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Queer Beliefs of South Sea Isâ€" To an enlightened person it seems, of course, ridiculous to believe that could exert any influence upon rainâ€" fall or other natural phenomena. But when the chain of coincidences surâ€" rounding the acquisition of a wooden rain god which is now on exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural Hisâ€" tory, is considered, it is easy to see how similar coincidences would apâ€" pear to the minds of primitive South Sea island tribesmen as cause and éeffect. In the same way the common superstitions of our own people, such as those connected with the number 13, black cats, broken mirrors and rabbit‘s foot, persist due to coinciâ€" The Field Museum‘s rain god is one of four which were preserved in a sacred place in the valley of Atuâ€" ona, on the island of, Hivaoa, one of the Frenchâ€"owned Marquesas group in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Dr. Raiph Linton, assistant curator of Oceanic and Malayan ethâ€" nology at the museum, learned of the idols from natives while he was on an ethnological expedition. He found them surrounded by the bones of about 25 tribesmen who had been ofâ€" fered as human sacrifices. He was then confronted .with the problem of acquiring and taking away the revâ€" ered objects in the face of certain opposition from the Atuona tribe. How Acquired Opportunity presented itself when a dispute arose between two natives over ownership of the land on which the gods happened to be located. Thinking that Dr. Linton could not take them away, and believing that a paper from a white man would help them in the, French court (both as a legal document and because of their idea that it would have magic power) each of these natives came to the ethnologist secretly and offered him the gods if he would give a receipt. Each native thought that this would indicate that Dr. Linton believed him the rightful owner. Linton gave each a receipt, and thus acquired clear title whichever way the case might be decided. SEWING MACHINES ‘rom Six Dollars and up. A. H. MUHLKE SINCER _ AGENCY Deerfield, II!. Tel. Deerfield 363 SOLD AND REPAIRED | THE _ HIGHLAND PARK HOSPITAL out of a tree Don‘t Forget the Telephone Number! Telephone Highland Park 2550 four heavy idols by employing a group "About half an hour after the gods arrived in camp there was a downâ€" pour of rain that became heavier and heavier, lasting for twentyâ€"four solid hours." Dr. Linton relates. "The rivâ€" er on the island was rising rapidly, and the natives were hadly frightâ€" ened. It was all due, they insisted, to the wrath of the disturbed gods. They said the gods would continue the rain until the river flooded, washâ€" 1ing away my camp and the entire | village, sweeping everything and evâ€" erybody into the sea. The tribesmen were becoming menacing to me, and something had to be done to calm them. I called in the elders of the )tribe, and before them I had addressâ€" ed the gods in the tribal language. I told the wooden idols that they were Imistaken as to my motives, that I was merely moving them to the island Jof Hawaiki, regarded as a sort of Olympus of all native gods, where | they would be more comfortable. But }l threatened, if the rain continued" |\ much longer, I would tie them to coâ€" coanut trees, where they would be Jimpotent and unhappy gods. This | speech placated the excited tribesmen and seemingly the gods also. For, ‘sure enough, half an hour later the | rain did stop, and the river subsided. The native faith had been sustained | by a coincidence. | Another Coincidence [ "There was another coincidence. I | managed to get the idols loaded on a schooner and sailed away. Three ofl r‘them are now in a museum at Honoâ€" |lulu.> The fourth arrived in Chicago ‘at a time when the city and all the Several months later Dr. Linton soived the Problem of removing the of porters brought from another in were therefore not subject to thesmme tabus as the Hivaoa natives. In the dead of night these men carried the Highland Park near the shore. But the Hivaca people soon learned what had hapâ€" pened, and a native boy who cooked for Dr. Linton warned him of imâ€" pending trouble. 2R €0 g 74 :‘“-\_ 4 yÂ¥ /‘\“\A E’z Phone 2048 * PIANO TUNING 17 Years Experience COAL and SOLVAY COKE HERMAN DENZEL, President 1205 Deerficld Road at Blodgett Telephone 335 Building Material Highland Park Fuel Company Work Guaranteed, Estimates Free PROFESSION A L H. F. PAHNKE days. The story of the raih followâ€" ing the arrival of the idol reached had relief. Immediately a farmer in lowa requested that the museum lend him the god to bring rain and save his crops. Similar requests have since been received from time to time. Needless to say, however, the muâ€" seum never grants the loan of the middle west had had a drought for THIS IS BAD NEWS FOR THE OPTICIANS as done by us is a source of perma~ nent satisfaction to our customers. When we erect the work it will be abâ€" solutely firm and securely attached to the building. The cost will not be much considering the fact that we use only the strongest and best materials and employ only skilled mechanics. Hornâ€"rimmed spectacles have been thrown out of office windows onto pavements, run over by trucks, and otherwise mistreated, and escaped without breaking. On top of all this Francis C. Chadwick, of Ardena, New Jersey, has had returned to him a pair of tortoiseâ€"shell rim glasses which blew off when he leaned from the cockpit of an airplane to view the landscape at an altitude of 1,000 feet. Arthur Van Brunt, of Asbury Park, discovered the spectacles lying in a field. Despite the fact that the glasses had dropped a thousand feet they were not in any way damaged, owing to the protection afforded by the frame. Kentucky crops are said to be in danger from the devastation of an army of rats. These rodents must be descendants of the one who are the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. The crying need of the year is a politician who can be wet and dry at the same time and be able to prove it. The earthquakeâ€"stricken Balkans are sending up a cry for more qlqthes. That‘s what we also need.â€"Atlanta Constitution. With the number of college graduâ€" ates that are being turned out each year you wouldn‘t think there would be so many public questions remainâ€" ing unsolved. SMOKE STACK AND Henry G. Winter 48 North First Street Highland Park, Illinois CHIMNEY WORK leading American forces in the World ! War, who looked up his former cookie loving pal and appointed him chief purchasing agent of the A. E. F. | REA ‘The bridge expert has it all over the political expert because it is very selâ€" dom anyoné has the nerve to contraâ€" Thus was Dawes started on a career of larger usefulness which caused him to make himself famous as an officer of the United States forces and as a financier who devised a now famous formula for settling German reparaâ€" tionsâ€"the Dawes Plan. There are four billion birds in Amerâ€" icm, not counting the most important one that adorns one side of the coin of J. Pershing. whom he had met at an unsatisfactory funch in a hot dog stand, tried out some of Mrs. Dawes‘ cookies and both found a common taste for these sweetâ€" meats. The cavairy officer, then a lieutenant known by a very small section of the United States, was John _ But in the progress of the vice ‘president the cookies of Caro Dawes, otherwise Mrs. C. G. Dawes, have had a not unimportant part. Early in the general‘s married life, says the Woâ€" man‘s Home Companion, his friends were attracted by the now famous sugar cookies with raisins which were the product of Mrs. Dawes‘ culinary Nearly twenty years later it was the one time lanky lieutenant, then 32 N. First St. Tel. H. P. 1234 It‘s a long way from the pantry to the chanceries of Europe and the halls of Congress where Vice President Charles G. Dawes now long has occuâ€" pied a place of prominence. |_â€"The law provides that throwing i!rom any moving vehicle any light | cigarette, cigar, ashes or other burn~[ ing substances, or any substances which mamy cause a fire, is punish-ble[ by a fine of not more than $500, or | imprisonment in the county jail not | to exceed six months or both such fine and imprisonm@at. The Chicago | Motor club points out that every moâ€" | torist should know and observe the | provisions of this fire prevention legâ€" j islation. F Yarn in Magazine Tells About Them; Maybe It‘s Appleâ€" sauce, Maybe Not CALIFORNIA LAW PRECAUTION AGAINST FIRE First arrests and convictions reâ€" sulting from enforcement of the Caliâ€" fornia state law prohibiting throwing of burning cigars, cigarettes and matches from moving vehicles were made recently, according to a bulleâ€" tin received by the touring bureau of the Chicago Motor club. The bulleâ€" tin goes on to say that two men caught throwing burning cigarette stubs from an automobile while passâ€" ing a grain field were arrested by traffic officers and fined $50 each in a justice‘s court. <% Although repeated warnings have been broadcast, and signs posted conâ€" spicuously in the national forests, there are still many careless smokers who are a menace to the trees and fields during the dry season. Reâ€" lentless war will be made upon this class of motorists this season, it is declared. Prohibits Throwing of Cigar and Cigaret Stubs from Cars; Great Damage Has Often Resulted Recent heavy losses from /Afire traced directly to careless smokers have stimulated watchfuiness on the part of California state traffic officers and the state forestry department. Everymeans will be used to protect forests and grain fields from destrucâ€" tion by fire. MRS DAWES‘ COOKIES FIRST WON PERSHING Classified While they were living in Nebraska AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES GARAGE and CAB SERVICE Auto Painter LETTERING â€" MONOGRAMS High Grade Work 816â€"518 Laurel Avenue Telephone Highland Park 542 JAMES COLLINS LARSON BROS. Penalty Provided ‘Telsphone H. P. 2714 §13 Eim Place ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS P & M g:.’."'c..'.f'V..':’ Interior Decorating Phone M. P. 391 _______ 26 8. SBCOND 8# Batteries Recharged, Rented and Repaired PATNTING AND NECORATING Yaints, We.l Puper. Ginsa Window Shides, Auto Glass Painters® Supplies Central & Second St. Tel. H. 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