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Cupid Across the Sea

side her house. Some old homes have
inches in the wall specially left by
the builders for this purpose. When
her lover comes, he eats the cake,
drinks the wine and leaves token
in the niche. usually something of
silk, which, if he is acceptable, the
girl wears at church the following
Sunday
The girls of this region used to
refuse a young man III a novel way.
When they wanted to give one "the
nitt," they offered him handful
of oats.
Holding up the bridal party after
the wedding is still common, espe-
cially in old English villages. A
flower-decked rope is stretched across
the street and kept there until the
bridegroom pays the toll to cupid s
highwaymen. In French Savoy, when
a girl marries young man from
another village, her old friends bar
ricade the road until the groom "sets
them up" Far from resenting this
custom, the bride judges her popu-
larity by the size Of the crowd that
stops her.
In Sweden the best place to see
a wedding is in Dalecarlia. When
the betrothed belong to substantial
families, the affair Is very fine. For
weeks every one Is kept busy pre-
pairing food and drink-barrels of
dark ale, kegs Of sherry, port and
Swedish punch; lots of knackebrod,
bacon, butter, cheese, puddings and
cakes of all Kinds. Every g'iest is
also expected 10 bring something to
nelp out with the supplies.
In Spain many man sees his future
wife first on the street. II she ap-
pears attractive, he follows her 10 see
where she lives, and, thereafter he
spends a part Of every day beneath
her balcony or before the barred win
dows in silent courtship If her par
ents approve, some day he will see
q little white hand pluck fragrant
blossom from the vine that climbs on
the patio within and throw IL "a
him. Then the real wooing begins.
If the girl lives IN the ground fioor.
the path of love is smooth, but the
dark eyes that flash from windows
higher up must mix pining In their
gaze to convey the words that cannot
pbe uttered. =
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can't have big ones they will have lit
tie ones, and some of the homemade
miniature yachts and motor boats
that ply the ripping waters of the
pool surely must bring gleam of Joy
and interest to the stony eyes of Lin
coin as he sits high on his throne in
his shrine.
WHILE many may look at these lit
tie boats as just an amusing way
to pass an afternoon, the sport is quite
seriously taken by its followers and
interest is international. The writer
learned this when he discovered that
there is Washington Model Yacht
Club and that right there on our own
Rejecting Pool they hold races from
which last year were picked the best
boats to be entered in the 1nterna-
tional Model Boat Races held at
Lewes, England. Furthermore, when
you discover that 5000 people partici-
pated in the sailing of such model
boats and some IA, 400 others stood by
and watched you can better under
stand why it is that when real big
race like the Presidents Cup Regatta
comes of there were 6l3 contestants
and 24e 900 spectators.
Or. again, why it is that nearly 5000
people made use Of the boats, canoes
and swan boats at the Tidal Basin
boat house alone and another 10000
rode in the speed boats down near
Hams Point, to say nothing OF the
thousands that follow the water from
other boat houses and yacht clubs.
And, speaking of the swan boat, it Is
interesting to note. that of the pas
sengers carried on it there were almost
exactly twice as many adults riding
as there were children. Sounds
strangely Ike the old joke about TAX
ing Johnny 10 the Circus"
Overhead the helium- filled blimp
drones busily along like some huge,
numbering bumble-bee carrying its
load OF passengers who want to see
what the city looks like from the air
and can pay for trip to satisfy their
curiosity. At the same time the more
wasp-like airplanes play the same
game, while not many miles away en-
thusiastic- amateur pilots are training
their wings and becoming proficient
In the art Of flying just for the fun
Of It.
Before we leave the Rejecting Pool
just remember that this Is also the
site of the hy-casting tournament,
where some 60-odd fly casters contest
ed for honors before 400 interested
spectators-the recreation division of
the National Capital Parks having very
thougntfully and efficiently provided
ropes to keep the onlookers from. get
ting close enough to be shared should
some of the casters get overly arnbi-
tious or miss their aim.
A short distance away are the
archery greens, which have been
measured and pegged out Last year
nearly 5000 fans actually made use
Of these green's and 1t Is estimated
that more than $500 watched this
ancient and fascinating sport that
brings to mind the tales of Robin
Hood or william Tell and the apple.
While shooting bow and arrow may
appear to be simple and easy mat
ter, when you talk with an archer you
discover that 1t is highly skillful
science and one that requires @consid.
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7DHE bride who takes a Journey
across the Atlantic for her
honeymoon will have more
l. than a tourists interest in
the honeymoon customs in for
eign lands. When the sweetest joy
and widest woe" attacks youth i'll Eu-
rope, it usually comes within certain
prescribed rules. IN Holland, for in
stance, it not infrequently starts with
q shy glance in church or at the
rollicking festivals which the Hol-
landers call kirmesses. Then the
shy swain puts on his best suit and
visits the girl in her home, carrying
q large cake, which he sets Oh the
table He is quietly received by the
parents, smiled at by the girl and
her sisters, who probably nudge one
another. Nothing. however, is said
about the reason for his coming.
Late in the evening, sisters, brothers
and parents go to bed. Instead of
choosing this moment to fall on his
knees. the young man sits around
the fire and talks of everything but
love. That Is verboten. If the girl
likes her caller. she throws sons peat
on the fire, they cut the cake and
everything is settled happily.
Should the girl let the fire go
out, it is a sign that the young man
is not suitable, and bundling up the
cake. he departs into the night, never
to return.
In Hungary cupid postpones the
fireworks" until the wedding day.
On the day of her marriage the bride
piles her pillows, feather beds and
wedding chest high on wagon and
Is driven across the plains to her
future home On the way, however,
the men of the party usually get ex-
cited, whip their horses to a eallop,
and shoot Of pistols as they clstter
through villages.
After the wedding ceremony. which
has the usual blending Of tears and
smiles, great feast Is spread, gypsy
orchestras play ard dancing goes on
not only until tne stars go home,
but until they come again.
In some of the delightful old
French villages of Provence the girl
s'puts the question" She makes q
cake, called q fougasse, and sets It
with o jar of VINE somewhere OUT
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paper into the air-and II you stand
by with ear cooked you will hear a
strange jargon about plane surface
kites" box kites" combinations,
with or without tails" dragon and
butterfly kites" angles" lift" pull"
and so on that makes you remember
where the early aviators got their start
and the beginning Of their language.
From personal observation and
study of the annual report of the
recreation division of the National
Capital Parks the writer could go on
mentioning sports that range from
quoits to sleeping in the parks on hot
nights (and. incidentally. 585,000 peo-
pie did Just that last Sunmer) and
feed out statistics of players and spec
tators until you'd think nobody ever
worked in Washington.
THE 4S parks in the District contain
367 permanent sport facilities and
more are being added as the demands
Justify, and for the year 1884 the re-
port shows that there were 2,640, 1892
players and 2,1o8,460 spectators
which is a healthy sign. for it shows
that people here enjoy their sports in
the way it does them the most good
that is, by actual participation. This
means greater efficiency in the work
OF such people, for it is a known fact
that q healthy body and vigorous
hloodstream lend keenness and per-
ception to the bra n as well as giving
it a rest from the routine of the
week
Park records show that there has
been an increase of around 100 per
cent in the last five years of people
making use of the facilities offered for
games and sports. One reason given
for this increase Is that the depres-
sion resulted in more people having
time to give to such things, and as
conditions improved the attendance
kept I'D, for they evidently found
these activities both interesting and
worth while.
For q good many Of the sports 1t Is
necessary to obtain permit, so that
the people in charge of such things
were kept busy handing out the 49,
249 permits for tennis, base ball, foot
ball and so on that we're called for
last year.
Another sport that attracts many
spectators Is polo. There are two
fields and last year the international
polo tournament between the Mexican
and American teams played to gal
lery of $4,000 spectators. During the
course of the year 9SS players made
use Of these fields and over $4,000
people watched this game, which has
come to us from the far-gone days OF
the Byzantine Emperors via the hills
of India, where even today a rough
and crude form Of the game Is still
played.
Then, there Is hockey, horseshoe
pitching, lacrosse, speed ball, volley
ball, rogue courts. soft ball diamonds
and picnicking and, in Winter, ice
skating, Shedding and skiing.
Oh, yes, the writer almost forgot to
mention roller skating, which Is in
creasingly popular and splendid all
round exercise for every one. espe-
cially valuable in ,helping the girls TO
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For This Period Washngton
bTmued Into the Sports Cap
Hal of the Nation An In
terwtmg] g]ommeylmozHDLmd
of Play Win Thousands En-
1owwg the Public Parks Sur
brlSwg Statistics ON the Week-
.EndzruveIt HeMmd Stream.
By John Thomas.

ure. Many of these paused long
enough at the hurdles to try their
luck at jumping, and took them
easily and gracefully. Others were
just learnirK to ride. and did tricks
all over ~tAe horse In their efforts
to stay on, to their own evident
dismay and suffering, but much to
the quiet amusement of the onlookers.
Perhaps they wouldn't have felt so
conspicuous had they realized that
in the preceding year 10000 others
had ridden these same paths-and
all of them had to learn at some
time.
Here, too, an endless stream Of
cars purred softly along. In some
of them were stiff, dignified couples
or older groups; in others young low
ers so intent on each other that
traffic was in constant danger. Again,
there were harassed- looking young
fathers attempting to drive carefully,
see that the load of squirming
restless children didn't fall out of
the bulging' windows and at the
same time answer at least every
tenth question of the constant stream
conjured up by young, eager and
inquisitive minds.
Turning up by the Lincoln I'M
moral" as one small daughter calls
it, we we're almost run down. by be-
wildering array of feminine legs clad
in shorts, furiously pumping their BIZ
cycles along, their screams and laugh
ter dying away as they lodged through
traffic in speedy and dazzling flight.
Believe is or not, but $500 people rode
bicycles in the District parks in 1884,
and there were three regular bicycle
races in which 80 contestants took
part and which were officially sched-
uled. From the looks of things this
year, the number of cyclists will be
far greater than last years figure.
Then, down by the Rejecting Pool
to watch the little boats-a never
ending hire tn man and hnvs IF thew
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noon sun as she perfected her recov-
cry.
One of the beauties Of Washington
week ends is that you can really en-
Joy yourself without spending a penny
If you so desire, or you can spend just
a nominal sum, or again you can
make it pretty costly. depending en-
tirely on your pocketbook and your
taste in sports.
For instance, you can take the
children cut in Rock Creek Park and
let them go wading (as nearly 5000
other waders have done), eat your
own picnic lunch and have good
time, and 1t won't cost you a nickel
more than If you had stayed at home
to eat and then gone for little ride.
More than 4S5,000 people made use
of the numerous picnic grounds avail
able. Or you can take walk around
the Ellipse and Monument Grounds
and have a good time just watching
other folks play, for which you don't
even have to buy golf clubs or balls.
tennis racquets or anything. There
are so many things to look at and
CuJOy II CIlC AAoc CJSo W w.
A couple Of hundred yards away
from the soccer field battery. herd
galaxy, flock, accumulation, or what
ever it Is you call bunch" OF tennis
courts, was IN full blast, with other
players on benches impatiently await
ing their turn-and tennis fans exceed
the boating enthusiasts slightly, with
24s players making use of the SO
courts that are available.
NEARBY one Of the ~ base ball
l diamonds is in full swing. and
for this popular sport there are nearly
five spectators to every player, ana
at that there were some $1,000 play
ers--so you can figure it out for your :
self As a source of real interest and
amusement, one Of these amateur bail
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erable strength, for the larger bows
may be what are known as 60-pound
bows, that is, to draw such bow 1t
requires the same effort as to lift so
pounds from the ground. The catch
is that you have to draw this bow
with a set of muscles not trained for
lifting.
DASSING on TO another sport that
l. is even older, we find that there
were %, 900 fishermen indulging their
hobby and trying their patience. OF
these probably rs per cent were COL
ored and angled for catfish and carp,
the remainder seeking usually bass.
Dream, crappie or rock fish. Most OF
these were counted along the sea wall
of East and West Potomac Park ex-
cept for the special runs near Chain
Bridge or around Anacostia way.
While the number of spectators is
not given the writer can vouch for
the fact that for every fisherman you
will probably find spectator or more,
and should one of these anglers hap
pen to hook good-sized fish he will
have plenty of witnesses, for pedes-
trians and autos alike stop to watch.
Wandering along o few blocks far
ther, the writer stopped to watch a
soccer game in the very shadow Of
the Washington Monument and from
the crowd that stood BY cheering he
was not surprised to learn later that
3,428 soccer players performed for
$4,000 spectators In 1884.
Around to- the other side Of the
soccer field are practice courts for
tennis or hand ball which sound like
soft-shooting machine guns rs the
balls "plop" endlessly against the
wooden backstop. In one court per-
spring young man practiced serving,
while another, D miss In one OF these
trick button-on skirts with only the
top button fastened dashed back and
forth In silhouette against che after
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w YHEN the beat of the bust
n ness heart of Washington
wv sends forth its flow OF
v workers at o'clock on
Saturday afternoons the
course is in one direction, but at its
next beat you will observe the human
corpuscles changed In appearance and
headed in the opposite direction, with
golf clubs or tennis racquets in hand,
for now is the time for all good
men" to cast aside routine, red tape
and worry and substitute therefor
relaxation, sport and enjoyment.
And what a place Washington is
TO spend the AZ hours from l o'clock
Saturday to 9 o'clock Monday. Name
your sport and you may have it
either as participant or as spectator
Week ends in Washington change il
from the National Capital to the
Sports Capital.
Subconsciously. the writer had
often thought of this and then, one
Saturday, the idea 'jelled": He
would set out to see in just how
many different ways people were
spending their Saturdays and Sum-
days! So. grabbing his truSty camera,
he embarked on a journey Of ex-
ploration into the Land of Play.
Would you believe that in short
order he found people enjoying them
selves in 20 different ways? And all
this in an area less than two miles
square, bounded on the north by
the White House, on the east by the
Commerce Building, on the south and
west by the Potomac River.
"A LONG the Speedway and that area
we're groups of laughing, chat
tering people on horseback. Some
of them rode with ease and grace
and looked as though they could
traverse every one of the 81 miles
of Washington bride paths with pleas
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keep that much-desired callipygian

keep that much-desired csllipygian
figure.
For the aquatic-minded there are
boats galore. ranging from the mod
est, fiat-bottomed row boat up to the
sleek shells Of the various boat clubs;
from canoes to cat boats and from
outboard motor boats to palatial
yachts, according to ones pocketbook
and the condition Of the stock mar
ket, or something. Swimming pools.
indoor and out, and river bathing add
their lure.
Then there is walking-just walk
ing around in the parks and watch
ing others. or taking vigorous hikes.
AS a matter of fact, Washington
has practically everything on the
sports calendar.
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A Week End of Sport in Washington
pictured only few of the which sportovns
Wasneonans spend the from Saturday afternoon until Sunday
evening racing the picnic keAyng archery
hockey photograph Underwood Underworld AUTOMOBILE
ing riding ball. bicycling golf and
photographs by the author
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" of these paused long
Washington enough hurdles their
wv sends forth its o jumping and took them
workers easily and gracefully. Others were
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-06-13
MARKVILLE

Mrs. Earl Schultz visited in Min
neapOlis and ST.. Paul for week re-
Gently.
Folks from here who attended the
confirmation at KiIysdale were. Mr..
and Mrs. E. J. Steirbbring, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Pahos and children, Mr..
and Mrs. George Pennison, and Lou
Andrews.
Mrs. Howard spent last week in
FinlaysOn.
Mrs. George Pennison was in Siren
on business one day last week.
Jimmy Rutherford returned home
Monday from the northern part of the
state.
Mrs. Harry Howe and children, Mrs.
FreebOrn and children, and Mr.. Ham
son of Webster, were Sunday guests
at the George Pennison home.
Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Sholander were
in Markville Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Pennison and
Lou Andrews were in Danbury one
night last week.
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asked for. So, peace reigns-until
Japan finds something else to kick

asked for. So, peace reigns-until
Japan finds something else to kick
about.
South American Peace.
Early this week word came from
BuenOs Aires that diplomatic repre-
sentatives of Paraguay and Bolivia
had agreed to end the Gran Chaco
war on Saturday next. For thirteen
days five neutral American countries
the United States among them, had
been trying to obtain this result, and
this time it looks as though they have
succeeded where they have failed 81
often before.
The BuenOs Aires agreement is to be
signed at La Paz and AsunciOn this
week, and, when it has become effec-
tive on June Is, it is thought that the
controversy regarding the Gran Chact
status will be taken before the world
court at The Hague for peaceful set
Element. 1t is about time, too, fOl
the senseless war, characterized long
ago by the League of Nations rs one
of the most cruel on record, has beer
going on for more than three years
and is said to have cost at least one
hundred thousand human lives. II
will now be up to the world court tt
satisfy the national pride of the two
belligerent. nations which have shet
such rivers of blood for the sake of 2
strip of land.
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DanfOrth Township

The DanfOrth and Sand Creek Sun
day schools are having their picnic
at Grindstone lake Friday, June L.
Everyone is welcome. Please bring
your own cups and spoons.
Harvey Bacon of Minneapolis, spent
Wednesday and Thursday of last week
at the R. E. White home
Hazel and Halle Holms spent SUN
day at the Carl Swanson home.
Mrs. Harry Shute and little daugh-
ter of Duxbury, spent Sunday at the
home of her parents, ME-. and Mrs
Joe Peters.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Madsen of AskOv
were callers at the R. E. White home
Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Moore and fam
lily returned home Saturday after !
weeks visit with friends in Bookings
g. D.
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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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over the post of foreign minister IT.
dictated that there is no change mi
nent in French foreign policy.
To a certain extent this holds true,
also, with respect to British foreign
policy although a change of personnel
took place few days ago.
j. Ramsay Macdonald, prime min
lister during the last six years, relin-
pushed his post to Stanley Baldwin,
and Sir Samuel Hoare succeeded Sir
John Simon as foreign minister al
though it had been expected that Cap
tain Anthony Eden would be appointed
Sir Johns successor. Captain Eden
is said to be too young-he is 3S-in
spite of the fact that he has been
employed time and again in tasks
which required a great deal of en-
perience and tact.
AS for MacDonald-he retired. il
was said. because of poor health; the
real reason may be the fact that he
had only a small personal backing Ia
the parliament; members of the labor
party of which he was the leader un-
til 1881. abhorred him, considering
him a traitor to the cause of social
ism, and the conservatives had but
little faith in him. TO ''let him dowr
easy" the new government permitted
him to sit in the cabinet as lord pres
ident of the council. a position o.
elory rather than of practical i'm
portance.
Against Dictatorship.
Stanley Baldwin's first utterance a:
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prime minister had to do with demOc-
racy versus dictatorship; he men
toned the fact that three great cOun-
tries-ltaly, Russia, and Germany
are ruled by dictatOrs. and that only
two of the major nations, namely Great
Britain and the United States, can be
said to uphold the democratic forms
of government. Baldwin added that
more than any other country in the
world we British are the guardians
and trustees of democracy, freedom
and ordered liberty" he implied that
dictatorship, even in the modified
form now sanctioned in France, is UNI
thinkable in England.
And he went further, for he served
quite distinct warning on Italy
whose war-like preparations in Africa
are looked at with much misgiving.
Strained Relations.
The prime minister boldly criti-
Cized the Italian government for its
Abyssinian policy, and limited that it
would be closely watched.
| This, coming at ABOUT the time
when the Italian prime minister, Ben
ito MussOlini, in a public speech as
serted that he will not tOlel ate
British interference, has made Europe
sit up and take notice. During the
last few days the Italian press has
been quite openly hostile to Great
Britain which has been described as
"faithless," "blackmailer,' etc: IN
enc paper it was said very bluntly
that if it is war Great Britain wants
she can have her WARMTH Italy.
Back of this bitterness are two fac
tors; one is that the recent agreement
to arbitrate the Italo-Abyssinian con
troversy was brought about largely by