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Show Thursday, February 3, 1933 THE PARK RECORD PAGE TWO Use of Dolls Dates Far Back Into Earliest Days The use of dolls as playthings, I ornaments, and symbols of religion 1 and mysticism dates back to antiq-iuity. antiq-iuity. Historians have failed to un- earth any period in which there were no dolls. Early Oriental mythology myth-ology abounds with stories of gayly-decorated gayly-decorated figures used in religious rites, observes a writer in the Detroit De-troit News. In the Orange Free State in Africa Af-rica a girl receives a doll when she reaches maturity and keeps it until she has a child of her own. Egyptians Egyp-tians throw a life-size doll in the Nile when it rises each year. Chinese Chi-nese mothers hang a doll in front of the house when a child is ill. Syrian Syr-ian maidens place a doll in the window win-dow to notify young blades of the village that they are ready and will ing to take a husband. In Japan the annual Feast of the Dolls is a gay and impressive ceremony in which hundreds of thousands of chil dren and grown-ups participate. Psychologists say dolls are useful, not only to amuse, but to educate and to develop imagination and the parental instinct in children. Dolls, they say, are helpful to little boys as well as girls, and any boy under six years old need not fear being called a sissy if he loves and plays with dolls. Dolls of cave-dwellers were crudely crude-ly fashioned of mud, stones or bits of wood. Archeologists have found them in the earliest primitive dwellings, dwell-ings, often lying by the side of the remains of children. Through the centuries dolls have taken better form. European craftsmen of the Middle ages developed great skill In making dolls from wax. Later dolls were made of plaster, easily breakable. Four Important Groups Form Parakeet Family Parakeets are classified with the parrots from which they differ as a group mainly in their general small size, and in having longer tails, whether pointed or rounded, than the rather short and squarish tails of the parrot members of this fam-iiy. fam-iiy. There exist four important groups of these birds. The group best known to this country, states a writer writ-er in the Montreal Herald, contains the conures, or American tropical parakeets, of which about 30 species spe-cies are listed in books, all prevailing pre-vailing green, with brown faces and throats, and long-tailed; sometimes these may be taught to say a few words. A second group includes the ringnecks, most of the 25 or so species spe-cies of which are marked by a collar col-lar of distinct color behind the head. All of these are natives of southern Asia or of Africa. Of the third group, or true lovebirds, love-birds, some ten kinds are commonly common-ly imported, all of African origin. A fourth group comprises the broad-tailed "grass" parakeets of Australia, of which the only well-known well-known species brought to America is the popular budgerigar, or shell parakeet, frequently called "lovebird." "love-bird." After all, parakeets are only small parrots, and in nature live virtually in the same way. America of Present Day Harks Back to W. Indies It may seem illogical to say that America of today had its origin in the West Indies. But such is a fact, asserts a writer in the Chicago Tribune, and that is why many people peo-ple visit the islands of the Caribbean. Carib-bean. It is easy to picture the buccaneers and their victims, and the wild debauchery de-bauchery in which the loot was spent. Those bearded pirates were the gunmen of their period and they didn't bother much about "Hands up!" or "Don't move or I'll shoot!" They began to shoot as soon as they got into range. Hundreds of millions mil-lions of gold were collected by these freebooters, and much of it is buried somewhere between the tropic of Cancer and the equator. Mention of the West Indies brings to mind a flood of recollections-pictures recollections-pictures of Columbus, the discoverer; discover-er; De Leon, who loved Porto Rico so much that he sought the fountain foun-tain of youth so that he might grow young again to enjoy all the longer its beauties; De Soto, who built the old fort which stands in Havana, and who sleeps in the bottom of the Mississippi river, which he discovered; dis-covered; Cortez, who found a splendid splen-did civilization in Mexico and wrecked it for the sake of gold; Balboa, Bal-boa, the stowaway, who discovered the Pacific ocean; Pizarro, who spent a dozen or more years in his efforts to reach Peru so that he might rob the Incas of their vast wealth; Morgan, who sacked and burned Panama after his men had obtained its treasures; Drake, the privateer, who was just a pirate with a new name; Raleigh, who popularized pop-ularized tobacco and the potato; Josephine, the little girl from Martinique Mar-tinique who became the wife of Napoleon Na-poleon and thus the empress of France. Speaking of Sports 30,000 Bowlers To Match Skill In A. B. C. Meet By GEORGE A. BARCLAY 70UNG bowlers, old bowlers A fat bowlers, skinny bowlers tall bowlers, runty bowlers small town bowlers, big city bowlers 30,000 strong from continental United States, Can ada and Hawaii will roll balls down the alleys and pray for strikes and spares when the American Bowling Congress world's championship tourna' ment opens at the Coliseum in Chicago on March 3rd. From morning till night for 47 consecutive days the legions of ten- pin topplers will match skill on 40 specially constructed alleys in com petition for the $200,000 cash prize money. A bowler with a statistical mind has figured that the contestants will travel about six million miles get ting from their homes to Chicago and back. Champions and former champions will fight it out with unknown competitors com-petitors for first honors. Max Stein of Belleville, 111., all-events ABC champion in 1937, will attempt to equal or better his record-shattering performance of 2,070 pins in nine games. But the chances of his repeating are regarded as slim, since only Yellowstone, Largest Park Largest park in the United States is Yellowstone. It exceeds in size the state of Delaware, is mostly in Wyoming, but extends into Montana and Idaho. Its creation as a park, at the suggestion of a Montana businessman, Cornelius Hedges, in 1870, was the start of our national parks system. Almost beyond belief are its natural wonders, and indeed early explorers who reported boil-jing boil-jing springs, geysers, were called ' liars. Snakes Do Not "Dance" When a snake sways to the trills cf an Indian snake charmer's flute it isn't "dancing"; it is in deadly earnest. The snake has no respect whatsoever for music, sways only io aim a blow at the charmer, who, too, is swaying. The only reason India's snake charmers, indeed, most charmers, don't succumb to the attacks of their "pets" is because be-cause the snakes' fangs have been removed. It's a rare snake "tamer" "tam-er" who plays around with a creature crea-ture capable of doing much harm. Panama Cities Founded Several Centuries Ago Cristobal, Canal Zone, Atlantic port of entry to that strip of leased territory across the narrow part of the republic of Panama, is the gateway to a scene that dates back through the centuries. Panama City and Colon are ancient and colorful, and Cristobal and Balboa are modern mod-ern and military. Panama City and Colon are not outgrowths of the building of the canal. They are cities founded four centuries ago, the terminals of a paved causeway built to carry the unrecorded riches of the conquista-dores, conquista-dores, with a legend of pirates, buccaneers, buc-caneers, and the freebooters of the Spanish Main. A kaleidoscope of nations, they owe their atmosphere to a commerce originating in the Fifteenth century. The parade of nations began with the Spaniards and negro slaves, Inca chiefs and native Indians, and was carried on by the English buccaneers, the French corsairs, the forty-niners, Hindus, Chinese, and Arabs. Descendants De-scendants of these early merchants pass through the streets, displaying their wares in open shops that give the thoroughfares the atmosphere of an oriental bazaar. Balboa and Cristobal contrast sharply with Panama City and Colon in all respects except natural tropic beauty. They are a result of the canal, with wharves, customs houses, drydocks, administration buildings, rows of houses and a note of military efficiency. r I ' -VMrnms til .-, .-, ' . . i t 1st Base Switches SEVERAL varsity first basemen base-men in both the American and National leagues don't look any too sure of their jobs as the spring training season looms. Reports drifting in from vari-'ous vari-'ous headquarters have it that this or that first sacker is either going to have an awful time hanging onto his job, or is already al-ready nominated for replacement. replace-ment. Time alone will tell. Some of the flashy training camp recruits will rr Historic Nyon Nyon is picturesquely situated on the lake of Geneva, Switzerland. It is a very ancient little town, for it was founded by the Romans in 46 B. C. The chateau, which forms Nyon's crowning diadem, was first heard of in 1289, but the main part of the building dates from the end of the Sixteenth century. Spelling "Coconut" The people of Trinidad spell cocoa-nut cocoa-nut without an "a" that is, coconut. coco-nut. The original derivation comes from the Spanish word "coco," applied ap-plied to a monkey's face, the three eyes on the nut giving it the appearance appear-ance of a monkey's face, the lower eye seeming to resemble a mouth. The coconut tree, bare to within a few feet of the tassel-like top, is one of the most beautiful in the West Irldies. The trade winds keep it always waving. trt m tf 1 w at Bp STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY s 90 PROUf - I codes- IQ p jt t r on ani 96 j Pill! 97 m v 1 V -v 1. A 1 r 1 , f ' J Max Stein All-Events Champion twice before in the 37 years of American Bowling Congress competition compe-tition have all-events champions repeated. re-peated. Sharks Practice On thousands of home town alleys all over the United States local bowling sharks have been practicing practic-ing for months in anticipation of the tournament. Doctors, lawyers, farmers, movie actors, big league baseball players, clerks, mechanics, school teachers, merchants, salesmen, sales-men, and representatives of hundreds hun-dreds of other professions will be among the contestants , Tournament officials estimate that 5,500 five-men teams will be entered this year. Last year when the tournament was held in New York 4,017 quintets bowled. Wherever you look on the map you will find big and small communities commu-nities sending r teams The uttle town of Land O Lakes, Wis., with a population of only 112, but housing eight bowling alleys will send at least two five-men teams. Every big city will be repr e s e n t e d. Among the Pacific coast teams will be the Harold Lloyd club led by the fa mous movie actor. Lloyd has a set of alleys in his home and is handy with a bowling ball. Anybody's Game One of the intriguing things about the ABC tournament is that everybody has a chance. Today's champions are yesterday's unknowns. un-knowns. Last year a young bowler nobody had ever heard of, Edward Gagliardi, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., crashed through to a singles championship cham-pionship with a score of 749. Aces from the baseball world who are at home on a bowling alley will Harold Lloyd V t niTtU-lNCI CO ENlum nxiNOIS' C 1 llartnett Jimmy Dykes participate. Ray Schalk, famous one-time White Sox catcher, will bowl on opening night. Jimmy Dykes will blast away at the pins on closing night. In between, Gabby llartnett, Jimmy Archer, Everett Scott and others who won fame on the diamond will appear with some of the crack teams. ' Vi ' f - X : fey.:- '",. ?V 3 0 Lou Gehrig, Yankee Iron Man. fold like morning glories when the season onens and some of the ao- parently washed-un veterans will grab a new lease on life. The rumors, of course, don't point the finger at all the established hands. Lou Gehrig, the Yankee iron man, for instance, couldn't be blasted blast-ed out of his job with TNT. And Hank Greenberg can wager his last five-spot that the Detroit Tigers aren't going to move him, not only because of his steady walloping, but because of the tempest that was stirred up when Gerald Walker was traded to the White Sox. But elsewhere it may be radically different. The Chicago Cubs, for instance, have publicly announced that Rip Collins will be succeeded at first by Phil Cavaretta. Seasoned Sea-soned baseball followers, however, don't think it will be tough for Rip to get his job back. Over in Washington they say Joe Kuhel's job is going to young Jim Wadsell and at Boston it is reported that the Red Sox are toying with the idea of shifting Jimmy Foxx back of the plate and making a try for Zeke Bonura of the Chicago White Sox. In St. Louis they say the Browns may station outfielder Beau Bell on the initial sack to succeed Harry Davis. And stories persist that the New York Giants may wind up with either Buddy Hassett of the Brooklyn Dodgers, or Dolph Camilli of the Phillies. Braddock Retires Jim Braddock's recent announce ment of his retirement brings to a close a ring career that for ups and downs has few parallels in pugilistic history. The "Cinderella man" of boxing who had fought since 1926 explained that "in fair- Tommy Farr Jim Braddock ness to my wife and children I believe be-lieve it is time to withdraw from the ring." Braddock won the heavyweight championship from Max Baer in 1935, climaxing a comeback campaign cam-paign that led from a job as a dock laborer in Jersey City after he had been definitely counted out of the prize-fight picture. He lost the championship to Joe Louis in June, 1937. Thirty-two-year-old Jim gave an impressive account of himself in winning a ten round decision recently recent-ly over Tommy Farr. They say even the referee was happy over it. Linguistic Catcher Moe Berg, veteran catcher of the Boston Red Sox, is probably the most highly educated player in the big leagues. He is an erudite student stu-dent of languages and a successful practicing attorney. As an undergraduate under-graduate he made the Princeton university baseball team as a shortstop. short-stop. When he left Princeton he had made up his mind to be a lawyer law-yer and decided on a baseball career ca-reer to provide the money. So he joined the Brooklyn club as an infielder in 1323. He went to Paris that winter and attended the University of Paris, extending his hobby of studying Romance languages. lan-guages. That one year at the Sor-bonne Sor-bonne added to his Princeton studies enabled him to read Latin, Greek, French, Provencal, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, in addition to Hebrew and English. War Caused by Bucket Wars are often caused by the most insignificant events. In countries coun-tries like India, for instance, it needs merely some tactless act to send a searing flame through the country. The Indian mutiny was precipitated by the belief that pig's grease was rubbed on the cartridges that Mosley sepoys had to bite. But in the past, even in Europe, says London Tit-Bits Magazine, wars have been caused by sheer hot-he ad-edness. ad-edness. Sweden once fought Poland because the king of Sweden found that he was given two etceteras after his name while the king of Poland had three. Turkey ' once sent an army to Venice because someone at the court made a joke about their ambassador's beard, and six hundred years ago a conflict which devastated half Europe began be-gan because a bucket was stolen from a public well at Bologna. The "Sausage Tree" The Kigelia Pinnata is one of the most curious trees in America. It bears a large, inedible fruit, about 27 inches in length and 16 pounds in weight, and so closely resembling resem-bling the liver sausage that it is known as the "sausage tree." It is native to the Victoria Falls regiori of Africa. The long stems bearing the fruit are nearly an inch in diameter, di-ameter, and the sausages hang to within a few inches of the ground. 'Kitchen Cabinet" Made Up of Jackson's Friends The name "kitchen cabinet" was. applied by John Randolph, of Roanoke, Roa-noke, to a small group of intimata; friends of President Jackson. Al-i though these men held no important impor-tant offices at the time, notes a writer in the Indianapolis News, they seemed to influence the President's Presi-dent's political actions more than did his official cabinet. The moving spirit of the "kitchen cabinet" was Amos Kendall of Ken-i tucky, who was fourth auditor of the treasury, although he later became be-came postmaster general. Other members of this coterie were Gen. Duff Green, editor of the United States Telegraph, the administration administra-tion organ at Washington; Maj. Wil liam B. Lewis of Tennessee, second sec-ond auditor of the treasury; Isaac Hill, editor of the New Hampshire Patriot, and later Francis P. 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