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Highland Park Press, 9 May 1929, p. 34

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*>@ ‘â€"the streets are only a few feet wide and what light might struggle in is successfully kept out by roofâ€" ings of palm leaves=â€"and your nose to the anything butâ€" dim smells, you realize that you have stepped into one of the busiest, most interesting places in the world. ‘Everyone of these dim little cubby holes_has its worker, squatting on his heels, his slippers beside him, plying his trade in probably exactly the same fashâ€" ion that his forefathers plied it a thousandâ€" years ago. Shoemaking, tinkering, weaving, silverwork, dyeâ€" ing, all this goes on while.a swayâ€" ing, leisurely throng ambles by, sometimes stopping to talk or, rareâ€" ly, to purchase, women veiled to the eyes and peering at you curiously, their voluminous robes stuffed out funeral passed us. A long strangling procesâ€" sion chanting a rather cheerful and therefore ail the more uncanny song, to the effect that there is only one God and he is Allah. In the center. walked, two men bearing on their heads on top of what looked like flat loaves of bread, a wide board on which lay Yet for all this antâ€"like activity, for all its long history of fueds and turmoils Moâ€" roceo seems a land of peace. Long barren stretches on which the only living thing is a lonely berdsman, wrapped in his long white robes and no less in ~the silent Every moment or two a muleteer joggles along shouting â€" "Valek, valek" which means "giddap" to his beasts or "get out" to us or perâ€" haps â€"both. Anyway we flatten ourâ€" selves against the wall while the laden little animals squeeze by. It is their retaliation for the scurry into which our motors put them on the road. Always taken by surprise, it is the only time that an Arab loses his dignity. He leaps from his donkey and begins pushing him, by main force, out of the way. If he has camels he becomes an animated windmill shouting what sounds like the most violent curses meanwhile. On our way out to the Souks a wae corpse, wrapped in ‘a â€"woolen robe suen as he probably wore in life. They are on their way to the cemetery where without turtner formality the corpseâ€" will be placed in a shallow hole, and his troubles will be over Well, _I have been initiatedâ€"into Morocc¢o. 1 have been to the Souks, or native bazaars, w‘ ‘ch constitutes an imitiationâ€"or so. of baptism in something less cleansing than fire! â€"We went there on our first morning in â€" Marrakesh. â€" Leaving our motor in an open square we plunged obediently. after our guide into a dark little archway which, it seemed at that moment, might well have borne‘the inscription "Leave hope behindâ€"." It was remarkably like the gateway to Hell. â€" " on all sides with the day‘s ‘ marketâ€" ing, men, some of them fine tall figâ€" ures stepping with the dignity which marks this proud old race. By about two o‘clock the will of work is growing weaker. In the open squares the ageâ€"old entertainments are beginning to draw â€" thrir crowds. _ Glassâ€"eaters snakeâ€" charmers, magicians, storytellers, with here and thert a medicine man squatting among his @ruesome collection of skins and bones, murmuring confidentially to some poor soul who is going to have to take that little prcket of things home and brew tea and drink "it. Next to him may be a vendor of one of the national daintieeâ€"locusts! . He offers us some with a beaming smile. This woes on incessantly and with increasing fervor until well into the night. > thoughts which make him Jook at you with utter indifference from his inscrutable dark cyes. * To come gratefully back from this to our luxurious hotelâ€"once a sultan‘s palaceâ€"set in beautiful gardens, is to know the meanâ€" ing of western civilization. 600 â€" _ _ But once inside, your eyes having become accustomed to the dim light IN "RED MARRAKESH" P!' ESTHER GOULDS &T RAVE 1. «_ _ CORNCERK . Last night from the roof of the hotel we watched the sun go down with beautiful color behind the great Atlas range, and at the moment of the sunset «un the lights come on in the prayer tower of the mosqhes,‘ the signal for Moslem prayer. You felt sudâ€" denly that peace which descends on the land when these thousands of eyes turn eastward, thes= thousandsâ€" of hearts are lifted up to Allah in thanksgiving for the day. RAYMOND â€"WHITCOMEB Es | o whitiee RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY 176 No. Michigan Avenue NORTH . CAPEâ€"BALTIC SUMMER CRUISES S$.S. ‘"Carinthia‘"â€"â€" June 26 S$.S. ‘‘Franconia"â€"â€"June 29 Raymondâ€"Whitcomb North Cape Cruises for Summer Cruises to sail from America. This year there will be TWO Rayâ€" mond â€" Whitcomb ‘Sumâ€" mer Cruises to the Land of the Midnight Sun. The cruiseâ€"ships will be sisterâ€"shipsâ€"the newest Cunardersâ€"specially deâ€" signed for cruising. Sailâ€" ing just after the close of schools and colleges, these cruises have conâ€" sistently attracted younger people and famâ€" ilies bound for a vacaâ€" tion together. They may be taken as a complete holiday. in themselves (generous shore excurâ€" sions characterize the programs) or as a deâ€" lightful new way toParis. The routes include Iceâ€" land, the North Cape and Hammerfest, Trondâ€" hjem, the most beautiful of the Norwegian Fjords and the cities of Scanâ€" dinavia and the Belticâ€" Bergen, Oslo, Stockholm, Visby, ‘Tallinn (Esthoâ€" nian capital), Helsingâ€" fors (capital of. Finâ€" land) and Copenhagen. The â€"rates=â€"$800 upâ€" includée assured homeâ€" ward accommodations by such noted Cunard liners as the "Aquiâ€" tania", "Berengaria‘" and "Mauretama‘"‘ as well as the "Carinâ€" thia‘‘ and "Franconia‘" , â€" , Tel. State 8615 THE PR ES S have This week the original poem is again by Mary Morris. . Seeing Things at Night The tossing swaying trees at night, Make queer fantastic shapes, There‘s dancing girls and crowing hens and old bedraggled apes. The lights in buggies passing by, . Make perfect eyes for dragons, And Oh! How thankful now am I, There only lit up wagons.: _ â€" . __ A Hike The Campfire Girls went on a hike to the Boy Scout cabin three miles from Glencoe, Monday, April 22. We hiked as far as the street car which we took to Glencoe, and as some of them wanted to buy something, went to a store. Then we hiked to the cabin. The little creek was flooded and had washed the bridge away so we had to walk around. We built a fire and cooked our lunch over it. ~After Tunch we went to find the earcuss of a dead horse, Mrs. â€"~McManus,â€"our guardian had told us about. â€" We played a game in which half stayed in tamp to give them about 20 minâ€" utes to hide. In the first group all but one was caught, in the second group all but two were caught.~ As.it was quite marshy, everyone got her feet wet. We took off our stockings and shoes, putting the stockings on trees to dry. Three of the girls shoes burnt so badlyâ€"that they could not wear them home. â€" We sat around the fire that had nearly gone out, and talkedâ€" and sang.. At threeâ€"thirty, Mr.â€"McManus came and took us to Glencoe, four riding on the runningâ€"board.. When we got to Glencoe, five decided to walk home and the others rode. Every ‘one had a good time and hope to do. it again.â€"Winona, Nellie Calkins. "~Our Fireplace °> . ~In ~the ~store ~room,â€"nextâ€"toâ€"our room, we discovered a big old imitaâ€" tion fire place. As it was not in use, we asked the Barnets if we could have it for our room. They consented and immediately we took our treasure into the room. Mrs. Barnet having washed off the dirt and seeing that it was a beautiful white fire place we set it up. We are going to have logs Camp Fire Flames PLEATINGâ€" _ HEMSTITCHING to make it look like aâ€"real fireplace. On the front of which we are going to paint our symbols.â€"Dorothea Himâ€" mler. es Some one asks, "Can the Camp Fire program be made a part of the church program ?" _ It certainly can, for the seven points of the law are fundamentals of Christian living and the various crafts emphasize . eleâ€" ments of religious education. In addition to this specified honors are given for Bible study, teaching in the church school, and definitely lining ones self up with the church program. â€"Miss Greenlaw. s § A Campfire Meeting On Friday, May 3, Mrs. McManus our guardian was not able to attend the mseting so Miss Greenlaw took it over. The meeting was héld at the church to. make baskets for the Misâ€" siqn society but the material was not there. We then decided to take a walk along the beach. â€"In. many of the places the water was right up to: the bluff, so we had to climb the bluff. We walked to Vine, where some of the girls continued to walk home on the beach, while the others climbed the bluff to Vine. After we had clinbed the bluff, we went down Eganâ€" dale road to the â€"beach again and then went home.â€"Waâ€"Wa, Jean Barnet. : Future Plans â€" ; With May comes Mothers Day. The Lewaâ€"Anahan Camp Fire Girls are planning to celebrate this by having a: council ffire and party for our mothers. We are hoping to have the "A Room" finished by the party and council fire. The exact date has not been set, but further notices are to be announced.â€"Ayâ€"an, Marjorie Kenâ€" Mrs. Elizabeth Martisus of North Chicago, who tried to commit suicide by turning on the gas, Saturday, was found sane by a sanity commission in county court. Excessive drinking of moonshine had induced an abnormal condition in the woman doctors found. dall: Find Woman Sane Who _ _ Attempted Suicide ©120 North Green Bay Rd. ~ Phone 354 MRS. ZAHNLE COVERED BUTTONS, PINKING and OTHER DRESS TRIMMINGS Quick Service Thursday, May 9, 1929 Thursday, May MOVE TO First step the $1009000 sent to the J Eureka, Kan. Roy Bracher, made this we Waukegan, th certificate of the bank for « Effort Bei the $1 Ira Pearsal urer‘ during & the money w fused toâ€" sigt was ‘turned by Bracher back by him Bracher sig treasurer, su treasurer." The certific as a regula plans conside Juggling After the doors and r« {few hours an it frightened who later di cashier, Clar the $100,000 than for the sent out the {ull $100,000 Bracher re turned all c three truste« pay up note him $2.00 ea age in the t1 About 10 : ness has be sion at Dia1 to be sold. / tificate but by Pearsall | ing to collec Bracher‘s will remove New office man‘s guild church ann president, 1 viceâ€"preside second vice Rothermel; Henry Fay: Miss Helen ponding sec treasurer, 1 assistant tr son. Officers Chu Chairmen tees of the ing year a rearce; wol membership social, Mr fower, Mr: cheer, Mrs. Mrs. Austi ing, . Mrs. Mrs. Paul George Pop in

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