Show Girl Reporter Eats Eat I Octopus Likes It Strange Peppery Foods of Dalmatia Explain Why Vl Slays Slavs Can Standa Stand a Lot of Punishment and Have Such Sucha a Fierce Temperament Dinner Goes Over Over- Overboard Overboard board By ny JESSIE 1110 New few Yorker Abroad Special Dispatch to The Standard Standard- Examiner Copyright 1816 1 Consolidated Con Press Preas Association ALONG THE DALMATIAN COAST Oct OcL 2 Theres 2 Theres There's a a good doe deal to be b salil for tor heredity nut But theros thero's more moro to be said sald for or dle tion tion If It the th people who want world peace would attend less leas to what the Balkans and their environs mean In history a as Jugie Jul lc Slavic and nd Czech Ie units and moro more to what they th y eat cat the I problem of ot the tho Balkan un- un un unrest teat rest would bo be b son son-cd In short hort or- or order or order der The thing Indeed would unroll itself tl like liko a n crossword puzzle Ex Exasperation Ex- Ex In la seven letters would develop as tho ravioli ravioli tho kind which has been kept In a kitch kitch- kitchen kitchen en till It was long lone past Its It first youth and heavy as an ultimatum The Tho even een mIght dl solva solve Into spaghetti powdered with witha a certain local pepper calculated to make mako in k you take tak an Intense In- In Interest In Interest terest In tn among other things thine the local water supply and any adja- adja adjacent adja adjacent cent rivera river Undoubtedly what gives Ives elve to the Jugo and the th Czech that interest ing temperament 1 Is goats goat's meat seasoned with everything handy TAKE KE PUNISHMENT It J an army marches on Its iti tummy so 10 oven even snore more mor doe a a na no as- as astion nation tion Statesmen from the th milder countries who think the th little ha- ha na nation tion are aro ar goIng to bo be satisfied with witha a few hard boiled mandates ought to 10 reflect on the tho fact that for a thousand years year these little ones have subsisted uh l on wild strange foods which would long since havo decimated tho the c west we t but bitt which hove havo h v resulted hereabouts hereabout her In sturdy physique phy marvelous com corn complexions and handsome handsom black eyes together with lIh nit ait ability to talco punishment an n Indifference to the tho western ideas Ideal of ot cause and effect and a outlook on life lito have more moro than once upset up diplomatic negotiations ot of 0 court course a big bif or of the n wars war have o start tart d In tho the tha vicinity of the tho th Dalmatian coast Eat there for tor a n week and you'll understand why Divorce are aro cooked up In tho the kitchen as every American husband hu band knows And when you ou see aeo e what comes come out of a Dalmatian kitchen It doesn't you ou when trouble toll follow OWL A people whose shore horo dwellers are digestively little brothers brother to the oc- oc octopus octopus oc and anil th the oa snail ought not to be b blamed If It they thc feel teel the they can tackle anything FLir TASTING T rooD FOOD It was funny tunny about the tho octopus Of course coune the lobsters lobster were rather tunny lunny too tin too tiny too tiny six Inch ones from roundabout where they havo have no laws law anent short odd red little creatures tat t looked like lipsticks lipstick and tasted like liko ambrosia Upon the tho same enormous platter ero Inter Inter- c eating odds odas and ends of or fish cam cam- cam with wilh oil peppers pepper and whatnot and tasting so 10 much in spite of everything everything- like liko tho the good old haddock which brightens the Ne New England seashore hotel that you Inc help demanded a a second bl big help ing and a third Tho The Englishman who ho Ime knew all 1111 about evel as Englishmen so often do was discoursing on strange sea ed food and ho gave avo a remarkably vivid description of oC o the th ways was way and means of octopi It Wasa wasa Was wan a choppy sea o round about lunch lunchtime lunchtime time and you had bad begun to wish wl hed he'd talk about habits of the wild because r because It seems the th oc oc- oc octopi oc-lopi oc I topi often darken their ImmedIate surroundings with an Inky fluid very dense den and nd poisonous poisonous the tho Englishman Tin Im told 1 that on some om ot or more coors remote Islands I l farther further south Greece Greece you know the know the blighters actually eat em cm Its It's It like Ilka those African chaps who eat cat the tho th flesh of poIsonous snakes U GIl FINALE FINAL The Th captain munChing steadily chose choso that Instant to 10 observe o that we 0 were vero all eating octopus at the moment Still inky Still inky fluid or not nothing nothing untoward happened happen d At nothing often happen pp n during a choppy S e I I- I |