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Highland Park Press, 17 Feb 1927, p. 10

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2 â€" Synin (H â€" TRLLS INSIDE STORY lmummmx OF REM ROW RULER| _ MISLAID FOR YEARS t France is going to celebrate offiâ€" clally the centenary of Beethoven which is another indication that +4. day, they says, and gone in centuries; let‘s whoop her up the whoopin‘s gaod!" Lat, drink, and be merry, _';""é for in five or six hundred years n by we‘re gonna die. . We‘re here "If I was to wake up toâ€"morrow morning with a crown onto my and a skepter in my hand and find myself the Umpire of the entire hn-' man universe," said Mr. Hawley, "my first . commandment would be r:: everybody to go right back to t early. days of the world. Them old peetryarchs was big and liberal in their elements and idears. They figâ€" gered that life was too short to waste it all in work. Just because Methuâ€" zalem lived a thousand years was no sign that ‘everybody else would. Clem â€"Hawley,| more familiarly known by the followers of Don Marâ€" quis‘s writings as "The Old Soak," has decided that what the world needs is more and better barbecues. In a story in the February Scribâ€" ner‘s Magazine, Mr. Hawley harks to the time of the "peetryarchs." 4 SAYS WORLD NEEDS f BIGGER BARBECUES in the line. That done, I should pay no further attention to it. I should read, and smoke. When it was time to go home, I should pull in the line, and know, whether there was anyâ€" thing on it or not, I had passed: a pleasant day." y in "Lord Grey is such an enthusiastic fisher that he almost, not quite, perâ€" suades me to go afishing. It is the only sport in which I take not the slightest interest. If I had to spend a day with hook and line, I should spend it as follows. I should take a basket containing a copious lunch, plenty of tobacco, several good books. The first stream I reached, I should ( nnl_eu_ forbidden by signâ€"post) throw William Lyon Phelps, a man‘ of many enthusiasms and a lover of sport, can see nothing in the art of angling. He tells how he would go fishing, El !:: had’to‘,'gp the February Scribner‘s PHELPS GETS NO KICK â€" OUT OF FISHING, SAYS Noted Educator and Critic Is * Not Modern Izaak Walton ; ' Tells Method "‘Why, I was offered $20,000 to bring in a boatâ€"load of Chinese,‘ he relates. ‘Hell! A quart of good liquor on the sideboard will make Christmas the merrier, I told ‘em, but who the devil wants a Chinaman for Christâ€" "The underworld heard of the coup, and rushed to the kind with certain proposals to smuggle in dope, jewels, and whatâ€"not while his organization was . hitting on all twelve. But the king, for all his sinfuiness, had secruples. mas, which means that, by the time the middleman completed his miractes of converting water and burned sugar into rare old Scotch, nearly threeâ€" quarters of. a million families were assured of a bottle apiece for the holidays. s "Sixteen thousand bags of uncut liquor are reputed to have poured inâ€" to the metropolitan area for Christâ€" "It was a challenge, a sporting challenge. The king stretchâ€" ed, and summoned hm., The eables carried certain unintelligible words. For a few brief nights, a week or two later, one section of the winâ€" try coast seethed with invisible life, Lights flashed momentarily. Motors chugged far out at sea. Sharpâ€"nosed boats drifted against the shingle, siâ€" lently. On back roads throttled enâ€" gines purred, then roared into life. What Sthrted It ind "Then the government announced that it had put a stop to rumâ€"running. : It was truthfully reported that Rum| <A a Row was about dried up. It would g0 | wester hard with New Yorkers who expected | prized to toast in the New Year, or who enâ€"| Â¥iew i visioned plum puddings blazing in | storing brandyâ€"real brandyâ€"for the Yule. | in sowm "He relaxed. : And his alsb beyond financial wurry,dfdno:}b-& at the vacation, to his body; the keen, swift thinking had brought health to his mind. And his ships and trucks had brought him wealth beyond that which he could have amassed in the lifetime of a dozen successful mechanical engiâ€" "Last year the king decided he had had enough," says Mr. s ""The outdoor life had brought health to his body; the keen, swift thinking In an amazing portrait of the "King of Rum Row": in the February Scribâ€" ner‘s Magazine, Walter Karig tells how a former captain of engineers, organizer of Rum Row, challenged the government‘s boast that rumâ€"running was ended and by one last coup supâ€" plied â€"New York with liquor for Christmas. is over. Writer In PAGE HOW SYSTEM OPERATED|ONLY ONE OTHER EXIsSTs @9 39 I Y e e merry, says th’, hundred years mebâ€" Magazine Describes| Rare Old Book Found at Northâ€" indication that the a few while prized it highly. It was‘ on public Â¥iew for a time but in moving and storing documents and rare volumes, in some ungaccountable way the famâ€" our Luther Bible was lost to view. There are still faculty members at Northwestern who recall the someâ€" what hectic chase given the book beâ€" fore it was "captured" by the univerâ€" sity.. Its existence had been known and when it went from place to place, from one owner to another, the uniâ€" versity pundits remained active and held the trail. At one time the Gerâ€" | man department had ‘it located at A quarter of a century ago Northâ€" western obtained this rare volume and This Luther Bible was printed in 1545 and despite its age is exceedingâ€" ly well preserved. The pages are yellow and the illustrations quaint but otherwise the book is in excellent condition, Although printing at that time was a new art, the pages are graced with illuminated letters® and food cuts. Take the Northwestern to Davis Street or A rare bookâ€"an original of the :;t Bolditioh oif. I.L;:’thler’u translation of bleâ€"m or nearly twentyâ€" five years at Northwestern university, has been discovered, dusty but unâ€" harmed, in the files of the department of German language and literature, The Bible bears the official seal of the German reformer, and save for one other copy at Columbia university, is said to be the only one extent in America. Toile de Jouy â€" which makes such deâ€" licious lanip shades and screensâ€"shows enchanting old French pastoral scenes done in monotone â€" blue, re%or green. T5¢e and $1.50 a yard. Lord‘s, First Floor For your sun porchâ€"for cushions, curâ€" tains, and the casual npbohurY one does on wicker furnitureâ€"you willâ€" like Crash Weave Cretonnes. ‘The Ardmores at 50¢ Great qpn{n and armsful of blossoms from an oldâ€"fashioned garden riot all over the 75¢ cretonnes. > The glazed chintzes in most lov‘erlx flower patterns are $1.10 to $1.45 a yard. These are‘not only very durable but mag be sponged as thougrhy they were oilcloth. If you love fixing housesâ€"and you are at all susceptible to colorâ€"you may well spend an hour or two revelling in the newly arrived drapâ€" ery fabrics. We can list but a few hereâ€"and then not half do their loveliness justice. The quaintest of flower spri Jne quaintest of flower "ir.‘(f' are m:ed artlessly against a blackâ€"dotted kâ€" ground. 55¢ to 75¢ a yard in this chintz. Chintzes and Cretonnes So Easily Become an Enthusiasm! _FOR HOME LOVERS Was Mislaid Aelg How Obtained a This collector, named Schneider, held it for several years and he died the professors who still on the trail, offered his estate, in t name of the university, a certain sum for it and secured the prize. t3 First editions of Goethe and Schilâ€" ler and some other Germ#n classicists gathered over many years of mng: also have been rediscovered at Northâ€" western with the finding of the rare Luther edition translation of * th Bible. â€" Volumes of the early 18 century are among theâ€"collection, it is stated. Leipzig, when a collector of rare ediâ€"| PRESIDENT AGAINST tions appeared and bought it, { NAVAL ARMS Avenue THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINAOIS the North Shore Electric to Church Street FOVNIAIN SO\ HUN SPORT Demiâ€"tasse cups, $7.25 a dozen Tea sized eups, 3'*1.75 a dozen Flower holders, $1.50 Curved relish digh, T9«\ : Flat cheese plates, 75¢ Long celery dish, $.145 Stemmed sugar ‘and cream set, in Colonial cut design, $140 a set. Sa‘l’t‘s !a::d peppers with nickled tops $1.50 a pair | Graceful nappies}, 50c Low candle holders for tall candles, 65¢ each . | The interesting of these new p are particularly flamingo shade. Handled creamâ€" Rosy Peach Tone m knsts in Glassware h y eA : he interesting angles and curves 4 f these new pieces of glassware c re particularly lovely in this new amingo shade. | andled creamâ€"goup cups, $9.25 a f zen. [ lower holders, $1.50 urved relish dish, 79¢| ; r lat cheese plates, 75¢ ong celery dish, $.145 emmed sugar ‘and cream set, in f Colonial cut dosion 21 AN a sat Lord‘ sâ€"Rirst Floor Just inside the East Davis > Streeti Door 4j Every#hing ; in {he Sporting Flamingo A New _ C angles and curves eces of glassware lovely in this new 1ERS We expect Senator Heflin finally to get around to the place where he will tell us who really hit Billy Patâ€" ~â€"President Coolidge insists that he ‘believes that the United States should avoid steps toward the building of three new cruisers because such a course would place this country in the "naval arms race." Congress may be talked out of what otherwiseâ€"might be its "intentions." If it is then the cruisers program will fail. + FVANSTON «SHOP 2 j 5 | S x f ‘ | X < r y w é. " , FEBRUARY hi t

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