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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 23 Jul 1921, p. 6

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=6 ITN TRY WEEKLY. TALK, SATURDAY July. 23, 1921 ~SARDINIA: THE ISLAND OF | i ereRting. nee these: relios-af: un zac Van, Dyek Pa Rooutor and ir oe | Texas Legal Definition. _ PYGMIES AND WOLFRAM known inhabitants, even more fasci- Van Dyck has been rated the great- | Why does a rooster ¢ross the road? An alibi is. when 'you prove you A traveler of fine Imagination xn nating:are are ry, ny the ay civil est portrait painter of all time. with {He doesn't. He, gets "half way, and a were, somewhere else at the time 'you MN Sug=| zations to be found in the daily life {the possible exception of Titian. hi Te _ gests that travel involves a dotible ne of today. One may find > ¢}intd ? 9 wii { Tirta tt ewe Zed oe ime Raies Nowy : Journey--*'"one forward through space, | oxen plowing as they did in the days . a . vit the other backward through. time." | of fhe Roman empire, implements i NE fi AGI TT Your steamboat ticket from -Civi-| whieh were introduced by the succes: ) ER - Pe i. fF Reo om 'tavecchia, the port of Rome, entitles | gjve occupants, one Catalan town 'you to an eight-hour voyage to Sar- (Alghero) where there is np jarring & : = ; ah LT dinia, but affords a premium of sev-| ote in the illusion of 'old Spain, and \ : AVL | eral thousand years backward to Eu-| gances of the classic Greek period at ¥ } . FS | jrope's earliest traceable history. the mountain feste. i in beautifying your i: i Sardinia has a double interest just Only in Sardinia and Corsica is the" | { mow because of the reported native | mufloni, predecessor of our sheep,' to home demand for home rule, amd because | he found. Wild deer and wild boar 5 ¢ r i : . 'Americans have found tracts contain- | gre plentiful in the mountain districts. || : 3 2 y Lumber 1S {ing wolfram, highly prized as a source | myunny fishing is a major, industry. i : 'of tungsten. In area. Sardinia is 'comparable to; Indespensable | Second only 'to Sicily among Medi- Vermont, but has more than twice the . : : tl terranean islands, Sardinia has been'| population of that state. The island |}? : i | referred to as thé! lost isle of that | lies directly, south of Corsica, and. is 'sea. Geographically it has been said | separated therefrom by the narrow ' to turn its back on Italy, for'its east | straits of Bonifacio. In shape it has - dp coast is: 'mountainous. This. isolation | been. compared. to. a human footprint. + has a compensation in preserving the ] § : : + homogeneity of a people who have a Our Assistance in choosing + the proper kind "1. and grade (1 HE RR Eider: Down Duck: There "are "two varieties' of eider duck--the common eider and the king's elder, the latter supplying the down which is exported from Green- | and; ~white-that-of-the-former.comes | mainly from Iceland. Ten thousand i ich pounds of down is obtained annually Au a from the 'latter country. The eider " will be of service is larger than the common duck. The ; to you drake is black with, a. white back, i ' 1 while the female i§ brown with white La 1. 2 1997 EBB OBLLABALS Anon spots. for a lattice fence, a pergola, a trellis, a playhouse CEERI NCI IEE ib 6 Hunter's Unpleasant Companion; _ Alligator! hunting in the tropics: is always exciting, but when you're ma- [roomed on a muddy flat, with a wound- ' atta iii " . ed alligator for company, and your ' MM 2310 a Per ge PY Gl osi Soran ed With udssthat isa earl Hts XI HDf133 0949 & real thrill. This is what happened to 70 1 : _me, while the rest of my party were a | or 3 nile away. Nothing "was Toft to" do "ex ept throw mud" in ! J the alligator's eyes until I attracted i i : ; f the attention of my friends. After > ul 3 i" they had sunk about twenty bullets A ; foie X : into that alligator we measured him TF - Sardinian. Miners., and "found: him «to she: 22 feet long.-- Chicago Journal. ! -- cp ---- 'special interest for students of racial history. Sardinians are small of tature. Even their soldiers have ; : x 5 average height a fraction under five), Needed immediate Auention WINNETKA COAL: LUMBER feet, four inches. i oy 2 % Rl 0 the country to spend a week with her: ; But the most conspicuous curiosities, y,),)pjod brother... He was bringing Phone}734 cc O M P A N Y Phone 735 of Sardinia" are. its nutaghi, great |. } na in his wagon drawn by two ; : ' ; round towers, relics of the bronze age. | jes, On the way he'stopped at 1 > 33sl bo EARL L. WEINSTOCK; Manager Which served as fortified' dwellings for country store. While in the store one' sade prehistoric people. There are of the mules<~letiolt a "Heo Haw." v ' i ¥ 5, 0 or more-of these tpwers, joe 60 The little girl jumped out of the wagon ro hee MFR pS on = 32, y " feet high, usually about 30 feet in di-| 4,4 almost out of breath ran to her ameter "at the base, made of stone brother, exclaiming, "Oh, Alfred, come blocks and smeared with clay on the | ;uick one of the mules has the hie- | inside. Stairways lead to upper cham- bers and platforms coughs." + This hess was .awvw21model = 5 nl BMT TERT : LAST MONTH, on a bet..." . OF A faroil WITH THE boys up how | ANB DELICIOUS adie cal SPENT. pS mig. Ne IWRANEH I TIPPED me of. | ALONE iN the. nic malar | edd Bevo the ghost. i hp ; HAUNTED, HOUSE." raved THE; HORSE laugh, 3 I 573 . E sepia Apt iin 18 pon AND WHEN Hoard no boot | 12 egy SAID, "a. Inga? ay i TY aor ll dg deine 7207 MOANS AND groans. = 'You FAT gays. : : { care fi Batfery - Mesa) Youd onl ; 4 SAID "The FIT tees 0 MAKE BUM ghosts. > | Doi rah *pR Ws T tons OTR ; } i NS ------ -- | 2 37 AND. TRIED, to sles. ¥ . BUT BEFORE you fade. ' I! Hz: T2 BEAD pC bh f vis : H 5 1 ou € care or--- a vere ; en = HEARD rappngs. LEAVE WITH me one, l 3 ) ' y ' T i : } $e * * * il "2 Ls ono ae 3 j fas 'AND SAID "Ratsl® 3 OF YOUR cigarettes. 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