The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1928-08-30
BY PAULINE SUING BLOOM

internationally known, a world traveller Mrs.
Clifford Lee Corbin returns to her native land
with the same love for the pines she had when
as a girl sent away to school, inconsistencies, a
thief, took all of the joy of living. That joy
replaced only when crossing the mountains, the
first smell Of the pines typifying everything a
grlish heart held dear, sent happiness again
racing through her veins.
81 believe in the old. old legend that one must
return every seven years to her birthplace for
that reiuvenaton no other spot holds. | have
not been here in twice many years and oh,
how wonderful Spokane is! People who live
here all of the time do not realize its growth and
development as someone coming back after Il
long absence. 1t is one of the worlds beauty
spots she said.
As the daughter of the late Charles Sweeney,
pioneer mining of the Northwest, Emeline
Sweeney feted perhaps no other Spokane
girl when her engagement to Major Corbn, then
young lieutenant, was announced. Lieutenant
Corbn the nephew and ward of Major
General Henry c. Corbin. U. S. A., one of
Americas military idols. Mrs Corbns married
life has been true to army traditions Home
might be anywhere you hang your hat, depend
ing on the telegraphic dispatches Uncle Sam saw
fit to send your husband. But at the time of
the world the Corbin's bought home in
Washington, ID. c., and the intervening ten years
has taken them for two years service the
Rhne for two years in Paris France, where
Major Corbin was attached to the Embassy and
and Ecole dIntendence, and Mrs. Corbin and
their three children have just returned from
year at Camp Stotsenburg Philippine islands
They are spending month with Mrs. Francis j..
Finucane, Mrs Corbin's sister, enroute to Wash
ington before the opening of school, which event
Mrs. Corbin thinks is of prime Importance to
Henry c., General Corbin's namesake, who is
scheduled to enter West Point next year, the
third generation of Corbns to be enrolled in
that historic school, Miss Dolly, age Is, enroll
ed at Holton Arms, Washington Day school and
Edith Ann, ten in grade school,
The tropics, Mrs Corbin believes, teach
that very little is of real importance eve are
inclined to fuss So about trifes, in this country
she said "After all if have fresh air, sunshine
and a covering, nothing else really matters.
ut seems shocking to get into that state of
mind, but over there the first few months we
Just sit and think after that just stand
don't bother to think. | saved up such
lot of good reading to do over there. | brought
the books all back just l took them over I'd
find after a few minutes that of the few that
have the leaves cut holding the volume up
side down had covered a chapter without
idea as to what had read
Only those who have watched the clock on
the days of Philippine service can appreciate the
tragedy of the long days and the longer nights,
to those who fail to meet them with the capac-
ity for humor that Mrs. Corbin displays.
Former tours to the Philippines have taken
the Corbns through China and Japan and in
l915-16 they lived in South America.
Mrs. Corbin is tremendously interested in
China She loves its art and the majesty of its
years of civilization and she believes that the
program to industralize that nation is danger
Gus experiment. 1t will not only rob the artist,
for every Chinese worker is an artist in his line,
of his initiative, but will deprive the world of