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TINE turquoise, the natal stone
FOR December, Is the gem of
liberty and benevolence. 1t Is
Il emblematic of success and
has been priced since the be-
ginning of recorded history for the
good fortune it brings to it's possessor.
In olden times this stone was used as
charm against all forms Of evil
and Its great symbolic purpose was to
help the spiritual person to resist the
weakness, evil and tempta tions so in
termixed with material life.
The turquoise has long been and is
at the present time used In the Orient
as a remedy for dyspepsia, hernia,
insanity and cancer. Whether taken
alone, mixed with honey or with a
drug, 1t was used as a cure for cpl
lepsy. In cases of poisoning or snake
bite 1t was given with wine. IL worn
as an amulet the turquoise brought
happiness. dispelled fear and rendered
Its wearer safe from drowning, light
ming stroke and sna kebite. Through.
out modern times in Egypt the tur-
quoise has been used as a remedy
for cataracts, specimens thus employed
being engraved with the sacred name
OF Allah. In Germany the turquoise
Is favored for engagement rings
owing to the belief that IL either
party prove inconsistent the stone will
make the fickleness known by weak.
ening in color.
The Pima Indians of southwestern
Arizona, who at an early period had
perhaps higher degree of culture
than any other tribe living north OF
Mexico, believed that the loss of a
turquoise Is due to magic and that
the unfortunate loser will be AFFLICTED
with some mysterious ailment that
will yield only TO the skill of a medi-
cine man. The Pueblo and Apache
Indians employed 1t as a. rainstone.
which. they say, Is always found con-
cealed at the foot of the rainbow.
These tribes place pieces Of turquoise
on their bows and firearms as direct
ing charms for trueness of aim. In
ancient times the turquoise was used
as a protecting charm for horses,
mules and camels and was carried by
jockeys, huntsmen and horsemen as a
symbol of special protection. The
Romans believed that so long as a
horseman carried a piece OF turquoise
with him while riding he would never
have an accident. nor would his horse
be fatigued.
The turquoise has been priced for
its beauty end perfection Of color
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Paul Claude New Ambassador United Sta Represents Union Arts %Dpmacy
Brings F1ooro poaSr rvc-E Re-
hnt MYSTICISM Contrast AMneed eFrncs

they met again--in the French lega-
tion at Rio de Janeiro. where Mil
haud was Clauders junior. They be-
gan to work upon a ballet, Man and
His Desire" which was produced by
the Swedish Ballet Company in New
York three years ago.
Darius Milhaud, now the most sue
cessful of the younger school of
French musicians. said Of Claudel in
a recent conversation with the pres
ent writer: THE word genius is often
abused, but in the case of Paul Clau
del 1t 10 incontrovertible. He IL a man
of torrential energy, of immense in
terests, of magnificent imagination.
To know him is to admire him, to be
overwhelmed by him. His mysticism
may be explained in two words-he is
q devout Catholic. The faith Is the
man. He has studied the Bible in
tently, and some day he may publish
his commentar ries on 1t. They will
servo to reveal the remarkable versa
tility and intellectual range of the
man."
NJ. Claudel In now In Tokyo. Re
fore he arrives In America to take up
his new post In Washington he will
spend some time in Paris to confer
with his Government and to marry
his eldest daughter-the eldest Of f1ve
children-to M. Bonami, a young de-
butant in the French diplomatic cir
cles.
M CLAU UDEL'S appointment to
A'A' Washington, as l have said,
will disappoint number of rival can
didates for the post. 1t is no secret
in Paris that the Washington EN-
bassy has seriously occupied the
thoughts of every French Government
since 1918. French relations with the
United States have suffered consid-
erably from the shifting character of
the personnel in Washington, and
since the war a vain search has been
made for a diplomat of sufficient
standing. social. intellectual and po-
litical. thoroughly to represent France
in a post so important. The search
has been further complicated by the
necessity OF adding a knowledge OF
financial problems to a general expe-
rience In diplomacv The difference
between embassy appointments to
EnRla nd and to Am erica Ia that while
the former dems nds amba sadorial
distinctions of high political order,
the outstanding questions between
France and Great Britain being
chiefly political in their nature, theEe
are no such political questions at is
sue between France and the United
States, and the great problem IL finan-
cial and economic.
This pre-eminence Of the financial
issue in Franco-American relations
has caused the names OF many promi
nent Frenchmen to be mentioned as
candidates for the vacant post. NJ.
Caillaux himself might have been Of
fered the embassy. IL his chief politi-
cal opponent had not happened to be
premier In the person Of NJ. Poincare.
The Ultimate offer Of the embassy
to M. Paul Cisudei indicates his gov
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tstion. but the expression of a real re.
ligious preoccupation.
At the age Of Is Paul Claudel had
what WAS rare enough among the
artifcisllN sentimental. amorous and
hlase youth Of France in the early
SOS. religious revelation" Real or
imaginary the effect Of the phenom-
enon on his youthful, ardent and i'm
aginative mind was profound and last
ing. From that day to this the new
ambassador to Washington has been
practicing Catholic. He attends
mass daily and his creed is a living
and intellectual belief to him.
The mysticism of this original and
rare writer is apparent in the very
titles of his plays. THE TidinEa
Brought to Mary had an instant sue.
cess in France, Germany and New
York, where it was produced by the
Theater Guild not long ago. other
dramatic works. not vet translated
into English, carry the same curl
ously ardent message from an old
fashioned Catholic writer. The
Town" The Exchange" which
Jacques Copesu hrst produced at the
Vieux Colcmbier, IN Paris: THE
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since remote antiquity. When of
finest quality 1t possess a blue tone.
soft and pleasing. like the color of
the clear sky, but often its value is
lessened by a greenish cast, and in
many stones the green predominates.
The mineral Is but slightly harder
than glass and may be worked with
ease. even by primitive people pos
sessing the crudest tools
Chemically 1t In a phosphate Of
aluminium carrying small quantities
Of copper and iron. to which it's color
is due.
At present, among civilized ma
tions. the turquoise Is outranked i'm
value by the diamond. ruby, emerald
and sapphire, although over some
minds the wonderful blue Of the tur-
quoise wields fascina ton shared by
no other stone. With many semi
civilized peoples, however, this gen,
takes foremast rank. and its value de-
pends not only upon its intrinsic
worth but also upon the mystic prop
critics and religious Specification II II
supposed to possess.
The stone Is a most highly prizAd
possession of the Navajo Indians in
the desert of Arizona and Of the Arab
on the plains of Arabia, and the Tt
OCtdIi hOnBOHhn naLlVeH esteem
the gem no less than do the Hopi and
the Zuni pueblo dwellers In our own
Southwest.
BY virtue of It's parallel use in parts
OF the Orient and America and It's
curious Introduction into legends and
myths of diverse and widely separated
peoples. the turquoise carries con
siderable ethnologic interest. It was
the good fortune of an expedition un-
der the auspices Of the National Geo.
graphic Society while excavatinR at
Pueblo BonitO In 1925 to unearth one
OF the most valuable turquoise neck
laces now In existence. This neck
lace, now on display In the gem hall
OF the United States National Museum,
Is so perfect in color and workman
ship that, besides being OF great eth
nologic interest, It Is a priceless article
of jewelry.
The turquoiso. In common with the
pearl and opal, requires constant care
on the part of the wearer in order
that it's beauty may not be impaired.
Its comparative softness and its ten
dency to change in color afford ample
opportunity for it's delicate tint to he
marred or even entirely destroyed by
carelessness. The gem should never
be worn In contact with other stones.
nor he allowed to strike or rub against
objects NJ any kind else its surface
win become rouEhened and dull
Evening star., 1926-12-12

Hostage" DRY Bread" and Rest on
the Seventh Day are among the
most interesting products Of the in
tellectual theater in France for many
years past.
WITH all this old-fashioned and
honest faith in the divine order,
this great French poet Ia neither
crank nor a faddist nor an ascetic.
He Is a tall, handsome man, his face
strongly featured, bronzed and vital.
his hair crisping thickly over one
temple. He is powerfully built,
muscular athlete, a mountain climber
and a lover of outdoor sports. His
interest in the arts is omnivorous.
He deplores his inability to draw,
would give half his talent to be able
to draw or sculpt. He plays impa-
tiently and curiously with pencil
and exclaims with mock horror at
the crude, childish and fantastic
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Selects Her Greatest Man of Letters for Post Here

dor during his service on the French
economic mission to America at the
end OF the war was a powerful fac.
tor in influencing his appointment 10
Washington. During the next few
months there will he important de-
velopments in the French financial
situation. The desire of the Poincare
government to stabilize the franc
with the aid of American and British
finance invests the mission Of NJ.
Claudel with an importance more
largely financial than political.
BY the character of his rela tiOns
with the Washington Government and
with Wall Street the success or fail
ure of NJ. Poincare's financial policy
IL likely to be decided
Evening star., 1926-12-12

wildly from the preciosity of Marcel
Proust to the jazzba nd a nd cocktail
satires Of Paul Mora nd-a mother writ
ing diplomat now attached to the
French legation in Siam-Claudel is
noteworthy as the leader of a return
to mysticism. The keynote of his per-
sonality, of his work and his life lies
in his passionate mysticism. Like the
late Alice Meynell, in England. the
pure and beautiful poet to whom
Meredith devoted long and platonic
passion expressed only in a recently
published correspondence, Claudeps
attitude to life and it's first cause is
one of religious alteration. He Is
supreme mystic. and as such his sue
cession Of that arch cynic and pagan
philosopher, Anotole France, as the
greatest living French writer appears
like an tronjc instance of natural com
pensation.
His mysticism is not literary affec-
Evening star., 1926-12-12
By GEORGE sLOCOMBE.

" HE greatest French writer
since the death of Anatole
France has just been nom
l. mated French Ambassador 10
Washington in the person of
Paul Cfaudel. BY this appointment
the French Government signifies its
intention to maintain and honor the
traditional intimacy between the arts
Of diplomacy and literature. Chateau
BRAND provided the most famous ex.
ample of the writer turned diplomat,
or the diplomat turned writer, but in
his case diplomatic honors were valued
more greatly than the celebrity he
gained as a man of letters. The re-
verse is the case with NJ. Claudel, who
is first and foremost a writer, poet
and philosopher, and on whose philos-
ophic shoulders the favors of courts
and the esteem of monarchs rests
lightly. The French Governments
decision should give great satisfaction
in both France and the United States,
for not only is Paul Claudel the fore
most living representative of letters
and the drama in his own country.
but diplomat of skill and experience.
a sympathetic and able student of
American affairs and a man of great
personal charm.
The new ambassador was horn
some 5s years ago in Picardy, on
those slopes where the apple orchards
of the old French province give way
gently to the fat vineyards Of Cham
pagne. He studied in Paris, with a
view to entering the carriere. and be-
fore he was 20 had made his mark
as a poet of promise among the gifted
French youth, the jeunesse doree OF
the sos. Later the early promise de-
veloped into real genius, and this
genius is consistently exhibited in the
many poems and plays he has pro.
duced during long and varied
career.
NJ. Clauders debut as public
servant was made in the consular
service. He was succesSively French
vice.consul In Boston. where he spent
several years in the early part of this
century; in China, where he lived for
nearly Is years, learning the language
and becoming acquainted with tho
arts and the philosophy Of the
Chinese, and in Germany, where he
was consul at Frankfort before the
war.
In 1918 he was attached to the
French legation in Brazil. In the fol-
lowing year he was sent to Washing
ton as memheg of the French econ
ornic mission. Subsequently he be
came minister to Denmark and finally
ambassador 70 Japan, and he has lived
for the last three years in Toxic
where he has just been notified Of his
translation to the highest diplomatic
post the French government can offer.
Since the war, 1t will be noticed. his
promotion has been rapid. To jump
from attache in Rio de Jsneiro TO
ambassador to the United States in
eight years Is no light success for a
french diplomat, and many elderly
French senators who have eyed the
Washington embassy covetously for
some years past will be bitterly dis
appointed at the preference of a mere
writer over q politician.
y
NO living man OF letters in France
enjoys q greater audience than
Paul ClAudel. His influences on
French thought and French writing
ts considerable. In an age remarkable
for its cynical return to the realism OF
khe Flaubert and Georges Sand
schoeie, with the current Of fntellec-
RuaI tA$A~AmA "a R>ps sHcA evun vi n -
Evening star., 1926-12-12

ernments faith in his capacity to
treat Of financial problems and his
general fitness to represent France.
In political circles there is no doubt
that the experience of Franco-Ameri-
can finances gained by the Amba ssa
Evening star., 1926-12-12
BY MERLIN MOORE TAYLOR.

T vas a pig that started the dis
trict Of kapatea on a rampage
1t had wandered away from the
i village of Tavivi and died at the
foot of a precipice overlooking
the boulder-studded little stream
which separates Kapatea from
Kevezzi, the district to the north.
When the pigs owner found the
carcass. he became exceedingly wild
and hired a sorcerer to discover who
had killed the brute.
The sorcerer whispered to his client
that the pig had died as the result of
the Vaccinations of the chief sorcerer
of the Kevezzi district. Thus he ac-
complished two things at the same
time, satisfied his employer and
vented his envy and jealousy on his
rival
The owner Of the pig, catapulting
out Of the hut, howled out the in
formation the sorcerer had impaired
to him. He found ii ridiculously easy
to infame the passions of his fellows
against the people of KeveZzi. Be
tween the two districts had, blood of
a sort already existed.
So Kapatea went mad-stark. raw
ing mad-and prepared to avenge the
pigs death by making war on
kevezzi. Kapatea's chief did not
SudI z luG II1duHSSS Ol HIS p6OpIS.
In every such situation a leader is
ever to be found. Kapatea found
such a man in Yapitze of Tavivi vii
1age. And what a leader! Although
he could not strip the old chief Of his
hereditary title. Yapitze usurped all of
his powers and became chief in fact
Speedily he assembled his forces and
crossed the river into Kevezzi. There
he abandoned the skullxing warfare
and ambushes which characterizes
New Guinea fighting and attacked in
the open.
Speedily the villages of Kevezzi, dot
ting the grass-covered spurs Of the
mountains, were bathed in blood. while
the terror stricken survivors fed into
the jungle.
BY bush telegraph" word of the up
rising gradually trickled down to the
coast ard into the ears of Magistrate
Connelley at Kairuku, and an expedi-
tion was sent forth to bring about
peace among the natives.
WE stood knee-deep in the saw
w edged grass which lines the slope
upon which the Millage Of Popoliata is
built and gazed across the valley into
Kapatea.
Upon the opposite slope stood 200
or more Kapateans. and our field
glasses told US they were mostly men.
with few youths mixed in. Neither
women nor children were to be seen,
and the men and boys were armed.
Even at that distance we could dis
tinguish bows. spears and clubs.
Suddenly Humphries recalled that a
constable had boasted he could speak
the Kapatean tongue and called him.
They say come on and no be
afraid" Maikeli said in the English
upon which he prided himself
After that invitation-or was 1t
challenge?-Humphries could do moth
ing but go ahead. IL he held back
now, he knew government fear and
Evening star., 1926-12-12
MYSTERIES
BY Paul aud
Fragment Translated from Ambassadors Poem crdo by

George Slocombe.
It is not new
This that the eternal
Articles of the Credo
Reveal to us.
1t is as if we had always known it,
SO human is this knowledge
And intimate
And if we are given mysteries
Where we would have explanations,
What are they but the mysteries
Between a man and his wife,
Between a child and it's mother?
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writer was consul. In their first con-
versation Paul Claudel captured the
Imagination OF the younger man with
his project for an opera based on the
immortal, tremendous triology of
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Gem for December

Il cold December gave you birth.
The month of snow and fee and mirth.
Place on your hand a TURQUOISE blue
success will bless whate'er you do.
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-Fschylus, and the two began tmme-
diately to work on the theme, Claudel
writing his librstto from the Greek
and the composer creating new music
themes for the great tragedies. Later
Evening star., 1926-12-12

In the preceding two articles Mr..
Taylor has told OF some Of the
dangers met by three white men
in the interior of cannibal New
Guinea. Encountering human sac
rtfce at the start. the expedition
faced the wrath of a native sor-
cerer. who attacked both with pol
son and with a venomous SER
pent.
Later a savage youth, attached to
the expedition as an interpreter.
grew sullen and bitter because of
his desire to wear the tuft Of
feathers which the native can win
only by killing a human being.
When one of the white men was
injured by a fall. both he and the
young cannibal disappeared. The
situation was ominous. but next
day both appeared. The young
savage had saved the white mans
life through fear of his magic
black box" as the boy described a
camera.
Evening star., 1926-12-12

NO living man Of letters in France
enjoys q greater audience than
Paul ClAudel. His influence on
French thought and French writing
is considerable. In an age remarkable
for its cynical return to the realism OF
khe Fiaubert and Georges Eand
scheeie, with the current Of fntellec-
tusI interest In France swaying
Evening star., 1926-12-12

A BAD place, this village Tavivi,
quite the spot which would give
birth to a fiend such as Yapitze. IT
would not lightly forgive the man
who led it now into. the ha nds of the
"govamen'," in view of it's part in the
recent warfare. He would be a marked
man
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-11-26
HOUSE WARMING

Saturday evening November 70
a very pleasant gathering Of
neighbors met at the iiome OF b.
A. Hunt, Coye to aclp him and
his cstimablc wife (fotmerly
Mrs. Margaret MeCuteheOu OF
Lisabculal christen their new
home. lie has been at consider
able expense re-papering through
out, Installing a bath room aud
hot and cold water fixtures, 50
it is up-to-date A delightful
evening was spent in social inter
course with phonograph for mu-
sic. Mrs. Hunt 5 daughter, Mrs
Frost came over from the city to
help in entertaining the friends
After nice refreshments, coffee,
sandwiches, cakes for the ladies'
a smoke for the gentlemen, the
friends departed wishing them
many happy hours IN the newly
fixed up home.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-11-26

Mrs. L. Ness will be hostess Il
tae Ladies Aid OF Doekton, We'd
nesday, December lst.
Nils Niisen has sold his hous.
and lots to party from Portland
The new owner to take possession
immediately.
Alfred johnson has puIehasec
che three acres OF land adjoining
The Catholic Clmeh from Mis- Mi
zen of Puget Island.
Mis-, Leroy Bracket (Raehe
Haben) OF Yakima is visiting her
iataer, A. HalSen.
Mrs. G. Middlecoff spent Tues.
day night and Wednesday with
der brother and sister-m-law, Mr.
and Mrs, Riggs at their PuyalluI
home.
Mrs, A. j, Stuckey spent Mon
day with her mother, Mrs. 7. Bar.
clay and her sister, Mrs. l.. Turn
0ui at the latter'S home in Tacoma
Q = =
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Roncevicli
entertained a large company OF re-
latives and friends at their home
Sunday in honor of the christening
Of their baby son who was baptis-
ed at THE st. Patrick ) ehu,eh and
named John, after his maternal
grandfather. Mrs. Roneevieh oi
Tacoma, as sister Of Mr.. Ronce-
yien was Godmother TO the baby,
Services by Father Mertens OF
Tacoma were held in the st. Pat.
rick S chuich Sunday, also the bap
tlsm OF children The baby daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. D. Bcreuch
was given the name of Berniee
Berctich, with Mr.. and Mrs. Fla.
mingo Of Bellingham as sponsors
70 rfhe baby. Father Mertens
was guest 0t dinner at the Beretieh
home after the service.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-11-26
ANOTHER LAUNDRY CHANGE

The Troy Laundry of Seattle
which has been operating with a
wagon OH the island for a number
of years, has sold out their "run
to the Puget Sound Laundry of
Bremerton. Mr.. Penny who has
represented the Troy on Vashon
island will continue to represent
tie new company which expect
to start the island wagon here the
first of next week
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-11-26

f. c. Risdon, SO, Cashmere rancher'
vas killed when he was crushed be
tween a truck and a cherry tree.
The total assessed valuation Of Cow
litz county for 1926 is s2s,sSSi56'
compared with s22,25t,ii6 for 1925.
James Norris, 90 fell into a grain
hopper OF a packing plant at Seattle
and died by suffocation before work
men could rescue him.
Prune growers of the Blalock dis
,rict OF the walla walla valley are
finding they will net but So or 81 a
ton for thoir fruit this year
The value Of new buildings and re-
pair work in Vancouver for which per.
mits we're issued by the city cierL
during September totaled slsi,50270.