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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
CHINOOK.
THE olo mAepeRs'lANsv
BY u coMANcHo
y u II

KOK- SHUT.-The o has almost the
sound of the AL in Chalk. Accent
the first syllable pronouncing the
SHUT as in English. The meaning Is
All Broken Up, Shattered, Bursted,
Wrecked, Destroyed, Ruined, Sick, etc.
1t may be used TO say you feel bad,
that you were hurt. that your boat was
broken, or anything similar. Often
CHACO is used with it. meaning that
something comes wrecked" Still an
other shade of meaning Is shown IN
the sentence KONAWAY NIKA TELA-
CUM CHACO KOK-SHUT, or "Al OF
my friends are scattered"
KUNAMOX.- the q as in
Up, the A as in Father, and the o as
in OK, aecanting the Arst syllable. The
word usually means Both. Together
with, Beside, Along with, and Is flexible
enough to also mean Joined or United.
HALO CHACO KUNAMOX is do not
come together"
KONCE. - Pronounce as though
spelled KON-SEH. This word Is uSu-
ally the equivalent of the English How
or When. but may also mean How Many
or How Much. It is always used as q
prefix word to make sentence q cues
Sometimes it is used to mean the Time
When, but otherwise it is always in a
question. KONCE CHICKAMUN is
How much money!"
KwoNESUM.-The o is pronounced
as in Own, the E as in See and the .
as In Up. The accent Is on the second
syllable. This word means Always,
Forever, Without Stopping. Everlasting,
and so on. KWONESUM CHACO
OKEOKE CHUCK means Always
comes that water" KWONESUM
HALO MUCKAMUCK Is Always no
eat" meaning "Never eat that"
KWASS.-Accent the A. which is
| pronounced rs in Father. and hold 1t
| to say QU-wAH-S-S-S. This word
covers the idea of fear and of being
afraid or CT e tinid disposition. An
example is KwASS NIKA SPOSE
KLATAy7A COPO CHUCK. which
means Afraid I (aml II twe) go on
(ti1e) water
KLosH--The o Is pronounced as in
Over. KLOSH Is q word of approval or
confirmation, meaning Good. Right.
Satisfactory, Approved, and so forth.
Used with HALO or WAKE, 1t becomes
No Good or Bad, and can express the
whole idea of disapproval just as it
covers the whole range of satisfaction
when used alone. KLOSH CANIM
OKEOKE means THAT is q good Ca
noe" KLOSH MANAGE! IS Look Welt"
or BE carefulr'
KLOOTCENIAN.--P the o
as In Stoop and accent the first syllable.
The meaning Of the word IS feminine.
and. when used alone. woman As a
prefix before word such as BEBE IL
means Girl baby" Prd With KUITAN
1t means she horse" or Mare. When
used with NIFSA or rIIISA 1t means my
or your wife. TO designGts his wifes
relatives, an Indian would say. for ex-
ample. NIESA ISLOOTCHdAN, YAEEKA
OW. which means My woman. her
brother" and. therefore. My brother
in-law"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

HIGGERS are this Summer 60
ing to spoil more picnics, golf
matches, beach parties and
~ hikes around Washington and
Chesapeake Bay than for
many a year.
This calamitous prophecy is made by
DIR. H. E. Ewing, specialist in mites, OF
the National Museum, who has been
studying the fierce. ferociouS and MINI
BILE midget for years.
The chigger season has arrived.
Owing to the cold it was little late
| getting under way, so will not reach
its height Until around July 10,
DR.. Ewing intends to make an in
tensive study of the chigger this Sum-
Her at the Roosevelt Camp of the Boy
Scouts, near Chesapeake Beach. There
will be a sufficient number of bare legs
at the camp from which to remove all
the specimens a most devoted ehigger
hunter could possibly crave.
The boys, incidentally, VIII do their
| daily good deed when they report TO
the erltomologist their chigger bites,
so the burden of that duty will not lie
very heavily on their consciences.
The chigger is a queer critter. DR..
Ewing has learned a lot about him-or
rather her. for it is the female that pur-
sues most persistently--that was not
known before. But he is as mystlfied
as ever over some points OF the mldget's
ways.
EntomologiSts have long wondered
what the natural host of the chigger is.
Is it man or what? DR.. Ewing has
found chiggers on many vertebrates--
reptiles, birds and mammals, He has
now come to the conclusion that the
natural host of the chiggers is the ia
miliar box tortoise.
Almost unbelievable patience has
been exercised by DR.. Ewing in his
quest to find q way to exterminate the
pestiferous chigger, for that, after all,
is the object of his painstaking mvesti-
cation.
For instance, ne collected several
hundred chiggerS from tortoiseS in the
woods in the neighborhood of Chain
Bridge and his home, in Takoma Park,
and attempted to breed them. He did
not have much success. They all died
but two.
These two survivors, that could
hardly be seen without the aid OF q
microscope, DR.. Ewing kept captive on
the desk of his laboratory at the Ma
tionai Museum. They were incarcer-
ated in a cell made out OF a small glass
EGCkLACE VIAL. AAlEAS was q ASNAS 49,
sand in the tube and few chips OF
dead wood. For food the chiggers got
dead springtails and insect castings.
For months DR.. Ewing nursed these two
little beasts along, when they died
without leaving any progeny.
DR.. Ewing wanted to see whether the
larvae of these two chiggers that he
had found on tortoises bite man. NO
grown-up chiggers of any kind do. But
they would not lay eggs TO order--per-
haps chiggers are not supposed to lay
eggs-and they would not produce live
larvae.
So when the two specimens upon
which so much depended passed away
IL was necessary to go out into the
woods and gather more. DR.. Ewing es-
certained, by giving these the oppor-
tunity TO make meal off Of him, that
1t Is the tortoise-chigger that annoys
human beings
DR.. Ewing feels convinced that the
box tortoise is the natural meal ticket
of the eiaigger. His chief reason for be-
lieving this is that only where tortoiSes
are most plentiful Is the claigger to be
found in piagueiike numbers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

"For," he said, you are one of US.
Though your skin Is white. you are our
kinsman and brother and medicine
chief. You are Cuviboranandi (the
white stranger who came over sea to
become medicine chief. Every Quay
mi In the land knows of you, and when
ever you return, even II I and all of my
blood and all those who have been here
are dead, still will you be known as q
Guaymi and welcomed everywhere,
even among the most barbarouS and
savage of my people"
! feel sure he spoke the truth. An
Indians memory is long, and no doubt,
should ever return to the Guaymi
country ! should be regarded not as
a stranger and q white man but as an
indian. Through the initiation of the
night before had been made a medi-
cine chief of the tribe, with the crown
of ant-bear hair as the emblem of my
rank. had been honored as no other
white man mad ever been--and all be-
cause I had cured an old Indian OF
collie.
(Copyright. 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

Then the assembled Indians rose and
commenced slow, wailing chant, The
barbaric music was resumed, while the
old dance-chief took his place beside
the altar, carrying "devil-Stick" In
one hand In perfect rhythm the In
dams began dancing round and round
the altar.
Every now and again one would
shout the name of some beast, bird,
person or spirit. Leaping aside from
the line Of dancers he would seize a
some in his mouth, etoop quickly and
drop some into one of the tiny clay
dishes, and throw the remainder into
the fire At the same time the dance
chief would pick up the image OF the
creature or being whose name had been
called, together with the dish of food,
and breaking them into bits. toss them
into the flames.
This continued until the last of the
food and last of the images had been
destroyed. The images. 1t seemed, rep
resented persons, beasts. birds and
supernatural beings who could not at
tend the ceremony In person, but whose
spirits were believed to have entered the
figures for the occasion.
The food upon the altar was for
them, but, being unable to eat while in
their clay forms, the Indians acted as
proxies, while the dance-chief broke
the images In order to release the
spirits SO that they might return to
their own bodies He burned the frag-
mcnts in order to prevent evil spirits
from taking possession of them.
When the last image had been dis
posed of. we went outside.
About a cleared level. fiaring torches
had been placed. although the brilliant
moonlight rendered them unnecessary;
and round this spot the Indian women
| and most Of the men were squatted,
waiting. At one side stood the band
gayly bedecked with feather crowns and
immense sloth-skin head-dresses. carry
ing drums, flutes, whistles, trumpets
and rattles
Near them, and arguing loudly. were
| several other Indians, some carrying
seven-foot poles of about three inches
| In diameter, pointed at one end and
brightly painted. and all wearing
strapped TO their backs stuffed skins OF
otter. deer and iaguar. bedecked with
| feathers, head collars and scalps These
II appeared, were the dancers. and there
seemed to be great difficulty In de-
Gliding who should start the fun. When
/ saw the dance In full swing was not
surprised that each man hesitated ia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
Riding Comeback.

Here's little lesson In riding camel
back
Camels In North Central Africa and
East Africa are fitted with leather sad
dies with pommel. The nicer ones
have leather trappings covered with
cloth and are ornamented with beads
and cowie shells. The camel Is driven
by leather muzzle rope. and II one
wishes to attain little speed, he pats
the camel briskly on the neck Instead
OF the bit that horses wear. the reins
are attached to thin string that is
threaded through the camel's nasal orr
fee
Camels that are saddled for we'd
dings or other great occasions are ex-
tremely elaborate things. Their trap
pings are literally covered with tiny
beads woven into beautiful patterns OF
rich colors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
STONEHENGE, ENGLAND.

Salisbury Plain. near the city of
that name in England. contains q very
queer collection of stones arranged in
very interesting manner. There Is
an outer circle about 100 feet In diam
eter. and inside this circle Is another
one about 80 feet in diameter Inside
this there is horSeShoe-Shaped ar
rangement of stones with the open end
of the horseshoe facing the rising sun.
And II you stand within this horseshoe
Enclosure and look through the OPEN
ing at single stone few hundred
feet distant from the outer circle YOU
will note that the sun rises every morn
ing Just in line with your vision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

| in nature largely on refuse matter ana
| decaying woody substances. But DR..
| Ewing cannot find out how the young
are produced-whether they lay eggs or
whether the adult gives birth to live
young.
In the District of Columbia, nearby
Virginia, Maryland and southwestern
Iowa there is apparently single CHG
ger species. In the northern and west
efn parts of the United States there is
another very closely related species
which has the body shaped exactly like
the first mentioned, but has more spines
on the back and fewer branches or
barbs on these spines.
The belief has been almost universal
that chiggers in this country are found
in the grass. Observations have failed
to confirm this theory. 1t was found
that the northeastern species occurs al
most exclusively at or near the surface
of the soil. In this respect the larvae
differ from tick larvae, which climb up
on vegetation of various kinds.
People frequently get chiggers when
they go into the grass, but the eastern
species approaches from the ground.
The mites have been found in surface
Scrapings but repeated attempts to re-
cover them from growing vegetation
have failed
If chiggers attack man almost solely
from the ground. the question may be
asked: How are we to account for
attachments around the waist, under
the armpits, and about the eyes?"
Again DR.. Ewing'S observations show
that chiggers' attacks are seldom made
above the waistline unless the clothes
are quite loose around the waist or
the individual has been sitting or re-
Ginning on the ground.
When one simply walks through a
chigger infested region, the larvae are
first found about the feet md ankles.
Here they can be seen wita hand lens
They run with great rapidity--so fast. In
fact, that it is very hard to catch them.
From the ankles they spread upward,
few as q rule attaching here, unless the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

These stones were erected long ago in
such circular shapes, but many OF them
have now fallen down and have been
misplaced by wind and water and man.
But who erected them and when these
large stones were put In place are things
that no one seems 10 know, Many
scientists have studied the matter dur
Ing the past centuries, but few Of them
seem To agree as to the answers IL
seems. though. that they were ereete,A
about 1880 b, c.: that is. about S,6CE
years ago. And perhaps they were
erected by the ancient Druids OF
Britain as q sort OF sun temple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

vegetarian theory of the earlier ento-
moIogists, DR.. Ewing decided to give
this theory a test. He did not come
across single chigger on blackberry
shrubs and other plants growing on the
vacant lots-goldenrod, several grasses
and number of common weeds.
Next DR.. Ewing curry combed num-
Der of small mammals, such as meadow
mice and squirrels. He had them under
the microscope. and even washed out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

Hundreds of chigger-free tortoises
have been collected, tagged and set free
around Takoma Park by DR.. Ewing in
his experiments. However, not one OF
these marked tortoises has been re-
covered. 1t was hoped that they would
be found harboring chiggers.
Many interesting things about the
WAYS of chiggers have been brought to
light. It has been discovered that the
chigger adult is q scavenger which lives
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
THE PUZZLE CORNER.

IA. Child's garment.
49, Article of jewelry.
10. A row of seats.
81. Noise made by baby.
o. Indefinite article.
49, Company (ab.).
Answers.
/. The articles in the lunch were
sandwich, pickle, cake and lemonade.
2. The words in the diamond are
r, bed, bases, resorts, derby, sly and b.
8. The words in the square are
mates, aloha, token, elect and Santa.
4. Bougn, DOW.
S. Cross Word Puzzle Solution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
Riddles.

Rub the sand from your eyes, II there
Is any there. before you start on these
riddles, or you won't have chance OF
guessing them.
/. Why Is the sky cleaner In the city
than In the country?
2. Why do flremen seem TO lack en-
thusiasn12
3. What Is the difference between an
elephant and germ?
4 How long is a chinaman2
S. When was base ball mentioned in
the Bible?
Answers.
1~~Eecause the city has 50 many sky
Seraperg 2--~Because they are always
throwing cold water on everything. D.
An elephant carries the trunk. but q
germ carries t.le grip, Yes. How
Long is Chinanar. 5-When the
prodigal son made home run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

Tongue Twister.

ciistcYner--"I want a pair OF spec
rimmeh hornicle~wI mean spornritnmed
hectacles-c onfOund~~I mean heck
trimmed spornaciee."
Sh0pwaiker~~"I know what you mean,
sir. Mr. perkes, show this gentleman
pair Of ~spofned hectacles."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

tons and comparing the true answer
with the answers given will be up u
the host or hostess who Ia giving the
party.
Usually each group should contain
from 20 10 Is questions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
Mortuary Note.

do you believe i'll the survival Of
the fittestp"
IT don't believe In the survival of
anybody / am an undertaken"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
PrO9reSS.

Interested Prot. What do you expect
to be when you get out Of high school?
Permanent Fresh,~-A grandfather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

The height Of the correctly proper
TONED human figure Is six times the
length Of the right foot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

This word diamond is built around
the name of places popular in Summer
The second line contains word for a
sleeping place, the third is the corner
of ball diamond the fifth Is kind
of hat and the sixth is pig pen.
E
| REs9Rrs
r
T
Arrange these words to form q five
letter word square: !. What birds
choose In Spring. q The Hawaiian
word for "Good-by." 8. A small gift
4. To choose for office. 5. The bring
er of gifts at Christmas.
=
In the following sentence the missing
words are similar in sound but differ
ent in meaning. Guess them.
1.-The of the tree barely
cleared the -- of the canoe as
we passed beneath it."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08

This is the picnic season, so well
start this weeks column on With
picnic picture puzzle.
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03
New Dover Opera House. Dover

Wednesday and Thursday - Aside
from uniting the star, director, lead
ing man combination which made
such a success of the epic Of the air,
"Wings," ," Ladies of the Mob" Clara
Bows new starring picture, is note
worthy in that it present this popular
actress in an entirely new type Of
role. Ladies of the Mob" is the first
serious melodrama undertaken by
Miss Bow since she became a Para
mount star. 1t shows her as the
sweetheart and wife of a savagely
successful bank robber and depicts
her ecorts to get him to 20 straight
and to keep him straight. The pic
ture was directed by William Well
man, who made such a success Of
Wings, and Richard ArIen, who had
leading role in the air epic, is the
leading man in Ladies Of the Mob"
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03

Daniels, the last two with that star
being "Senorita" and "She's a Sheik."
His last work, however, was with
Emil Jannings in "The Last Com
mand." Richard Arlen plays opposite
Miss Daniels in the story BY Howard
Emmett Rogers.
Monday and Tuesday-Three mo-
ton picture notables who contributed
materially to tire success Of Wings,
the aviation epic, worked together
again at the Paramount studio in Hol-
lywood. Clara Bow, star, Richard
Arlen, leading man, and William Well
man, director, made the new drama
Of the underworld, Ladies of the
Mob" This was the first time the
three were associated since the film
ing of the air production. In the
story, which is great departure from
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03
CIRCULARS ATTACKING SMITH
7. 5. DUPONT Posts Reply to Those
Found at LongwOOd Imposing
Religious Test

John J. Raskob, chairman of the
National Democratic Committee, an
nounced in New York on Wednesday
last, that two handbills attacking
Governor Smith on religious grounds
had been found on The Longwood es-
tate Of Pierre S. DUPONT, who an
nounced sometime ago that he would
support Governor Smith for President
One handbill contained a statement
alleged to have been made in 1852 by
Father Chinguy that the aim of
Catholicism was to convert all people
to that, and the other contained what
purported to be a statement of some
Catholic leader to the effect that the
Catholic religion was above every
thing else, and that a Catholics first
duty was to the church irrespective
Of his duty to the government. Mr..
dupont had one of the handbills post
ed on the walls of his greenhouse
with the following beneath it:
September "a, 1923.
''The above letters were found on
the floor of this house. Those who
prepare and distribute such state
ments do SO with intent to stir up
religious strife and to violate the
Constitution of the United States.
They are in the same class as the
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03

bootlegger, but worse in character.
at would be far better to see the
garden paths at Longwood strewn
with empty whisky bottles, than with
leaflets such as these. The poison Of
the former has passed from the bot
tie, and will quickly pass from the
body of the drinker, but the poison
of the leaflets will endure in the mind
of the reader and by him pass to 9TH
er minds in an unending chain Of cor
ruption.
Religious freedom and tolerance
are built into the foundation Of our
government and without them we
shall cease to be free people.
Gone who seeks to impose i reTg-
ious test upon candidate for office
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03

Of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches
of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Sep
tember 80. The Golden Text was
from Isaiah 52:7; "How beautiful up
on the mountains are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings, that pub
lisheth peace; that bringeth good It'd
ings of good, that publisheth saliva
ton; that saith unto Zion, Thy God
reigneth." Among the citations which
comprised the Lesson Sermon was the
following from the Bible: Behold |
will bring it health and cure, and l
will cure them, and will reveal unto
them the abundance of peace and
Truth" der. 1856. The Lesson-Ser-
mon also included the following pas
sages from the Christian Science
textbook, Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Bak-
er Eddy: "In the year 1866, | dis
covered the Christ Science or divine
laws of Life, Truth, and Love and
named my discovery Christian Science
Through Christian Science religion
and medicine are inspired with di-
viner nature and essence; fresh pin
ions aIe given to faith and under
standing, and thoughts acquaint them
selves intellingently with God" (p.
107D.
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03

is a traitor to his ID ~
demned bg aIl." ana Should / y !
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03

the type of picture Miss Bow has
made. in the past, the fapper star
plays the role of an underworld char
acter who reforms and then spends
the balance of the time persuading
Richard Arlen to do likewise. 1t is
interesting to note that this is the
first photoplay of its kind attempted
BY the youthful director. His two
great successes came with "Wings"
and '"The Legion of the Condemned" !"
both dealing with aviators.
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03
STAGE AND SCREEN WRITE-UP
COMING AMUSEMENT EVENTS
The Strand Theatre. Smyrna

Friday and Saturday - William
Powell, long considered the foremost
of versatile character men on the
screen, plays the role Of villain in
Bebe Daniels latest starring comedy
"Feel My Pulse The Paramount
featured players part on this occa-
sion is that Of a leader Of a rum-run-
ming gang and is believed to be one
of the best roles of his career. Powell
has frequently appeared with Miss
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03
The Everett Theatre. MiddIetown

Wednesday and Thursday-In the
days when the frigate Constitution
was the pride Of the American navy,
and American ships were bidding for
the commerce of the world there was
built in New England a vessel called
the Three Brothers. For eighty-fve
years this vessel has braved the
storms of the seven seas, ploughed
through Arctic ice, witnessed murder,
mutiny, and other dramatic adven-
lures of the old clipper ships. Today
she sails on motion picture screen,
for the old Three Brothers, in later
years rechristened the Narwhal, is
the vessel on which Ramon Novarro,
Joan Crawford, Ernest Terrence and
others of a big motion picture com
pany make their dramatic cruise in
"Across to Singapore
Christian Science Churches
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03
TUESDAY, October 9

Young love and beauty amidst the glory the monras
Peaks Of Destiny scales the highest for romance md pB
ening action 1t takes you deep the n
shows marves of and the beauty N
Sennett Comedy-Gorious Fourth" Gang ana tle Ca
Play, "IraiI of the Tiger" Admission. 20 and 35e
Smyrna times., 1928-10-03

Ramon Novarro the star of "Ben Hur is coming IN MS 2
orI i; g t; over W It tLIls' deG, @ ana [ ni ne Ora
this picture takes and what thrill will get Ene
is also at his best Added-"George False A
Fox News. Admission 2O-35c.
Evening star., 1928-04-19

Wage demands made recently by
German railway employees meant an In
crease of operating costs Of S250000,-
600 annually.