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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-11-11

every Burton and Vashon football
player present at our party that
evening.
But let us correct the impression
that this party is a Benefit Dance,
There is no charge and only those
who receive invitations are expect
ed.
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Teachers Make Posters

The pretty posters advertising
the Masonic Radio Carnival for
his week end were made by two
Vashon teachers, Miss Freda
Schultz and Miss Rachel Van de
Vanter.
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Vashon School Notes
Edited BY
Sophomore English Glass
Vashon vs.. Burton

The second football game be-
tween the two island schools is to
be played this afternoon en- the
Burton field Tie first game was
played more than q month ago,
Nashon winning By the small score
OF 8 to O. Fans can always look
Tor d great game when these two
teams meet and may the hest
win.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
ADVERTISING RATES

10 cents per line for first inser.
ton; 5 cents per line for each ad-
ditional insertion.
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80
WANTED Hear from own

Ranch for sale. state cash price.
particulars. d. H. Bush, Mime
apolis, MINI. lO-l4-Gt
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So %

3ALL RED Ss3- before TOO a.
m. or have your freight left at
Auto Freight Depot BY 1000
a. m. and il will be delivered the
same day
Nashon Tacoma Auto Freight
I1d4f
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MISCELLANEOUS

FOR RENT-f'our room house @ll
month Water boo. Inquire Mrs
II u Muus0n Nashon ll-li-2fn
30
FOR RENT Good 6 room Ilus.
north Of Bell Poultry Ranch
Tl2 month Phone Rcd is2
ll-1l-ti
RIDGwAy and RIDGWAY
Contractors and builders
tmaies given on all kinds q.
work in building line. r. II %.
N0. J, Bo2 II, ilH4ton. Was
3-li-if
ABS hBREHAMSTN painfina
Phone Black 1853 Paparhanqiae
VASH0N Kalsominmg
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The boys and girls of the 4tk
and 9th grades are busy making
rag rugs for Mothers Christmas
present.
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Grade Notes.

Thanksgiving decorations have
begun TO appear in the Vashon
Grade rooms.
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FOR SALE

CIV. gao. none heQ %. ll-il~lI
Hollow-wire Gasoline Lighting
system for sale Z lights com
plete, in first-class condition.
Phone Blk. 1874. ll-4-tf
50
FOR SALE yr old heifer, will
freshen in April. VIII sell or
trade for beef stock. Phone Blk.
19l 11-4-2t
FOR sALE-Young bull, good
stock, Gaudie, Portage 11-Ltf
FOR SALE Redwood tanks, y
inch rods, cap, 1900 and 210O
gal. ] Rotary power force pump
Martin Anderson, Colvas
1l-42tp
FOR SALES weeks old Duroc
pigs, Phone Blk 81 S. Il. Watson.
ll-4tf
FOR SALE Good used lumber.
Half price. Inquire at News-Rcc-
ord office. 1l-4-tf
90
ORDER Your fresh cider for
Halloween, also boiled cider for
inince meat from John Lincoln.
Blk. l03. l0-2S-tf
FOR SALE-kitchen stove, good
condition Black 100, Vashon
Gardens. 10-21-tf
Order your Engraved Christ
mrs Cards or a package Of -
assorted cards ut 81. from Ed.
ward Bragg, Phone Red 904
1O-2l-tf
FOR SALE ", old 'roggenburg
billy goat. Phone Blk. 112l
10.2S-tf
WHY FEED BUTTER MILK
when M0LL-EGG gives better
results for half the money. Try
u and be convinced Il carries
the proper minerals the Hen
needs. People who have used it
have proved it. Il. G. Comstoek,
Agt Burton, Wash. Phone Red
$50. 1e2l-tf
FOR sALE-CABBAGE. 800 %
sack. Phone Blk. 1914. l0-14-it
80
FOR sALE--F'irst growth forest
wood 800 load, ~ ricks.
$500 d rick. Field; 4. / Phone
Blk. So. Cali evenings. l0-l4-tf
FOR SALE Good work horse
Cal Blk 1901 evenings after
q 900 o 'eloek. 930n
FOR sALE-Old growth forest
wood VIM lIeirsch. Phone Blk
1901 s-lg1at
FOR skEE-A Wintou Roadster
$3.50 lf you want q good look
ing car why moi buy this one 4
Olaf siatclen. Phone Red 5G.
s-5-tf.
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WANTED TO TRADE

equity in Portable electric Sing
cr sewing machine, on ear. Call
Red 753. 10-2s.tf
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FOR sALE-several tons Of
4hickeD manure specially adapt
81 for garden OR hot house bench
work Come and make Your
diekcr Also go boxes of green
house glass AIl fourteen inches
wide, IL 60 twenty long VIII
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80 AUTOMOBILES so

WANTED-Good used cars lat
models Highest cash prices paid.
We have buyers waiting. We
also take cars on consignment.
No storage charges. See US be-
fore you sell.
PACIFIC AUTO SALES CO.
l120-22 Broadway Seattle East
6460. Open evenings aud SUN
days. l0-ll-lt
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WANTED

WANTED--LoeaI residents 70 geII
popular line of radios and equip
ment Demonstrating machine
furnished free. References re
quired. Must have car. Address
Piper & Taft, 1907 Second Ave.
Seattle. 11-ll-tf
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WHY FEED BUTTER MILK

when MOllll-EGG gives better
results for half the money. Try
u and be convinced Il carries
the proper minerals the Hen
needs. People who have used it
have proved it. Il. G.. Comstock
Agt Burton, Wash. Phone Red
$50. 1e.2l-tf
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sHINaLING nnl roo R

Can Red 1911 Evenings Willian.
steen. g-2-tf
60
WANTED-General Trucking. AlI
kinds OF heavy hauling and mog
ing. NJ K Dwisford. Phone Rcd
fo5. S-a6-ti
80
| WILL BUY an your live poultry
aud weigh and pay for it I'd yonf
place Il. G Park, Phone q d
gj evenings g-lIfr
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FOR SALE yr, old 'roggenburg
billy goat. Phone Blk. li2l.
10-2S-tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-28

telling them, of playing them. 1t was
precisely the memory of a joke he
once played that crept first into his
mind. The victim was that magnifi
cent basso, Adamo Didur, who first
introduced the somber Car Boris
Godunoff to New York audiences, and
whose tragical Afchibaldo in the
Love of Three Kings" has stood for
years as a masterpiece of grief and
terror.
After a preliminary silent laugh, De
Luca related:
'One day / saw Didur looking with
a curious gaze at the top of my head.
/ have forehead that goes up high,
but at the top of my head have very
good hair. l asked Didur what he
was looking at. He replied he was
admiring what good hair / had
"'Ah,' I said, there is a secret in
that. ! will tell it to you, but you
must promise never to repeat it to
anybody
HE promised very earnestly, and I
leaned over to him.
1T is a wig. For years l have
worn wig. But please, Didur, no.
body has ever known it. Don't ever
tell any one
Tell any one?" he cried. With
me secret is a secret
During the next few days it was
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ives, there was a. full moon), starting
about 1:30 and making camp about
midnight. This allowed for sleep until
the suns rays, burning through IT,
tent, turned 1t into Il furnace, and we
knew II was time to put on our
burnouses against the heat of another
day.
In addition to the cleverly chosen
hours Of travel, the route was one
planned to show every phase of desert
life. The first day lat Dead Horse
Campo the halt was made on the out
skirts of a native village. That night
we made dry camp in the open desert.
and the next found us beside another
large oasis. The third found us on
the main caravan route to Timbuctu,
camp pitched beside an Arab coffee
house, in a cool date garden, and the
last night of all was a desert camp
opposite an artesian we'll, where we
enjoyed the unique experience of
enough water for real baths. The
mere suggestion of such a thing
seemed to overpower our six retainers,
but when the idea finally percolated
they logged water cheerfully.
To appreciate fully the glamour and
romance of caravaning, one should
live through the long moonlight tricks
across the sands, to the music of
Topsy's fittings and Sizzles' yowlings;
or the sweltering, fascinating, fly
biting tramps through such quaint,
mud-baked villages as Omesh and
Ourellal.
There is a unique charm about the
SaEaran villages of two-story houses,
built of baked desert sand. their
fronts facing on narrow. crooked lanes
Of streets, their whole silhouetted
against a background of waving date
palms. All of the struggling streets
manage to find their way to the village
square, a treeless, open space of much
sun and yellow sand. On one side is
always the Sheikh's house: on the
other the Sahara equivalent of the
corner saloon-a coffee house where
the local sports congregate to sip
coffee and play dominoes. In Omesh
there was even a prehistoric talking
machine. wheeling out strange songs
Of the desert.
The appearance Of two girls, clad
in knickerbockers and burnouses, was
everywhere heralded as a big event.
The town cop" appeared. to drive
away the beggars and youngsters; the
Sheikh came forth to give us an off
cial welcome, and the fiustered cafe
proprietor got out his best cups and
brewed us fresh Cafe Maure."
At Ourellal a delightful old gentle
man. clad in spotless white, is the
Sheikh. He came forward to greet us
with just the trace of twinkle in
his large blue eyes, and, after the
salutations, invited us into a vacant
room beside the cafe evidently his
private lounge), which boasted two
chairs, a table and several assorted
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one part was played by Agnini, the
assistant stage manager at the Metro
politan Opera House. AS an invention
of her own she had arranged to kick
a glass of champagne out of mans
hand Agnini had to be the one to go
on the stage to hold the glass. She
, had tried out the kick with singers
and supernumeraries, one after an
| other, and they had failed. She had
cultivated a magnificent kick. a ire
mendous upswinging of foot. When
a man saw that kick coming he ex-
perienced an overwhelming instinct to
duck or back away. That looked
ridiculous, and, besides, the cham
payne glass would swerve, and La
Farrar would miss it with her re-
splendent kick, which looked still more
ridiculous. After all had failed, the
assistant stage manager stepped hero
iCally into the breach. Agnini had the
iron of soul to face the kick without
the turning of hair. The cham
payne glass went flying from his hand
with a marvellous effect.
Zone night in Tristan while Isolde
was singing the Love-Death over the
body of her hero, the corpse not only
moved but turned over. There was
a GOOD deal of establishment back.
stage until it was explained.
"Sembach, the tenor. lay there as
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a baby's head protruding from the
mouth of each. \ discreet recourse to
Tahat locum" produced some smiling
snapshots; in fact. we became so pop
ular that d wall went up upon de-
p1rture.
Arab men never get used 10 our
freedom. How our man folk ever al
lowed us to travel, unveiled and alone
n strange lands was beyond their
comprehension. Finally one Of the
nen came to US about the matter.
We replied hE aeL.stG him If he
new where his women were every
1.nute. especially when he was away
~ caravan. Ills reply was most con-
,incjng. For ne pulled out Of his belt
4 key seV@' nj inches long. Temdrkng;
Me. | kr-bW; when | come home | un-
'9cK the house and take them forth
81 il pc tite promenade with me"
incidentally. Arab houses have no
"indoWs opening onto tho streets. all
opening into the inner court, where
he women go for air.
our last night "cn caravan" was
Particularly lively. We had wandered
about camp all day with dresses under
orr hurnouses, only changing into
l,nickerbcckers just before sunset.
Neither oe MS realized that our hosts
but the Expression on their faces
when We emerged We will never for
get. Two fnore nabberGastcd" mon
would be hard to find. Unveiled Wom-
en-? Yes. But woman "on hommc"
was beyond thcir widest flights of
imagination. They just had to go and
tell their friends all about it. with tho
result that. as We diU"t, men began
to emerge from the shadows on all
sides.
To liven UP matters Topsv brought
ont his flute. and after minute
started dancing. Soon the new Corners
began to join in. until there must
have been dozen or more, in a circle.
clapping their hands and stamping
out the rhythm in unison. as. one
after another. each took his turn in
tho center. and started a clever imi-
tation of the Geisha Girls of the
Sahara.
The last night saw our return to
Biskra-quite as noisy an entry as
was the exit at dawn less than q
week before. Topsy's valiant footing
reused the populace so successfully
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a science. Today I can win a little
| money, especially Didurs.
"Eh. but / got even with Caruso for
| that joke. Consider the Metropolitan
| Opera House stage. We were right
| in front. The orchestra was soft with
violins and flutes. 1t was prepare
ton, preparation for a big Caruso
aria. Just before Caruso's aria be-
gan I was to shake hands with him.
l debut it was a handshake he
never forgot. l had with me a fresh
egg. I had brought 1t secretly for
a purpose. We shook hands, I with
drew, and Caruso had the egg! He
sang his aria under difficulties, with
that egg in his hand. What could
he do with it? He couldn't drop it,
nor pass it to some one else. He
sang beautifully. as only Caruso
could, but all through the aria his
right hand was a fist, and there was
notable absence of his usual elo-
quent gesticulation."
TIE LUCIA pondered selecting his
~ next tale of laughter. There are
really too many comical things in the
solemn vicinity of the lyric stage.
Several years ago. when Geraldine
Farrar made her great triumph in
succession of performances of 'ZaZa.
she would not go on the stage unless
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astonishing. Everybody at the opera
house looked at the top Of my head.
People stood and gazed as though at
some natural phenomenon. | went to
Didur and spoke with sorrow:
Ma, caro- milo, you promised not
to tell, and everybody is looking.
Everybody knows
"'My dear fellow he replied. do
you think had I told anybody? Every
one knows you have a wig. They
nave known it for a long time. They
have seen you take it off. They told
me-
II said nothing. I merely took hold
Of the hair at the top of my head and
gave it pull hard enough to take
the scalp off. Then 1 laughed"
y X
RUT a man cannot play tricks with
= out being the butt of an occa.
SIGNAL trick himself. Imagine the great
Caruso. Imagine the great game of
poker. Then we proceed. De Luca
was now trifle reuful in his gayety.
Back in 1908. when I was young
and innocent, I had never played
poker. Caruso said he would teach
me. He took me into q nice game
with other friends. They explained
to me about the three of kind. the
flush, the full house. l was a little
confused. but we went ahead with
the game. j lost some money. Then
a big pot came. They played with
the agreement that if there We're no
jacks to open the next round it took
queens, and so on. Everybody anted
SO. / was the dealer. and it took
kings to open. Everybody passed
until it was my turn. l was uncer-
tain. I had rotation. know now 1t
was what you call a straight
showed my cards to Caruso and in
quired whether / could open. He
looked at that rotation and then at
the pot, which was several hundred
dollars.
Have you got a pair Of kings?'
he asked, scornfully. or a pair of
aces, or the three of a kind, or the
full house p and shrugged his
shoulders in a way that made me feel
very ignorant.
Excuse me- I said. timidly. Il
am sorry And I threw my hand In
Caruso laughed and took the cards
for his deal.
"Afterward they told me OF the
Joke. and we all laughed. Certainly.
it was just Joke. But they took my
money. 1t made me think. realized
that there were many possibilities in
that game Of poker. I studied it like
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to de station. you modder-in-law wot
she's waiting witt de bondles ha?-
Hm--Of cuss-Goot pye.
You'll wait plizze feftin meenits
pipple?
RRRRRRRRRR-
Mr. ---Hollo-Hollo-Nof
is--Yeh---Wot---I fell don you
huss-??? Wot 7 should drifin heem
witt de car plizze home-Of cuss---
Goot pye--, Hm-youll wait plizZe
a heff from a hour pipple-???
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Mr.. Feitlebaum --'Hollo Hollo -
Who?? Yifnif-Noo so wot is-wot
your Diving swallowed q feeshbun-
II VI Yi-yeh-So ! should drifting
heem witt de car arond 1t should
shake hout from de troat de bun
HIM Goot pye.,---Youll wait plizze
trtekWodders from hour pipple?
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woulda sat home after dat ting starts
if ever---ha ha". Well, don't for
get to take yer usual precautions
pop
Mr.. MitZic-Itll be room in de car
for de precussions also??
Looy-Ha ha-you'll see dem dc
foist beanery he parks outside Of
Bear traps-boigiar alarms, anchors
an padlocks-Den he takes de wheels
in de beanery wild him an tips his
coop troo a police whistle-Ha ha--
Why doncha jist tie de fiivver OPTIC a
dogs tail. pop. an no crookll notice
it, ha ha--
Mr.. Feitleba um-Bang !.!i.! You'll
gerrada-here dope alrady ha--Noo
come on pipple we should gradually
gung-come pipple-Come.
r r r r r r r r R-BRINGGG
Mr.. -Holio--Hollo-Yas
dots me by de phone-Oh hollo Grub
nick Yas-wot--Could drife plizze
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tilagree bracelets. brooches anklets
and earrings reaching to the shoulders:
the weight Of the last mentioned some
what relieved by a thin chain stretched
over the top of the head from ear to
ear. Their six or eight halfWild dogs
came over and shifted and barlled at
US. but deciding we were harmless,
finally wandered off. And we plodded
on again.
About 10 o'clock-perhaps later-~Ali
Baba called the halt in "a shady date
grove. In an incredibly short time the
men had made camp-three tents,
sleeping, dining room and kitchen,
two tables and three chairs. At noon
a procession of Aladdin's own bronZed
genii served our table d'hote luncheon
at the tiny table under the whispering
palms, a meal which would have re-
Elected credit to metropolitan hotel
And all prepared by Sizzles on a tiny
stove.
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With the going down of the sun, spir.
it's began to revive: camels were
brought in and hobbled on one side of
camp, in readiness for loading; tents
came down and were rolled up; cots
and bedding strapped, and our dinner
meticulously served by Said and Ali
Baba, scurrying anXiously from kitch.
en- tent to dining table
So distressed did they become II we
did not enthuse over every course
that more than once the burial of
certain unappetiZing morsels had to be
resorted TO. This deceit was the more
easily practiced because dinner was
always served under the dubious il.
Elimination of two portable kerosene
torches, placed at sufficient distance
TO keep us out of range of the flying
things of the night. Never until after
we had finished did the men gather
about Sizzles' campfire and the big
pot of "Kous-Kous their native dish
of boiled hazelnuts, rice and stewed
chicken or meat, potatoes and carrots
really sort of glorified Irish
stew').
Then the camels were loaded and
we were off. If the moon had risen
when he started. Topsy at once piped
up what Said called THE Song of the
Bad Mans" terminated by each mans
yowling and shooting off his musket
or revolver, as the case might be.
Having thus appeased the demons Of
the night, our march began in good
earnest.
The last two nights, starting ahead
of the moon. the men howled sepa-
rately, accompanied or not. as Topsy
felt inclined. But with the appearance
Of the moon the same performance
was gone through with. and more
ungodly racket is hardly imaginable.
There never was anything secre.
tive about our peregrinations at any
time. for when no one felt inclined to
sing, some Of the men always i'm.
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packing boxes. We grinned and
gesticulated amiably until the coffee
arrived, along with generous gifts of
dates and pomegranates for ourselves
and our camel boys, after which we
all adjourned to the square, where
our gentle host accorded us the I'M
usual privilege of photographing him
and his son.
X X X
THE ride to Ourellal and back was
the hottest we experienced. For
malities at the cafe consumed so much
time that the kilometers back to
camp had to be covered during the
noon hours. The value of our bur
houses was thoroughly demonstrated,
for with them wrapped about us, the
hoods drawn over our helmets and the
whole surmounted by the big straw
hats always worn in the desert, we
found the heat not unbearable, al
though the temperature was too high
to be registered by our travelling Their
mometer.
This sweltering heat is the more
unbelievable when contrasted with the
nights. Along toward 4 o'clock, with
the sun on the downward curve, came
ligAt breeze. and dining out of doors
was comfortably cool at sunset.
BY the time the camels were packed
to start we were glad of our long
coats, and long before midnight had
our burnouses wrapped about us, the
hoods pulled up to keep out the biting
cold. We slept the sleep of the just
under heavy quilts, our coats and bur-
houses double.
Beginning to throw off the covers
toward morning, we turned out about
1870, broiling again. It's a queer eli
mate, but after a day or so not alto
gether unpleasant.
One grew to love the long tricks
across the moonlit desert. Certain
ceremonies always had to be observed.
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ried muskets, which they also fired
off in the midst of that poor, defense
less village!
The little caravan had passed out
of the palm gardens, and was climb
ing the shifting sand dunes of the
Sahara Desert, when the sky began
to glow with the coming dawn. And
there we We're; 10 camels and their
white-robed drivers, parading. single
file, along the crest of a high dune.
Leading the procession were Helen
and /, closely followed by the seven
freight camels. Atop the last of these,
precariously astride our jingling
kitchen utensils, were jauntily perched
Topsy, Said and Sizzles, the camp
cook.
Not the least picturesque element
of the caravan was the camel boys.
Ali Baba, the head man and guide;
Oscar, his first assistant, and his
younger brother, Ichabod, so named
because of his long legs, and the
prodigious distances he traversed in
pursuit of his special charge, the
eldest child of Derbrouka, Helen's
camel. This little fellow, with long,
wobbly legs, struggled along in our
rear, running into everything and
everybody.
n X y X
&UDDENLY Said called for us to
~ turn and look around. Behind us
came a real caravan of desert nomads.
Thirty or forty moth-eaten camels
were carrying variety of burdens,
even to two with deep paniers strap
ped to their sides, youngsters head
protruding over the top of each.
bringing up the rear walked the
women and older children, driving a
flock of black and white goats. Of
course we drew off to one side, and
waited until they had all passed. And
apparently we were just as strange a
sight to them as they were to us.
Naturally the women interested us
most-swarthy, neglected-looking crea
lures, clad in long, heavy robes OF
brilliant red cotton, from the tops of
their heads to below the ankles. The
entire wealth Of the family-or tribe
is represented in their jewelry, elab
orately chased solid gold or silver