
Anyone who would kick at our
transportation services at the pre-
sent time would kick if they were
in game Of football.
##s&a#Re
Ii seems the vote on turning
over the building funds to the
Community home was lost by
something like five votes. The
women have raised sufficient
funds TO put the F'home" over
without this additional aid, and
The club has the money for nest
egg" which will come in handy
for something else. Let this divi-
sion of opinion be speedily for
gotten, and everyone get into the
harness to put over "Discoyery
Day. with a bang Selah.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-05-15

We believe, Gle profits most
who serves best" Try MS.
ENGLAND g. PETERSEN
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
''PINAFORE" is
LACKING In
SATIRE
By JESSIE MacBRIDE.

There is a certain tradition
that is unacceptable in the Gilbert
and Sullivan comic opera classics,
and that tradition elevates the
1book of the opera" to equal
place with the music. In III. NJ.
S. Pinafore." which opened the
week at Polls last evening, pre-
scented by the Washington Opera
Company. the British navy and
bureaucracy in general is SUBJ
jected to a delicious satire where
in English s'as she is spoke"
must be put across"
The lines Of the book were
rather shabbily treated. This COM
pany that was so effective in ro-
mantle opera did little to adorn
the rather pale score, despite its
melody. of We olden opera-com-
ique. Puns and witticisms were
rather in the discard for lack Of
good and proper English dictiou.
Types, too, require real emf
phasis that did not take the cast
into high histrionic, fame. Rob
inson Newbold began as a quite
authentic "Sir Joseph Porter, K.
c. b." and Mr.. Newbold may be
counted upon to deliver >his lines
tellingly, but he lost his grip on
the role when he stepped outside
between acts-to recite some
of Frank Moulin's classics. Doff.
1ng periwig, he gave us "And
Murdered Him." and other anus
ing things. But he didn't get
back.
Sudwerth ~Frasier sang excel.
lently in the first act, giving the
best of his very appealing tenor
voice, but he too lapsed in act
two. Little Buttercup of Eleanor
La Nance was a young and pretty
girl, with no effort to do the
part in character. The Hebe of
Augusta Spette was the most
charming of the feminine roles
and this young and dainty artist
HHANN NS'9SA NCS III pAuSSs
Helena Morrill, gave some Of
the lyrics very charmingly, sing
ing with taste. But Francis
Tyler greatly overdid the dick
Dead-Eye," and the rest of the
cast were back in the amateur
class from which they had
emerged so CALAMITY earlier in
the season.
Which means, that unless one
can treat such works with the
fineness of bit of classic
comedy, they had better give
place to the operas where the
music captures one completely.
Here the chorus remained stiff.
The tunes of '.Pinafore'' are al
ways a joyful heritage. To lovers
of melody they will give pleasure.
But the opera is the least of the
Washington Opera Company's
achievements this spring.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
COLUMBIA
MARRY Me"

Marry. Me- featured attrac-
ton at Loew's Columbia this week,
lends itself better than one would
think to screening. although Il is
apparent at nearly all times that
this piece was built for dialogue.
This. of course, the screen cannot
give, but the production is cleverly
done under the def direction Of
James Cruze.
1t concerns small town love
affair. a beautiful girl who was
about to become, an old maid,
and a dyspeptic crouch. The rural
scenes are done with graceful
realism and the movement toward
the climax is very effective.
The situations that enSue dur
ing the pictures last half are
ridiculous IN the extreme, and it
is here that the dialogue is missed
most. A dyspeptic crouch, locked
in a room with a strange girl,
whom everybody believes to be
his wife, must talk about some
thing. Yet the situations are not
offensive.
Florence vidor is effective asthe
heroine, bringing fine delinea-
ton to the role. Edward Everett
Horton scores real triumph as
John Smith, the crouch.
A Walter HERS comedy, "Oh.
Bridget" furnishes some of the
old reliable slap-stick humOr.
international Newsreel, in adj
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
WIND VANE IN
9TH CENTURY

THERE was a time when the
weathervane was really
used, not only as an indicator of
the way of the winds" but as a
symbol
A tower of octagonaI form,
built at Athens by Andronicus,
was faced on each side with
personification of the wind to-
ward whose quarter the symbol
figure looked.
Thus. if the East wind was rep.
resented by the goddess Diana.
a miniature effigy, of the hun
tress was placed on one corner
OF the tower. while the other three
corners were each represented by
a figure symbolicaI Of the West
wind. the South wind. and the
North wind.
There is a description in a
document written In 1857 of a
Syrian tower surmounted by a
copper figure of a man on horse
back which turned with every
wind.
But the custom of making
weather vanes in the forms of
cocks dates back to medieval times.
About the middle Of the ninth
century the figure Of a cock was
set up on every church steeple
as the emblem of st. Peter. This
also probably led the clergy of
that period to call themselves the
Cocks of the Almighty"
The weathercock was used in
England, much later, as a symbol
of ridicule of the French, who
were making a sport of cock
throwing, and with whom the
English were at war.
Doctor Johnson, attributing
still another symbolic meaning to
the weathercock, says; 1.-The in
constancy Of the French was al
ways the subject of satire, and l
have read that the index of the
wind upon our steeples was made
in the form of a cock in order
to : throw ridicule on them for
their frequent changes"
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
Foxy Grandpa's Story

inviting US again to Miss Simp-
kins' house for tea.
"Oh," said Bobby. II hope she
has that strawberry jam today"
Bunny came in and l said to
him:
Bunny, Miss. Simpkins has in
vited us to tea and wants You
particularly to come this after
noon. Clementine is going to
India. Don't you want. to say
good-by to her?' f..
ITO: say good-by to Clementine
will give me the greatest pleasure
. in the world. Then 1 will feel at
liberty to go. with you to Miss
Simpkins when she asks u.s." he
replied. "Clementine may be all
right but all my friends in the
neighborhood are afraid of her.
She is the hest ratter and rabbirer
in the county" And, Bunny gave
a sigh.
That was it. Bunny was afraid
Of ClementIne. L had never
thought Of it.
we started off and walked down
the road To Miss Simpkins. There
she stood in her garden with
Clementine rubbing against her
skirt and holding her tail UP vury
h1en and straight in the air.
How nice of you to come"
she said, walking forward slowly
to meet us, land 1 have some
strawberry jam for Bobby. and
here is Bunny, too"
We sat down to the tea.table
and what a nice time we had. A
little later l asked:
What is this about Clemen.
tine going to India. Miss S1np.
klns?"
Il hate to have her leave me
she said, stroking the shiny
black fur of her pet, who was
purrlng contentedly beside her
mistress, "but ! am getting old
now and want Clementine TO
have a good home. Besides there
have been many complaints in
the neighborhood about her."
Bunny dropped one ear at this.
80" continued Miss Simp-
kins. II am going to. send her to
India with a missionary friend
of mine who is going out to work
in the plague stricken district
You know England sends MANY
cats to India to kill the rats
which carry the plague. SO /
thought that out there Clemen.
tines talents would be appre-
ciated. She sails tomorrow"
We said good-by, and as Bunny
bowed, he said:
Il have had a very pleasant
time, Miss Simpkins, and / will
cali on you with. pleasure. In a
very few days"
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
By Himself.


ert hats. In a few minutes /
was perspiring copiously.
Hot, isn't. it," I remarked to
clerk where I stopped to pur:,
chase some cigarettes.
s"Hot!' he echoed, Hooking at me
with interest. why. this is. cool!
Wait till July and August"
I couldn't determine. whether
he made this. comment sarcasti-
cally or with native pride: I am
inclined to think it was the lat
ter.
I was wearing rather heavy
wool suit. I decided must get
lighter clothes. 1t was my plan
!. to remain several days, and j
could never stand such discom-
fort for that length of time. In
a haberdashery purchased some
, lightweight underwear. It was
Of cheesecloth texture, sleeveless
and practically legless. It was
all they habitat is, they had
no other kind. also bought
ready-nnade Palm Beach suit ard
light straw hat before returning
to. the hotel.
took a second shower before
changing, and it felt good. Every
minute it was growing hotter
and hotter. I discovered and
turned on the electric fan. I de-
cided to wait until half past 10
before telephoning to the Cover.
nor and making an appointment.
still had fifteen minutes and
wandered from the lobby into the
bar to get a drink. I noticed
that those at the bar and tables
were Slipping drinks from long
glasses, and instinctiVely realized
that straight whiskey was a bad
drink in such climate. But
didn't know what to order. The
: long-glass stuff was new to me.
stood around for a few minutes,
until the nearest bartender had
just finishing. mixing one of the
long-glass connections, and then
!, casually said:
Let me have one of those.
too
Long Glasses
1t tasted good, and it was re-
freshing. soon ordered another.
and others after that. Half past
ten came and passed. At noon
L.Was still drinking the long,glass
mystery. never did learn the
name Of it. 4
ssAt 1 o'clock. lunchIess, Il was
up in my room. stripped to the
cheese cloth COMFORT, the electric
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
New and Amazing Serial Describes in Detail One Mans
Long But Losing Battle for Freedom AS Told
&C. By Himself.

; fat buzzing, and q quart Dotti9
of whisky on the dresser.
remained in Phoenix three,
days, only going out at night.
Quart after quart Of fiery whisky
went down my inflamed throat
I didn't see the governor; didn't
even telephone him.. though
promised myself each evening
tina. would straighten up the
next day. How I finally got away
from. Phoenix / don't know.
seemed to be walking around in
a. furnace most Of the time and
partly out of my head.
Nor did 1 for moment mag
Inc that was in the very place
where years later / was to take
a final count from John Bar
leycorn and go to the very PEN
itentiary that was then on my
mind, buf\which I din't visit.
Not for a moment did I dream
that, far, far ahead on the tragic
road 1 was to travel, the Ari-
iona prison was waiting for me,
not as a respectable visitor, but,
as a broken human failure.
Could 1 have seen what was IN
store for me / wonder what l
should have done? Could the ma
mority of humans see the fu-
ture. what would they do? Ter
rifying questions. Life, after all,
is livable only because the fu-
ture is unknown, uncertain. and
because hope of happiness ever
lies just ahead.
It was some time late in the
month .ef May that I arrived at
Los Angeles. / was routed that
way purposely~ because7I wanted
to meet a woman who had writ
ten to me several times and who
had invited me to visit her
should I ever be in southern
California and could spare the
time. She and her husband lived
at Laguna Beach and her de-
scriptions of the place had at
tracted me very much. I got into
touch with her and the next af-
ternoon 4 was met. at the rail-
road station at Santa Ana and
driven across the sugar beet
country to the coast.
The bungalow my friends oc-
cupied was set AT the top of a
2o0-foot cliff, with the surf in
the form of a perfect crescent be
low. Behind us were the noun
atains. There was no other hu-s
man habitation in sight. 1t was
like being in another world.
(TO Be Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
TWIN BEDS Is
GAY, IF NOT
GAYER

Is a pajama-ed actor, rushing
from bed to clothes hamper,
funny? Or. rather, is the situa.-
ton stfll funny. after all these
years Of nightie-night farce?
If one left this question to the
audience at the National Theater
last night, one wouldn't have
been able to hear the answer for
the laughter.
Twin Beds. shyly crept back
to town last night yes, again.
and, might we say, into the
hearts Of those who like to see
what was considered fairly dar-
ing in the infant days Of "Fair
and Warmer and Baby Mine"
The National Players put 1t on
in a spirit Of broad farce, into
which everyone enters as far as
possible. Leneta Lane has again
the role Of the dear "dumbelle, 2
a type which she Is unusually
competent in presenting. Edwin
Arnold play0 a rowing Italian
tenor, with much French mixed
into his talk and considerable
biting of his thumb.
Kathryn Givney comes into her
own. at last. as the tenor's die
tatoriaI lady wife. How that
girl does play it! Her perform
ance was one Of the juiciest bits
of the night.
Minor Watson does well as the
harassed husband. because he
knows how a man acts when he
is harassed. Mr.. Watson is
harassed for three acts, and in
the third, when, as in all bed
room farces, the gentlemen in
pajamas are found all over the
boudofr, more than ever.
Romano Calender and DOro-
thy Tierney donate some nice
pieces of comedy, and Lillian
Dean pulls down laugh after
r>you go to see erwin
Beds for historical or hysterical
reasons, you should enjoy it.
There is no logic in the. play.
There is very little sense Of any
kind in the whole thing. But
what boots logic and that sort,
OF stuff in July? -JIM1RING
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
GOings-On

3 NATIONAL National Players in
Twin Beds
POLLS Washington Opera Conn
pany in "Pinafore."
KEITH'S- Richard Bennett; Cha
teau lie Paradis Band: others.
Vaudeville and films.
RIALTO-Huston Ray, pianist;
film, MY Wife and /.
IA-Florence VIdor in
Marry Me-"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bar
thickness in Soul Fire
PALACE-Claire Windsor in The
White Desert"
TIVOLI-Blanche Sweet in Ills
Supreme Moment"
thickness in Soul Fire
CENTRAL Want My Man."
SAVOY-Norma Shearer in Lady
of the Night
AVENUE GRAND-"The Heart
of a Siren"
APOLLO-BIan C he Sween in
His Supreme Moment"
YORh-Marion Davies In Fan
der the Great
HOME-Marjorie Daw in Fear
bound"
OUTDOORS.
EARLE ROOF-Barbara LAMAR
in 1.-The Heart Of Siren"
GLEN ECHO-Dancing nightly;
fun devices.
WASHINGTON HOTEL ROOF
Brooke Johns and Oklahoma
Comedians.
lie PARADIS ROOF - Meyer
Davis Music; dancing.
CHATEAU LIE PARADlS-Am-
mendale, Md, dining and dane
ing; Meyer Davis music.
ARLINGTON HOTEL ROOF -
Dancing; dining.
CHEVY CHASE LAKE-Dancing
nightly.
CHESAPEAKE BEACH-lDancing,
swimming, fishing. etc.
STEAMER ST. JOHNS Nightly
moonlight excursions. 7:15.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
BABBITT PAYS
FOR BATTING

DABBITT has become a part
- of. our language. It is =
common noun summing up what
many think of the American
business: man. Our dictionary Of
1875 may read:
babbit, n, a typical unimagi-
native business man.; a stupid dolt.
1babbitt, V. l., to talk or act
in a common place manner; to be
a business man.
It is now the favored epithet
of those who thrive by making
faces at business. 1t bids fair to.
supplant ''profiteer." If Smith
does well in business and puts
a fine new front on his Main
street store, stick out your
tongue at him and call him a
Rabbit"
There is a world of meaning
in the eagerness with which atils-
word has been taken up by
business baiters. It's use has
come at a time when the bust
ness,baiter and the social rebel
have formed or pretended TO
form a. sort of contempt for the
business man. Instead of calling
him a Oswollen plutocrat, in
stead of drawing him in a six
hat and tail coat, heading on
PROSTATE worker, the fashion
now is to call him a simpletop,
a boob, a Rabbit. @
And perhaps the Babbit-bait-
ers are justified. Isn't Rabbit
paying for nearly all the Babbit-.
batting? Hasn't Rabbit uncon-
sciously absorbed and adopted as
his own the blah of the Babbitt-'
baiters?
Could Sinclair Lewis have con-
ceived George F. Rabbit other
wise?-Nation' Business Maya
zine.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
WHEN DIDIT
HAPPEN?

when was the Zona Libre,
or Free Zone, along the northern
border Of Mexico, first estab-
'lished?
2-When were the Arctic, High
lands discovered?
3-When was Sigismondo Mala-
tesla Lord of Rimini.
4-When was Louis Riel, leader
of the Red River Rebellion IN
Canada, executed?
5-When did Thomas Middle
ton, English dramatist, write a
Mad Word, My Masters"
Answers to These Queries VIII
Be Printed Tomorrow.
ANSWERS
To Yesterdays Queries.
THE treaty of washington
between the United States and
England was signed May 8, 1871.
2-Rheims was sacked by the
Vandals in 406.
S-Washington Lee University
was chartered in 1882.
EOffenbach's opera "Tales OF
Hoffman" was first produced in
1881.
5-The United States Supreme
Court decided that the Isle OF
Pines was not United States ter
ritory in April, 1907.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
Here and There

Bulk fuel oil vapor when mix
ed with air is explosive.
Chinese paintings in 906 A.
D. were done on bronze silk.
Chinese pictures suggest rather
than Aelate the story.
Bees cover alien intruders in
their hives in tombs of wax.
Lowell. the poet. was foreign
minister to Madrid in 1877.
France produces 100000 metric
tons of paper annually.
Germany is adding half mil
lion to it's population annually.
Mount Vernon was named in
honor Of an English admiral.
George Washington loved to fol
low the hounds in fox hunts.
Mexico is leYYing a gasoline tax
for road building purposes.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
WOMAN WANTED GIRL,
STORK BRINGS THREE

NEWARK, N. j., July 14.-Mrs
George Rose, hoped her baby would
be a girl.
George accused his wife of hop.
ing too hard when Doctor Max
Kummel announced to the new
father that there were three girls,
each weighing three and a half
pounds and all doing we'll
The new arrivals have been
named Betty, Beulah and Bernice.
The Roses have two other children,
both boys.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
STRAWBERRY
CREAM

~ PARIS
As soon as strawberry time
comes around delicious
cream appears on French tables.
First make a simple vanilla
cream with one pint of milk, one
cup of sugar and three or four
eggs. Put the milk on to boil,
then add the sugar and a little
stick of vanilla. Let cool, and
then pour the milk over the
beaten eggs. Mix well, pass
through a sieve and put into O.
mold.
Cook in a double boiler for
twenty minutes. Let cool and re-
move from the mold.
Garnsih the center with small
Strawberries, mixed with sugar
and thick Chantilly cream. Pour
cream over the whole and serve.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14

DUMMY never seemed very anx-
ious to call at a house near
by where Bobby and ofsen went
for tea when we were visiting in
England.
I don't know why Bunny
always refuses Miss simpkins' in
vitations," said Bobby, speaking
OF the charming old lady at whose
Eouse we always had such pleas
ant times.
Soon note was brought to me
The Washington times., 1925-07-14

dition to . well balanced reel Of
world ioings. has "a cleveriy pre-
sented introductions to Dayton,
Tenn, where the evolution trial
3s now under way. Topics Of The
Day also are shown. The Column
bia Symphony Orchestra. under
Leon BrusIlof, Is, AS usual, ex
ceIlent. ]. w. y.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
In the Kitchen

To clean a copper kettle that
aAs been blackened by. fire, first
wash well with soap and soda
water. Then make. a paste of
knife powder and parafffn. and
scour well. Two or three clean
ings may be necessary.
. Never pour down the sculle"y
sink water in which green vege-
tables have been. boiled. It should
be efiptied out OF doors.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14
Whale Steaks

WHALE steaks, sea weed jelly
w and sharks fins were among
TIE delicacies served at the Paris
geological Society luncheon re-
Gently.
The Washington times., 1925-07-14

Every finger insurance policy of its ownthats
much Ray values his hands, Young Ray is musical
ato Teaer audiences this week well know, and his
thing beauty and forever in the words of
heard him, denying yourself
of the artists the RiatO has
presented Tomorrow at by special request
appearing the National Press Club in luncheon
citaI addition Ray prolific
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-11-20

SOMEWHAT OF AN ATHLETE
Is Ida Scbnall champion swimmer
and all around athlete of New York
he is shown here with some of her
medals and trophie> won in athletic
l''ApetitiOn 0nternatIonaD
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-11-20
-trnternationai Newsreei.

On ternaton Newsre
Capt. A. P Fairchd, Commodore of the T. S. Fotilla
Division speaking at the attending the recent
unveiling of monument to the Pilgrim Fathers I'M
the Pilgrims made their departure for America Repre-
sentatives from England Holland and the United States
present at the rites.