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Highland Park Press, 17 Apr 1947, p. 3

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Thursday, April 17, 1947 been that of Blackmer, star at Oxford. I preseented Meâ€" lanie, typical English beauty, with under which we were spending our honeymoon. Td promised her an man whose job it was to stamp out We glanced ‘curiously about the roomy police\headquarters â€" an imposing affair, with skins of tiâ€" gers and leopards stretched upon the floor, and a huge fireplace, ofâ€" fering comfort against the sudâ€" e-..udu.mm easychairs with boxes of cigar lice with their red tarbooshes and blue coats. asked Melanie. "Utterly fascinating*‘ she told him, _ "Now I know what is meant by ‘the magic of the Nile.‘" She spoke glowingly of its colors â€" reddish brown against the yellow rocks and vivid banks. "But loveâ€" liest," she added, is that dull jade green under the deep blue sky." m-;uirinae-neluanonve- _mflh qnlckq&mu ‘Then it fiashgd through my mind their famous ability to spot‘at a distance the fastâ€"trotting sheâ€"camâ€" els, used by smugglers to outstrip the slower government animals. But Blackmer Pasha seemed equal to any task . .. "Don‘t ask me what we would have done with such an extraordiâ€" nary pet," Melanie was saying. "It looked so old and wretched that it wrung my heart." She went on to recount the inâ€" cident, picturing the native in his costume of dirty white, surmountâ€" ed by blue cotton coat and scariet fez. His black _ curling hair and. Aeard and flashing eyes. His smile â€"snowy against the background of his tewny skinâ€"giving way to looks of hostility and suspicion as we pressed our claim. "Even the camel sneered," Melanie concludâ€" nade his job so difficult. Td read (Reprint by permiission of Mcâ€" "Philosopher of the : Forest" at Elm Place Sam Campbell, famed naturalist, author, lecturer and photographâ€" er, will speak in Elm Plave school auditorium on Sunday; May 4, at $ pm, it was announced today by who is sponsoring his appearance. 'n.-xdlr. Campbell‘s lecture, will be illustrated with colored motion pictures, will be "Summer Homing and Roaming in the Great North Woods." Many a&o-vbn-um-d::: -w,h Wisconsin show the friendly wild creatures than 5,200 lectures to audiences of more than four million persons. Widely known as the "philogopher of the forest," he is considered by many to be America‘s foremost inâ€" terpreter of nature. A capacity crowd heard Campâ€" bell‘s program when he appeared in Highland Park last year. The program he will give on May 4 is entirely new and one that has been prepared especially for his 1947 lecture tours. _ No admission will be charged, but a voluntary collection will be "Quite." He nodded, pleased. renting the aud All collected over that amount will be used for boy and girl activities at ugh: "That one we met this orning wasn‘t very affable." "His surliness," I told our host, Volwiler Pledged to Fraternity at Miami U Wallace Volwiler of N. Deere Park avenue, was recently pledged social fraternity, at Miami universâ€" _ Volwiler, a firstâ€"year stadent in the Miami school of arts and sciâ€" ;qbi-n-dir..dln K. H. Voiwiler. He was graduated from Highland Park high school. of sort of brute. Vicious no end when roused, kicking and biting like a demon. But so stupid that it rareâ€" feet," she said. "I‘d always beâ€" lieved that natives are excepâ€" tionally to animals." Then she added: "You‘d *ve thought the ( cce Padk heety otied hine pounds finally offerâ€" With a word of apology Blackâ€" mer Pasha summoned a native ofâ€" ficer. "I‘ve noticed a number of such ancient beasts about lately," legs. "Things seemed to be realâ€" ly going quite well â€" until just lately. _ I‘d thought," staring into space, the lines in his face deepâ€" ening, "that we‘d uncovered every conceivable smuggling device." be looked into at once." waterâ€"proof packages of the drug overside a boat, weighted by sacks of salt. "When the salt dissolved," he told . Melanie, "the packages would rise to the surface to be reâ€" He told of another artifice, disâ€" covered quite by accident .when a police officer, attracted by the unusually fine hair on the hump of a camel, proceeded to examine it, â€""A patch of skin came away under his hand. Underneath were secreted small parcels. of hashish." "Isn‘t the penalty for this sort of thing rather severe?" Melanie "Egypt has become a bad place in which to be caught. Of course 10 pounds of the stuff will make a native independent for some time. The penalty when caught, though, isn‘t pleasant . . . ‘And just when I thought we had the thing under control â€" oh, well, we‘re sure to find the dribble . . ." Some time after our visit Meâ€" lanie received a gift of which she is inordinately proudâ€"â€"an exquisâ€" ite jade bracelet, which seems to have .imprisonedâ€" within itself some of the rare color of the Nile; with the following note: "We sifted the affair of your stubborn native to the bottom," it read, "even to the bottom of the last stomach of the unfortunate camel. _ There we found the clue for whith we had been searching â€" several zine cylinders which the brute had been forced. to‘ swallow â€"â€"each containing its portion of opium. ‘an eye for a camel.‘" Miss Inez Tamarri Entertained by Shower I;hlb-dnbm&. jected appearance of the beast. Miss Lois M. Ginter entertained Sunday, afternoon, April 13, ,at classmate during their _ nurses‘ ing was attended by other nurses who worked with the brideâ€"toâ€"be at the â€" Norwegianâ€"American ‘ and County hospitals. Miss Tamarri will become the bride of Peter Molendy, of Praiâ€" ple will be married April 26 hostess at anothe F March 30, in Miss Tamarri‘s honâ€" or. Some 35 guests attended the He described some of the ingenâ€" ODELE MASON ACTIVE IN THEATER GCUILD is a member of the stage crew for the Ilinoi Theater guild producâ€" 16. â€" Odele Mason, 1813 Kincaid, LE c BR 8 d for presentation‘ at the University of NMlincis, April 18 and 19. E Members of the guild, which is a selfâ€"supporting student activity, are responsible for all designing, costuming, purchasing, and box ofâ€" fice responsibilities in comnection -‘v-"m.‘y-. growing children of the necessary Mrs. Ray Molendy of Ft. Sherâ€" (R.B.0.) Of Woman‘s Club 1 ‘ ‘The Highland ° Park ‘Woman‘s club will hold its annual meeting and election of officers followingâ€" a luncheon at 12 noon on April 22. ~‘The program of the afternoon will be presented by _ Mildred Wright Bairstow of ‘Waukegan, whose program is titled, "Customs and Costumes South of the Borâ€" Election of Officers And Annual Meeting turesque, nat six additional costumes to be modâ€" eled by club members, besides some rare and beautiful textiles and other native handcrafts. Some of the textiles are museum pieces, ‘The entire program will be exceedâ€" ingly colorful. turer, America and gives to her listenâ€" ers information acquired through extensive travel. She was recentâ€" ly lauded by the Mexico City press for her efforts in creating a betâ€" ter understanding between our countries, and was acclaimed A true ambassador of good will. \ Having spent much of her life south of the border, Mrs. Bairâ€" stow ‘has had apportunities to travel far off the beaten path to study the primitive ‘culture and historic background of the various countries. She has visited in all types of homes, from palmâ€"thatchâ€" ed Indian pole huts to marble palâ€" aces. Thus, she has learned to know the people and their customs as few North Americans are priviâ€" leged to know them. _ cike Her unusual experiences in difâ€" ferent parts of the world have been » exciting, amusing and enâ€" lightening and she has encountered thrilling Caribbean adventures at submarines and mines in the Carâ€" ibbean in a blackedâ€"out Norwegian freighter and being marooned by a hurricane, earthquakes and floods deep in the jungles of Mexico for eight days, are just a couple of inâ€" cidents in her colorful career. Mrs. Bairstow was born in Denâ€" ver and received her early educaâ€" tion there as well as in conservaâ€" tories of music in _ the United States. Critics say that her voice is beautifully adapted to the lyric pronunciation.with which her lecâ€" before some of the foremost organâ€" of the Spanish and French lanâ€" guages has been a valuable medium in _ enabling _ her to establish friendly relationships with the Latâ€" hlnilhflwhnhetlfidh just returned to the United States from a threeâ€"months tour of the major islands of the West Indies. Because of our inability to use the tel@phone, will members please mail their reservations for lunchâ€" eon to Mrs. Garfield Day, 688 Carâ€" ol court, by Saturday, April 19. Mrs. Kenneth Kraft Hostess to Music Club meeting of the Highland Park Music club will be héld promptly at 2:00 pmi, Wednesday, April 23. Two of the talented members of ing program; Mrs. Virginia Schur will perform two groups on the piâ€" ano, and Mrs. Don Cuthbertson will sing two groups of songs, acâ€" companied by Miss Olga Sandor. 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