Show I r 11 e r 1 f fY fe I I I Y I Ir Ic e 3 r c k a Thrilling Experiences of ofa a Youn Yount e d I II I t American Woman in the 1 s- s self elf Land Where Windows n rY 7 4 Are Unpopular Because There Are Always Igo Man Bullets w 4 A Ar r F F Fw r t- t tt w 7 r I IK K nr d t ats rb sf riA R h 7 Ze 3 p lI r r MAC N t q 4 M o rib a t h eh a v K ht 3 1 y Y r h E f e ft 4 t to o it 1 s 6 p piRa Aa e s sr r 4 CM y ta jr v d Y F SP fy r o l lb r nF r r rt q s e b s t c 1 f f fr a r YS YSA A ll f t T Tm A AaY m t I r aY bb c cYS iRa a f J wN o ra h y l i ia a ai rr case F 4 p y aF F tl i s rI t fl R i 9 a rf J df ts X 5 t x x R a 4 t tA tx A a ru k a lr lra a W 1 T p pt t I sad f A x a a ay af S nt J 7 1 j jy y p k S f fa a A A I vJ of f ii f tf f a O r rI rm 51 m 1 l r f JF ro t tl 4 roa t r a a S d z rt C i iA A kd A v v la ib i r st t tt b y ri d N C aN aNt aNt t t iY r ry 1 o 4 ti yf f t 1 r rI rIy y I a a 1 y c tib J tt rr t y l bi s bit t r M 1 4 Y r re 4 e r V w k b G rt F f k l ti Ss ufe r tot tote e w t tr r A I r c B s si i F R a s at y R E nL 6 il r b An A n Albanian mother carry carry- carrying carrying ing her baby on her ber head in a cradle that has haa been in use we in the family for many generations generation J TR R JEROME NAPOLEON N POL EON MR BONAPARTE IS B an American American American- but one in 1 whoso hose veins flows the blood of European Europe royalty Ho He Is la a nephew nephew great of na no less leBS a distinguished figure in history than Emperor Napo Napo- Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon leon Bonaparte the military genius who ho became Emperor of f France It was because of this royal ancestry that the tha people of Albania that wIld and little known country in the Balkans thought Mr Sir Bonaparte would them make make them thema a perfectly ideal king Their bloodstained and none too secure throne has been unoccupied for a distressingly long J long time and they recently f made diplomatic overtures to see if rich Mr Bonaparte would not consent to take his seat onIt onit on Vt it out and undertake to straighten out the nations nation's chaotic affairs To the great disappointment of of the Albanians however Mi lh Bonaparte politely but firmly refused their offer and ItIS It is generally thought that his re refusal re- re was vas a as very largely due toi to i the unwillingness of his wife J to enter upon a royal career career ca- ca caI I y reer Sy Mrs Bonaparte is one of CE f the loveliest lo most charm charm- ing women m in American society and nobody who knows her and who ho also understands the primitive to conditions of life in Alba Aba A Albania ba- ba bania nia can wonder onder that she Ehe An Alba did not care to exchange for them the easy luxury of a high place In- In Inthe in the s smart rt set of cIvIl cIvIl- cIvIlIzed civilized civil civilized America And the more that is learned about Albania the more evident it becomes that Mrs Bonaparte showed herself a II highly sensible woman when she refused to allow herself to be tempted by the thc of ot a II throne and the homage which a 1 queen commands Rose Wilder Lane a California woman has recently returned from frollI II a a venture venturesome some trip into the mountains n of Albania where here few if any American women have ever gone and what she has hns to say about the thc country and its people makes It plain that it is about the last place on earth a fashionable society woman would care to make her home True Mrs Lane enjoyed herself hersel huge ly Iy hugely put but ut this thit is 18 because she has a real passion for adventure and finds in III dodging dodging ing mg bullets facing murderous bandits and risking her life on the tho brink of mountain precipices Jut t the thrills sheP she thinks make male life lite worth orth living hang P With two women companions she pene pens Crated penetrated the wildest mountain regions of Albania escorted only by a native inter Inter- interpreter interpreter preter and a young Albanian bo boy They rode on ponies and of course went h hr ily hav a aBy as By III aimed med because the trails trail that wind windover windover windover over these bleak and precipitous moue moun I r tr t b b J lt t Hr 4 e a lye It y 4 Aw I 4 v t 3 Vic Types of the all gentle E t 4 Mrs Bonaparte and her husband would have had S for their subjects if he had accepted the offer of the throne of this Balkan nation I t tr a ay r y r e r k s s- s sq q Y r f t jor s1 1 r t tY j vA Y i Y 5 Ys yh t h hw w V Ve e lay v v err ur family on its way to a days day's outing at the primitive I equivalent of Coney Island err Atlantic Ci i tam tain ranges arc are the fa favorite to haut of oC bandits and the scene of continual bloody tribal feuds The feet fact that the world orld War is over makes little difference v with ith the Hlf war like aspect ct of Albania ap When there are aie e no enemies outside to be bo resisted or attacked the people keep right on fighting wIth one another lust just J as liS they have been doing for countless generations Life LICe IS still lived much na liS it was as lined ll every every- everywhere 1 where here in to Europe during the Middle Ages the thief chief difference being that most of oC tho the Albanians lire are equipped with Ith firearms and havo have become dangerously expert in their use Mrs Lanes Lane's companions in III adventure were Frances lIard a ft thin athletic browned sun browned girl so eo full of energy that her cry sery cry finger Inger Ups tips seemed to crackle electricity and another young woman oman called Ale Alex who looked like liko a n maga maga- magazine magazine zm zine cover corer with Ith sunshiny hair softly fluffed wide blue ey eyes s and that com corn complexion of of f pink and white like roses painted on a n china plate that drives a dagger of envy into every feminine heart and make makes make's the fortunes of cosmetics And Mrs Lane althou although h too modest to admit it is far from two tive unattractive herself The youth and good looks of the three r e r 1 v vi i IT I J fl y 7 J Jw Lf C tf i pry V w women o 0 men m e n adventurers f f v t der J v b make it all the more l ej f I j that they U v A e y lr e ee J 1 came through their trip 1 ti bt jM A rh t r in III safety l For or a m III parts tf Y i j wb r of Albania a young Ii ii of I r tr Wk f rI t yr and charming woman f s fr I ty j Yf I Is still regarded as the legitimate prize of men The entrance to one of the extraordinary cliff dwell dwell- bold and strong trong enough ings dwellings that are found in some of the mountainous TI IH-TI to take tale possession of d districts of Albania The loute route the women took was so 80 steep and perilous that they frequently had to abandon the ponies pones and climb for miles on foot aiding themselves with stout wooden eta staves yes the journey tourney was l begun just lust after the Albanians in had bad driven from the land the Serbian army of occupation T The e Ser Ser- Ser Ser- bian army was still holding tho the moun moun- mountaIns mountains mountains and in every direction bandits were roving and tubal warfare raging wIth unusual fierceness Everything that makes our ordinary was already as far from us as another pIn planet net writes Mrs Mra Lane in n her book Peaks of Shala Shale of their entrance into tho the Albanian Mountains It It was wasas wasas wasas as though wo 0 had dropped through II a ahole ahole hole in time and fallen into the da days s when men wore were wIld wilL creatures cn In n Iho the tho forests We We Weere were ere in a landhere land vv where here here a inch twelve inch trail is 1 to its people what the tho Twentieth Century Limited is ia to America With staffs statys an and aching feet we found the trail when wo 0 went went onward Un- Un Unseen Un Unseen seen boulders hI our knees unseen rocks rolled when we e stepped on of them When an hour later ont one of ot my pony's hind legs wont went ent over the edge of n II crum crumbling bling Ming trail and only my mans man's grip on his tail tUlI kept him from going quito quite over the incident interrupted for only a II sec sec- sec second ond end my enJo enjoyment ment of the wild lId weird scene II n hundred miles of mountain tope top with their shadows t the e light of the moon At 10 o'clock wo we fell from our sad Bad saddles sad saddles dIes in the tho walled ailed courtyard of ot a ghostly white house bouse and a tall figure figuro in the tho hood hood- hoods s y Fr w y ys l Q t tr s I r u uA A a A wt r t y 4 4 I I II rf k A Y r v a I L Lcy cy cyM M i 9 f fv v k i a s P PoYo Pt oYo l lx lI lii k x t I r ii 1 ty ti I Mrs Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte who sensibly prefers rem remaining lining a t queen of American society to wearing Q a real crown in the least l known country in the world ed cd robe of a Franciscan father lighted us across it with Ith a flaming pine torch We really relly were v in III the Middle Diddle t dle Ages or in some century perhaps even eat her herAn An hour after when weere we wo were ere greeted b by bythe bythe the thc Bishop of we had bad forgotten even to realize so It-so it so adaptable are arc human humn beings that we ve quite forgot that modern civilization had e ever eer er been The hooded priest lighted us with I 1 is s torch up a n flight of worn stone and into the bishops bishop's house There the tho bIshop lia ng from a n wooden bench wel- wel welcomed wel welcomed us in III Albanian and Latin and wr f sat Ale Alex Frances and I in a row on a wooden bench in the chilly bare room During the evening the lie bi bishop hop C ex cx explained planed the blood feuds that mako make the mountains so to foreigners on account of stray shots You mu must t not mistake my people The rhe blood fe feud l IS bad but lut it is their only w vs ny ay of en enforcing ing laws s The blood feud is ia a form of capItal punishment which all nations have and it is governed go by most strict 11 laws s It is based on personal honor is also the honor of the tho h tube tribe Ibl A Aman Aman man or a II 11 tuba tubo Ibe must an insult to honor hOllor by k killing ling the man who has bas gIVen it Then they went on to another moun moun- mountain mountain tain tillage Milage and stopped for the night m mone one of the nativo houses The stone stono stonewalled walled stono-walled walled room inside they found tobo tobe to lal laige ge low and filled with Ith shad shad- shadows shadows shadows Near the farther flather end on tho the stone floor a II burned in a ring of ashes ahls In the corn corner r near the door several goats and two t kIds kida and two stopped dry their blo on a n heap of leaved dry branches and looked at the By degrees the house grew dealer clearer to our eyes writes Mrs Lane They ho- ho be became came camo accustomed to the firelight and the 4 a S Aa AaA I N A g I IRose tg t tN 1 Rose Wilder Lane the California heroine of ofa a daring visit isit to Alba flirts nis bloodthirsty bandits and saw the guns hanging on the wall the browsing goats that wIth witha II a little tinkling ot or bells beIls s worried and tOle toie tOleat at the dried green leaves on the tho oak branches heaped for them the outlines of a painted wooden chest tilled filled with cornmeal at which a woman oman worked making a n loa loaf of brendon a II flat oard One of the men raked out some somo coals and andset set in them a 1 lound round flat iron pan panon panon panon on legs to heat Soon the woman cams wIth the tho bread a loa loaf two feet across and two inches thick and deftly slid It from flom the board into the pan The chIc chief of one of the Albanian vii vii- vil t lages villages had the best house that the tho trav elers trays travelers in stayed during their wanderings but ev even n this one had very fow few win dows doves windows because of the danger of being struck by stray bullets This man of importance in the com com- community spoke wistfully of the desira desirability desiray of windows It is not safe now to haw have them he said A man JI never ver knows when his tribe will be in blood and enemies will shoot him through the w thew Another uncomfortable thing about Albania T in is i the i i ii i f like habit of loo loosing ing dogs more titan tame night On thIs animals eVel evoy account nC only the bold oat ost folk dare venture oU the walls aIls of their stone stono villages after dark The rho dogs are arc as dangerous as the bullets that so o frequently fl whiz through the nil air I l 1 |