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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Moslem Maidens Win
Right to Inheritance

Aleppo, .-Mohammedan maid
ems henceforth will have right to
share the Inheritance of their fathers
with the sons of the family.
The court at Aleppo recently ruled
that the French law concerning open
SUGGESTIONS should apply in the part
of Syria under French mandate.
Heretofore the Koranic law provid-
ing that everything should 60 to the
sons Of the family, leaving the girls
to look out for themselves-or for
husbands-has applied. During the
court trial the rights of women to
have slice of the family financial
pie in Syria were upheld by Henry
Lemery, senator from Martinique in
the French parliament. 1t was esti-
mated that 100000 were repre-
scented by the claims of women that
would be affected Immediately by the
court decision.
The men of Syria have not taken
kindly to the decision. In order to
put their women folk back in their
old places they have appealed from
the Aleppo decision before the Su-
preme court at Beyreuth.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Influence of Health
on PROGRESS Studied

Washington.-The history of health
and how health conditions Influenced
the progress of Americans for the last
300 years, is being studied for the
first time this summer. The American
Historical association has commits
stoned DIR. Richard Fl. Shryock, re.
search scholar appointed under the
$4,000 memorial fund established in
honor of former United States Senator
Albert j. Beverage by his widow, to
do this job.
Historians often mention spectacu
lar epidemics or strange medical prac
tees, and medical men record the tech
meal progress of their science, but
none heretofore has made an attempt
to relate the status of the nations
health with its social background.
Doctor Shryock will work this sum
mer among scholars of Washington
and Philadelphia.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Tin Plays Large Part
in Feminine Appdrel

How many women and girls who
wear flesh-colored artificial silk stock
ings know that the golden sheen on
some Of them is really tin one? Ac.
cording to a dyestuffs expert tin Is
used as a means of fixing color in the
dyeing of artificial silk. The modern
girl can really be regarded as a god
dess of tin, for she is largely respon.
sible for the increasing applications OF
tin to new uses.
Tin plays an important part In the
manufacture Of all artificial SILK lin
gerie, and is used in the manufacture
of nearly all articles of the toilet ta'
Bile. Tin, too, makes possible the col
lapsible tubes Of toilet and cosmetic
preparations.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
QUITS SOLITUDE
AFTER 80 YEARS
Western Hermit Back to So
ciety of Fellow Men.

Fort Morgan, Colo.-After living for
80 years in the mountains of western
Colorado as primitive cave man,
stunning human society, hunting for
his food, and wearing the skins of ami
mails for clothes, Reuben Dove, sixty
two years old, has at last been forced
to seek the society of his fellow men
and has decided to spend the rest of
his life In that human society that
formerly he avoided.
When Dove was young man, dur
ing the early zoos, an agent for rail-
road that was building in the Cen
tennial state contracted with him to
furnish a large number of railroad
ties. For these he offered Dove
good price. The young man labored
hard during the winter, and when
the agent came around he had con-
siderable supply Of ties on hand. But
the railroad man rejected about one.
fourth of the ties, saying that the COM
pany would not take such poor stuff.
Dove thought this a grave injustice
and he declared on the spot that we
would never do another days work
for any man. This vow he has kept
for nearly third of century.
Before leaving the pile of ties he
made a bonfire of it, and with some
of his belongings went back into the
Rockies, where he dwet in cave for
more than 80 years.
When he had been missed for sew
eral months forest ranger went to
his cave and found him i'll with
raging fever. He was taken to hos
pital and later to the home of rela-
tive, where he will spend the remain
der of his days. He was known as
the hermit Of Hubbard Park"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Bicycle Is Main Vehicle
for Hollands Population

Leyden, Holland.-Bicycles are more
frequent in Holland than automobiles
in the United States. There is a
"rijwiel," or bike, to every 21A inhab-
itants. In a university town like Ley
den virtually every student, male or
female, owns q wheel.
The great popularity of the bicycle
Is attributable to the fact that there
are practically no hills in Holland.
The Importance of the bicycle is
recognized by the authorities in that
they provide separate "rijwiel pads"
or bicycle roads running parallel to
the automobile and horse-drawn We
hicle roads.
The pedestrian in Holland must
take far greater care not to be run
over by bicycle than by an automo-
bile.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Intelligence

Intelligence Is an inherited charac.
terlstic which grows year by year In
childhood, and Is fully developed about
sixteen or seventeen, after which you
may cultivate the mind through ctudy
and experience; but not by the meas.
ure of brain cell can you increase
your Intelligence" Many grown-ups,
and some of them successful as the
world counts success, If tested sclen
ILLEGALLY, would. find that their Intel
ligence" was no more than thnA OF
their schoolboy son of twelve.-Glas
gov Herald
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Chicago Wrought BY Loom

With the Introduction of the ma
chine loom at the end of the Nine
teenth century, all woven materials
fell in price until even velvet was
presently in reach Of the working
class. Before that time, weaver
worked 10 hours to make a yard of
velvet, today he can weave 132 yards
before night, and the material that
was once reserved for the royal
houses of Italy IS cut this fall into
many thousand chic little frocks to
sell all over the land.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Punctuation

Time values for punctuation are CIV
en- in the method of pointing known as
rhetorical punctuation. Here the COM
ma is said to indicate pause long
enough to count one, semi-colon two,
colon three and period four. Since
readers would vary in rapidity of read
ing and counting punctuation accord
ing to grammatical circumstance Is
usually followed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Woman Scents Thieves
by Scent They Stole

Berlin. = Three bold gentlemen
burglars, their pockets bullying with
booty, were leisurely descending the
staircase of an apartment house in
the Berlin suburb Of Steglitz one
night when couple, occupants of the
apartment just rifed. came walking
up.
The thieves excited no suspicion
until the wife shifted the air. "Why
that's my own scent" she exclaimed.
Then the men started to run. On
being caught they confessed ha. ing
in the course of their operations lib
orally dosed themselves from the
scent bottles in the woman's boudoir.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Lapis Lazuli Monopoly
Given to German Firm

Idar, Germany.-As first evidence OF
the much heralded trade development
with Afghanistan expected to result
from King Amanullah's recent visit.
local firm announces that 1t has been
granted by the Afghan monarch the
monopoly for importing Afghan lapis
laZuli.
1t is claimed that nowhere in the
world is lapis lazuli found of such
good quality as in -Afghanistan. Tdar
is a small town on the River Maize, n
tributary of the Rhine. and has a
special industry connected with the
setting and mounting of semi-precious
stones.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Men and Music

DIR. Thomas Arnold of Rugby was
entirely lacking in musical taste
Speaking of this defect, he says: II
can no more remedy 1t than I could
make my mind mathematical, or than
some men could enter into the deep
delight with which l look at a wood
anemone or wood-sOrrel."
Dean Hook used to maintain that
Handlers messiah" had turned more
sinners to righteousness than had all
the sermons that were ever preached.
Exchange.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Hysteria Hits Dogs

Hysteria, or what is known as
fright disease" In some southern
states of this country, has attacked
valuable racing greyhounds of Eng
land. On one day four we're Ill at the
Burnley track, and three at Stafford.
According to Maj. II. Hopkins, official
veterinary surgeon to the Greyhound
Racing association, the complaint IL
new to England, and is believed to
have been imported from the United
States. 1t comes to a dog without
warning, and the animal goes off Unto
the blue" cries wildly and becomes
uncomfortable.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Wealth From Waste

aluminium, so popular for the manu-
facture Of pots and kettles, may be
superseded or find close rival in a
ew metal called beryllium. Extracted
from ores previously dumped away as
waste, beryllium promises special val
ue in making kitchen utensils, frames
for airships and pistons for motor
cars.
1t Is about third lighter than alum
mum yet much harder, with four
times it's elasticity. It resists salt wa
ter which corrodes aluminium, and
seems unaffected by liquids and fumes
Its light gray color takes on polish
like that of fine steel.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Manner of Doing 1t

Whatever we are, high or tOwly,
gle, in full house or dwelling I'm
quietness, we have our daily round
of work, our duties of affection, ODE
dlence, love, mercy, industry, and the
like; and that which makes one man
differ from another is not so much
what things he does, as his manner of
doing them.-Cardinal Manning.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Animal or What?

Julia had been invited to accom-
pany her grandparents to the ZOO. When
preparing for the trip Junior, Julia's
younger brother, asked where his sister
was going. His mother told him that
Julia's grandmother and grandfather
were going to take her to the ZOO.
Junior asked his mother whether that
was not the place where they kept
animals. Being assured that it was.
he said: "Why are they taking her
there? Is she going to turn into an
animal or what?"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Counterfeit

John Mccormack, the famous singer,
was introduced as the lion of the hour
while a guest at house party on
Long Island. Rising in answer to the
toast in his honor, Mr.. Mccormack
said:
''My host Las introduced me as the
famous singer Of Irish songs but this
is not correct; am really the famous
Irish singer of songs Just between
ourselves, let me confide that would
not dare to sing the so-called Irish
songs of Broadway in Ireland"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
House Made Famous

The location of the house in which
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of In.
depence was on the south side of Mar
ket street, Philadelphia, between Sew
enth and Eighth streets. The house
Is no longer standing, but the desk
upon which he wrote has been pre-
served and is the property of the fed
eral government.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
True American Spirit

The phrase, Don't give up the
ship" is attributed to James Law
renee, American naval officer, who
commanded the Chesapeake, an Amer.
lean ship, In the encounter with the
British ship, Shannon. Lawrence was
wounded early in the encounter in
the leg, but retained his post on the
deck. He was MORALLY wounded q
second time, and while being carried
below, noticing that the crew was
hesitant, cried, "Boys, don't surren
der the vessel!'
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Remarkable Growth

An amazing plant that grows sew
eral feet In few weeks has been dis
covered in the mountains of Tibet.
It is yellow sorrel, growing only
at high attitudes around $4,000 feet,
and patch of the flowers can be seen
q mile away, like candle flames,
against the dark moors. The sorrel is
buried under the snow. until June,
when it suddenly pushes its way
through and reaches height Of eight
feet In q few weeks.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Marriage Record?


Mr.. and Mrs. Robert III. Morse, who
came from Colombia to San Francisco
for their honeymoon, asserted that
they hold the marriage record of the
world by being married four times In
two hours. They were married at
BarranQuilla, Colombia. Under the
laws of the country the ceremony was
first performed by an American min
lister, then at civil service, and after
that by the American consul and the
British consul.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Recovering

ooh I'm coming along, thank ye."
cheerily piped old man Tottery, who
was Ill. "T'm getting weller all the
time. | Gun quarrel with my son-in.
law little, and hope to hold him
level after while. Yes. street III
be strong enough TO play checkers by
and by Philadelphia Record.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Shakespeare's borrowing"

The famous biographies by Plutarch
(4G-120 A. d. were of undoubted
service to Shakespeare in writing his.
torical plays, Julius Caesar" AN
thony and Cleopatra" "Coriolanus"
and others. Plutarch spent most of
his life writing his "Lives" of Greek
and Roman celebrities.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Damascus Is Oldest

The Oldest city II. the world still
in existence is Damascus. 1t is prob,
able that there are ruins of other
cities antedating Damascus. Excava.
lions in Central America indicate that
some Of the oldest cities in the world
may originally have stood in these
countries. This has moi yet been
definitely established.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Elegance in Taffeta Wraps

Two summer evening wraps In
peach-rose taffeta are singularly fem
mime in type. A shirred founce Of
some depth and matching capelet
SHRED below the shoulders are the
salient points of one, while two mar
row flounces of double material add
width to the second wrap.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Turtle Meat in Demand

Turtle meat brings only IL cents a
pound in Australia, but about s. a
pound in London, and regular ship
ments of the delicacy, halfway
around the world, have been arranged.
"A London provision house has placed
an order for 200 frozen Australian
t6rtles q month.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

even angular lines from pastel colored
suede. Metal in cutwork pressed on
the suede allows the color to show
through. Novel leaves Of the same
material as the flower are used. This
posy is worn as decoration on coat
lapel, dress scarf or hat.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Increasing Laboratories

The value of research work in the
Industries Is attested by the fact that
there are now 1000 laboratories in
the country devoted to investigational
work of one kind or another, their
number having been almost doubled
within the past six years.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

leading London aviation service
has just started the idea of aerial
tea parties, and will hold the events
every Friday afternoon throughout
the summer. In 21-seater plane the
passengers will be able to view the
city while slipping their oolong.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Live Tortoises Worn
by Paris Women

. Paris.-Enameled and bejew.
! eled tortoises are being sold al
i: SO apiece in one of the big de.
partment stores of Paris. The
/! little animals are alive and there
Is large demand for them be.
!. cause the latest decree Of the
sorceresses is that the tortoise
brings luck.
A painter goes over the back
of the tortoise with fine brush
putting on highly colored tints
He Is followed by another
artist, who places multi-colored
pieces of glass resembling pre-
. cious stones all over the AMI.
mails armor. The tortoise is
. naturally lazy, and once he is
fixed to milady's bag or at.
. tached TO q fur neckpiece he
stays there.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

DOCK leOS ITOm
house to house.
Mr.. Ted Hinzman
does this work in
Lodi, California.
His wife writes:
"It was in these
little books that
I read about so
many women be-
ing helped by the
m 9 d eli e. I
thought I would
Give IL a trial
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Unusually So

"Particular, isn't she?" "My. yes.
She returned a round steak to the
butcher because It was slightly oval"
Ladies' Home Journal.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
All-Duy Rainbow

A rainbow sometimes may be seen
all day long in a cloudless Sky in
Siberia. 1t Is said to be due to reilec.
ton Of the sun on fine particles OF
snow In the air.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Holds It's Age Well

Scientists at the University of
California, after geologic survey of
Colorado, Utah and Arizona, claim
the world Is 75,O00.0OO years old.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Circular Theme

Skirts, capes and collars show tho
circular theme. A lemon-colored suit
has a cape back on tailored enat
that Is removable.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Often the Case

"The boss called me up to explain"
'Let him ramble and you won't have
to do any explaining."-Louisville
Courier-J Journal.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Outs and ms

There's this difference: An outlaw
frankly robs you of money; an in-iaw
promises to pay II bnck.-Santa Bar.
bara Daily News.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Hopeless

"Not very amusing, is he?"
"No, he couldn't even entertain a
doubt. STRAY Stories.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Particular Lass

He-Were you ever in a wreck?
She--No, refuse to ride around
with these college boys.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
He Didn't

"What did you say to your wife
when you proposed to herr"
yes"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

Suspicion Is heavy armO7, and
with Its own weight impedes more
than protects.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

In fighting insomnia, deliberately
stay awake all OF one night. That
makes insomnia sick.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

and I can truly say that it has done
me good. My neighbors and friends
ask me what I am doing to make me
look SO much better. I tell them that
/ am taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Places for Noses

The grindstone is no place for a
man to keep his nose, but 1t is better
there than in other folks affairs
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

You can never tell how girl will
look at the breakfast table by the
way she looks at the ball.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

If the man who wants the earth
succeeded in getting it he would kick
about the taxes.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

Here and there "hallelujah" In a
peoples letter column brightens up
the "howlelujahs."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

While you look at what is given,
look also at the giver.-Seneca.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Metal and Suede Flowers

A new sort of sports flower dis.
tinctly modern in spirit is cut in I'M
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

Ia census Of wild life in California
shows that there are more than $780,
600 big game animals in the national
forests of the state.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Frugal

"Have you any close relations?'..
''Well-they are rather economical
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Automatic

The margin of safety grows less
as the margin of profit grows more
Buffalo News.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

A wise man will make more oppor-
tunities than he fnds.-Bacon.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

A tableful of welcome makes scarce
one dainty dish.-Shakespeare.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
Two Sorts of Work

Scientists say that four hours Ihard
mental work Is as physically exhaust.
ing as eight hours manual work.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

MOST people know this absolute
antidote for pain, but are you careful
to say Bayer when you buy it7 And
do you always give glance to see
Bayer on the box-and the word
genuine printed in redl It isn't the
genuine Bayer Aspirin without it A
drugstore always has Bayer, with the
proven directions tucked in every box:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
CARRIERS IEEEHzEs PILLS

The man who never has any trials
and tribulations is unable to appre-
ciate happiness.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27

Exaggerated humility is one form
of conceit.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
His REGULAR Purchase

IT'S NegUIQT TuTC1O6e
Blinks-Ever buy anything at
rummage sale?
Jinks-Huhl have to buy my Sun
day trousers back from one every
time our church gives one.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
HUSBAND
Distributes
BOOKLETS
Wife Tries Compound

Every year the Pinkham Medicine
Company distributes about 30,000,000
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-27
7i3d,1I CONTINENT

for real satisfaction. does the work. 81 and CSC.
Kremola Face Cream makes skin beautiful. 81 rs.
FREE BOOKLET. Ask your dealer write
q Dr. c. II. Berry Co., 2e7S Michigan Ave., Chicago
, 1928-09-26
A Fine High Pitch, B. Flat
Clarinet On Sale.

HAVE an Excellent Quality CLARI-x.
NET for a person who knows how to
. appreciate Music and Instruments
1t is made Out of the best French Wood
Material which makes the INSTRUMENT
very light and nice, and contains seven
teen keys all in perfect condition. 1t is
Just as 1 bought 1t; never used but on
SPECIAL occasions.
For further particulars try to see me
as soon as possible.
K. l.. DEIERME.
, 1928-09-26
Auction Notice.

At the request Of the Sheriff for
IA the Municipality Of st. Croix
there will be offered for sale on
Friday 28th September 1928
at 3 o'clock p. m. in the Fort Yard
at Christiansted, the following ami
mails.
One White Jackass, impound-
ed at Est. LIT. Princess.
One Black Donkey, impound-
ed at Est. tareham.
The conditions will be read at the
time of the sale.
Christiansted, september nth, 1928.
F. COULTER,
Sheriff.