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Show When King George Received the Big News from America vhet about: The Big Book Craze. SANTA MONICA. CALIF. promised a historical novel longer than any yet say half a million words or so. Of course, the author probably uses some words at least twice, but that wont reduce the gross tonnage unless they're very short words. Streamline Ship ot the Desert in Tunis. Visitors from Other Lands Find Tunis Very Attractive PreiarH by Nitnuii (tmftriphie Society, Wuhinirtoa, U. C. W.MU Service. its fertile vineyards groves clustered Sahara and the sea, is an African suburb of Europe. Lying across a strait from Sicily, it almost divides the Mediterranean into two great lakes. Overnight steamers run from Trapani, Sicily, to Tunisias capital, which has more Italian residents than all Libia. TUNISIA, No mere group of palm-drape- d oases is this warm, sunny land. Its wine and oil challenge the growers of France, Italy and Spain. Another Punic war, this time economic, is on. After an absence of 13 years a teacher returned to Tunis, which brings the oriental life, the Moslem vejl, shady souks, and peaceful mosques within honeymoon distance of European capitals. But Tunis, no mere curiosity shop, lives in the present. At the comer and the of the Avenue Jules-Ferr- y d Avenue de Carthage Times square of the Tunisian metrof the city's 46,000 opolis-part Italians watched red, white, and green flaglets mass closer on a map of Ethiopia. Representatives of the 33,000 Frenchmen of Tunis saw, behind bulletin board news flashes, g back German feet into the Rhineland. Down in southern Tunisia, motor trucks were rushing oil and grain to Ben Gardane, whence silent-foote- d cgmels, forgetful of sanctions, carried provisions across the Libian frontier toward Tripoli. Neither the Casino, nor the electric cars to Carthage, the Viennese lady orchestra in a cafe, nor the animated promenade along the tree-line- d avenue held you for long. You want to mingle again with the lean and slippered Moslem: Berber, Bedouin, and Zlass. Buy Jewelry in the Slave Market. Strolling through the Porte de France at Tunis, from the European quarter of hats and shoes into the native precincts of fezzes and slippers, you enter another world. Outside is the cathedral; inside is the mosque. Outside, tables of machine-mad- e merchandise, soliciting trade on the sidewalks; inside, tiny shops which entice possible patrons of handicrafts with the insidious hospitality of the coffee cup. In the heart of the souks, where concentrated perfumes and hand' carved candles, bright slippers and brighter silks, mellow carpets and tree-shade- goose-steppin- fingers a sequined gown, draped from a hanger shaped like the head and shoulders of a bobbed-haire- d blonde. Machine-mad- e silks hang side by side with a tapestry, hand-wove- n by some Zlass tribeswoman generations ago, and passed down from mother to daughter until hunger turned an heirloom into a curio. Cafe habitues, formerly entertained by lively hips and shrill voices, now solemnly listen to the metallic falsettos of a like a flytrap, or a phono" horn shaped like a morning-glorAbove the screeching of orange-seller- s, klaxons, and streetcar wheels in the Place Bab Souika, camellia-whit- e domes rise like bubbles. Through a mere alley cluttered by the barrows of vegetable merchants and baskets of those who sell spinach, ground henna, or red pimiento dust, you return to the Place loud-speak- er y. Hal-faoui- There, during Ramadan, Moslems fast and sleep by day and gorge themselves by night, glimpsing naughty puppet shows or playing dominoes. Such pleasures palling, you ride out to the Bardo museum, once the secluded women's quarters of the palace of the Beys. Where the Beys womenfolk lived like birds in a gilded cage, visitors marvel at the unique treasures of this collection of Punic, Ro- man, Christian, and Arab art. This priceless hoard of historic loot would disconcert a modern archeologist, for scant records were made of the exact places and conditions where the relics of centuries were brought to light. But there they are, in breathtaking quantity and excellence. Crops and thistles now grow on sites whence these ancient stones came and companion pieces of these matchless mosaics, here polished and protected, now crumble under careless feet at Dougga. Thuburbo Majus, Bulla Regia, and Sbeitla. Sponge Diver round Sullas Loot. made by Petrified footprints e boots in TuRome's nisian sands have here been marshaled in a setting of rare charm. Surely not even the chosen ladies of the Bey ever graced these halls as long-go- in mar- ble and bronze. Thirty years ago a sponge diver came gasping to the surface, his eyes dilated with fear. In the shadowy depths he had suddenly met face to face with a mysterious lustrous copperware hide the naked- monster. His skeptical comrades, ness of mere holes in the wall, you forewarned, dove down. Ignorant seek out a little square with red though they were, they came up and green columns, falling arches, swearing secrecy. For the monand an optimistic array of cofTee ster was part of the ancient booty tables the slave market. which Sulla shipped home from the In the former slave market of Tu- sack of Athens. Wrecked off Mahnis, you watch American visitors dia, this d art collection buying Jewelry. Rome. never reached The United States was the first One bronze figure at Le Bardo is Christian nation to win immunity a replica of Praxiteles' Eros, and from the depredations of Barbary this love is truly blind, for the eye corsairs. The Philadelphia ran pits lack pupils. The original, known aground on the Tripolitan coast, and and described by Callistratus, is William Eaton made his spectacular lost. And this glorious figure, resmarch of 600 miles across the Lib- cued from the sea 20 centuries after a its shipwreck, dominates a series of ian desert, trying to halls in which Sullas shipload of friendly Bey in Tripoli. Tripolis name formerly appeared loot is now displayed. in the legend on the colors of the Sharp suml proved kinder to the United Slates marines, and still is Pcntclic marble than the surging familiar in the song. "From the sea. A smooth hip, which rested Halls of Montezuma to the Shores for 2,000 years on a bed of sand, still has a glasslike polish. But of Tripoli. Another point of pilgrimage is the where the water, like an acid, pilled burial place of John Howard Payne. the smooth skin, no semblance of doesn't the original lines remains. The Home, Sweet Home stand translation, for the French chaste curve from shoulder to some Greek dont write songs about their homes breast, over which with love, gave labored sculptor there. stay They decomposiPayne's body at last came home way to On the simple monument in the tion. The bronzes suffered less. Danccemetery of the little English ing dwarfs still are grotesquely church at Tunis are these words: In the tomb beneath this stone, amusing, and a virile figure with hair reaches out to grapple the poet's remains lay buried for stormy with the lifelikeness 30 years. On January, 5, 1883. they an adversary n movie. a of taken and were disinterred away to was the In what Beys banquet his native land where they received a colossal head of Jupiter, ithonored and final burial in the city hall, self as tall as a woman, looks dow of Washington, June 9, 1833. on Neptune's cortege. Silk Shops and Noisy Cafes. A mosaic showing the Cyclops souk and working under the direction of VulVisit the the shadowy shop. Here a bearded can makes Polyphemus seem like a modern, pictured on a poster Moslem gazes at a chromo of a twice life size. woman veiled a There girL off Mahdia hand-picke- pock-marke- slow-inotio- sun-slash- fair-skinn- d in bringing about a desired end Therefore. I say that a man must necessarily have a worthy object in view to bring out the best in him that a man must see more than a salary to be more than a salaried man. A man must see the position of ownership, partnership, man- cnr-a- agement, or increased award, in order to awaken his will power. The man who does good to another does even more good to himself. Z m .h. direction. Thia is the law of Morse stayed four years In England where he achieved considerable success as a portrait painter. Then returning to hie native coun- try, he afterwards became president of the national academy ami an eminently successful painter, his sitters becoming so numerous that he was unable to meet and fill all of his orders. It was dur ing his return voyage to America in 1832, following a second visit to Europe, that Morse got his conception of the telegraph. Twelve years later May 24, 1844 he gave a public demonstration of his invention, sending a message from Washington to Baltimore. The rest is well known history. Kansas City Star. -- lanced lives and balanced foc'oIo-gy; so, in the end. Nature tn',M the job off our hands, will- - ihe consequent upheavals and d. slurb-ance- Jones de Vere Jones decided it would be fun to spend a day in the country. Back to Nature, and all that. Meeting a farmer in a Held he thought to have some fun with him. g, he started. 1 must say I admire your part of the country. Then he noticed a scarecrow in the middle of the field. And is that one of the oldest inhabitants? he went on, pointing to the scarecrow. Naw, zur, came the slow reThat be no oldest 'habiply. tant. Just a visitor like yourself. -- up mas 9r if you WIKI, to more scientific U..guaBe. compensation !t Is the one fixed, immutable of life and it applies to every! thing, everywhere. It cannot L evaded or avoided. The vmii of it may be immediate or in, it may be a matter of contlTie but if we keep ourselves &wa of it we may be saved disappomt-ment and disilius'on. The extent to which we t0 restrict that law is absurd,try w, of balanced bud ns baspeak lanced rations, and the balance of trade; but we quite ignore ba- py! Good-mornin- Roes - tion is equal to reaction and ry Reeognizeil His Fellow power is the mental exercised ,VV Funster Ought to Have A Worthy Object Wn.t. VV d0Wn? AT what appeared to be the emotion of the king? What did he ay? he ir," said West, Well, made a reply characteristic of the goodness of his heart, or words to that effect. Well, he said, if they can be happier under the government they have chosen, then under mine, I shall be hap- We work or play to excess, we Indulge our appetites and our senses to repletion, perhaps to gluttony, and when we sutler dur-in- g Natures work of restoring balance, we rail at fate. In monarchy and republic we allow our thirst for power and for money to overbalance our lives, both individually and socially, then blame God and man for the chaos which attends the restoration of balance. In all the affairs of life we may evolve philosophies and devise systems; but just so long as they are out of balance, individually, socially, industrially or just so long will the scale teeter up and down to our gnvern-mentall- discomfort. If as individuals our lives are out of balance, the structure as a whole must also be out of balance; and in time that balance must be restored by us or by THOSE WHO FOLLOW. Ray Ayers in Detroit News. An Actors Temperament. all been waiting for something to top it, but the best wheeze of the month remains the one that was emitted, not by a paid gagster, but by a simple stagehand at one of the studios when Mr. Leslie Howard refused to go on making a picture until a group of distinguished visitors, including Mr. Charles Norris, the novelist, had been shooed off the set. He aint sore at you gents, stated the stage-han- d to the ousted parties, but he's been playin 'Hamlet' on the regular stage and he aint used to havin a crowd watchin him while hes actin. If Mr. Norris and his friends want ed to see some really great acting they should have patronized the pro- YV E'VE fessional wrestling matches. That's where they put on the heavy dramatic stuff beautifully rehearsed, perfectly done. ne seven-leagu- do the gods and goddesses I can't take it. While still convalescent from Anthony Adverse," I was stricken down by Gone With the Wind" and had such a relapse that even now I barely can hold on my stomach such comparatively and trifling light stuff as volume VET to ZYM of the encyclopedia. When reading this modern bulk literature. it upsets me to find my legs going to sleep before I do. stant pressure makes callouses on my second mezzanine landing. I admit these mass production books serve nicely as door stoppers and for pressing wild flowers. 1 also heard of a chap who detected a prowler under his wind.ow and dropped a frothy little work of fiction wei thing slightly less than nine pounds on the beck of the fellow's neck, dislocating three vertebrae. At last accounts, the surgeons were still picking long jagged chapters out of his spine. In my present mood, what I crave is the romantic stulf of olden days, in which our sainted Aunt Soolv'e was wont to inscribe Alas, how sad! or Only too true!" in pa'e violet ink on the margins. What happened to all the Aunt Sophies, anyhow? Morse, inventor of the . Samuel electric telegraph, had only one ambition as a young man and that was to become an artist. He studied under Washington Allston, then the greatest painter in the United States, and with Allston went to London in 1811. There he met Benjamin West who, although an American, was president of the Royal academy, and a great favorite with the king, who latei made him Sir Benjamin West. West was actually at work on a portrait of the king when the latter was handed the Declaration of Independence. Morse heard the piquant story from West himself, says Ernest Greenwood in From Here it is Amber to Amperes. as related by Morse: Turning to the picture of the king. Sir Benjamin West said: Do you see that picture, Mr. Morse? 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