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trifies" I remained dumb. you are SO occu-
pied in doing things" she continued, that you
have no time to be anything at ALL
reused myself to defend our civilization.
drew picture of what considered an ideal
married life. spoke of love, comradeShip,
and mutual interests, of doing everything to-
gether. Of how an English husband expected
his wife to golf with him and hunt with him.
to share his play as well as his work. Mack
listened with comical expression of dismay
Are all European husbands trying as that?"
she asked
told her of our man friends, our business
interests. How busy you must be- Do YOU
ever have time to think?" she queried And
them with a laugh, 1T seems to me the great
difference between us is that We spend our
lives making one man happy you spend yours
making many men miserable"
Afterwards we went up the roof There
was an exquisite view of the famous apricot
gardens that frame Damascus and, beyond
them, the gold of the desert
Don't you ever want to get out of all this?
To be free?" said ipcoherently, waving an
arm at Mount Hermon
Freedom" said Mack lis inside us You
are much less free than we are"
was silent. It is true. We are prisoners
of thousand habits. of our work, of our
business, OF our restlessness Of our dissatisfac-
tion The best of the Eastern women are free
because they are content.
TWO small boys toddled on to the roof ITS
time for lessons" she said and laughed
back at me over her shoulder a child clinping
to each hand.
Mack, although progressive in spirit Is en-
trely happy among the children, for whom
she has done so much. She has no time for
the longings that agitate her Western sisters.
Hers is the typical Eastern viewpoint, all but
tncomprehenSible to the women of the West
She has found romance in her sons But the
women OF the West surrounded by every luxury
except romance, are still cropping
IL is cropping that has made traveller of me
ana that sends me back time and again to
the East
There are no hours in the wilderness and no
sgnposts of custom and adviSability There
are no bills and telephone calls, no invitations
TO answer, engagements to fulfill, markets to
watch, trans to catch, no boilers to burst, no
necessity of making conversation and no ends
to make meet The food is so bad that it
doesn't matter. There is no need to mend the
rent yesterdays rocks tore in your sleeve be-
cause tomorrow's thorn-forest will certainly
make bigger one. There is SO much time in
which to say anything that you put it off till
tomorrow or the next day and probably never
say 1t at all. In fact, there is nothing to
worry about.
OF course there is hunger and thirst death.
treachery and elemental nature, but these
things are too big to disturb us. 1t is the petty
fears and petty triumphS which DESTROY us
Happiness is crushed between the things we
think we must do and the limitations by which
we think we must abide
At Yemen, left the hospitality of the mer-
chants harem to enjoy my independence
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through renting the vacant harem portion OF
another house, from whose fiat roof at sunset
there was a marvellous view of wind whipped
sand and sea- For weeks hardly moved out
OF one immense whitewaShed room, furnished
with rope mattress chair and a table; and
every evening, when the hours devoted to chew
ing kat were over, was visited by stern Tipped
sheiks or weedy townsmen who wanted to know
what manner Of lunatic was for, of course
"aI women who had no men to look after them
must necessarily be lacking in sense"
I had to buy long-stemmed water-pipe
and while sat stifiy on the chair whose fourth
leg was splintered and bound with scarlet cord
self-conscious because of the crumpled European
clothes to which had returned. the procession
of the curious wandered in to crouch on the
vivid carpets and take turns at smoking
After the first week had made friends with
the few who could understand my Arabic and
from these heard strange tales of a land
which is still beyond the ken of travellers In
exchange told of English customs which by
force of environment began to seem to me as
outlandish as they did to my amazed and in
credulous audience.
1T is not decent that a man should be
seen in the street with his women" said the
quad with such emphatic dignity that I
Squlrmed.
What charm can a woman have unveiled?"
asked merchant. when there is no mystery.
where is attraction"
by Allah, no man shall look upon my sister
in my housed" exclaimed an emir, humping
his knee.
Il would die twenty deaths before a woman
OF my race should talk with a stranger" cried
young man.
TN ARABIA they have no use for charm un-
adorned, and in order to prove the supe-
rior1ty OF local beauty over anything English
had described, wealthy merchant took me to
his harem to assist at the bridal toilette of his
youngest daughter
The girl sat mute in a corner while relatives
and slaves fused around her. First her fringe
and the top of her head were dyed bright pink
with paste made of marigolds and sweet
herbs. Her back hair was left dark and twisted
into plaits soaked with oil. Where her eve
brows had been, long fine lines like butter
flies antennae, were painted across her brows.
Her noStrilS and the insides of her ears were
Redeemed with pointed stick dipped in henna.
Her fingers, which for days had been bound at
the tips-a more effective and more enduring
method than the metal clips of Paris-were
colored orange, like the palms of her hands,
The wrists and the knuckes were decorated
with sort of Batyk work to resemble a dark
lacy mitten, her toes were STEPPED in scented
scarlet and kohl was used to accentuate the
three necklaces of Venus on her throat. The
same blue kohl was employed for her eyes
but inside the lids. between eyelashes and eye
Dali, SO that the irritation it caused produced
a liquid swimming effect
Wallahi! She is beautiful" murmured the
nandmaldenS, sitting back on their heels to
regard this work of art.
Only the pale skin, very smooth and duSky
olive, remained unmarried and the slight inn
mature figure, for the bride was only thirteen.
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, ENERALLY speaking, the harem is
as commonplace as the select of mid
dle-class seminaries and there is as
little romance about it.
There is a great deal of placid
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-18
HIT
 BY RA|NMAKER
Elks-Douglas Game Today Called Of First Half
 Will End Sunday

The rainmaker stepped into the middle of the Gastineau Channel Baseball Leagues schedule again today. Too much water had fall en last night and by mid-afternoon to permit the playing of the sched- uled game between the Elks and Douglas.
 It probably was just as well for the Bills, as it gave them a little more time to recover from the drubbing handed them by the Is- flanders last night.
 There are two other postponed games to be taken into considera- ton by the league. The first half is scheduled to end with next Sum days game between the Islanders and the Veterans. The former has a postponed game with the Moose from June g. The Legion
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ing two, and the Islanders winning six and losing three.
 On the strength of past per- formance, this doesn't seem at all likely. There is more of a possi- bility of a tie. The Moose should win it's two games. If Douglas should drop two each would finish with seven wins.
 All of the teams are due to be strengthened in the near future if President Barragar's plans go through without hitch. In the Navy Air Mapping Expedition there are several first class ball tosserS He hopes to induce them to take part in the league games, adding new players to each team in the circuit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-18
CZECHS WANT PRINCE
 DEAD SIX CENTURIES

PRAGUE, June 18.-A diplomatic exchange is on between Czechoslo- vakia and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for possession of the body of Prince Johann of Luxem- burg, who was chosen King of Bo- hemia in 1910.
 For six hundred years, Prince Johann has slept peacefully in the little castle at Saarbrucken. While the present owner of the castle has no objection to giving the body tc the Czechs, the Luxemburg Gov ernment thinks it should remain ir its original burial place.
 Czechoslovakia wants to enshrine Prince Johann in national mau- soleum.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-18
CALL FOR BIDS

Sealed Dlds will De received for the stock of Charles Gearing & Go. now at the Cash Store at the cor ner of Main and Front Streets, Juneau. Inspection may be made between the hours of g a. m. and 12 noon and from l p. m. to 5 D. m. daily. Bids will be received at the store or at my office in the Malony Building, not later than 5 D. m. Saturday, June 22nd. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
 HENRY RIDDEN, adv. Receiver.
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FOR SHORTEST NAME
 THIS FAMILY HAS 70

AUSTIN, Tex, June Is. For brevity of surname, Texas has 9 family that challenges anyone. Its last name is O."
 Ramon de la O and his brother emigrated from Mexico some years ago and filed on State land, rec ords in the General Land Office show.
 Another peculiar name in the Land Office books is Paw Glass cock. Its owner uses the figure A" as a signature.
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also has a postponed game with the Elks.
 The Douglas club is just short of having the first half absolutely sewed up. It could be nosed out if it lost all three of its remaining games and the Moose won the two it has left on the schedule. This would let the two clubs finish with the Moose winning seven and los-
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GAMES MONDAY National Lear

Pittsburgh 2; Cincinnati 1. St. Louis 13; Chicago 3.
 American League Detroit B. 8; Boston 6, 3. Chicago 6; Philadelphia 4.
 Gastineau Channel League Douglas 13, Elks 4.
 Pacific Coast League No games were played in the Pacific Coast League yesterday as the clubs were travelling to open this afternoon on the following schedule:
 Oakland at Seattle. Sacramento at Portland. Mission at San Francisco. Hollywood at Los Angeles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-06-18
Senator B0rah's Tariff Reuision
 Proposal Rejected

WASHINGTON, June 18.- . The Senate late yesterday . voted 39 to 38 to reject Sem . ator Borahs proposal to con- . fine tariff revision at the . special session to agricultur- . al and related products.
 Party lines went by the boards, Democrats and Re- publicans alike voting on Q both sides of the question. . . .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21

For the last fen years hare been
troubled by insomnia, and !ew DeekS
ago ntoUed into q house mitch tDdS as
sured tDns soundproof. Unfortunately IL
Is not and am bothered NTH noises
overhead and the banging OF doors. etc.
I try hard to think that time Dtu help
me, but at present I am In q highly
nervous condition. Your articles hate
helped me so much, thought you
might be able to suggest something.
+. II. S.
Reply.
Those who sleep like o log can't
readily sympathize with those who
sleep like an aspen leaf. Sleep Is in
sense the most fundamental of all the
bodily mechanisnls, and 1t isn't bodily
as much as it is mental. Six days shalt
thou labor and rest on the seventh Is
In reality law Of man for which he
sought divine sanction. But so many
hours of each day shalt thou work and
at night sleep is law Of nature. For
man has not eyes like the owls and the
cats, suited to see at night. Let there
be light, and when it comes to be dark
let there be sleep, is natures way. Also,
the infant starts with 20 hours sleep
and four of intermittent waking. The
growth from that schedule to eight
hours sleep Is gradual. Without good
sleep you haven't recuperated your en-
ergies properly, and another good day
is spoiled.
Few adults sleep as soundly as they
did in childhood and youth. II your
sleep mechanism Is easily disturbed, you
can't sleep in a strange room, or with
a clock ticking, or when travelling, or
when you have been working Cor eat
ing) too late, or come home too excited,
Il 90 rwat
are worrying because the rest OF the
family haven't come in, or have any
sort of care on your mind: or for some
reason not as plain as these.
Insomnia Is the expression OF some
deep-seated irregularity in the sleep
mechanism; what it is we can only
guess. You hear with your ears, but
with what do you sleep? In true sense.
with your brain. Your brain functions
in levels; the highest is the thinking
and feeling level. Under ether that goes
to sleep first; you lose consciousness,
you lose feeling, hearing, the power to
move But you don't stop breathing, or
the circulation of the blood or digestion.
Ether gives you q deeper sleep. So you
can induce sleep by taking sleeping
powder; or you can keep yourself awake
by doses Of coffee. All Of which shows
that you can influence that sleeping
mechanism from above and from below,
and In a great variety of ways.
Understanding that, you will under
stand that sign Of a sensitive nervous
system can show itself and may be
caused by irregularity of sleep. But
why are noises so disturbing? Because
that ear-brain mechanism is built in
for your protection. The ear is your
nightwatchman. If you are sleepless
you can't dismiss him when you should.
To get good sleep, it isn't the room
mind. AS a fact what keeps most sleep
less persons awake isn't the noise over
head, but the anxiety because that noise
won't let them go to sleep. Is it all in
the attitude? Yes. Have we all equal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21
Raisin Ginger Cake.

Cream one cupful of sugar with half
scupful OF shortening ana ADD two
molasses. sift two and one-half cup
fuls Of -four with two teaspoonfuls Of
baking powder, one teasponful each Of
cinnamon and ginger, two teaspoonfuls
Of cocoa, adding alternately with three
fourths cupful of sweet milk. Beat
thoroughly, then add one cupful Of
Of coconut, which have been dredged
in -four. Bake in moderate oven for
IS minutes. Serve with the following
sauce:
Boil for a minute half a cupful of
sugar with half cupful of water, one
tablespoonful of flour, one-fourth cup
full Of fruit juice and one tablespoonful
of sirup or maple havoring. Serve this
sauce on the cake
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop was smoking to himself and ]
Stranger things than that have hap:
pened, pop sed. Meening what did
wunt, and I sed, VIII you give me .
dime so can pay Pubs Simkins back
the dime owe him?
For Peet sake don't tell me you've al
reddy started to get into dett at your
time of life, pop sed. Well let me tel
you young fellow, Its long, rocky
bumby, uncomfortable road full OF soft
soap to slip on and hard stones to land
agenst, and there's no way out at the
other end and there's always so many
new arrivals pushing their way through
the entrance that its even hard to gel
out agen that way. I Suppose you real
ize by this time that I'm advising you
agenst it. don't you? he sed.
Yes sir. I sed, and he sed, Wise men
have always advised agenst 1t. What
did Shakesbeer say? Sakesbeer sed
for dett doth sting verse than humble
bee. Or verbs to that effect, pop sed
And what did Benjamen Franklin say?
Benjamen Franklin sed, Lending money
to other guys, makes q man foolish
instead Of wise. And trust that you
haven't the audacity and effrontery TO
stand before me and claim to know
better than Shakesbeer and Franklin,
have you? Or have you? he sed.
No sir, G, sed. Well then, gosh,
pop, If your in dett the best thing to
do is to get out of 1t, amt it? I sed.
You'll never speek wiser verbs than
that even II you get wise enough to
have such long white beard you wont
half to shine your shoes any more, pop
sed, and I sed, Well then, G, pop. If
you give me the dime to pay back Pubs
Sirnkins why then I'll be out of dett
Just exackly like you wunt me to be.
That's a thawt werthy Of Peerpont
Morgan himself, and who am to tern
down q thawt verify of Peerpont
Morgan? pop sed. And he took dime
out of his pockit, saying, How long
has this been going on, when did you
borrow all this money?
Sir? I sed. I haven't axually bor-
rowed 1t yet, he's going to loan It to
me tomorrow to go to the movies with
him, sed, and pop sed, Yee gods. no
one else ever had the nerve to think
Of that one.
Ony he gave me the dime to pay
Pubs back anyways.
Proving he's a good sport.
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KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
BY JOSEPH JASTROw.

power to cultivate that attitude? No.
What are you to do about 1t? Any
thing and everything 10 tide over the
housekeeping habits and establish the
housekeeping ones; 1t Is fact except
for increasing exhaustion which leads to
Sleep that good nights and bad nights
come In waves; you get into the one
habit or the other, whether for good
cause, such as staying up with sick
friend, or poor one. because you worry
needlessly about things In general and
about losing sleep particularly.
So far all these light cases, use ear
caps; tie O black cloth over your eyes
If you are too easily awakened by day
light; take O nild sedative by q doc
tors prescription; learn to take q bit
Of wakefulness naturally. Cure your
neigbors II you can, endure them II you
must. Is this easy? No. It can be done
and little successes lead 70 big ones.
Get into good physical and mental shape
and your sleep will show the benefit.
That applies to a large group Of poor
sleepers; it does not apply to the small
group of victims of genuine insomnia.
That's another story.
(Copyrisht. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21
DOROTHY DTX'S LETTER BOX
What Any Man Expects of His Wife's Cooking
Choosing Life Work.

NEAR MISS
has LIVED at home n or the Ss SnT 1oms % d
his and dinner that his wife has done her n S TO
wife to- be as U good housekeeper as his mother
lived feasted
around from boarding house to boarding house
and cafeteria TO CAFETERIA
There something pathetic
girl from high school into
had chance acquire any t with the pots s1d
shocked Mortified and disappointed ana d
that would give ostrich dyspepsia
Molly under the apprehension that he VIII be
when the steak tough leather and
potatoes He Will think that you should know
like will raise r1ctns II you oonE
food than others There men who dine and
satisfied with quantity ana VINO
mo- sss ana pie and who can a the
their wives as passabe houskeepers
conneisseurs II food and with whom
dish must be cooked Every sauce must
s1oa aSS hes men Keen their wives On
interesting always
~ ' ~ 1900 DOROTHY DIX
- hisfr ndsp
should determine ones choice
only progress when that It always
better and improve craftsmanship
who DO the work he likes
In life to
Is greater that of doing congenal work.
have been forced into uncongsnS
@ not hed because they thought
o. line Of endeavor that w no. 1anc or
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Straight Talks to Women About Money
BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN.

and she told us proudly her investment
was the best In the world.
OF course, we were curious to know
the best investment In the world. Our
friend, the mother, explained that she
was investing in her sons education
and that she fondly expected the re-
turns would be greater than on any
material investment she might make.
Perhaps we have seen the workings
of human nature in broader and more
extensive way than this mother.
Suppose, we reasoned with her, your
son is not quite the genius you believe
Suppose 10. years from now he Is en-
ployed at fair salary and has mean
while taken to himself q wife.
Children come forth into the world
and your son assumes O host OF obliga-
lions. Meanwhile you are dependent
on him. Unfortunately, your invest
ment has not turned out quite as sue
cessfully as you hoped.
You might go to your son and de-
mand the return of your investment in
his education. Probably you would not
It might antagonize him, draw the
wrath and Ill favor of his wife and
simply place barrier between you and
him.
Undeniably, you have made the In
vestment, but the return, as we will
assume, has failed to repay you amply.
At your advanced age there is no way
to turn about. You face the tragedy
of need.
If Sour son Is not able when he is
young to care for himself, find the
means to finance his education and
work for them, he Is scarcely desirable
timber for education. He Is certainly
not worth your capital investment.
BY the time your son Is 80, we re-
minded her, you will be so. He will be
arriving at the height of his earning
power; and II 1t Is not unusual and
he has q family, what are your pros
poets?
Enlist the aid Of the Lord by helping
yourself and avoid dependency II It is
at all possible. Even slight income
is better than none, and such assistance
as ones children can render will sup
plement that income so that no shadows
will fall on the twilight of life.
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SUB ROSA
BIZ MIMI.
Your Pent House.

For more than O generation, the
prevailing style Of architecture in the
big cities has been the skyscraper. The
buildings take a limited amount of
space on earth and run UP until they
skim the clouds. Just now. the big
idea Is the pent house atop the great
apartment dwelling.
It isn't that they want to build any
higher when they reach the twenty
fifth story of these consolidated homes,
No, it's just because somebody with
many grains Of sense in his head wants
something like home on top of the
piled up apartments. The pent house
is this Home, Sweet Home by the side
Of the water tower.
What we need today, in the big cities
Is certain amount of secluSion. When
we are crowded into an apartment
house, or work in big Office building,
we live in public rather than private
way. We live In glass houses with
everybody giving us this once over
from time to time.
Then, too, we require a certain
amount Of privacy If we are going to be
women in the true sense of the word
That's the way women were brought
UP and that's the way they've lived ever
since Eve started out in the Garden OF
Eden. But the life Of the present Is
Every person should have some sort
Of pent house. these days. Not all OF
us can rent a pent house on the top OF
an elite apartment, for they cost real
money. But we can apply the pent
house idea on small scale. A man
has his den, a woman her boudoir. A
girl ought to have a room which /;
exclusively hers.
She can hang the pictures she likes
70 see around her, have the books she
likes to read, and make the little room
express her personality.
We are inclined to think that q
house or room is supposed to shut Us
in, which is true. But it should give
us the opportunity to let our real ma
ture come out. The narrower the room
the greater the space for self-expres'
sion. No person can be himself in {
5o-room mansion, but he can do thi
in little room Of his own
It's the studio idea. There the arts
develops his talents and reveals hi
inner nature. It's the idea Of librar,
where you bring together the books yol
want to read and make your own. IT.
O pent house inside the larger dwelling
We envy the people who have none,
to rent these fancy cottages on top o
the gigantic apartment houses, but VI
can grab their idea and make q sor
Of pent house of our own. A plac
where we can be ourselves and do GU
real thinking.
Copyright, 1927